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Mega Problem...

Started by TheKrust Jul 31, 2007 at 10:29 AM 2 replies 650+ views
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TheKrust
TheKrust
Does anyone know anything about using Mega-Textures? EDIT: and no, I'm not talking about the 20 GB ones, just really really big textures.
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jpetrie
jpetrie
Yes. You have a specific question, I assume?
TheKrust
TheKrust
well, my question is just, is there any special procedures to loading a mega-texture into directX. Probably so, what are they?
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jpetrie
jpetrie
Make sure you don't exhaust GPU memory or try to exceed any card caps limits. That's pretty much it, barring more information about what, exactly you are doing and how big, exactly these textures are.

Most likely some kind of paging system where you slice the texture up will be useful, because it's not that often you'd really need all of that texture data on the card, unless you're doing something strange.

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