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Steve Smith

2005-04-06, 6:29 pm

Can anyone remind what the optimum sizes for image textures are ?

Thanks

Steve


Joerg Scheurich aka MUFTI

2005-04-06, 6:29 pm

> Can anyone remind what the optimum sizes for image textures are ?

2^n x 2^n eg. 64 x 64, 128 x 128, 256 x 256, 512 x 512, 1024 x 1024

Before using image texture sizes like 2048 x 2048, you should check
if your graphics card driver do not scale down the image back to
1024 x 1024...

so long
MUFTI
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Holger Grahn

2005-04-06, 11:25 pm

Hi

It depends on your target

-quality
-download speed
- rendering speed
etc. etc.

If you want to target people using ATI cards don't go above 2048*2048
If you target the new Nvidia card generation you can use non power of 2
textures.

A good size is 512*512 if needing high detail
or going lower eg 256, 128.

Using DXT1 DDS compressed texture may help users with stripped down graphics
cards
having lower memory bandwidth / fewer pixel pipelines.

-- Holger



"Steve Smith" <steve@zanespray.fsnet.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Can anyone remind what the optimum sizes for image textures are ?
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> Thanks
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> Steve
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jeffs

2005-04-07, 6:40 pm

powers of 2 will do
[as long as they do not exceed what graphics cards can do]

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