Cryengine Texture Compiling

oxblood

Hey guys,
When I Import my textures into cry-engine it shows the "compiling" texture. This used to happen for a couple seconds before the textures in the shader were fully complied, but now it takes like 5minutes for each map to compile.. its really slowing down my workflow, anyone got any ideas on how to get it back to its normal speed.

oxblood

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This is driving me nuts

CollinBishop

My simple guess is that the textures you are compiling are quite large. If you are bringing in 4k or 8k maps it will take some time to compile the maps. Case in point. In some cases an 8k map will be stored at 128mb of memory. Likewise a 1k map will compress down to 170kb. Much of this has to do wit the size as well as the size after mip-mapping is taken into consideration.