posted 06-21- 09:25 AM               

As some of you may or may-not know I'm doing models for IL-2. The way IL-2 magages texture memory is that it uses different texture sizes for different LODS.

LOD level 1 & 2 = 512x512

LOD level 3 = 256

LOD level 4 = 128

LOD level 5 = 64

This "seems" to be an efficient way to manage texture memory. Obviously if the plane is a blury dot on the horizon it doesn't need a 512x512 texture does it?

Question... Will this work in FS? I ask this because with the advent of the higher texture possibilities of the patch, I forsee people using higher texture limits. If this is feasable, this will allow higher textures to be used, yet not overly tax the games engine.

What think you?

posted 06-21- 09:48 AM               

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posted 06-21- 12:53 PM               

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Originally posted by Zurawski:
This "seems" to be an efficient way to manage texture memory. Obviously if the plane is a blury dot on the horizon it doesn't need a 512x512 texture does it?

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This does mean more loads though, as (if) the planes approach you. You might want to spool that off to another worker thread that idles out, instead of clogging the code in the main thread.

posted 06-21- 12:57 PM               

Dislexic am I.

..Maury,

posted 06-21- 01:33 PM               

In case you don't know what it is, Mip Mapping is a system done in hardware on the card, that chooses the right sized textures to load and apply based on the coverage required for a triangle. Its real purpose is to improve image quality at distance, but it has the side effect that less card texture memory is required for objects that are further away. Typically the Mip Map texture "Pyrimid" goes down to 1x1, so the dot you are talking about would need only a 1x1 texture loaded and displayed.

There may be more to the IL2 feature you just described, but on that description it does't sound like a particulary good idea.

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