Ogre now supports loading of resources from more flexible locations, including compressed archives (.zip and Quake3 .pk3 files). You can specify a list of search paths and archives which are either general across the whole of Ogre or specific to a resource type (e.g. textures, meshes).
I’ve also added support for loading TGA images as well, since Quake3 maps use them in places.
I have also dropped support for BMP files. This is because I have had to implement memory-based versions of the image decoders to support loading from archives, and to be frank I couldn’t be bothered to implement one for BMP since it’s a naff format in my opinion and tied to the Windows platform anyway. Ogre supports JPEG, PNG and TGA which should be plenty of flexibility. Personally I think when you’ve got PNG (for lossless) and JPEG (for lossy), you don’t need anything else.
I’m moving on to Quake3 BSPs proper now.
