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Nmn wrote:If someone here is thinking about making a huge flat with shadows painted on it it won't work to good. You'll need a huge flat (1000x1000 at least for a decent terrain) and will mostly come out messed. I suggest lowering the lighting of the sector where the terrain is to give it more depth.
If you attempt to give that thing a 1000x1000 image your map will be a huge mess that's totally unuseable. The idea is to use as few as possible while still producing decent results. As has been explained here, really small images are the way to go. I suppose if you gave it a really high scale number for the pixel width scale then using a 1000x1000 image might be ok but still totally unnecessary.
Graphics Processor: ATI/AMD with Vulkan/Metal Support
Postby Chris »
1000x1000 image might be ok
Not hardly. With something like that, you can kiss the CPU cache goodbye. It'll thrash like a mofo. 256x256x8 is about the max you can expect with good performance (and even then, with a decent CPU; eg. not Celerons).
Bouncy wrote:sorry dude, but it's not working for me.
my maps keep going FUBAR.
i did all the steps word for word and i still get messed up maps that i can't play.
I am sorry to read that.
Could you upload the graphics program created bitmap here?
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Mancubus II wrote:
If you attempt to give that thing a 1000x1000 image your map will be a huge mess that's totally unuseable. The idea is to use as few as possible while still producing decent results. As has been explained here, really small images are the way to go. I suppose if you gave it a really high scale number for the pixel width scale then using a 1000x1000 image might be ok but still totally unnecessary.
So the thing is to split the "large" flat with shadows paint on into smaller images and texturize smaller parts of the terrain? This may be perhaps a good idea.
Chris wrote:Not hardly. With something like that, you can kiss the CPU cache goodbye. It'll thrash like a mofo. 256x256x8 is about the max you can expect with good performance (and even then, with a decent CPU; eg. not Celerons).
I'm not sure if I understand this correctly. A flat in Doom can't be bigger than 256x256?
Graphics Processor: ATI/AMD with Vulkan/Metal Support
Postby Chris »
I'm not sure if I understand this correctly. A flat in Doom can't be bigger than 256x256?
In ZDoom it can be. But the larger you go, the more problems with CPU cache you'll have. IIRC, the last tests I remember hearing Randy do, he said 256x256 flats worked great on AMDs, but sucked on Pentiums (I think it was P2 or P3). It might've improved somewhat since, but still, the larger the flat the more data that's going to be shoved into the cache. You want it to fit, so the smaller it is, the better.
Man, this thing is *extremely* cool -:) One problem that I'm having 'tho. Note that although I'm not a DOOM level creator/editor, but am not new to the DOOM scene (to say the least LOL!).
I created a level using a 65x65 grayscale BMP format image, used ZDBSP to build the nodes, an decided to try to retexture the resulting level using ZETH. Every level that I created with the utility caused ZETH to crash to a miserable death.
I then tried smaller BMPs for the original image with the utility (thinking that tmaybe there were too many sectors in the resulting maps, causing ZETH to crash), but had the same results.
Any ideas?
@Grubber, Any chance for an "export" feature, to export any DOOM level to a grayscale height map <LOL>?
Grubber wrote:Heh, this might be interesting, but no (for now).
'Twould be quite cool, thanks for the answer 'tho -:)
Grubber wrote:---snip---
No, it don't depends on texture size. I guess it's ZETH's problem.
Thanks for the info. Yeah, I'm thinking it's something to do with ZETH, as I can load any of the resulting WADs into ZDOOM with no problems at all (short of my old ancient slow PCs, whereas the framerate is quite miserable <LOL>).
<LOL>?
