Texture Sizes…
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Yes, do as Gibbon says. Or I’ll come over and whup yer backside for ye!!
Gorblimey, wot izzit wiv you young kidz stretching the limits needlessly anyway?
Almost every big airline and bank in the world ran online real-time connections to over 25,000 agents handling 20,000 banking or ticketing transactions per second while writing them all to tape and disk simultaneously on less than 16MB of real memory not so long ago!
Then you young ignorant plebs were born and came along wanting bloomin’ colours and graphics and resolutions!
Now a bloomin’ Cray Supercomputer wiv 9000Gigs of RAM ain’t big enuff for ye just to run Freelancer!!
Grrrrrr!! Get back to bed, all of ye!
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Syd wrote:
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greater textures –> higher filesize --> more GRAM used --> maybe less performancepersonaly I use 1024x1024
I think its enoutgh for this engine…And set the lod.
I use 1024x1024 for starsphere and 512x512 for other model. 1024x1024 is too large, really. I have 28 starspheres right now, and total 204 MB.
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I disagree that 1024x1024 is too large. You lose a lot of detail closeup, i’m thinking ships and bases and it’s only when you have at least 1024x1024 or higher you really start to notice the difference. A ship with a 2048x2048 texture will look a million times better than a 512x512 version of the same texture. The point is the game engine can happily deal with it, so why not use them?
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Gibbon wrote:
I disagree that 1024x1024 is too large. You lose a lot of detail closeup, i’m thinking ships and bases and it’s only when you have at least 1024x1024 or higher you really start to notice the difference. A ship with a 2048x2048 texture will look a million times better than a 512x512 version of the same texture. The point is the game engine can happily deal with it, so why not use them?Hey Guy, In originally game. almost all model use 256x256 texture, and detail is so-so. And don’t forget you can texturing for per component not integral ship.
I mean: What size of texture you going to use that depended how you texturing it.
So, 1024x1024 &/ 2048x2048 is too large for me. but i will use it when i no idea to not use it
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NeXoSE wrote:
Hey Guy, In originally game. almost all model use 256x256 texture, and detail is so-so.
The name is Gibbon, not Guy. And i think you just summed it up by saying the textures are so-so. To get better visuals you need higher resolution textures, that’s all there is to it
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The game’s 7 years old. I expect graphics card went up ever so slightly in performance since then?
1024^2 for models is fine, but large stuff can easily go to 2048^2 without issue. It’s worth it.
Oh also, USE DDS. A 2048^2 texture takes 2mb with it.
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The compression artifacts are so minimal I challenge you to find a difference. It more than makes up for it in size.
Think about it for just one second: what’s better, lossy 2048^2 or lossless 1024? 2048 TGAs are extremely heavy, they fill up VRAM quickly and they’re generally unwieldy.
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Any ship I build myself normally only uses 1 texture. That said, depending on the physical size in relation to the other ships I’ve built, I choose an appropriate texture size, normally 1024 or 2048.
I rarely ever use multiple textures on a ship but when I do it’s only ever because of the ship’s size and I NEVER use generic tiled textures. Always strikes me as a kind of half-assed way of doing things unless they’re being used on a large-scale project where individually tailored textures would create too much of a strain on the people creating them.
