Webp export

[IsotoxalDev]

Why when GIF is there?

GIF is great and all but when it comes to exporting faster GIFS say for example 60 FPS. it won't work as it is the standard behaviour. anything over 50 fps. ie a GIF with delay less than 20 ms is by default exported as a 10 FPS Animation. And users expecting a fast animation would be disappointed. Hence the suggestion of webp.

Why webp?

WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images, and is opensource and maintained by google. More details regarding why webp is an apt solution

[sosasees]

WEBP is not just a better GIF replacement.
WEBP wins against PNG for the same reason: same quality images in smaller files.

APNG is also a better format than GIF, but it is pointless because barely anything supports APNG.
WEBP is a different story: just like PNG and GIF, there is almost no software that does Not support WEBP.

this is why i want to export static images as WEBP too — instead of as PNG.

because of WEBP format's advantages, i think that replacing the PNG and GIF exports with WEBP — instead of having WEBP as a choice next to PNG and GIF — would be no real loss

[sosasees]

i found out by accident that i can drag-and-drop static — but not animated — WEBP images into Pixelorama, and they will import correctly.
this makes it much more odd that Pixelorama can't export static WEBP images

[IsotoxalDev]

Godot supports the import of WEBP natively, while there is no support for export. Even gif isn't natively supported, so we'd have to make a custom encoder, probably in gdscript which would be slow as we can see with our current gif export.

[sosasees]

thanks, i just found out that Godot 3.x doesn't support saving WEBP images out of the box.

the last time i used Godot was with Godot 4.0 beta, and its 'Image' node has the save_webp() function.

the newest Godot 4.0 version is beta 11, so we can't use Godot 4.0 for Pixelorama yet

[sosasees]

Godot 4.0 is now stable, so we can safely make Pixelorama in Godot 4.

Also, DevDuck on YouTube has some tips for porting to Godot 4:

• if you're overwhelmed from too many error messages, run the game and fix the first error you find
• seeing the working code in Godot 3 is extremely helpful for fixing new bugs that appear in Godot 4

[Variable-ind]

Godot 4.0 is now stable, so we can safely make Pixelorama in Godot 4.

Also, DevDuck on YouTube has some tips for porting to Godot 4:

* if you're overwhelmed from too many error messages, run the game and fix the first error you find

* seeing the working code in Godot 3 is extremely helpful for fixing new bugs that appear in Godot 4

Pixelorama is probably planned to move to Godot 4 when Godot 4.1 gets released (there are still some things in 4.0 that need to be fixed/added)

[dnyrw]

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[OverloadedOrama]

Now that we're using Godot 4, I added support for static webp and jpeg exporting. I'm leaving this discussion open though as exporting animated webp files is still not possible.