Texture Size Question

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OverDozing (Posted 2006) [#1]

Hey, I came to a point where I need to load up a few textures with weird sizes... 147*444... Those textures will be used on sprites mainly for the GUI. Could it lead to any issue? Performance issue?

Dreamora (Posted 2006) [#2]

Speed: yes OR Disortion: yes These texture will either be stretched to 256x512 (in case your hardware only supports Power of 2) or will be used as it is but with a significant speed impact because it is not power of 2

t3K|Mac (Posted 2006) [#3]

i'd edit the textures to a power of 2 size by hand. then use skidracers pixiecode in the archive. should give you pretty crisp sprites/textures.

OverDozing (Posted 2006) [#4]

aaarrrgg I was expecting something like that, but what if the texture is actually loaded in a type, but isn't used during the 'ingame' but only before the game in the menus, would the issue hit the 'ingame' also ? Thanks!!

Matty (Posted 2006) [#5]

If the texture is freed from memory or not rendered during the game then I would think 'ingame' you'd have no problem at all.