Sorry if someone have done this thread before and I hope this is in right place but I got a question that I hope someone can give an exact answer



I have heard that people uses 2048 and 4096 pixel skins... I just wanna ask that where is the border about maximum size of skins... Like 16384 x 16384 pixels

If someone can make it a Comparison about 512 1024 2048 4096 and 16384 (if even possible)...

This thread can be for example, an example about comparison, how they do look and effect to each other lol

Skin is just a texture so it's maximum size depends on your GPU. GeForce 8 series cards can do 8192^2 textures, my old GeForce 6 had it's limit at 4096^2 IIRC.

It worth noting that without compression (and LFS doesn't use any AFAIK) a 32bit 8192^2 texture would use 256MB of VRAM and that's without mipmapping.

Quote from MadCatX :

and that's without mipmapping.

I just had a thought, what if you replace mipmaps with um, other skins? Will car change it's skin depending on distance from camera? :P

Quote from MadCatX :

Skin is just a texture so it's maximum size depends on your GPU. GeForce 8 series cards can do 8192^2 textures, my old GeForce 6 had it's limit at 4096^2 IIRC.

It worth noting that without compression (and LFS doesn't use any AFAIK) a 32bit 8192^2 texture would use 256MB of VRAM and that's without mipmapping.

Going to test some after work... I can show you a result by me then...

Quote from E.Reiljans :

I just had a thought, what if you replace mipmaps with um, other skins? Will car change it's skin depending on distance from camera? :P

Well, it definitely should, shouldn't it?

@UM21: It's just my off-the-bat guess, but I think that anything above 2048 wouldn't make any noticeable difference...

I assume this is just for your own (screen) use, as probably most people have default 512 size as skin download in OPTIONS/MISC/Car Skins Download, and 256 for helmets.

Quote from MadCatX :

Well, it definitely should, shouldn't it?

@UM21: It's just my off-the-bat guess, but I think that anything above 2048 wouldn't make any noticeable difference...

You might be right but let me give a shot tonight