WebP image support

Yes, WebP should work!

Ok, I had to try it. I made a scene with a webp texture. It works in Chrome. It does not work in Safari.

Blender does not support webp, so my object starts with a low-resolution jpeg texture (which is supported by all platforms). Puzzle logic then sniffs the browser. If the browser is Safari, it swaps in a 2K jpeg. If the browser is Chrome, the puzzles swap in a 2K webp.

I did try this setup without the browser sniffing. In that case, Safari refused to apply the webp image. So, sniffing is required.

Both the park_2k.jpg and the park_2k.webp were produced from Gimp using the 95% quality setting. The webp is about 16% smaller. I can only presume that they are of similar quality.

Here is a test link:
https://cdn.soft8soft.com/AROAJSY2GOEHMOFUVPIOE:2ae2540421/ext/verge3d_applications/webp_test/webp_test.html

Thanks, Jeremy, you for sharing this. I use 4K textures for my environment spheres so it might be helpful to use webP. I’ll give this a try.
Simone

That’s kick-ass that you went and explored that concept with success. It looks great on my phone. I just now saw an earlier post on WebP and was reminded that I had was gonna start using it, so spent a good 20 min reading forums to find the Photoshop plugin and then found this thread…you saying apple didn’t support..awww… But then hey … Just detect and use it where it can.

I’m definetely going to apply this in projects from now on.
Just as much a healthy trade off as. Disable rendering, L.O.D. and sniffing of post processing is viable.

Taking it further I’ve got two completeeeely different GUI’s for desktop web and mobile.

Still, … wonder if apples doing it just to sup m snub their major competitor or if it’s Flash reDeux

P.s. probably obvious and I know it’s a test but you could also have the material be the 2k default jog, then if not safari, go to webP, removing one puzzle

I really like the format but we’ll have to wait until:

1) WebP is available in the stable Safari (both on desktop and mobile).
2) WebP supported in Blender.

It looks like both of these tasks are close to being complete

Jim,
What I just read you say, was what had just now occurred to me so I came to say it hah.

Another thing. For place holder insures I always use a blender-generated 1px by 1px blank black no alpha jpg.

Yea I just got done playing with three WebP Photoshop save plugin, and wow, flawless and sharp with alpha at like 1 something K for a 512×256 menu text graphic.

Dang Apple wth a worm in it.