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Procedural Textures Gaming's Future
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2006/11/09/Procedural_Textures_Future_Gam/1.html -
Re: Procedural Textures Gaming's Future
So you're really not actually saving anythign with texture memory here tho, this is only useful if you need a game that has a really small installer...... Otherwise you're sacrfaicing quality for no performance gain. -
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Ahhh... one of the developers explained that they render on the GPU, then compress to DXT and pipe that into VRAM. So... faster than HDD>VRAM. Anyhow. Generating quality textures using only procedural functions can be difficult. You generally can't get specific shapes other than pure geometric ones (circles, lines,… -
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Interesting. I'm curious how much load time we're talking about here... with a semi-complex procedural made of several controls, it can take quite a bit of processor time to render a 1024 bitmap. Even kkreiger, with its not-so-complex textures, took quite a bit of load time to render them all out. I do see the point though… -
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Smaller installer, but supposedly also shorter load times. Also could be a fringe benefit of upsampling easily for cards with more mem. -
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There's no performance gain...yet. I think the biggest advantage of this and why it was used with that robot game is because the game itself is so small, XBL games have to be < 50 megs so you can see where that helped. However I know the guys at allegorithmic mentioned the possibility of some of this stuff being…
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