Large terrains

[Mast10]

Hi Again.
As I start to understand more and more of this engine, i was wondering if there is a way of supporting large terrains.
Because i load the whole terrain at once but it doesnt show textures on it because im running out of video memory.
Is there a way to load terrains in game and erase old ones from memory?

Matthijs

[Silmaryls]

Well, if you run out of video memory it's more because you're using large textures than large terrains.
Can you try to reduce the terrain textures by half and try again ?

One more question : how many VRAM do you have on your graphic card ?

[Mast10]

a mere 32mb

[Silmaryls]

Oh my...
Try to divide the textures by 2 or 4 using DirectX Texture Tool (shpped with the SDK, just go to "Format" menu and click on "Resize Texture...")
Your textures should be 256 or 512 (max).