would there be such a huge difference between pix_snap and pix_snap2tex ?
this is the reason why there is [pix_snap2tex] in the first place: the bottle-neck with [pix_snap] is transferring the image from the gfx-card's memory into main-memory; this is slow if the data just stays on the gfx-card, this is _fast_
which brings me logically to my next question: is there possibility to squeeze in a pix_alpha into the pix_snap2tex to have the benefit of both worlds ?
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