Since Daz textures are often unnecessarily detailed and large, the Daz Importer includes a tool to lower the resolution and size of the textures, see
http://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/2019/10/resizing-textures.html. However, I recently noted a problem when it comes to resizing normal textures in TIF format: the resized normal textures react very differently with light than the original ones.
Here is an example with Victoria 8. The left image has the original textures (4096x4096 or 2048x2048). In the middle image, the diffuse, bump, specularity and translucency textures, which are JPEG or PNG files, have been downsized one step (to 2048x2048 or 1024x1024). In the right image, the normal maps, which are TIF files, have also been downsized one step (from 4096x4096 to 2048x2048). Clearly there is a problem at the texture seams after we downsized the normal maps.
It is not yet clear to me if this problem is specific to TIF files, or if similar problem would arise if the normal maps were stored in a different file format. However, in practice TIF files are rarely used except as normal textures. The latest commit has a workaround for this problem: we can now choose which file types are downsized.
Downsizing all file types except TIF (the defaults) avoids this problem, at least for many characters. And since all other textures are downsized, the memory requirements are still reduced significantly, although not quite as much as before.
