The Easy Way to Create Terrain Textures
Playing around with wanting a more realistic terrain paint on my mountains, I found a simple way to have some added textures. First I use Gimp, it's free and you can use the '.DDS' plug-in which yo...
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Thanks for all the info about the different formats, I'm no expert.
The only reason I used the RGBA8 format was because that is what I was familiar with some work I did before. Plus, I did try a couple of other formats, and after testing them they didn't work at all.
As far as the size, I went by the default game terrains, they are done in 1024x1024 at 72 dpi. If you check their properties some were 10.mb!'s :shock:
I will definitely check out your suggestion on the different format hoping to keep quality and get the size down would be great.
The only reason I used the RGBA8 format was because that is what I was familiar with some work I did before. Plus, I did try a couple of other formats, and after testing them they didn't work at all.
As far as the size, I went by the default game terrains, they are done in 1024x1024 at 72 dpi. If you check their properties some were 10.mb!'s :shock:
I will definitely check out your suggestion on the different format hoping to keep quality and get the size down would be great.
