4k texture maps?

Proxzee

Hey everyone, I was sent an art test for a Freespace Mod, and I was asked to use a 4k map for a fighter craft. This seems a bit too huge for something that takes up maybe 20% of the screen. What do you think? The craft would be playable.

edit: The reason cited was that the texture could be scaled down, and that people who wanted to play higher rez could use a 4k texture.

warby

all depends on how close you can get id assume ^^ most game companys make their textures at double the resolution they intend to use so maybe thats whats going on here !

Proxzee

Thanks Warby, I don't think i want to get onto this project. Doesn't feel right.

renderhjs

4k is very large- I usually rather use it for rendering projects and not real time because with a 32bit OS it really eats up a lot of performance.
Art test for a fan project you say, sounds more like work as fun for just a mod project.

commander_keen

Im guessing the mod is for UE3. Most of the textures in ut3 are 2048 or 4096 because they are streamed and usually not loaded all the way to full res.

renderhjs

yes but aren't that usually atlas texture maps that consist of multiple textures in one quadtree/ grid alike order?

Neox

hummmm no

katzeimsack

ati cards don't render 4k maps don't go higher than a 2k .. a spaceship maybe shoudl use 2x 2k in order to make it look really good in closeups

Neox

well depends on the size, but yeah a fighter sounds ok with 2x2048

Gannon

I use large maps to get more things into one map then have 4-5 other maps.Otherwise it tends to become a little overwhelming when you're spending more time looking for the right texture files.

I jam quite a few objects into my maps thinking in quarters and eighths on how I place my objects. If there's only one object going on that large of a map it'd better be huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge and always in view or incredibly important.

I'm not quite sure how maps are affected by larger resolutions though. Never really played with it a lot. I think it's kind of a lame reason to use a larger map because how many players have rigs that are going to get high enough resolution to make a 2048 get pixelated to the point where that's all they can focus on.