RE: [Algorithms] terrain texturing

[Akbar A. <sye...@ea...>]

okay,
cause i'm doing a decent amount of uploading/writing freshly built textures
to the scene and this is usually where a fair amount of time gets spent
relatively speaking.

i'm hoping the nv20 fixes this though;

>but using a good texture-cache should help
i use OpenGL, probably do a port do Direct3D once dx8 class hardware becomes
available.


laterz,
akbar A.


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-----Original Message-----
From: gda...@li...
[mailto:gda...@li...]On Behalf Of Timo
Heister
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 4:59 AM
To: Akbar A.
Subject: Re: [Algorithms] terrain texturing


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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