However, it's not handling object removal yet. But I think I've an idea to handle all this stuff nicely...

Not sure if it works with Python 2.x. Can't test it... :-(

Fortunately here we don't need to flip the images.

This was making mess for non-square textures.

Doing this in multiple steps not to confuse git.

This also adds compressed textures support to UTF8v2Loader.

Now with UTF8 + BufferGeometry + DDS we should have quite efficient and GPU friendly asset pipeline. One possible improvement would be using Rich Geldreich's Crunch compression instead of raw DDS for having smaller texture file sizes while downloading: http://code.google.com/p/crunch/

TODO: there seem to be some bug somewhere in our compressed texture pipeline (or in Chrome). I tried Ben's textures converted to DDS and I got boatload of GL warnings :S

Added support for compressed textures to Loader base class. Added compressed textures to JSON loader example.

Also moved "startsWith" and "trim" string shims from OBJMTLLoader into Three.js file and added "endsWith" string shim.

Downside of using compressed textures is that texture.flipY parameter doesn't work, so either textures or UVs need to be flipped somewhere else in the asset pipeline.

This is because WebGL doesn't have access to the content of compressed textures (similar to how automatic mipmaps generation doesn't work with compressed textures, so mipmaps need to be baked in DDS).

See discussion on WebGL mailing list here: https://www.khronos.org/webgl/public-mailing-list/archives/1209/msg00024.html

For the JSON loader OBJ example I just flipped images in Gimp (other option would be to keep images intact and flip UVs in the application after loading geometry).

For ben model this shrunk creation time 3x (190 ms vs 608 ms). Also memory footprint should be much smaller with BufferGeometry.

Also I think there was a bug with "max_backre" instead of "max_backref" in decompressMesh2 function.

Removed jquery dependencies from MTLLoader and OBJMTLLoader. Cleaned up code a bit, reformatted whitespace. Added example.

See #2399

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Now that the new version of UTF8 supports materials, we may as well use them.

See #2399

Fixed handling of hierarchies and custom properties for asynchronously loaded objects in SceneLoader.

Bah, this one was tricky, all sorts of shenanigans were going on. Hope this is it, I still don't fully understand how "object" variable was keeping value from other invocations of "handle_children" (instead of just being "undefined" after "var object;"), seems like closures keeping value in recursive function calls.

Fix cloneObject to also copy source.useVertexTexture for SkinnedMesh.