Megatexture Question

[Joe999]

recently i saw some xbox360 demos, one among them was the game kameo. graphically it’s really exciting, but there was one thing that bugged me: you could clearly see repetitve textures on the ground which imo looks ugly.

here’s an example image:

kameo7xo.jpg - Click to see more photos

the same is the case on this unreal 3 image:

http://scr3.golem.de/?d=0503/speedtree_ut3&a=37013&s=7

look at the grass. you clearly can see that it’s repetitive.

my question: is this drawback solved with the megatexture technology?

[Salteh]

Let me introduce you to The Megatexture. This new word is responsible for large terrains that creates a unique texture across gigantic landscapes and draws it to the horizon. Basically it allows for the creation of a large texture really quickly that covers a huge landscape without having to go in and fiddle with things to make it look like there isn’t a grid pattern of texture maps over and over again. And considering the gigantic draw distance in Quake Wars, I’d say that’s a good thing.

The megatexture is essentially one huge, continuous texture map that can stretch all the way to the horizon, without any need for fog or other effects to mask a limited draw distance or texture tiles that repeat and show seams at the edges.

So… I guess… yay!

[ParanoiD]

Don’t forget that the games that are mentioned aren’t finished yet as well. I also don’t think the ground texture won’t have anything to do with the ones that will be there in ETQW. If these were ETQW pics, okey, but they arent.

[Joe999]

thanks for pointing that out. considering this, i wonder how large in pixels such a bitmap would be in case of eg Oasis.

[carnage]

umm just had a though…

how do you go about creating such a large texture without using any tile’n? :???:

[Depth_Charge]

http://www.splashdamage.com/index.php?name=pnPHPbb2&file=viewtopic&t=12125&highlight=megatexture

Maybe?