Texture compression

    Compressed textures use up to 50% less space and are faster to load. Compression produces results similar to JPEG compression. The animation below was recorded with the camera positioned extremely close to the texture; at normal distances, the difference isn't noticable.

    For color textures, compression is best used for visually busy images, where the effects are less noticeable. You probably don't want to compress textures with fine edges, such as logos used in .

    Compression removes data from the image based on the texture type: