Would be a very impressive feature for the new Acknex 8 Version in the future.

Note: "MegaTexture refers to a texture allocation technique facilitating the use of an extremely large terrain texture instead of repeating multiple smaller textures. It is featured in Splash Damage's game, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and was developed by id Software technical director John Carmack.
MegaTexturing employs a single large texture for static terrain. The texture is stored on the hard disk and streamed as needed, allowing large amounts of detail and variation over a large area with comparatively little RAM usage. The upcoming game Rage powered by the id Tech 5 engine uses textures that measure up to 128000 x 128000 pixels."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaTexture
http://s09.idav.ucdavis.edu/talks/05-JP_id_Tech_5_Challenges.pdf

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnBPqrhY3hw[/video]

my full agreement...

yes.. would be great. especially for Racing games, where you can see the Street texture really clear..

yes, indeed a great feature.

but there are things with higher priority imo.

Creating these textures seems to me to be a lot work, though.

I imagine(I've seen the video's)this is very "handy" in the end is it not the same as swapping constantly, on one hand you swap a bunch of 512pow2 textures and the other swaps out chunks in 512pows chunks....am I wrong?
The way I understood it, is it was for the artists convenience at level editing time....for the most part.

Do not get me wrong....I want I want.

This will not work greatly without a proper realtime editor and painting tools with the speed.

To implement something like this you need some multi-threaded background loading of models and textures first and a very efficient scene-management. The file and memory management including fast and good compression is the key to implement something like this. The side-effect is that it can run on systems with low memory as well (like game consoles).

We need this!

This technique offers many possibilities and we'll implement streaming textures in a future version. But probably not for A7 - the A7 kernel is not very well suited for this.