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1. Texture resolution - query

   

   Topic by roboy · Feb 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi all, Not sure if this should be in the "technical section" but I hope you can answer this question. If I had a limit to just use a 1024x1024 texture on an environment, is it acceptable to create 4 separate 512x512 textures and scale up the UV maps? The reason I ask is because I want to use a tilling brick texture…

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   Reply by ceebee · Feb 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   He doesn't mean seperate images, he means seperate quadrants of the 0-1 UV space. Meaning you're using 1 1024x1024 image file.

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   Reply by Brice Vandemoortele · Feb 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   more textures = more drawcalls = slower rendering

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   Reply by LMP · Feb 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   yes. You could even break it down farther if you wanted to, from 4 512s, to 16 256s, or, any combo of that.

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   Reply by roboy · Feb 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks for the reply - wouldn't it be more resource hungry if you had to load 4 or even 16 textures (256s)? I imagine it's more ideal to only load 1 texture per piece but of course the resolution would play a part of that also. And no graphics programmer.. this is just a personal question/work piece :)

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   Reply by Mark Dygert · Feb 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   What does your graphics programmer say? If that's you... I'm sure its ok.