This question is about image for panel. If I use >1024 pixel image on machine that doesn’t support >1024 image, what will happen?

1. The game crash
2. The game can still run but the image will be automatically resized to 1024.

If the answer is no. 2, if we:

PANEL *abc = { bmap = thatbigimage.tga; }

What will be returned if we call abc.size_x? 1024 or the original big size?

And what if we run on window mode on the same machine? Does window mode has anything to do with 3D card limitation? Or it's fully emulator which can render all features?

PANEL *abc = { bmap = "thatbigimage.tga"; }

bmap_height (bmap);
bmap_width (bmap);

window mode has nothing to do with the 3d card, the engine just renders to a window's device context instead of the whole screen.

Sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say. What I need to know is the panel size on machine that doesn't support big texture (1024). Incase the result may be vary among different version of Lite-C, I'm using A7 and the panel size will be resized according to bmap size. So the question is, will the panel size remain the same after the "Auto" resizing?


So this means, any graphic features (bump, shader 3.0, big texture) can be rendered perfectly in window mode? But at the cost of slower FPS and windowed right?

So do you know the answers for the rest of my question? I got 3 main question:
1. Will the gamae crash
2. The current panel size
3. Window mode can render all graphic effects/features

1. will the game crash? try it. i doubt it. even with something like 16kx16k textures the engine would probably just rely on the paging algorithm of the driver.
3. window mode can render all effects. of course there might exist problems but there are also problems for full screen rendering (e.g. not being able to overlay other windows controls).

Thank you for the answer. Very clear.

BTW, Is there any way to disable/limits certain 3D card features? I want to set my 3D card texture limits to 1024 to see the effects since my 3D card supports large texture. Or can we limits the window mode capabilities?

I'm not very good at programming, so I'm not sure whether this is a difficult task or not.

it is a difficult task. try to start the engine in weak 3d mode, i think this disables certain effects. look for w3d in the manual.

Thank you.