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From: "Paladin" <paladin@enterprise.net>
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Subject: Maximum efficient size of TIM's to be texture mapped
Date: 3 Nov 1999 02:24:27 GMT
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I think I remember reading somewhere that textures to be mapped onto
polygons should be:

16 bit = 32 * 32 Maximum
8 bit = 64 * 32 Maximum
4 bit = 64 * 64 Maximum

otherwise the operation will take 30% longer, since the texture doesn't fit
within the GPU's cache or something, does anyone have information on this?

	thanks in advance Daniel J. Dobson