Re: [Flightgear-devel] Workaround: c172p on MacBook Pro with Intel HD3000

[Stuart B. <stu...@gm...>]

-Stuart

On 14 Apr 2012, at 11:06, James Turner wrote:

> On 14 Apr 2012, at 09:48, Olaf Flebbe wrote:
>> But please have a look at these textures. I doubt that it makes sense to have a bump normal map twice the size of the livery it is applied to.
> 
> Ah, sorry, I agree this is unlikely :)
> 
> Unless people are counting each rivet head ... maybe they are!

The reason for having such a large normal map was to provide sufficient resolution that the rivets are visible. Any smaller and they appear as a raised line instead IIRC. 

I like the idea of resizing textures at model loading time a lot. 

The other option would be to switch the shader off. Presumably that would not load the normal map into the GPU. 

Stuart