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FSXA Bitmap load

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Hello

There is a bitmap, it is mapped to 2 different part. Each part has different material settings, but use the same bitmap. I mean one has bump or spec map, the other one doesn't.

In this case, the bitmap will load twice in FS or only once ?

I think it will load once, but my friend disagree :)
 
We don't know the internals of FS either of course, but I suspect it's loaded once.

You would still have two drawcalls though due to the material differences.
 
arno said:
We don't know the internals of FS either of course, but I suspect it's loaded once.

You would still have two drawcalls though due to the material differences.
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Thanks for the answer :) My friend - he is not registered here - asked me to take this question in a different way :

Will FS load this texture twice into videocard's memory?
 
My answer would be the same, we don't know all internal workings, but I expect it is only loaded once. Each material can then reference the index of the texture in memory.
 
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