Can we add support for WebP files please

+1, even though I don't use roll20 anymore, a lot of my buddies use it for the campaigns they run and they could use it for sure. Still ridiculous that roll20 is so slow to improve.

+1 This should have been supported long ago

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Would be great to be able to use these, as they are often smaller file sizes and are becoming ubiquitous.

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+1 it would be nice to have webp maps and not have to have so much jpeg artifacting from squeezing them in the 5mb limit

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bigmond said: It might be cynical of me but I wonder if really the reason its not implemented is that less people would run out of their free storage space I don't think you're wrong; it's funny that the webp images show up fine on character sheets both for the profile image and default token image, but not in the library

Let's keep this thread alive, pretty soon all images will be using this format roll20 need to get ahead of this 

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All browsers handle these files just fine. The restriction is entirely arbitrary on Roll 20's part. Its also an extremely easy change to make, most likely just means adding ", webp" to the end of the allowed files list. It made sense when webp was new and we couldnt be sure of browser support, They will load just like any other image in all the major browsers.

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+1. I actually managed to upload and share pictures with webp twop weeks ago, but now, all those links are broken. Frustrating, as I've given my players handouts that no longer work. Could it mean that they are looking into it?

Upvoted. Do note, that you can workaround that by manually changing extension of the .webp file to .png - it works without changing file size.

Were only 40 Upvotes away from 200 let's get this on the dev's radar! 

They render on the table top.. break int he library. It's as if the library automatically adds .jpg to the image extension. +1 full support.

It's maddening that webp isn't supported yet. I don't care about the storage is the render time for maps. Nothing kills the flow and immersion than waiting 30 seconds for a map to load. The average e-commerce website has 1 second to grab a new visitor's attention so the web has constantly worked towards this for the past 2 decades. This is no different. While my players aren't going to click the back button after 1 second having a map load out of sync with, or having to pause, my narration totally sucks. I just read that others were uploading the maps and they just seem broken in the library. I'm gonna give it a go :) Oh ya... +1 for the decade old technology.

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Jaden R. said: Were only 40 Upvotes away from 200 let's get this on the dev's radar!  Sadly a Roll20 Team member announced a new policy a couple months ago, in which 200 Votes no longer guarantees the courtesy of a response. 

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You would think this fall under "those that are small quality-of-life enhancements,..." Gold said: Jaden R. said: Were only 40 Upvotes away from 200 let's get this on the dev's radar!  Sadly a Roll20 Team member announced a new policy a couple months ago, in which 200 Votes no longer guarantees the courtesy of a response. 

Giving my own +1 because there seems to be support but it is inconsistent at best. I can upload WebP images, but they break after a while, and yet I was able to use a WebP image for a map. This should really just be given actual full support and I can't see why it would be too difficult when there's already some amount of compatibility for those files.

+1 although my cynical ass also says it's to make it harder for free useres to get the most out of their 100 mb

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+1 It's insane this isn't a thing already.

Imthatguyhere said: It's insane this isn't a thing already. I expect a holdup is that they need to create something that will not only quit converting everything anyone uploads to a png and starts converting it to webp, but also need to convert all the previously (however many years worth) uploaded content from png to webp.  Uh, without totally messing up everyone's uploaded content. If they don't convert all previously uploaded content, then no one who has been here a while will see any benefit except for on new uploads.  I think this applies to marketplace content as well. Personally, I think this is a great idea, but am afraid it will be implemented in such a way that it will corrupt/destroy a bunch of previously uploaded material when they make the change over.

+1 And in the meantime, there is an extension for Chrome that allows you use webp in Roll20.

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Come on Roll20, catch up to the times.... WEBP please! +1

+1 It is almost 2023.

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Gold said: Jaden R. said: Were only 40 Upvotes away from 200 let's get this on the dev's radar!  Sadly a Roll20 Team member announced a new policy a couple months ago, in which 200 Votes no longer guarantees the courtesy of a response.  This was already the de facto  state of things. I think I saw 6 or 7 topics that were above the 200-vote threshold that had no tag or Roll20 response. And there was even one above 300.  I've been collecting a bunch of artwork for an upcoming campaign, and I'm really bummed that this isn't supported. I'll have to convert close to 200 images to png if this isn't implemented soon.

It looks like it supports webp now?  Edit: I can drag and drop a webp file from windows explorer and it will show up fine, but I can't do the same from roll20 library... so thats weird. 

Need access to place these webp graphics files please! They're very similar to JPG, GIF, PNG, but is a newer size-efficient file format

+1, Webp would be very handy to cut down on the bloat for storage.

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