Particle Textures limit

veirdo

While compiling a new jXCCP I noticed what the particle textures are limited by 32 images. This make me very sad, because I don't have space for new textures I added. Even not very modern games may have hundreds textures for particles.
The engine log gave me this:

Def_ReadProcessDED > Def_EvalFlags: Flag 'pt_tex32' is not defined (or used out of context).

Can you devs somehow break this limit like you did for submodels? Please

skyjake

While making it unlimited is a bit tricky, we can definitely raise the limit. How about, say, 100? (up to pt_tex99)

veirdo

100 is much better than 32 But it still a very strict number. One good fire or explosion sequence can consist of 16 to 32 images (if we want a smooth 30 fps animation). The comfort number is about 256 images.
If we count fire/explosion/magic/blood sequences from original hexen spites, there about 300 images although sequences are not longer than 8 images.
So if you can expand the number of textures to 265 it will be great! If it's too hard, we can live with 100 with more reuse of images.

skyjake

I've now increased the limit to 300, so pt_tex299 is the highest. I haven't really tested it yet, so let me know how it goes. It's in tomorrow's 1.12 build.

veirdo

Hi skyjake! I just tested a new 944 build and it works! Now I can finish a new jXCCP :-)
Much Thanks!

bcwood16

This is great, I did not actually know there was a limit for particle textures.

I would love to see some of the explosions you are making that uses more then a few textures.

Im just dipping my toes into creating particle effects in Doomsday and have used only 1 custom texture lol

You certainly sound like you know what your doing and would love to learn a thing or two from looking at your work

DaniJ

Allow me to refer you to veirdo's most excellent work for Hexen: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1145#topic