Re: Clip levels with missing tiles

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Marcus Barnes (marcus++at++multigen.com)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:53:20 -0700

Tim Hanes <tim++at++multigen.com> replies:
> >On Jul 25, 8:57am, Frederic Francis wrote:
> >> We want to have certain areas with higher resolution clips than others.
> >> Right now the pfImageCache waits when it doesn't find a tile in a clip
> >> level. How can we avoid this behavior both in 2.1 and 2.2.
>
> In 2.1, performer waits for tiles to be read in before continuing to render.
> There is no way that I know of to override this in 2.1. High res areas don't
> work at all in 2.1.
>
> In 2.2, if a tile is not in memory when it's time to render, a lower level in
> the mipmap will be rendered in it's place. This is what makes high res areas
> work in 2.2. I don't believe there is any to change this behavior either.

Regards.

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