Re: [Algorithms] terrain texturing

[Timo H. <Tim...@gm...>]

Hi Akbar,

 Montag, 15. Januar 2001, you wrote:

>>each texture is generated on-the-fly in software when
>>needed.

> i'm just throwing this out here, havent' been really following this thread
> to
> closely.

> but isn't uploading all those textures going to be really expensive for you?
> doing that on our hardware (geforce2, radeon, etc..) it's kind of
> expensive..
> but on consoles (nintendo 64) it is really cheap; iirc (it's been a while ;)

> just curiuos?

I'm not sure, but using a good texture-cache should help. And think
about 3dfx, their texture upload is pretty fast. And you have to
upload textures anyway, when having such a high detail you can't fit
all textures into the agp mem.

>>tnt1
> heh;
just my lowest target, not my main developer machine ;)

> laterz,
> akbar A.

> ;vertexabuse.cjb.net
> or
> ;www.vertexabuse.com
> cjb goes down once in a while


> "necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows"
> -ninja scroll





CU, Timo

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