[sldev] Plausibility of 16-bit sculpts?

[Glen]

Yep. Sculpts, textures (128x128 - 1024x1024), and avatars. Av imposters 
really doesn't help much at that point, nor does reducing every little 
extra thing to nothing.

If compiling for a 64-bit native client will work better, awesome!! I'm 
gonna try it tonight :D I just hope things link properly and I can get 
all the shaders in there right. It's been a long, long time since I've 
tried.

--GC

Thomas Grimshaw wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 03:25:50PM -0500, Glen wrote:
>  >Ouch. Best I can say. 6fps is bad bad bad. Sculpts help to break my  
> viewer and bring it to its knees, 16-bit sculpts will hurt it even  
> worse. >Wait until the worst performance is around 15-20 fps on the 
> worst  hardware *then* consider it.
> 
> Are you sure your viewer is affected by sculpts so significantly? 
> Technically they're no more difficult to draw than a regular prim; 
> except of course that they need to be recalculated several times as the 
> sculpty map loads.
> 
> ~T
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