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Doggeti · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 3:23 pm Post subject: Object size and performance

What is better?

To have many small objects or one big one?
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Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

A ton of really small images or a few really big images are both bad. You need to find something comfortable in the middle. If you truly have a heavy "tiled" map, I would suggest breaking it up into 128x128, 256x256, or 512x512 as fits your layout. You could go a little smaller, but I wouldn't go any bigger.
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Dr Brain · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 11:27 pm Post subject:

According to my calculations, ideal size is 1/4 the area of the screen. So on 1024x768 that means 512x384.

Of course no one will tile a rectangle, so go with 512^2, 384^2 or whatever works best.

Adjust for most commonly used screen res.
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