I want to know your expirience using DDS textures in models. How can achieve mipmaps because when I use DDS, mipmaps are disabled and I cant check it.
normal 256*256 BMP texture is 190KB and DDS is only 36KB, that can take to significant improovement of loading time.
Is there any afection to loading time because diference in size between MDL5 and MDL7 (mdl7 is 3 times bigger in KB). MDL5 should load 3 times faster, or I am wrong.