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Texture Thumbnail Browser

Open Kruithne opened this issue 1 month ago • 0 comments

Following on from #482 which seeks to implement a thumbnail viewer for models. We would also want to implement the same feature for textures. This should actually be considerably more trivial to do than models, since textures can be easily decoded from BLP to WebP/PNG on the server with very little effort.

Same process, we create a public CDN bucket which maps encoding keys to the thumbnails. We'll keep them small WebP so they're fast, ensure the .webp extension is added for cache hinting. The bulk of the work will be done upfront by local machines and then carried on by the wow.export server. Given the low-effort of Enc -> BLTE -> BLP -> WebP this could actually be done on-demand as a service for textures as well.

Kruithne avatar Nov 29 '25 09:11 Kruithne