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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Baking has made everything load slowly.

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Levanthus
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Posted: 11th Sep 2014 14:36
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Wasn't sure whether to put this in here or 3D chat, but here goes, up until today i have been using models with maybe like 20-25 textures in each and my program would take between 30-40 seconds to load up and play, however i JUST learned how to bake textures into one map, now i thought that this would make things easier for me since it'd allow me to remove superfluous polygons and only having one map tp load would speed things up, but since doing this my program now takes more than a minute to a minute and a half to load and run, any ideas why this might be?

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chafari
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Posted: 11th Sep 2014 16:13
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Hi Levanthus. Could you show us your media to test ? . Have you converted your object to Dbo ? what format of texture do you use? . I think that dds or png would be faster .

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Van B
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Posted: 11th Sep 2014 16:14
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I'd check and make sure that your model is only using 1 texture - it might be trying to load all those old texture files, or it might be trying to use that same texture file on several UV map layers. To bypass texturing completely, maybe it'd be better to load your model, convert to a mesh, then save it as a DBO file. Then, when loading your level, you'd load the DBO file and texture it manually with a pre-loaded texture.

Other than that, we'd really have to see an example so we can investigate the model format.

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Posted: 11th Sep 2014 16:53
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Quote: " what format of texture do you use? . I think that dds or png would be faster . "


DDS is definitely the way to go for loading speed.

But how large is this single texture? Have you changed anything else such as including an extra shader to handle the texturing?

Quote: "Other than that, we'd really have to see an example so we can investigate the model format."


Seconded.



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