This is an interesting topic.

Depending on the item and the texture, JPG's fine. Any loss, especially on larger dimesions, in not really noticible to the naked eye.

Besides, many people are sizing up their resource info anyway.

My motto is "Hi-rez blur is not better than lo-res sharp".

Basically crap at high res is just hi rez crap. Know what I mean?

IM the merchant and ask for a sample section of the texture(like a swatch) so you can tell.

Tiffs are a better format but I would not want a whole runtime of them. We got rid of that when Poser adopted JPG because it was a resource hog. Besides, with Anti-aliasing, it isn't usually an issue.

If you do print work, and these texture are the most drop tead realistic you have ever seen, then I would use tiff. But then again, you could just resave them as JPG.

The only file in Poser that really shouldn't be a jpg is a displacement map. Just my opinion. But I have tested it.

Message edited on: 03/31/2006 22:05

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