PixiJS and Optimum Texture Format

[SpaceCowboy2071]

Hi,

I've working on my first PixiJS project and loving the engine.  I've creating a game with some fairly large textures, but it's a not a web game as it uses the Google Chrome App platform.  So, file size isn't as much as consideration as performance.

So, with that in mind what is the best format to save out 32-bit textures (24-bit w/ alpha)?  I have only a vague knowledge of WebGL and how graphic APIs work, but I thought that a compressed texture can be more of chore (and even more memory intensive) than an uncompressed texture.  So, is converting my images to PNG-8 w/ alpha even worth it (aside from the benefit of loading faster)?

Thanks!
-SC

[ivan.popelyshev]

that thing worked for v3: https://github.com/pixijs/pixi-compressed-textures It enabled support of compressed textures in pixi, depends on platform, all like in webgl. For example, for windows the format is DDS, dxt3/5

v4 implementation is coming soon

[SpaceCowboy2071]

Thanks Ivan!  That looks great and I will have to check it out in the future.

However, I don't think I have time to implement that in the project I'm currently working on.  If I just kept the textures to PNG should I save them as 8-bit lossy or 32-bit uncompressed?

Thanks again!

[ivan.popelyshev]

Only size of download will depend on it.