Thanks to Eugene Loza we have an improved pipeline for compressing textures using ASTC (useful on modern Android and iOS versions). See Auto-generated compressed and scaled textures about GPU texture compression in general.

Now:

• We can use astcenc tool and the .astc file format it generates for ASTC textures.

  See PR #321 for details.

• We even package the astcenc tool within the Castle Game Engine. We can, as it is open-source. It’s available in our binary releases as well as GitHub Repo (tools/contrib/). So you don’t have to download/install anything to be able to compress textures using ASTC.

  See PR #351 for details.

• Where to go from here? What more texture tools to “just bundle with CGE”? I started the thread on our forum. I think bundling AMD Compressonator with CGE is sensible.

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