posted 05-03-2002 09:51 AM               

My first level had about 3100 texture infos and it worked ok...

Then my second level began to have serious problems with 2300 texture infos, showing wrong textures and crashing to desktop. I had to delete many objects from the WAD and change rooms shapes for it to work ok.

Now my third level has about 2500 texture infos and it´s running ok... at least for now, but I plan to add things to the WAD...

It was posted that 2300 is a safe number, but it´s not accurate. I know it depends on many things like total number of different room textures, WAD textures, perhaps active flames, lights, etc...

posted 05-03-2002 03:16 PM               

Room Geometry and Aloc buffer as well as Texture info ( 3100 )

posted 05-04-2002 12:19 PM               

TRwest tells you when you save your modified wad how many MB you are using for the textures inside the wad (for example: 2,3 MB)

This means that even if you DON'T use all the objects of your wad in the level, 2.3MB of 4MB in total are already used.

So, you can use 1,7MB only for the "PRJ textures".

To have an idea of how much "space" for your textures you are still available to use, crack your TR4 file (the level just converted) with "Jack the texture ripper", and have a look at the BMP of your level: the BLACK colored part is "how many textures I can still insert in my level" both for the PRJ either for the WAD.

There is a trick I found out to have the idea when you went OVER the texture limit of 4MB.