PVRTC2 Texture compression for iOS

Hi,

I'm trying to increase the quality of our game textures and read about the new PVRTC2 compression. It's suppose to work on iPad2 and up which it's ok in our case.

When I drop the PVRTC2 image file to unity it says that the file is unsupported. There is any plans to update the support for this compression format?

 

PVRTC2 Seems not to be supported in unity.
I had to use PVRTC 4bpp RGBA Linear RGB .
Make sure to use the "Save as Legecy" function if you are using the PVRTexTool the new format does allow not work with unity 4.x. (so far)
I hope the newer formats will be available in 4.7 or 5.x

 

>It's suppose to work on iPad2 and up which it's ok in our case.
Although the iOS hardware is capable of supporting PVRTC2 compressed data, Apple have only exposed PVRTC1. You can use the 2bpp and 4bpp modes of PVRTC1 compression for your iOS game, but will only be able to use PVRTC2 data on other operating systems (e.g. recent PowerVR Android devices, such as the Dell Venue 7). Unity may have to update their supported formats for PVRTC2 to work on Android devices though.