Memory efficient texture loading...

[cpnichols]

Not sure if this is already in Vray, but it would be cool to have a very memory efficient texture loading, so that if you have a 4k texture which is only a few pixels on the screen it will process the texture and only uses the amount that it needs. The pixar renderman tx format can do this which makes using large texture maps great for closeups and far away shots.

[vlado]

Well, Max 5 includes a bitmap paging system, which allows it to page out unused parts of bitmaps to disk... not exactly what you mean, but it can be useful for reducing memory usage.

Best regards,
Vlado