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Performance difference atlas vs legacy?

by Holger · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 04/11/2007 (9:36 am) · 4 replies

Before I will start to develop some atlas terrain I would like to know
if anybody noticed a performance difference (fps) between both terrain versions?

thanks for infos
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Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#1
04/11/2007 (9:58 am)
There's not just one Atlas "version". There are blended and unique texture aproaches. The latter is tons cheaper than legacy, but I am not sure about the former.

Torque Owner Holger
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#2
04/11/2007 (10:53 am)
Stefan,

just to compare apples with apples - one detail texture and nothing "special".

Would like to save the time to find out that it's much "slower" after setting up an atlas terrain.

Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#3
04/11/2007 (12:33 pm)
As a rule, Atlas2 is faster than legacy terrain. You can of course so overload it, and make legacy so basic, that you can achieve equivalent performance, but given roughly similar terrain setup, Atlas is faster (by about 15% with Ben's rough benchmarks).

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#4
04/12/2007 (12:18 am)
Thanks Stephen and Stefan