On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:38:51 +0100, Roland Scheidegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I was FINALLY able to come up with something for texture tiling > which seems to work - this was very very annoying, it _almost_ worked > literally within minutes, but I needed a lot of time until it finally > did really work. > I needed to convert back the drivers to use a multi-byte upload scheme > again (they did this years ago until it was abandoned for a simpler > method), since if the blitter auto-tiles the textures on upload color > format and texture pitch need to match the exact texture properties (at > least I was unable to make it work otherwise). > Also, there are tons of special cases for small textures in the drm, > which I don't like but couldn't avoid. > I could not make it work for texture rectangles, I think at least on > r200 microtiling for that case should work, but it didn't. Well I don't > think it's important. > It is only tested with "normal" 16-bit and 32-bit RGB/RGBA textures, in > theory all other formats should probably work too I hope. I lack a good > test, tests/manytex and redbook/mipmap are a bit too simple (and you > can't see if the tiling is actually correct...). 8-bit formats should > work too, if I got the math correctly... > Also, there seem to be some minor differences between r100 and r200 > chips as far as macro tiling is concerned (didn't have much time to test > on r100 though), and for the heck of it I couldn't figure out what that > second micro-tile bit is good for on r100. > > Quake3 got about a 15% boost on a 9000pro, and 11% on a 7200 sdr, if the > highest texture setting/trilinear/32bit was used. Well, compressed > textures are still faster :-). > > For the drm, I've also included Andreas Stenglein's cube map patch for > the r100 (since this needs a version bump as well). > I've only attached the -core version, I actually plan to do a non-core > version too, but I've noticed the non-core version does no longer seem > to get all fixes the core version does. So am I the only one who still > checks things in for that version? In that case I'll immediately stop > touching it... > > Roland >
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