WebP now supported as an extension for glTF 3D models

[Omar Shehata]

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to share some good news here: I've been working on a proposal to add WebP textures to the open 3D model format glTF, and the extension has just been approved!

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/tree/master/extensions/2.0/Vendor/EXT_texture_webp#ext_texture_webp

This is exciting because we can now officially use WebP textures for 3D models on the web, and for some situations like geospatial data at Cesium (https://cesium.com/), this could leave to significant gains for streaming massive models.

[Pascal Massimino]

Hi Omar,

This is great news, and i'm glad WebP found its usefulness on the unexpected field of texture compression!

thx,

skal/

 

[Omar Shehata]

Thanks Skal! 

We just pushed out a blog post talking about it:

https://cesium.com/blog/2019/02/12/faster-3d-tiles-streaming-webp/

I think it's really cool to see advances in web technology making such a big difference to people in geospatial. That's what I love about the web, open and accessible to all!