Doom 3 texture issue?

Post by **Grudge** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:22 am

you mean 'scaled'

Post by **o'dium** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:39 am

seremtan wrote:
o'dium wrote:No, ultra mode runs the game uncompressed using DDS textures. There isn't anything else Ultra mode adds.
eh? a DDS format material includes prescaled versions of the texture within the material itself, presumably to take some load off the gfx processor. call of duty used DDS textures throughout. i don't see what's so 'ultra' about it

not sure what you mean by 'uncompressed'. in q3, textures are compressed 50%; in call of duty and hl2 they are compressed to 25% of thier original size (usually 512*2 128*2)

Hey odnt ask me. Something there lets the dds texture look better than a standard tga, i dunno how it does it, but its obvious when you compare two screenshots side by side. There isn't as much weirdness on the texture. Maybe dds are at 32bit and tga are at 24bit?

Post by **Dek** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:17 am

o'dium wrote:You got a GT? Welcome to running it on Ultra with ease!

That anti-aliased? The hands don't look anti aliased at all..

Post by **ALMighty** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:53 am

o'dium wrote:Maybe dds are at 32bit and tga are at 24bit?

Isn't 32-bit same as 24-bit, only with an alpha channel?

Post by **Shallow** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:51 pm

If I remember rightly, you guys have it backwards. All Doom 3 graphic modes EXCEPT ultra use the DDS textures, which are the cheaper, compressed versions. Only ultra uses the uncompressed TGA versions.

Post by **Mr.Magnetichead** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:58 pm

Dek wrote:
That anti-aliased? The hands don't look anti aliased at all..

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought you CAN'T capture AA effects in a SS?