Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:54 pm
TL;DR
We can have HD stuff, we just need to do some very annoying work, no coding.
No noticeable compromises will be needed.
Longer:
After talking to Rock and getting an explanation of what was actually happening, I dug around and discovered that we are hampered by tons of very high def stuff that is totally superfluous.
None of it is excessive on its own but when you put many over-sized grains of sand on a scale, you will end up with a very dirty kitchen.
Details:
Posters (planets/nebulae) are too big at 2K pixels = 8MB a piece = 61MB total
Who asked for 1024px wide missile textures?! 42MB total.
Add Draconium which weighs 208MB and you have no room left for a second faction to load.
If we trim the essentials (everything that is always loaded) and make sure the factions are closer to 100MB each, we are golden.
We can have HD stuff, we just need to do some very annoying work, no coding.
No noticeable compromises will be needed.
Longer:
After talking to Rock and getting an explanation of what was actually happening, I dug around and discovered that we are hampered by tons of very high def stuff that is totally superfluous.
None of it is excessive on its own but when you put many over-sized grains of sand on a scale, you will end up with a very dirty kitchen.
Details:
Posters (planets/nebulae) are too big at 2K pixels = 8MB a piece = 61MB total
Who asked for 1024px wide missile textures?! 42MB total.
Add Draconium which weighs 208MB and you have no room left for a second faction to load.
If we trim the essentials (everything that is always loaded) and make sure the factions are closer to 100MB each, we are golden.