[sldev] Reformatting Textures for the cache

[Dzonatas]

Dzonatas wrote:
> I see some have suggested to store the textures in a different format.
>
> What I suggest is to store the textures in a minimal format, like if 
> the textures normaly take 102Kb to store then squish it down to 5Kb. 
> That way we can get more textures into the cache, and we won't be 
> looking at gray cities. Yep, they won't be high detail, but they'll 
> give us a nicer view quicker.

hehe... I should triple re-read what I wrote especially when I'm only 
half awake and without java.