Any tips for masked texture speed?

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JoshK (Posted 2004) [#1]

Any tips for getting rendering speeds of masked textures any faster? The only factor I can determine is amount of masked area on screen. Does texture size matter significantly? Is there anything else I can do to up the frame rate? Any artistic tricks to optimize this?

jfk EO-11110 (Posted 2004) [#2]

don't turn off mipmapping. I never found them to be slower than other stuff. Is there a problem with masked textures? Of course, alpha is slow, but masked?

skidracer (Posted 2004) [#3]

I definitely agree on leaving mipmapping on.

JoshK (Posted 2004) [#4]

Yeah, it is faster. The textures I was using were pretty grainy, but the new ones look fine with mipmapping. Interestingly, rendering a full screen of masked textures is not slow at all, but the minute you put some poly behind the surface, it slows way down. So you could have a forest with a huge amount of masking, if the trees were all big, and there was nothign above them.

Damien Sturdy (Posted 2004) [#5]

I found that the Latest release of nvidia drivers sped masked textures up by a HORRENDOUS ammount like from 5fps up to 60fps with 10 planes of masked textures.....