Image Pipeline

Overview

• The Image Pipeline refers to the pipeline for fetching images for use as textures or in the User Interface.
• The image pipeline consists of the following steps:
  • Request for image data
  • Retrieval of image data from the local cache if available
  • Retrieval of image data from the system if required
  • Decompression of the image data into texture data for use by the graphics system

System Overview

Local Texture Caching

• See Texture Cache

Simulator Pipeline

• The current system for fetching images from the servers goes through the simulator using UDP.
• This system is not well documented and will be replaced by the HTTP Image Pipeline