Comments on: Another Reason To Use a Few Big Textures https:/2010/03/another-reason-to-use-a-few-big-textures/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Arista https:/2010/03/another-reason-to-use-a-few-big-textures/#comment-462 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:58:01 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=105#comment-462 How about not pre-loading paged orthophoto textures on initial load (i.e. on X-Plane start-up) at all? That would mean gray terrain all around at first, but during the first two or three minutes, while you're choosing your aircraft, setting weather, and generally preparing for the flight, I think it wouldn't be that bad (apart from looking funny, of course). The overall waiting time until the terrain is finished probably wouldn't be much longer, but you could start your pre-flight preparations much sooner.

]]> By: nimi https:/2010/03/another-reason-to-use-a-few-big-textures/#comment-463 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:52:09 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=105#comment-463 one question:

what is the biggest size of orthophoto scenery textures? 2048×2048 aswell?

thanx in advance
nimi

]]> By: Anonymous https:/2010/03/another-reason-to-use-a-few-big-textures/#comment-464 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:50:21 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=105#comment-464 Sounds like a good idea!

I think FSX does "packaging" with its .BGL format.

Maybe even XP (or a command line utility) could even auto package files so that scenery files that have not been packaged by authors can benefit from packaging too.

Regards, MatthewS

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