Better to have multiple small tilesets or fewer big ones?

[Beefy Kasplant]

So is it better to have a tileset for every island, and then have one tileset loaded when the player is outside on that island. 

You will have a lot of tilesets, with a lot of overlap in tiles. 

 

 

Or is it better to have tilesets with little to no overlap in tiles, but the sets are bigger, and you will need to take tiles from multiple sets to make your maps. 

[Damian666]

memory wise its better to load 512x512 I believe, that's what we try to do anyway.

 

because if you use 5 tiles from a huge tileset, its a bit of a waste

[Beefy Kasplant]

Yeah I see. 

 

But does that weigh up to the duplicate tiles which you will have because you are splitting everythin up? 

[Damian666]

I don't believe so, a 32x32 pix tile, or a 1024x1024 sheet, huge difference imho

 

but you don't have to duplicate them, just keep them separated, its still better to sometimes load a few smaller tilesets, then a few huge ones.

[Beefy Kasplant]

Ah so better to load 3 smaller tilesets on 1 map than 1 huge one?

[Damian666]

yes, I believe so.

[jcsnider]

These days it really don't matter. If you care about legacy computers then try to keep textures below 2048 pixels in width and height and you should be good.

[Damian666]

meh, I find it good practice