Here's an interesting paper from a MS combat sim artist on creating
tilable textures while minimizing repeating artifacts:
http://www.gdconf.com/archives/proceedings/2000/arts_papers.html
At some point the flightgear project needs an aspiring artist to
create a nicer set of textures that fit together fairly well.
If anyone wants to jump on this right away, here are a couple tips.
- The file $FG_BASE/materials defines all the various material
properties used by flightgear and specifies which texture file to
use and the area of coverage (scale) of the texture.
- At one point we were playing around with 1024x1024 textures but
consider that a single RGB texture at that resolution with
mipmapping turned on can consume about 6Mb of your cards RAM so I
think in general we should shoot for 256x256 resolution ground cover
textures for general distribution.
Thanks,
Curt.
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Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org
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