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LOL, this may be worse now... https://github.com/fholger/thedarkmod/commit/5c7bcf57e53e87022efebfc679fe007eaf064dfb if ( com_videoRam.GetInteger() >= 128 && imgName.Icmpn( "lights/", 7 ) == 0 ) No DDS Lights for any video card over 128MB of RAM regardless of specs... |
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Note: DDS light textures suck, banding is awful as I recall. One possible use-case is low frequency (blurry) light textures where we do interpolation in the shader. As a performance optimization to sacrifice quality? Maybe a dedicated cvar? r_useCompressedLights? |
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com_videoRam is not set anywhere other than the .cfg file so maybe just disable lights/???.dds? Do we have compress and uncompressed pair to test on? |
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No. Tels may have tried testing them at one time but we have no in-house examples. I can create one if you are interested in this but I suspect it's fine as is anyway. |
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Current code: // Allow grabbing of DDS's from original Doom pak files // compressed light images may look ugly if ( imgName.Icmpn( "lights/", 7 ) == 0 ) { return false; } It is still the case that compressed light textures look awful so this should not be supported unless someone creates a lerp shader to smooth out the gradients in the compressed texture |
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