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Repeating textures

0Artur0

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What would be the best technique performance wise for repeating textures: there are 10 big hangar doors which use the same texture. Is it best to use 1 big texture with all 10 doors on it or is it better to make 10 linked objects in a model and every object calls the same 1 door texture? I imagine the quality would be much better with second example but are there any problems with this technique in FS?
So I don't flood this forum even more with basic questions I'll ask my second question here :)
If there are some objects in a model that are intersecting each other, could this be a problematic (idk, flickering, lost performance, something else I don't know about..)? See the picture.. I modeled this thing on the roof so that is perfectly matches the curvature of the roof. I could save some geometry if I'd just make straight line (red) but it would "cut" into the roof. Any problems with that?
 

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As for the repeating textures there is some controversy needed:
If you use a big texture with each individual door on it you will be able to really make the doors look a bit diefferent from each other regarding weathering, stains, dirt etc.
If you make the doors all copies of a single one, using all the same texture you can achieve a very much higher texture resolution but the doors will look absolutely identical. It is up to your considerations which one you need. There is technically no problem with both methods.
 
I suggest the second approach and recommend the use of "add on polygons" to give each door some uniqueness. You could put signs on the doors, for instance.
 
0Artur0 said:
If there are some objects in a model that are intersecting each other, could this be a problematic (idk, flickering, lost performance, something else I don't know about..)? See the picture.. I modeled this thing on the roof so that is perfectly matches the curvature of the roof. I could save some geometry if I'd just make straight line (red) but it would "cut" into the roof. Any problems with that?
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For the intersection part of your questions, I think that these intersections are not critical. Performance is no problem and there should be no flickering. More critical are overlapping textures with a small distance of a view inches.
This could happen if you place some signs and doors on top of your wall. The effect is even more visible in P3D than FSX so take care and make a test to find out the best distance.
 
I make a point to attach objects and then weld vertices which eliminates oddities at intersections. However, this does raise the poly count. If this area is unlikely to be viewed by the user, then it really doesn't matter.
 
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