custom texture size?

[Hawk_eye]

I was just wondering what size (pixels?) a custom texture has to be to fit perfectly into a certain gridsize slot? thx 

[Sweet]

The default gridsize (The one you have when you enter coopedit) is 64x64 pixels

[Sweet]

Then doubling it or halving it will increase to the next gridsize.

[unixfreak]

Common size for textures in cube2 is usually 512x512 or 256x256.
You can always use vscale (or texscale in a config) to shrink it without having to resize in an image editor.

Say you had a 256x256 texture and wanted it to fit the default gridpower, you can make it fit to 64x64 by using:

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/vscale 0.25

or add a new texture slot in a map config:

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texture 0 "textures/blah/floor-256.jpg"
texscale 0.25


This is useful for textures that you may want to fit on larger surfaces (aswell as the default grid).

[Hawk_eye]

  great, thanks guys 
p.s. say if a made a map with custom textures, and i uploaded in coop online, would the textures still be there on the map i sent?

[unixfreak]

Nope unfortunately.

Only the *.ogz map file is sent. Anything else (mapmodels, textures, configs) need to be downloaded and placed in the correct folders manually.

[Apollo]

Anything by the power of 2 will fit the grid.
Ideally, the lower and upper limits for textures would be 32 to 4096.