Which is Better?

[Sephiroth_VII]

There's a model with lots of geosets, we're talking around 130.

TWO materials both footman texture, one of them is one sided the other is two sided.

OR

ONE material footman texture two sided.

The reason why we ask this is because we have many geosets some require two sided and some require one sided. If you give a geoset a twosided texture does it take up more kbs? Or it just takes more processing power to render it. or both? If you add another material to your model does it take more kbs? In-game textures we're talking about.

Its hard to explain this, sorry if you don't get it.

 

[NhazUl]

No, one/two-sided stuff does not affect the filesize. And if you make both materials two-sided, merge the geoset, that does reduce filesize.

 

[Sephiroth_VII]

You mean if there's parts on the model that use the same texture you can attach them to be one object, even if they are seperate floating pieces. To reduce file size.
As long as when you attach them together it doesn't mess up the anims right?

 

[BlinkBoy]

TWO materials both footman texture, one of them is one sided the other is two sided.

OR

ONE material footman texture two sided.

I say the first one, the second will reduce performance in-game. It increases game processing of trianglesof which most of them won't be rendered from the backside.

 

[Sephiroth_VII]

Well since this is a warcraft model, we'll just assume that everyones comp can handle the extra processing. I'm more worried about the kbs.

So I guess the question is do more materials take up more kbs?

 

[Devine]

8mb limit.
it doesn't matther.