No tiling ?

So when Splash Damage was starting on, really early with Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, they were looking at some of these different ways to render the outdoor scenes with different blends and things like that. And one of my early suggestions to them was that they consider looking at an approach where you just use one monumentally large texture, and that turned out to be 32,000 by 32,000. And I – rather then doing it by the conventional way that you would approach something like this (i.e. – chopping up the geometry into different pieces and mapping different textures on to there and incrementally swapping them for low res versus high res versions),

just let them treat one uniform geometry mesh and have this effectively unbounded texture side on there, and use a more complicated fragment program to go ahead and pick out exactly what should be on there, just as if the graphics hardware and the system really did support such a huge texture.

That interview was actually pretty devoid of the usual Carmack-esque talk that you see. He seemed to explain it quite simply, almost as if he was a lead designer explaning it.

Tim Sweeny from Epic said something to the effect of that mega texturing is a nice concept but it might prove difficult for artists to implement.

Tim Sweeny from Epic said something to the effect of that mega texturing is a nice concept but it might prove difficult for artists to implement.

just let them treat one uniform geometry mesh and have this effectively unbounded texture side on there, and use a more complicated fragment program to go ahead and pick out exactly what should be on there, just as if the graphics hardware and the system really did support such a huge texture.