the power of mega textures guys!!!

>>717648405 (OP)
I member

>>717648405 (OP)
Megatexture is the proprietary name for the technique in Id's software. Virtual texturing is the generic term, and as the technique has evolved it's the name the general graphics community has adopted. A megatexture is a "sparse virtual texture".

Games need to focus on gameplay though, and while having a unique high-resolution texture for every surface in the game is cool, it's also not really that important. Especially when your game needs to scale down to consoles without a lot of texture bandwidth to throw around. Id is still using them I believe (the new Doom/Wolfensteins?), and I think Crytek incorporated them too. UE4 has them built in.

>>717648532
>it's also not really that important
PC turds are going to pop a vein if any one of them manages to read 2 sentences from your post.

>>717648405 (OP)
this shit ran on a machine with a total of 512mb of shared ram at 60fps. something had to give.

>>717648968
mean while my current machine has 64 gigs of ram and 20 gigs of vram

>>717649163
>20gb vram
>playing at 1440p
lmao

>>717649258
ya i dont have any reason to buy a 4k monitor

>there was a time this was considered extremely attractive in a game

luv me megatextures

>>717649452

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>>717649258
Actually this. I would gladly play games in 1080p til the rest of my life if in return I'll get stable 120fps. but with modern ai/rtx slop i get neither

>>717649452
>extremely attractive
>fists out
not really, he was getting ready to send that basic bitch into orbit with one punch

>>717648405 (OP)
They ended up using virtual texturing in the Wolfenstein New Order and Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus games and it worked out great, it was just undercooked in RAGE

I thought this worked pretty well for the broad strokes of Rage like the big terrain parts where you were in your vehicle and things like buildings. But as well all know, it didn't work so well for finer details, and I think part of the blame was object clutter was poorly modeled. I get that chairs, desks, pipes, etc. are probably mudane work as a modeler but damn, have a little pride.

>>717648405 (OP)
My god, it's beautiful

>>717649163
>all the games have to scale up ad infinitum to justify my overpriced hardware
next you're gonna throw another autism fit about how quake 2 doesn't magically look better now?

>>717649901
im just point out how much more powerful computers are now you must have an extremely negative world view if you thought i was complaining

>>717649703
Yeah, the long distance views are great.

why does he look like a mouse?