Is it possible to build a material library? (memory issue)

Shoiko · April 3, 2014, 5:18pm

When I imported my texture library for BSP to create a texture library the memory shot up to about 5GB after import. This did not shrink in size. Are the textures loaded into memory even though they are not used in the environment yet? Or is all the memory taken up from the thumbnails? If so is there another window where i can set up a material library and only add what i currently need to the level?

Textures are 256 → 1024 at around 500 - 800 textures.

anonymous_user_b9532c9a · April 3, 2014, 5:37pm

Hi ,

When you say memory, are you talking about it taking up harddisk space or did your RAM usage spike upwards of 5 GB? Thank you!

Shoiko · April 3, 2014, 5:42pm

The ram shoots to 5GB the on disk size of the textures are around 1GB. If you need more detail screen shots i can attempt this again when i get home.

anonymous_user_b9532c9a · April 3, 2014, 6:14pm

Hi ,

Screenshots would be incredibly helpful for us to be able to see what exactly is going on. Thank you!

Shoiko · April 4, 2014, 2:25am

Limited Test with textures 1024 insize. Non of the textures are power of 2 textures.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118//U4_MaterialMemoryCreep_0003_Layer-1_zps55f3b646.png~original
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118//U4_MaterialMemoryCreep_0002_Layer-2_zps7d3868c7.png~original
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118//U4_MaterialMemoryCreep_0001_Layer-3_zpsc4a97bcf.png~original
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118//U4_MaterialMemoryCreep_0000_Layer-4_zps4c9335f9.png~original