Re: [Flightgear-devel] Night textures: two files vs. textranslate
Heiko, Emilian, thanks for your answers! @Heiko: The wiki article correctly describes the textranslate method. What puzzled me was that it says the previous, two-file solution would no longer work. Well, apparently it does here... http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5t=11870#p123517 @Emilian: I wasn't aware of that lightmap effect, thanks for the heads-up! It would certainly suit better here. Cheers, Tom signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Night textures: two files vs. textranslate
Dear all, I'm in the process of converting X-Plane scenery to FG. As far as I understood, X-Plane uses two separate texture files for day/night lighting. The FG wiki (http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Illuminate_faces#Changing_texture_if_illuminated) says This does not work with any version newer than v1.0! However, I just tried this with my GIT (compiled somewhen in Feb 2011), and it worked nicely. Is this way of night texturing deprecated/obsolete? Any significant downsides to it? I also tried the textranslate method, but when I put the day/night textures, say van.png and van_LIT.png each 256 x 256), into one file (512 x 256) and make up an .xml as described in the wiki, both day and night textures look distorted in FG. I assume the mapping specified in the .ac is no longer correct when I change the size of the texture file? I have no experience with UV mapping though. Any ideas? Tom signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Night textures: two files vs. textranslate
On Saturday 30 April 2011 13:15:30 Thomas Albrecht wrote: Dear all, I also tried the textranslate method, but when I put the day/night textures, say van.png and van_LIT.png each 256 x 256), into one file (512 x 256) and make up an .xml as described in the wiki, both day and night textures look distorted in FG. I assume the mapping specified in the .ac is no longer correct when I change the size of the texture file? I have no experience with UV mapping though. Any ideas? Tom You would have to remap the respective faces to use just half of the texture. Otherways they use the whole texture and what you see as distorted is in fact both day and night displayed at once. Using separate files induces a slight delay as the night texture is loaded, and it's mipmaps get generated but might help with memory usage, as you're using only half the videoram than with the big two-in-one. HTH Emilian. -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Night textures: two files vs. textranslate
Hello, Thomas Albrecht wrote: Dear all, I also tried the textranslate method, but when I put the day/night textures, say van.png and van_LIT.png each 256 x 256), into one file (512 x 256) and make up an .xml as described in the wiki, both day and night textures look distorted in FG. I assume the mapping specified in the .ac is no longer correct when I change the size of the texture file? I have no experience with UV mapping though. Any ideas? Tom You would have to remap the respective faces to use just half of the texture. Otherways they use the whole texture and what you see as distorted is in fact both day and night displayed at once. Using separate files induces a slight delay as the night texture is loaded, and it's mipmaps get generated but might help with memory usage, as you're using only half the videoram than with the big two-in-one. HTH Emilian. @Tom: The article in the wiki is outdated. Indeed nighttextures with textranslate are working in GIT since a whole while. If it works without textranslating, like described in the wiki-article, I can't tell. Never tried yet. With textranslate you have to change the UVmap. Means, when you have put night and day textures beside (x-direction) into one texture file, the UVMap has to be reduced in size (in x-direction) exactly the half. You may want to take a look into FGdata/Models/Airport to see how it works. @Emilian: According to Tim Moore, FGFS's graphic specialists it is recommended to have large texture files, instead many smalls. See also here: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Improve_Framerates Cheers Heiko -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Night textures: two files vs. textranslate
On Saturday 30 April 2011 14:21:23 Heiko Schulz wrote: @Emilian: According to Tim Moore, FGFS's graphic specialists it is recommended to have large texture files, instead many smalls. See also here: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Improve_Framerates Cheers Heiko Hmm, that depends. If those textures should be displayed all the time (like a livery), then yeah, I agree, one big texture is better than many smaller ones, also depending on your texturing needs. On the other hand, if you're not displaying half the texture most of the time, I think that's wasted VRAM, that could be freed for another texture of the same size. This might seem just a bit of wasted memory, but when you have 10-15 different buildings with such textures things start to add up, and you'd be using as much memory as for 20-30 different buildings, and where you have a detailed village you could have two or more. Just my o.o2RON on the matter :P Emilian -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Night textures: two files vs. textranslate
Hello, Hmm, that depends. If those textures should be displayed all the time (like a livery), then yeah, I agree, one big texture is better than many smaller ones, also depending on your texturing needs. On the other hand, if you're not displaying half the texture most of the time, I think that's wasted VRAM, that could be freed for another texture of the same size. This might seem just a bit of wasted memory, but when you have 10-15 different buildings with such textures things start to add up, and you'd be using as much memory as for 20-30 different buildings, and where you have a detailed village you could have two or more. Just my o.o2RON on the matter :P Emilian Yes, interesting thought, I understand. But I always thought that the process of loading and unloading textures settles down the perfomance and that'y why it is better to have them only loaded once and keep them in VRAM. But maybe this only true when you not use any .dds-textures. I guess with .dds-textures it would make sense to have them then seperated. Cheers Heiko -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Night textures: two files vs. textranslate
On another note, for a case like the village house presented in the wiki I would suggest another aproach: Better make the windows separate faces, and just give them emission at night with the material animation. (a couple of extra vertices are way less resource hungry compared to a 256x256 part of a texture ;) ). Switching the whole texture is good for big buildings that have illuminated facades, not just the windows. And that would better be achieved with the lightmap effect (which can use a lower resolution lightmap compared to the main texture), combined with the emission method for windows and other features where that's needed. That would make a better usage of textures and reduce the needed resources. Again just my o.o2RON Emilian. -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
