Your MATERIALS Are DESTROYING Your Game! 

I was thinking if this would actually work since its complicated math and all do you know if its better or if its worse ?

@@slt4463 If it works, it is usually slower. To compute the index of a pixel from UV-coordinates, the formula is (V mod V-size)*U-size+ (U mod U-size). Mod is division reminder, which is as slow as division, and * is multiplication which isn't fast either. If V-size and U-size are powers of 2, it becomes ((V and (V-size -1)) shift-left log2(U-size)) or (U and (U-size-1). Note, "V-size -1", "U-size - 1) and "log2(U-size)" are constants. If your texture is 256*256 it becomes ((V and 255) shift-left 8) or (U and 255). Note, U and V are usually fixed point number, so two extra shifts are needed (which can be optimized to one).

very true, i know that wii textures won't work properly if they aren't a power of 2

You can import non-power of 2 textures in most modern game engines these days but they don't get mipmapped nor can they be streamed. You can still enforce mimapping manually but i don't think streaming is possible. There are use cases where this is fine, for instance with UI textures or for the case this video highlights or for editor resources but general rule of thumb is to not do it for textures that reside in the game world.

Depends on the engine if you use multiple UV maps and if you just make multiple of the same colour with a different b&w level

Interesting, so you would use the materials as before, export as .obj and then use a custom .obj import script to write an indexed image file? I wrote a custom .obj importer for Powerpoint VBA a while back (dont ask me why) and I agree that it is an easy format to read.. Is there an user-friendly way to automate this in Unity for non-programmer types?

@@Achelon I'd recommend coming to our Sega Saturn homebrew community, we have code you can steal.

I actually clicked to watch this one BECAUSE of the intriguing thumbnail and title combo. Great video! The thumbnail was quite effective to capture my attention while I was scrolling through my feed.

@@awyeagames I only clicked to write my comment

Well it's quite boring having the How to do X video. Packaging it in a more intriguing idea is better. Look at my other recent videos getting to the most popular spots on my channel that it took other videos like years to get the same view counts

@@ThomasPotter keep at it, you are doing a great! Btw, I really like the pacing of your videos. It's entertaining, but the memes/edits you do don't distract from the main point of the video, neither are they so frequent that they become annoying. I think you've got a nice balance on your content.

Dude it's not a big deal,