Hotfix 1.1.0c — Morningstar: Book of the Fallen Steam update #699988

This is a tiny update, that sadly ended up being rather over-sized on disk :( So. What happened? Traditionally Unity sets all imported images as DXTC1...

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Morningstar: Book of the Fallen (2396740)
Event type
patch note
Published
27 March 2025 - 08:29:13 UTC
Source
steam_community_announcements
This is a tiny update, that sadly ended up being rather over-sized on disk :( So. What happened? Traditionally Unity sets all imported images as DXTC1 or DXTC5 compressed textures. These have a lot of advantages in terms of loading speed and in-memory size, but they are rather heavily compressed. That's a tradeoff we're usually fine in with Textures used for 3D images, but it can be an issue with 2D images (which is the way I'm using it). I made a test-case changing it all to lossless compression (so the images don't get any 'jpeg' style artifacts), and I decided it was worth doing that across all the platforms once and for all. I hadn't fully appreciated just how much work was involved in that :) So far, Love of Magic, Morningstar and Wings of Empire have all gotten the decompression treatment. Across 3 platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux), At 10-16 GB/platform/game (~200-250GB in total),...

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