1024x1024 textures - anyone using?
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ive made terrains up to 1024x that work fine, although the bigger they get the more likely you are to have crashes at high FOVs
base stuff with emjays hires plugin i think i tested up to 4096x without trouble, some textures like the one that stretches over the SH its nice to have those super hi res
makes map loading longer (obviously) and imo there's a point of diminishing returns, at some point i think i downgraded my 'hires' pack and removed the 4096/2048 textures and saved 100MB+ without any really noticeable visual difference
altho i probably left the SH texture really big still
base stuff with emjays hires plugin i think i tested up to 4096x without trouble, some textures like the one that stretches over the SH its nice to have those super hi res
makes map loading longer (obviously) and imo there's a point of diminishing returns, at some point i think i downgraded my 'hires' pack and removed the 4096/2048 textures and saved 100MB+ without any really noticeable visual difference
altho i probably left the SH texture really big still
~dickschnitzel~
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the maps that lush terrain crashes on are broadside, broadsideLT, blastside and hillkingLT, it doesn't matter what resolution past 128x128
I guess it's because how much game has to render + a map problem. We can get around that by adjusting rendering values such as FOV and Terrain Visible Distance, the higher the FOV - the lower TVD has to be to keep amount of rendered data from crashing the game.
so for $pref:
layerFov = "120"; we have to have max $pref::TerrainVisibleDistance = "575";
you could say that FOV and TVD are yin and yang of the tribes. how could it be otherwise?
anyway what do you plan to do about textures bugs_?
I guess it's because how much game has to render + a map problem. We can get around that by adjusting rendering values such as FOV and Terrain Visible Distance, the higher the FOV - the lower TVD has to be to keep amount of rendered data from crashing the game.
so for $pref:
layerFov = "120"; we have to have max $pref::TerrainVisibleDistance = "575";you could say that FOV and TVD are yin and yang of the tribes. how could it be otherwise?
anyway what do you plan to do about textures bugs_?
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cool, didn't know limiting terrain distance helped those crashes
i think it affects all maps, but ur saying its only lush? i know it does it on DX sometimes too at 120
i remember that fucked me up for a while doing the LoDFix cause i was testing at 120 FOV (normally i play at 108 or 110) and couldn't figure out why one config would crash and the other wouldn't until i realized it was the stupid highres terrain crash
i think it affects all maps, but ur saying its only lush? i know it does it on DX sometimes too at 120
i remember that fucked me up for a while doing the LoDFix cause i was testing at 120 FOV (normally i play at 108 or 110) and couldn't figure out why one config would crash and the other wouldn't until i realized it was the stupid highres terrain crash
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so glad you posted that. Can finally play at 120 again.
~dickschnitzel~
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ya sleepy told me about it tbh. i think game can still crash with too much hd stuff tho.
The config I'll be releasing in a few weeks, (looking like late January if groove is down to help optimize vhuds and scripts ;] ) is entirely 2048 textures with a few sacrifices to save memory allocation.
It currently crashes after each map and requires a reload of tribes, but again it hasn't been optimized yet and is also using altimors version of skybox which is notorious for crashing due to poor memory allocation. Also, anything higher than 128x128 for terrain will crash in conjunction with these assets
I am hoping mj will make a usable version of skybox that models default sky memory allocation
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have you talked to mj about terrain textures?
~dickschnitzel~
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That is well known Z's terrain. There are no other 1024x1024 textures that would match his by style. U could just upscale it. Who do you refer to by "us"?
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p.s. i still dont see the point of 1024x terrains - unlike base textures that are used on all kinds of different things and stretched to all different sizes, terrains are a fixed size and its not all that big
not worth the memory hit and map load time increase imo, but to each their own.
not worth the memory hit and map load time increase imo, but to each their own.
~dickschnitzel~
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How about you first answer a question before asking one?
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~dickschnitzel~
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that's true. his lush terrain has few flaws. the other 1024x1024 lush is the one by Gladiator aka Sinep here on forums and the one made by shift. If there was 1024x1024 version of your terrain it could easily top all those 3.