Many tesxtures in one file

[nasser85]

Hello all
I have seen a full home has many textures and lighting, and when I saw it files, I found one 3ds file and one picture. This picture contains all textures which I have seen it in the home. The question is  :?: : Is there a program or plugin for 3d max to make this.

[newborn]

lithunwrap?

[tweakbox]

the process is called uvmapping.  I'm sure there's a plugin for max somewhere, but for anyone that can't afford max we have to use photoshop/mspaint and lithunwrap to make our textures.

[excaliber]

Eek!  All the textures on one texture map?!  Must be a large map (on the order of 3072x3072 me thinks) or a low detailed house.  I can only imagine the poor engine trying to keep that beast in memory!

[Fox1980]

i don't understand your point excaliber. what's the different between using 1 texture file with size 3072x3072 or two files with size 2172x2172 ? both options will use same memory, the only difference i can see it's that most cards won't be able to use 3072x3072 textures, so it will either probably get cropped or resized. and anyway i think one house doesn't need that much even if it's highly detailed. i'm referring about a house with exteriors of course.

[Dan]

what's the different between using 1 texture file with size 3072x3072 or two files with size 2172x2172

2016 pixels  :lol:

[Fox1980]

ok i rounded the value
that was not the point

[excaliber]

i don't understand your point excaliber. what's the different between using 1 texture file with size 3072x3072 or two files with size 2172x2172 ? both options will use same memory, the only difference i can see it's that most cards won't be able to use 3072x3072 textures, so it will either probably get cropped or resized. and anyway i think one house doesn't need that much even if it's highly detailed. i'm referring about a house with exteriors of course.

Well, thats my point.  Most wouldn't be able to hold a texture that large.  Also, I believe (could be talking out of my rear though) that it is faster to reference multiple textures that are smaller than one large.

Also, I thought you were refering to a house on the inside as well (ie. all the outside textures as well as interior textures).  

[Fox1980]

in theory it should be faster to load several textures in one file than several textures in several files because of the file opening and closeing overhead.

[excaliber]

Another misunderstanding, apparently.  I thought it was a single image that contained it all, not several images packed together in a single file.  Thats quite a difference.