muralist opened this issue on Mar 31, 2006 ยท 37 posts
Gongyla posted Sat, 01 April 2006 at 12:46 AM
It all depends. You will shurely have noticed that, at the same size in pixels, a jpg picture of a sky is much smaller than an intricate (say, fractal) pattern. Compression is ok when it comes to large surfaces with little change in colour, but is less ok for detailed stuff. Otoh: it depends on what and how you want to render. Detailed textures are needed for close-ups, but not for more general scenes in which the characters are at a distance. So maybe you could, if you want to sell here, create a jpg version with textures that are not too large in size, and add to your readme file that people who want the tifs can ask you for a download link? This is done quite regularly.