The memory requirement differences between procedural and bitmap textures will usually be huge. A procedural texture typically requires only several kilobytes or so, while a bitmap texture, as we all know, can be as big or small as you like. It's the usual trade-off between speed and memory, like using shadow mapped lights or ray tracing shadows.

Oops. meant to say that was directed at SamTherapy's question.

Message edited on: 02/15/2005 20:11