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Shipping textures as PNGs is suboptimal

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148 points ibobev | 2 comments | 06 Sep 25 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.406s | source
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pmarreck ◴[07 Sep 25 15:22 UTC] No.45158990[source]▶
JPEG-XL, your time has come? ;)
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1. exDM69 ◴[08 Sep 25 12:09 UTC] No.45167312[source]▶
GPU texture compression needs fixed bitrate for random access, usually 2 bits per pixel (128b for 8x8 block) with modern formats.

Jpeg or other variable bitrate compression schemes are not applicable.

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2. pmarreck ◴[09 Sep 25 00:43 UTC] No.45176047[source]▶
Oh. Yeah, that makes sense. Certainly a technical requirement that is tricky to satisfy.