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Texture size and format best practice for performance

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A couple of basic questions here. As far as fps performance goes is it better to have for example sixteen 256x256 texture sheets on my model or one 1024x1024 texture sheet?

Also, what is the maximum size texture sheet usable in msfs. Is it 4096x 4096?

I see some 3rd party creations which have texture file extensions which are confusing to me, like ".png.dds" so is there more than one file type that msfs recognises?. I have been saving my texture files as .png, is this ok or should i be using a more efficient format?

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Generally, the fewer texture files, the better. I don't know about max size. I believe it's best for the MSFS compiler program if they are PNG? I assume that the .png.dds extension is actually an error, starting with a PNG file and then converting them to DDS (the converter program probably didn't remove the png as it should have). Just a name issue, and MSFS is probably fine with it.
 
tgibson said:
Generally, the fewer texture files, the better. I don't know about max size. I believe it's best for the MSFS compiler program if they are PNG? I assume that the .png.dds extension is actually an error, starting with a PNG file and then converting them to DDS (the converter program probably didn't remove the png as it should have). Just a name issue, and MSFS is probably fine with it.
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Great. Thanks for the info. I have seen textures of 4096 x 4096 in the Aerosoft Paderborn scenery so i know the max is at least that size.

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