With all the talk about the Q3 engine being GPL'ed in the very near future, i started playing with skinning for it. Now, all I really did was edit the blue team skin for sarge (which is quite obvious), but I found that Q3 seemed to have no problem accepting a 1024x1024 jpg for a skin! I left the body alone more or less, but the face I rebuilt (or rather, i am in the process of rebuilding it). Does anyone happen to know the engine's limit for texture resolution?

Here's the texture in question, if you want to take a look at it in all its not-my-property-ness.
http://www.tascforce.org/phpbb2/images/hosted/sarge1024.jpg

This really makes me miss the time when textures were single images and didn't need specular, normal, add, and heightmaps. back when shader files were simple >:O

Technically I don't think there is a limitation in the Q3 engine itself, it's related to hardware iirc which generally, for cards for GF5 or above, support 2048. 1024 is a 'safe' maximum, but keep in mind that Q3 *will run* on lower spec'd machines (we're talking P300's here) which have GF1/2, voodoos, and other early GF cards that they may not be able to use textures of that res, esp if there's a lot of them.

Q3 is prettly tollerant over all of high content; I've seen character models using 2000+ polys (Q3 defaults around 900) using several 1024s. We've also used the odd 1024 for textures in maps (usually terrain).

(on a personal note, I'm interested in the Q3 release as well)

kat wrote:

(on a personal note, I'm interested in the Q3 release as well)

gpl on q3? that might get me moving again.

The q3 source has been out for a while now.

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source ... source.zip

With all the talk about the Q3 engine being GPL'ed in the very near future, i started playing with skinning for it. Now, all I really did was edit the blue team skin for sarge (which is quite obvious), but I found that Q3 seemed to have no problem accepting a 1024x1024 jpg for a skin! I left the body alone more or less, but the face I rebuilt (or rather, i am in the process of rebuilding it). Does anyone happen to know the engine's limit for texture resolution?

Here's the texture in question, if you want to take a look at it in all its not-my-property-ness.
http://www.tascforce.org/phpbb2/images/hosted/sarge1024.jpg

This really makes me miss the time when textures were single images and didn't need specular, normal, add, and heightmaps. back when shader files were simple >:O

Technically I don't think there is a limitation in the Q3 engine itself, it's related to hardware iirc which generally, for cards for GF5 or above, support 2048. 1024 is a 'safe' maximum, but keep in mind that Q3 *will run* on lower spec'd machines (we're talking P300's here) which have GF1/2, voodoos, and other early GF cards that they may not be able to use textures of that res, esp if there's a lot of them.

Q3 is prettly tollerant over all of high content; I've seen character models using 2000+ polys (Q3 defaults around 900) using several 1024s. We've also used the odd 1024 for textures in maps (usually terrain).

(on a personal note, I'm interested in the Q3 release as well)

kat wrote:

(on a personal note, I'm interested in the Q3 release as well)

gpl on q3? that might get me moving again.

The q3 source has been out for a while now.

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source ... source.zip

With all the talk about the Q3 engine being GPL'ed in the very near future, i started playing with skinning for it. Now, all I really did was edit the blue team skin for sarge (which is quite obvious), but I found that Q3 seemed to have no problem accepting a 1024x1024 jpg for a skin! I left the body alone more or less, but the face I rebuilt (or rather, i am in the process of rebuilding it). Does anyone happen to know the engine's limit for texture resolution?

Here's the texture in question, if you want to take a look at it in all its not-my-property-ness.
http://www.tascforce.org/phpbb2/images/hosted/sarge1024.jpg

This really makes me miss the time when textures were single images and didn't need specular, normal, add, and heightmaps. back when shader files were simple >:O

Technically I don't think there is a limitation in the Q3 engine itself, it's related to hardware iirc which generally, for cards for GF5 or above, support 2048. 1024 is a 'safe' maximum, but keep in mind that Q3 *will run* on lower spec'd machines (we're talking P300's here) which have GF1/2, voodoos, and other early GF cards that they may not be able to use textures of that res, esp if there's a lot of them.

Q3 is prettly tollerant over all of high content; I've seen character models using 2000+ polys (Q3 defaults around 900) using several 1024s. We've also used the odd 1024 for textures in maps (usually terrain).

(on a personal note, I'm interested in the Q3 release as well)

kat wrote:

(on a personal note, I'm interested in the Q3 release as well)

gpl on q3? that might get me moving again.

The q3 source has been out for a while now.

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source ... source.zip

With all the talk about the Q3 engine being GPL'ed in the very near future, i started playing with skinning for it. Now, all I really did was edit the blue team skin for sarge (which is quite obvious), but I found that Q3 seemed to have no problem accepting a 1024x1024 jpg for a skin! I left the body alone more or less, but the face I rebuilt (or rather, i am in the process of rebuilding it). Does anyone happen to know the engine's limit for texture resolution?

Here's the texture in question, if you want to take a look at it in all its not-my-property-ness.
http://www.tascforce.org/phpbb2/images/hosted/sarge1024.jpg

This really makes me miss the time when textures were single images and didn't need specular, normal, add, and heightmaps. back when shader files were simple >:O

Technically I don't think there is a limitation in the Q3 engine itself, it's related to hardware iirc which generally, for cards for GF5 or above, support 2048. 1024 is a 'safe' maximum, but keep in mind that Q3 *will run* on lower spec'd machines (we're talking P300's here) which have GF1/2, voodoos, and other early GF cards that they may not be able to use textures of that res, esp if there's a lot of them.

Q3 is prettly tollerant over all of high content; I've seen character models using 2000+ polys (Q3 defaults around 900) using several 1024s. We've also used the odd 1024 for textures in maps (usually terrain).

(on a personal note, I'm interested in the Q3 release as well)

kat wrote:

(on a personal note, I'm interested in the Q3 release as well)

gpl on q3? that might get me moving again.

The q3 source has been out for a while now.

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source ... source.zip

With all the talk about the Q3 engine being GPL'ed in the very near future, i started playing with skinning for it. Now, all I really did was edit the blue team skin for sarge (which is quite obvious), but I found that Q3 seemed to have no problem accepting a 1024x1024 jpg for a skin! I left the body alone more or less, but the face I rebuilt (or rather, i am in the process of rebuilding it). Does anyone happen to know the engine's limit for texture resolution?

Here's the texture in question, if you want to take a look at it in all its not-my-property-ness.
http://www.tascforce.org/phpbb2/images/hosted/sarge1024.jpg

This really makes me miss the time when textures were single images and didn't need specular, normal, add, and heightmaps. back when shader files were simple >:O

Technically I don't think there is a limitation in the Q3 engine itself, it's related to hardware iirc which generally, for cards for GF5 or above, support 2048. 1024 is a 'safe' maximum, but keep in mind that Q3 *will run* on lower spec'd machines (we're talking P300's here) which have GF1/2, voodoos, and other early GF cards that they may not be able to use textures of that res, esp if there's a lot of them.

Q3 is prettly tollerant over all of high content; I've seen character models using 2000+ polys (Q3 defaults around 900) using several 1024s. We've also used the odd 1024 for textures in maps (usually terrain).

(on a personal note, I'm interested in the Q3 release as well)

kat wrote:

(on a personal note, I'm interested in the Q3 release as well)

gpl on q3? that might get me moving again.

The q3 source has been out for a while now.

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source ... source.zip

With all the talk about the Q3 engine being GPL'ed in the very near future, i started playing with skinning for it. Now, all I really did was edit the blue team skin for sarge (which is quite obvious), but I found that Q3 seemed to have no problem accepting a 1024x1024 jpg for a skin! I left the body alone more or less, but the face I rebuilt (or rather, i am in the process of rebuilding it). Does anyone happen to know the engine's limit for texture resolution?

Here's the texture in question, if you want to take a look at it in all its not-my-property-ness.
http://www.tascforce.org/phpbb2/images/hosted/sarge1024.jpg

This really makes me miss the time when textures were single images and didn't need specular, normal, add, and heightmaps. back when shader files were simple >:O

Technically I don't think there is a limitation in the Q3 engine itself, it's related to hardware iirc which generally, for cards for GF5 or above, support 2048. 1024 is a 'safe' maximum, but keep in mind that Q3 *will run* on lower spec'd machines (we're talking P300's here) which have GF1/2, voodoos, and other early GF cards that they may not be able to use textures of that res, esp if there's a lot of them.

Q3 is prettly tollerant over all of high content; I've seen character models using 2000+ polys (Q3 defaults around 900) using several 1024s. We've also used the odd 1024 for textures in maps (usually terrain).

(on a personal note, I'm interested in the Q3 release as well)

kat wrote:

(on a personal note, I'm interested in the Q3 release as well)

gpl on q3? that might get me moving again.

The q3 source has been out for a while now.

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source ... source.zip