Astérix Speedrunning: xxl2

martyste

The collar isn't skinned, and only follows the torso

martyste

the limit i heard of is very old news and maybe isn't real anymore

martyste

eitherway, i managed to look almost like a PS2 model, with 1/3 of Asterix's polycount and way less texels

martyste

old model was a waste of memory with RGBA16 textures

martyste

Down from 32KB to 19KB, with about as much texels. Less than it takes still to fill a Gameboy screen.

martyste

I've also learnt about the fact that alpha pixels still have a color, so bilinear filter on textures with alpha outlines will show that color, and there are ways to fix them to avoid the halo...

justine1801

Yep

martyste

In XXL on PS2, most of these were just unfiltered, point. On PC/GC, they are filtered, and that leaves some halos visible. I plan to fix them all

justine1801

That's why usually the pixels that have a 0% alpha are the same color as the adjacent (visible) ones

martyste

mhm, its such a know issue in SM64 romhacking that people had to make tutorials to avoid the rookie mistake.

martyste

And, fixing halos means that i can turn "alpha clip" textures into "alpha blend" when that looks nicer

martyste

my N64 project is full of that!

justine1801

But it's also more expensive on the GPU

forgotten_in_abyss

The main problem, was that game loaded too long, like... Even when i moved the directories to an M2 SSD it was almost the same time as STALKER 2 on release. (9 minutes, lol.)

baku69

If you have potato pc then ye, but still, even if you have fine one, loading times when you just enter the game are trash, agree on that :timetodie:

martyste

the remastered games seemed to take some time to decompress things, and cache shaders.

justine1801

Whaaat??! I don't remember it being that long at all

martyste

Since the Switch 2 isn't hardware compatible with the Switch 1, it also falls into the trap of caching shaders for Romastered, despite the flawless 60fps otherwise.

martyste

on this current laptop, yeah, loading levels could take up to a minute for me

#xxl2