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Best texture type

Discussion in 'General Graphics' started by todo1979, May 11, 2015.

  1. todo1979

    todo1979

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    Hello friends,
    I am making an Android game and I have a huge terrain:200x200 meters. I use a material with a .png texture declared as advanced with 4096x4096 pixels.
    Problem is that the texture takes 45 MB of disk space,and after I publish...the game takes 40 MB.
    The problem is that the resulting apk is too large,and I would like to know what is the best way to put a texture on may terrain so that the game wouldn't take up that much space.
    Thank you.
     
    todo1979, May 11, 2015
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  2. KingMatthew

    KingMatthew

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    Repeat a much smaller texture on the terrain. I don't think a 4k texture is going to even work on a mobile device.
     
    KingMatthew, May 11, 2015
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  3. todo1979

    todo1979

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    Hi...it is working on Samsung Galaxy S4 and Nexus 5...tested by me.
    I tryed painting the terrain with 9 textures...with the Nature Terrain shader...the performance drops a lot...but the build will be around 25 MB instead of 40 as it is now
     
    todo1979, May 11, 2015
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