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Re: Total Texture Enhancement Pack - Compressed!
Posted By: Steve LevinsonDate: 2/26/04 6:53 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Total Texture Enhancement Pack - Compressed! (Speaker-To-Animals)

: I remember using that in B&B, but wasn't it software-rendering?
: For software, 32-bit should be just as fast as the dithered version was
: (except that OS X seems to try its hardest to make it slow, and none of us
: know enough about Carbon to fix it).

B&B did use software rendering and unless there is an OpenGL approch to dithering, which I doubt, it may not be possible here. Where as traditional software should handle 32 bit as well as 16 bit, I'm not sure if Alt-Vec (the Velocity Engine) might realize a speed boost by parallel processing smaller or fewer data channels. In any case, I think the bottleneck here is in hardware - my graphics card doesn't have enough VRAM to handle 32 bits/pixel and still have sufficient memory to store 32 bit/pixel OpenGL textures and to do the necessary calculations. Halving the bit depth effectively doubles the available memory.

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Total Texture Enhancement Packthe Battle Cat 2/23/04 8:39 a.m.
     Re: Total Texture Enhancement PackKrpy 2/23/04 10:44 a.m.
           Re: Total Texture Enhancement PackJohannes Gunnar 2/23/04 11:23 a.m.
                 Re: Total Texture Enhancement PackAdam Ashwell 2/23/04 11:29 a.m.
                 Re: Total Texture Enhancement PackElliott 2/23/04 12:44 p.m.
                 Re: Total Texture Enhancement PackSteve Levinson 2/23/04 7:24 p.m.
                       Re: Total Texture Enhancement Pack - Compressed!Steve Levinson 2/24/04 2:05 p.m.
                             Re: Total Texture Enhancement Pack - Compressed!Speaker-To-Animals 2/24/04 8:15 p.m.
                                   Re: Total Texture Enhancement Pack - Compressed!Steve Levinson 2/25/04 5:21 a.m.
                                         Re: Total Texture Enhancement Pack - Compressed!Speaker-To-Animals 2/25/04 6:16 p.m.
                                               Re: Total Texture Enhancement Pack - Compressed!Steve Levinson 2/26/04 6:53 a.m.
                                                     Re: Total Texture Enhancement Pack - Compressed!Adam Ashwell 2/26/04 1:31 p.m.
                                                           Sadly, yes, B&B is deadSteve Levinson 2/27/04 5:33 a.m.
                                                                 Re: Sadly, yes, B&B is deadthe Battle Cat 2/28/04 8:17 a.m.
                                                                       Re: Sadly, yes, B&B is deadSteve Levinson 2/28/04 8:25 a.m.
                             Total Texture Enhancement Pack - Note to PC UsersOckham's Razor 2/26/04 9:26 p.m.

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