PVR texture support in Gideros?

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2012

  At first, PVR textures were supported. But then we've disabled this functionality because:
  - PVRT compression artifacts are usually unacceptable for 2d games
  - We were not sure if all Android devices support PVRTC
  
  TexturePacker http://www.texturepacker.com/ already supports Gideros Texture Pack format. You can directly use it.
  
  I wonder if PVR textures are crucial for your application. Maybe we're missing an important point.
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• josgraha Member

  January 2012 edited January 2012

  Nah not that important, may be a lack of understanding on my part but IIRC PowerVR chips require a conversion step for non-PVR image formats. Also there might be a slight memory savings but the real performance boost in 2d games is obviously the "baked" (non-procedural) content so I get the quality point you are making. Currently working on 2 titles, a platformer (short-term) deliverable and a tile based strategy (longer term) deliverable. Thanks so much for the info, I didn't notice texturepacker already supported Gideros, wow you gotta love that app.

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2012

  Afaik, PVR and non-PVR textures are stored differently on memory and PVR textures have _huge_ memory saving ratio such as 1/6. On the other hand, now mobile devices have a lot texture memory available.
  
  Hoping to hear good news about your games.
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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