Yes, there are many questions and I have many theories. Unfortunately, we don't have many answers. I figured I'd just try to be thorough as possible and get everything tested at once so anyone could look at it and see what I was seeing.
Perhaps I should do some testing without any of the mips and see how performance is affected.
On the bright side of all of this, Bruno's new "compact" Bionis' Leg textures scaled in half seem to be the best performing/visually appealing combination we've had yet.
@Bruno - Thanks for the hard work, man. I know it must be frustrating to be making such beautiful textures only to be running into strange technical limitations. We really appreciate your effort.
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@GamingPhailer - I hope other people test this out. It bothers me that we're seeing different results with the hair_faces stuff.
Perhaps I should do some testing without any of the mips and see how performance is affected.
On the bright side of all of this, Bruno's new "compact" Bionis' Leg textures scaled in half seem to be the best performing/visually appealing combination we've had yet.
@Bruno - Thanks for the hard work, man. I know it must be frustrating to be making such beautiful textures only to be running into strange technical limitations. We really appreciate your effort.
Edit:
@GamingPhailer - I hope other people test this out. It bothers me that we're seeing different results with the hair_faces stuff.