[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/feature-requests/56 Item 56] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 20:12:11

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====== screamingwns (2006-07-07 16:31:06) ======

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I will investigate this as part of my restructuring work.

That said, I think it would be a Good Think to have
contributors use a single format for each resource type, e.
g. WAV for sounds, ogg for music, jpeg for textures and
images...

Personally, I am uncomfortable at the use of jpeg, as it is
lossy. I would prefer PNG or some other lossless format,
even if it does add a significant size overhead... However,
I am not an artist and don't know how much impact the file
format actually has on the end result, so jpeg may well be
sufficient.
====== screamingwns (2006-07-07 16:32:25) ======

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I will investigate this as part of my restructuring work.

That said, I think it would be a Good Think to have
contributors use a single format for each resource type, e.
g. WAV for sounds, ogg for music, jpeg for textures and
images...

Personally, I am uncomfortable at the use of jpeg, as it is
lossy. I would prefer PNG or some other lossless format,
even if it does add a significant size overhead... However,
I am not an artist and don't know how much impact the file
format actually has on the end result, so jpeg may well be
sufficient.
====== mcr2010 (2011-07-15 12:00:51) ======

I do not think we need to support more image formats, we even could throw out .tga as .png is by far superior & we can easily convert any given tga file to png.