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Texture Load Time

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Hi There.


I have made a photoreal scenery for Vagar Airport with photoreal buildings and objects.

All show up okay in FS9, but there is one thing I would like to know.
Is it not possible for the texture to load faster once in FS9?

I think it takes about 3 to 4 sec for the texture to show up.

All the textures are small in size, the smallest being 10.7 KB
and the largest being 680 KB

But allmost all the textures are 170 KB in size and a total of 558 texture files.
Is there any way to make it load faster?

3 to 4 sec for the textures to load is not to much, but it would be realy good if I could make them load in 1-2 sec.
I know photoreal textures take some time to load, but if possible, than it would be great.

I have scaled them in size 512x512 which is recomended in FSDS 3.0 and saved the textures in a smal file size 170 KB where it was possible.
Is it possible to make several texture folders where each building loading from a different texture folder, and will that help the loading time?


Any help is very much welcome. :)


Cheers

Simon
 
Hi Simon,

I guess it is more the amount of textures, than the actual texture size that determines the loading time. So I think the best way to increate the loading time is to use less textures and maybe combine some smaller textures into a bigger one. Of course you should not combine textures of buildings that are very far apart (that will keep them longer in memory than needed), but doing it for buildings that are next to each other might help.

On the other hand this would mean that you have to map some textures again, so that it not really a fun thing to do when you are almost done :).
 
Hi

Hi Arno.


Yea you are right. It will take me to long. I will however do it for a nother project in the future.

The textures for the scenery in FSX however loads instantly.
I gues it is because of the FSX game engine, that it is possible to load faster than in FS9.

Thank you for your reply. :)
 
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