2024 happy path for compressed textures?

[reececomo]

Yo! Finally need to make the switch to compressed textures

Is there a widely accepted happy path in 2024 for a typical use case:

1. best file format(s) (i.e. is it basis?)
2. simplest pipeline to convert raw PNG/sheet assets to compressed textures
3. simplest way to load in, especially in regards to spritesheets

I'd be happy to drop WEBP/PNG and support only .[xyz] format if that is possible and simpler. Targeting only modern browser engines.

cc @Zyie thought you might be able to kick me in the right direction

[reececomo]

For reference, I scoured existing materials – loose docs, GH issues, blogs, forum posts, etc – I just couldn't decipher what the current consensus was.

IIRC - Melon.js supports automatic texture compression at load time - would Pixi.js 7-8+ have anything like that?

edit: also worth mentioning I had a little play with gpu-tex-enc in a js script for bulk generating textures, which worked ok, but it felt like re-inventing the wheel.