Harry seems to be a magician

Some people have demonstrated that A8 can do AAA quality if you have some skilled 3D artist using quality textures with you :



Just skills, nice photorealistic textures package , cool fullscreen shader or ligtening , and perhaps ....
lot lot of work !

Dude, i so wanna see this in real time? could we get even a 30second vid?

I'm also playing with L3DT sometimes, but never use more than 4 textures (plus lightmap texture):



If someone would write a direct importer, it would be really fine. Based on heightmap, texture alpha and lightmap exports, it cannot be too hard.

We currently got the texture things work its looking realistic now but its VERY laggy cause the textures are soo big. If we reduce size its lokking shit but there is no lagg!
There is any faeture dhader etc wich scale SOME textures in the far smaller and in the near bigger?
Would be really helpfull!

Sounds like mip-mapping ?

Yeah but I added it and its still laggy. My code:
d3d_anisotropy = 7;
d3d_mipmapping = 4;

I think the problem is that we genare the map (texture it and add lots of plants)
The finish-textured map could be exported as wmp or something so we can load a precompiled map?

Are you working with terrains with mutlitexture-shader?

does the texture even contain mipmaps?

What you could do is to stream your models so that you only load them if they are near the player. Thats not to hard.

Concerning the texture size problem: I did never find a solution to display a hugh map with an acceptable quality without using shaders. If you find one, please tell me

hmmm... for me the non-shader multi-texture fixed function effect (effect = "terraintex.fx";) works fine after exporting the texture alpha channels from L3DT, of course by replacing the original textures with my own .dds (DTX3/DTX5) ones...