Difference between texreplace.fx and using *.txd`s

[healLV]

Hello guys.

I have a question about difference between using shader like texreplace and using engineImportTXD for replacing textures. Whats the main difference? Do they have somekind perfomance differences?

[megaman54]

I dont know about performance difference but atleast with shaders, you can replace invidual textures without having to download the whole .txd file. Also in my experience, shaders have always worked but often .txd s fail to load.

[GTX]

I'd use shaders, mostly because of size.

Also in my experience, shaders have always worked but often .txd s fail to load.

I think shader is much more likely to fail, because client needs to have video RAM available. If client doesn't have available video RAM, then shader will fail to load (in that case, you can do something like a check; if shader fails to load you can download using downloadFile and load TXD). TXDs never fail to load actually, might be because of the code or corrupt TXD.

[Captain Cody]

Shaders and TXDS are actually quite the same thing, the textures defined in the TXDs are in reality shaders that are applied to the objects.

[healLV]

Thanks for answers!

[healLV]

Thanks for answers!