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Subject: Re: Image maps
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>Being brand new to LightWave I try not to ask questions that may
>Have been asked before, but I'd guess this has.
And we appreciate it! ;^)
However the
>tape I ordered on surfaces hasen't arrived yet so Here it is.
>Does the size of the bitmap greatly effect the final render ?
Yes. Try to maintain the largest possible image size. IMHO.
>I have the excellent Images that were included with "Map Master
>for Imagine" by Louis Markoya. Before I install them in my
>Images directory should I scale them down. They are 640 x 400
>16 color pics, but I will be saving them out of ADPro. They
>work great as they are (using them for texturing), but can I
>save resources(memory) without a noticable loss ?
Again, IMHO, 16 color images are so small they shouldn't be
a problem. Depends mostly upon your RAM situation.