Re: [Flightgear-users] Texture sizes (was Re: New Livery for 747)

2004-10-30 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:11, Chris Metzler wrote: snip have this worry that jacking up the texture sizes to do planes with higher resolution may come back to bite us later, when we find that we can't have as much scenery, or as many planes in the scene, as we would like. Maybe this is

Re: [Flightgear-users] Texture sizes (was Re: New Livery for 747)

2004-10-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Paul Surgeon wrote: Hence the need for FlightGear to have a way of adjusting all these things (preferably from inside FG). shouldn't be a problem to start using specific nodes within the property tree for that case, it would probably not even be involved to first add _support_ (only) for it - one

Re: [Flightgear-users] Texture sizes (was Re: New Livery for 747)

2004-10-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Chris Metzler wrote: Imagine that we decide to go from using one ground texture for a particular surface type to four (drawn from randomly) to decrease the 'checkerboard effect'. Been there, done that. See BuiltUpCover in materials.xml and notice there are two texture tags. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Texture sizes (was Re: New Livery for 747)

2004-10-30 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Saturday, 30 October 2004 11:02, Erik Hofman wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: Imagine that we decide to go from using one ground texture for a particular surface type to four (drawn from randomly) to decrease the 'checkerboard effect'. Been there, done that. See BuiltUpCover in

Re: [Flightgear-users] Texture sizes (was Re: New Livery for 747)

2004-10-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: On Saturday, 30 October 2004 11:02, Erik Hofman wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: Imagine that we decide to go from using one ground texture for a particular surface type to four (drawn from randomly) to decrease the 'checkerboard effect'. Been there, done that. See BuiltUpCover in

Re: [Flightgear-users] Texture sizes (was Re: New Livery for 747)

2004-10-30 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:35, Erik Hofman wrote: Well, they are not tilable because the tile edges are not rectangular. But yes, the textures will be chosen on a round-robin base which turned out to look much more natural than simple random (and which has other advantages). Hmmm ... I

[Flightgear-users] Texture sizes (was Re: New Livery for 747)

2004-10-29 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:54:13 +0200 Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:59, Lee Elliott wrote: What's the current consensus on texture sizes? I'm currently limiting my textures to 1024x1024 but I'd like to use larger textures if it would be acceptable. I'm