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my problem is this,
I am creating a 1st person virtual town using planes textured with photos of shop fronts, some of these bmp's are a couple of Mb's in size and it is hurting the frames per second rather a lot. I dont want to reduce the resolution of these photos cos when you get close to a "shop" it would just be a pixelated mess, (its already bad enough) would I be better converting to jpeg for a smaller file size or is there something else I could do? maybe two textures for each shop, high and low detail
I currently use
IF OBJECT IN SCREEN(X)=0 THEN HIDE OBJECT X ELSE SHOW OBJECT X
to minimise the damage
I have tried implementing timer based movement but cant seem to get it right, can anyone give a simple working example that I could look at
thanx
rob

Changing to a jpg from a bmp will not increase your framerate because when you load it into the memory, it just takes the form of a bmp (to put it simply). It will take up the same memory. However, I would convert to jpg anyway to save hard drive space. Then you could make three detail levels by scaling the images down in your paint program and saving them. Load all three detail levels and texture your object with one depending on how close to the camera it is. Actually, you could just turn mipmapping on the object, it will create a mipmap, which will create different details for the texture and retexture automatically depending on the camera distance.

Good Luck

thanx, will try that.