| From: | Hans-Joerg Frieden |
| Date: | 22 Apr 2000 at 09:48:29 |
| Subject: | Re: Heretic II Demo Available |
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Mark Olsen wrote:
> > I'm afraid you have to put Heretic II on your nada list, then, if that
> > is a requirement for you. Heretic II does only work on 15 or 16 bits.
>
> Nice reply. I was expecting 2-300 mails stating that i was an asshole, and i
> wouldn't be able to see it anyways. But why isn't there an 32bit option ?
This problem is inherent. It seems that 32 bit rendering with the
Permedia requires you to have 32 bit textures. Although the colors
come out correctly, the texture coordinates are different, resulting
in shifted textures. I might find a workaround if I have the time, but
currently I haven't.
Using 32 bit textures isn't an option either. Level "andhealer.bsp"
uses well over 25 megs of textures in 16 bit, and that's without the
mipmaps, so 32 bit textures would blow this up to 50 megs... We'd be
forced to raise the memory requrements to 128 megs :(
I am not seeing too much difference between 16 and 32 bit anyway,
might be that this is caused by the 16 bit textures...
Regards, Hans-Joerg.