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1. Multiple textures or single texture

   

   Topic by Sharvo · May 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hello, Normally i would texture everything on one map for example a barrel or chair. However, i have recently started to try layered textures so i would have a base colour map and seperate maps for details, occlusion etc. The texture size of the multiples is smaller or the same size as a single texture but the quality is…

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   Reply by mortalhuman · May 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Yea, you should continue atlasing your textures wherever possible unless to do so would negatively effect your texture memory budgets, whatever they may be. Like if you are doing a building and it is part of a large city environment, you might do all of its windows and bits and bobs on one texture, maybe that texture has…

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   Reply by naked_chicken · May 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   This also can depend on the engine. Our engine at my work relies heavily on streaming and really large textures often presented issues with that. It's really a balancing act, you don't want your textures to be too big but you also don't want a huge number of small textures either.

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   Reply by Rick_D · May 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   more textures means more drawcalls, more passes for the renderer to do and impacting performance.