Texture

How it is used

Artists create, paint, compress and apply textures. Texture resolution, such as 2K or 4K, has a big effect on memory, so teams set texture budgets. Players notice blurry textures, or textures that appear late, called texture pop-in.

Example sentences

1. Halve the texture size on the background props; nobody gets that close.

2. The rock texture repeats too obviously on the cliff.

Common collocations

• high-resolution texture
• texture memory
• texture compression
• apply a texture
• texture streaming

Related terms

• shaderA small program that runs on the graphics card and decides how surfaces look, for example their color, lighting, shine and transparency, or effects like water and fire.
• assetAny piece of content used in a game, such as a 3D model, texture, sound effect, animation or music track, usually stored as a file and imported into the engine.
• spriteA 2D image used as an object in a game, such as a character, an enemy, a coin or an explosion. Several sprites shown one after another create an animation.
• bakeTo calculate something expensive, such as lighting, shadows or navigation data, before the game runs and save the result, so it does not need to be computed in real time.
• level of detailA technique that swaps a model for simpler versions as it gets farther from the camera, so distant objects use fewer polygons and the game runs faster.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• texture · Game Development
• texture · Food Science & Technology
• texture · Art & Art History
• texture · Interior Design

More terms: Architecture, Design Patterns and Graphics

• framework
• dependency
• tech stack
• architecture
• design pattern
• trade-off
• scalable
• microservices
• monolith
• modular
• abstraction
• separation of concerns