Quick Question About 512x512 Textures Created 8 years ago2015-12-21 22:00:20 UTC by DefendYourBase

Currently to make a sorta HD texture for Half Life you can make 512x512 images and scale them down in Hammer editor with Texture editor to make a pretty good looking HDish walls and floors...

But theres gotta be some kind of catch right? Is there a limit on how many 512x512 textures you can have at a time? A .wad size limit? Or something?

I can't find anything on google about this but it would seem like this would of been done long time ago if there was no catch...

Anyone know?Do this with a entire map? only use 512x512 and 256x256 images?

The Core is like 90% 256 & 512+ sized textures and I've only hit the engine's texture memory limit once or twice.
You're not limited to 512 x 512, incidentally. You're limited to 262144 pixels per texture, so 256 x 1024, for example, is totally fine.

So when you say you hit the "texture memory limit" you mean to say you went pretty crazy with it? Tested it to the max?

And thats good info! Thanks. Some textures would compress nicely to 256 x 1024 visa versa rather than 512x512

Go crazy until you hit a limit, then scale back background details

Won HL is still limited to 256x256 yes?

Probably. It's old. People need to stop using it.

It's not the texture size that matters, it's the scale, if all textures are scaled down a lot then you're gonna reach light data limit very soon. 1024x256 works but I think it gets distorted like 192, 48 etc

WON HL supports 512x512 textures just fine.

Ahh.. i see the problem with using high res textures and scaling them down.

In Hammer. If you have lots of walls using scaled down (High Res) textures you end up going over the "AllocBlock" limit.. Hammer says 64 is max and using one flat ground surface with scaled 512x512 image causes the Allock block to go up to 96/64 which causes crash on map start ;/