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[V] Knobby
Volition Staff
I doubt this would come from us, but I totally see mods that run with this type of idea.
When will it be possible to be able to use high res textures?
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[V] Knobby
Volition Staff
As far as resolution? I don't think you'd hit engine limitations before you ran out of memory. That's really the big crux of the problem and getting you guys more memory is something I'm very interested in doing.
[V] Knobby
Volition Staff
Not at all, that is for the mip splitting that we do for textures on the consoles to try and keep the texture memory usage down. We stream the high mip for textures on the console, but don't do it on the PC since we have more memory. This is a similar, but more scaled back, feature that you see on other engines like Unreal. You can see it every time you open an ammo box in Borderlands 2 and the textures are all blech for a few seconds. Unreal goes all out and streams each mip independently I believe, but we only do the high mip.
With the hi-res texture mod for SRTT(This one http://www.saintsrowmods.com/forum/threads/hd-textures-pack-mod.268/ ) I think it would've been possible to actually make hi-res textures for characters, right?
[V] Knobby
Volition Staff
I don't see why you couldn't replace every single texture given enough determination to make that much art.
What I meant was the memory limitation of the engine or something similar, since I don't really understand that much of the game's engine.I don't see why you couldn't replace every single texture given enough determination to make that much art.
[V] Knobby
Volition Staff
I wouldn't expect to be able to double the res of everything and it all just work. If we can ever patch the game, this should be better, but might not be exactly what you're after.What I meant was the memory limitation of the engine or something similar, since I don't really understand that much of the game's engine.
One limitation you may need to be aware of, and this is a limitation of Direct X and not the game engine, is that any texture larger than your graphics card can handle is rendered as a blank texture.
In the case of a Direct X 10 card then a texture (to be safe) shouldn't exceed 8192 pixels in either the height or width.
In the case of an older Direct X 9 card there is no standard minimum texture size however any graphics card capable of running the game should be Direct X 10 capable.
You can go beyond the 8192 limit but your texture won't be guaranteed to work on all graphics cards and you should provide a version that sticks to the 8192 limit.
In the case of a Direct X 10 card then a texture (to be safe) shouldn't exceed 8192 pixels in either the height or width.
In the case of an older Direct X 9 card there is no standard minimum texture size however any graphics card capable of running the game should be Direct X 10 capable.
You can go beyond the 8192 limit but your texture won't be guaranteed to work on all graphics cards and you should provide a version that sticks to the 8192 limit.