LoadAnimImage and maximal Texture Size

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Armitage 1982 (Posted 2009) [#1]

Hi, Just a small question pretty basic. If LoadAnimImage creates an image in memory for each frame then is there really a hardware limitation for the size of that image ? When I started my project, I thought limiting the texture swapping by loading a single large texture composed of multiple tiles for my game platform. However, now I know that BlitzMax isn't really using that single texture. The only real question I had was the maximal size of a texture for old GFX cards (but I think 1024x1024 is OK even for Geforce 2). Then if BlitzMax loading each frame inside a new texture is there any solution to add Frame to an already existing TImage ? I didn't see that anywhere. Maybe I should have thought about a new kind of Image Type then...

Brucey (Posted 2009) [#2]

The workaround is to use a custom anim image class which draws its frames from a single surface - one texture.

Czar Flavius (Posted 2009) [#3]

I find this whole frames and textures thing confusing, could somebody give a description for dummies, please? :)

Armitage 1982 (Posted 2009) [#4]

Yes this is the way to go (There is a code somewhere in the code archive for that I think) but since I'm already playing with low level UV to display parallax and stuff like that it won't help at all unfortunately :(