And then I noticed CrazyButcher's link to the Nvidia article! *Smacks forehead* Though I'm confused - on page 30 it talks about performance impact. I think he's saying that ptex would require 30% of system memory versus 15% for uved meshes? That's still a huge performance hit. Not quite the 3 times as many verts as in my…
That one character would require as much as power as a single scene in UT3 iirc? But CrazyButch mentioned something about specific shader builds, so I'm not too sure about that and how it would translate. Especially from that nvidia paper. Seriously, we're not going anywhere with PTex, even Pixar uses it SPARINGLY, they…