Re: speed question

[Keith W. <kw...@cs...>]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Frank C wrote:

> To get back to the original topic of this post, I think your reasoning
> for wanting mipmapping may be flawed - it's probably faster to simply
> _not_ use mipmapping at all, at the cost of image quality.

By which you mean that I should use pixmaps and let the engine do it
automatically, or you mean I shouldn't be decreasing resolution when an
object is distant from the camera?

The program I'm writing (a game) is going to push pretty hard on the
hardware.  Right now I'm only working on the terrain engine, without any
objects at all in the world.  I'm trying to find a way to get terrain
tiles in the distance to render with lower res textures.  I have already
experimented with manually inserting lower res textures for distant
objects and I get significant speedups.

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