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I created a new set of weather textures with the suggested change. There's a caveat: a limit to the size of the patch. If the patch is too large, we get an overrun ERROR on MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE (100000) and the game crashes. I've found that a patch size of 106,496 square units works, but much larger patches don't. I didn't bother to determine where the boundary is. This is probably why the game has always used particle2 instead of particle in the material defs. So probably a good recommendation would be to use patches of size 100,000 square units or less. Now, this is for rain_drizzle. 100,000 might be too large for materials that generate more particles. Recommendations need to be established. |
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As I suspected, changing the 106,496 patch from drizzle to downpour crashed the game. Just going by the number of particles these two materials generate, I'd need to scale the patch down to around 80x80 to avoid the crash. That's way too small for a mapper to work with. It might be better to leave things as they are and use patch layering to achieve the effect. |
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Ack :( But I think you're right. That'll be why particle2 was invented. I don't know what limit is causing the crash, but it might be the size of a single vbo (list of vertices uploaded to the gpu). Getting close to limits usually means some cards will crash and others won't, which is even nastier. |
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I'm layering my rain patches, so I think you can close this one. AFAIK, no one else has brought up the problem. At least now I can walk from one area to the next and see similar rain densities. Most of my map is covered with rain, so this was important. |
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