Re: speed question

[Frank C <li...@si...>]

On 13-Jul-04, at 2:23 PM, Keith Wiley wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Frank C wrote:
>
>> Depending on your needs this may indeed be faster than letting
>> Quesa/OpenGL handle it, since you can control exactly how many 
>> textures
>> to use whereas Quesa always uses a full set. I'm actually very
>> surprised you see a speed up when using more textures rather than just
>> using one, but maybe your full-size texture is a little much for your
>> hardware, or it's being uploaded more often than it needs to be.
>
> Another reason it helps is that I have a lot of tiles active, and at 
> their
> highest resolution I doubt they would all fit in VRAM.

I think I may have misunderstood your situation - if your tiles are 
using mostly different textures then yes, I see how that could help, 
but if you're only using a few textures you can set up your data to 
reuse the same textureshaders and you shouldn't have any problems.

Frank.