While AOF Hlaalu is not my fav atm, the Atlas project is stellar. Tried this morning in my stream, Balmora with Kilcunda's mod, 30+ fps looking at the whole city. Brilliant. Endorsed.
Waited all day to try these out and I must say - amazing! Balmora is running smoothly. I gained about 4-5 FPS out of it, and managed to stay between 25-30 FPS with shaders on. Awesome job! I can't wait for more AoF Atlas mods.
This is great. A big problem with Morrowind is the millions of tiny textures for each mesh. I've for a long time wanted to make meshes with atlas textures like this. Where can I find Remiros' atlas project?
awesome you shouldnt have any issues with distant land, if you do remove the hlaalu meshes during generation and replace them afterwards, the redundancy texture files will use the vanilla meshes in the bsa and give you correct distant land meshes. The files are also needed for several wall pieces iirc, and interriors. (The redundancy files are all the textures besides the atlas itself)
Why would I remove them? This should help distant land performance as well. My comment should merely imply that I haven't checked if it makes any difference with distant land as well.
that was only a suggestion if they crashed the distant land process, which they havent for me, but they are still alpha so its a work around if that were too happen too you or someone else.
It is, for performance. One large texture is much better than several small ones. Because of this, every house is only a single NiTriShape, and thus, only one object instead of several. This should help performance quite a bit. Because every object adds to the CPU overhead, reducing the amount of objects is meant to reduce CPU load and thus, increase FPS. As it is now, a heavily modded Morrowind is extremely CPU-limited, while the graphics card has not really that much to do most of the time. The CPU just can't keep up with it.
the atlas file is what is being applied to 99% of the meshes, the other files are there for redundancy, the edge files have been edited to better fit AoFs (AnOldFriend's) tone, the link on the main page explains what atlasing is.
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Edit: Don't mind, i found out!
https://discord.gg/QkgWT2U