high res textures

[cobalt]

Is is possible for a high res texture for the uboat skin? say, to around the size of the sh4 skins?

[danlisa]

What size are the texture files in SH4?

IIRC the largest textures we've had for U-Boat skins have been 2048x2048 as a TGA file.

Whereas SH4 uses DDS format which works somewhat differently.

A DDS file contains multi-resolution information, so for example, when you are close to the sub you see the highest rez but when far from the sub you see a low rez version. This is why SH4 has been able to maintain performance & FPS while improving the overall graphics.

In SH3, TGA files just don't work this way and regardless of what distance you view a texture it will always use the same resolution. Sure, the TGA files can be made larger but with an exponential effect of performance.

[flakmonkey]

many sh3 uboat sking are already much larger than their sh4 equivalents, ive seen up to 4096*4096.