[Opensim-dev] Serving textures in different formats

[dz]

Aloha,

I thought the whole rationale behind the jp2 processing was that it was the
only library that promised "progressive" texture quality.  The claimed
advantage was that viewers would have "something" to display after an
initial pass at the round robin of asset downloads.  As additional packets
arrived, the quality of the texture would improve for those observing it.  I
don't have the working experience to know if that benefit was ever realized,
and I seem to recall some contentious posts in the viewer lists doubting it
ever would.

In the case where users see no benefit to using jp2, and have existing
catalogs of textures in other formats, I also prefer the solution described
by (option A)...   an extra parameter the user can specify, with a default
of the current jp2.   I think Melanies point that Accept headers sometimes
can't be set or relied upon, combined with the easier to debug EXPLICIT type
declaration, make (A) the proper design decision.

D

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Diva Canto <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:

>
> Then have your client do that. This doesn't affect the ability for clients
> to do that in any way: simply omit the extra information.
> Other clients benefit from the server doing the conversion, and the result
> of that conversion being cached on the server side, so that future requests
> get exactly what they need.
>
> Technically, this conversion does not belong to the simulator; it belongs
> to the GetTexture service associated with the simulator; this service can
> execute anywhere.
>
>
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