@Mustang
For online distribution i've used jpgs quite often in the areas where they are useful. I just did a few quick tests and saw that depending on the situation you can run quite easily into banding with dxtc and beside of that they are already in a proper gfx-format and so faster to use for the gfx-card they are sometimes bigger and provide less quality than going with jpgs without compression afterwards. Of course i was asking only after the final stage.
Certainly all depends on what you're after (filesize, speed, quality) but i was just thinking what your thoughts are about this so thanks for answering.
By the way why do you prefer TGA instead of TIFF or other losless formats?
And i guess you won't talk about your normal map compression?! ;O)
For online distribution i've used jpgs quite often in the areas where they are useful. I just did a few quick tests and saw that depending on the situation you can run quite easily into banding with dxtc and beside of that they are already in a proper gfx-format and so faster to use for the gfx-card they are sometimes bigger and provide less quality than going with jpgs without compression afterwards. Of course i was asking only after the final stage.
Certainly all depends on what you're after (filesize, speed, quality) but i was just thinking what your thoughts are about this so thanks for answering.
By the way why do you prefer TGA instead of TIFF or other losless formats?
And i guess you won't talk about your normal map compression?! ;O)