HI-res terrains

[ramzey]

Smth walking over my head since couple months, now i must ask

If somone remember WB have 2 diferent cockpits resolution , low /640x480/ and high /1024x768/. When somone in old days have better graphics card and stronger pc download Hi res graphics and enjoy better quality of cockpits /in 3d mode/

As i know game engine / AH/ can accept hi-res bitmaps   when somone plug in them to his own terrain.
Thats give smoothest bitmap /slower graphics?/
and all is depend from speed of AH client PC /or not?/
I supose multigen reality cant give us same graphics quality like Il2 graphics engine, but i hope HTC can give us choice about using low-res or hi-res bitmaps..

As standard HTC give us 256x256 bitmaps world, why not build extra pack with high res bitmaps as add on ?

If all bitmaps are placed in my own PC why we cant chose bitmap resolutionm, anyone know why we cant do that?

with respect

ramzey

[weazel]

Each 256x256 texture uses 14kb of video card memory, if HTC increased textures to 512x512 minimum system requirements and download size would probably double.

Try that POS IL-2 for an example of how 512 and 1024 textures impact system performance.

[gatso]

Originally posted by weazel
512x512 minimum system requirements and download size would probably double.

512x512 texture = 4 times bigger on disk (uncompressed) than 256x256. 1024x1024 16 times bigger than 256, How do you get 14kb in vid mem for a 256x256 texture? They're 65k on disk, 14kb is really small. I don't know much about how vid cards process the information but I assume there's some sort of compression going on somewhere...?

As for performance hit... depends on your card. My GF3 gets precisely no performance hit at all with a small number of aircraft flying around (H2H on my lan with high res aircraft) I guess problems might start to arise when a situation arises when the amount and size of textures shown on screen start exceeding the amount of vid memory on your card? would be nice but I can see that it'd be a lot of work.

Gatso

[ramzey]

som ppls have stronger graphic cards then GF2 /like me/ and stronger CPU.
PC speed and video cards technology going forward, now we have GF4 in a 6 months GF5?
I play IL2 and saw how he slow down, but thats was 1 year ago.

For older PC standard terrains pack, for newst HI-res option.
Imho thats keep playable game for ppls who not upgrade PC for longest time, and  show new futures for AH

ramzey