I have some general questions about compression.

I don't know much about different platforms. Is the .zip format accessible
on all platforms? I always zip all my scene files before I upload them to my
website, but does that exclude some people from using them?

If .zip is universally supported I have a question about mesh compression:
what is the reason for the compression used by pcm and mesh2? Zipping a mesh
file is more efficient than using any of those formats, and a zipped regular
mesh is even smaller than a zipped pcm or mesh2.

I have two guesses myself:
1) Zip is not universally supported.
2) The file size while sending the mesh over the net is not the reason for
compression, but rather the file size on the local HD.

Ignorantly,

Rune
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