4-bit textures are OBSOLETE?

[Guest]

http://simonnihal.homestead.com/files/texcom/TexCompComp.html#TestImages

Oh dear, i know many PS2 games are guilty of that, explains the murky washed out textures. Where does DC, GC and Xbox stand here?

 

[Thowllly]

http://simonnihal.homestead.com/files/texcom/TexCompComp.html#TestImages

Oh dear, i know many PS2 games are guilty of that, explains the murky washed out textures. Where does DC, GC and Xbox stand here?

I guess what you ment to say was: Is 4-bit CLUT textures obsolete?

Or did you really mean to imply that DXTC textures are also obsolete? (They are also 4 bit, remember)

Anyway, no, 4-bit are not absolete. They should not be used for all textures, that looks like crap. But they are perfect for monochrome textures, lightmaps and detail textures.

 

[Simon F]

http://simonnihal.homestead.com/files/texcom/TexCompComp.html#TestImages

Oh dear, i know many PS2 games are guilty of that, explains the murky washed out textures. Where does DC, GC and Xbox stand here?

I would have thought my page explains that.
DC typically uses VQ (for 2bpp), whereas XBox (and GC???) has S3TC.

 

[Tahir2]

Yea GC has S3TC too...