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surface padding? #210339 06/09/08 22:51 06/09/08 22:51
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 783 London, UK sheefo OP User
sheefo OP User Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 783 London, UK	Are BMAPs "padded" to the nearest higher power of 2? I noticed that the D3DSURFACE_DESC has values that are always powers of 2. Why is this? It makes it difficult to render them with DrawPrimitiveUP.

Re: surface padding? [Re: sheefo] #210344 06/09/08 23:19 06/09/08 23:19
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,771 Bay City, MI lostclimate Expert
lostclimate Expert Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,771 Bay City, MI	long time no see on the forums.

Re: surface padding? [Re: lostclimate] #210392 06/10/08 09:08 06/10/08 09:08
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 28,024 Frankfurt jcl Chief Engineer
jcl Chief Engineer Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 28,024 Frankfurt	Sure, they are padded. General information and advices about texture sizes in computer games can be found in the manual: http://manual.conitec.net/fileformats.htm

Re: surface padding? [Re: jcl] #210465 06/10/08 19:13 06/10/08 19:13
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 783 London, UK sheefo OP User
sheefo OP User Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 783 London, UK	@ lostclimate: My exams are over now. I'm free @ jcl: Thanks. I've adjusted the uv settings to fit the texture (real_width / texture_width). Now I can use DrawPrimitiveUP to render them.

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