EQ has asked me to lay some programmer shit on you guys regarding texture storage in real time renderers, so here goes. Some common textures formats: * DXT1: 4 bits per pixel, typically RGB only * DXT5: 8 bits per pixel (4 for color and 4 for alpha) * L8: 8 bits per pixel, uncompressed grayscale * R8G8B8: in theory 24 bits…
Ok, so after poking around and doing some reading and thinking on the problem, I'm starting to think my initial guess was right - that this is an issue of gamma correction. This means two things: #1 - You artist types arent just smoking crack or anything :P In fact actually whoever originally picked up on the whole "use a…