Ctrl+Shift+Alt+T, basic texture info selected prim

Have not seen this key combo anywhere for Short Cut Keys.
Just added it to User Knowledge Data Base for SL Short Cut Keys.

With prim(s) select.

Texture info for: Object
512x512 alpha on face 0 2
32x32 opaque on face 1

or select one face and quickly find the side number for selected face. Very useful for scripting.

Note on texture size. This is the reported texture size currently loaded into your video card. If not loaded it will report one of the smaller MIP maps. so those large 2048 may take a while and if you run out of video ram it may never report the full size.

Awesome tip! Love it!

I'm wondering what other gems I might have missed. Could you point me to the Knowledge Base you mentioned?

This is part of the debug features the client has built-in. Try CTRL ALT SHIFT D to activate the menu. There are lots of useful functions in there, but beware! Some of them can awfully slow you down or even cause a crash.

Did i understand that correctly ? people use 2048 * 2048 Textures in SL ?
that would be a whopping 16 MB Memory waste for a single Texture..
and i wonder why i see a lot of gray objects and my poor Machine lags
like hell and gives me Framerates down to zero sometimes.

*cries*

Yes there is an art gallery next door to me but nice stuff. Unfortunatly everytime I look that direction my frame rate drops thru the floor. now I wish there was a limiter on the client side to not allow textures over what eversize.

As for the debug.,which one was this? didn't see see this particular texture info in there. I realy didn't look that hard. I ment to hit the 5 to turn off Surface Patch but ended up hitting T. Lucky find. time to start mashing keys to see what else popsup.

Here is that SL Knowledge Base.
http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=075

I love this feature! I've been using it non-stop since I found it a few months back.

Note: you can even get info on textures that are on someone else's object this way. Great for finding out who that jerk is next door with the 50 2048x2048 textures ;)

sry cant resist, its 12mb of raw data if its a 24 bit image 16 for 32 bit

(pixelcount)*channels

ie (2048*204*4 = 16777216 bytes

this is acutaly kinda handy to know for stuff like banners
ie

(128*12*3 = 49152
or
(512*32)*3 = 49152

We have the ability to limit particles within our graphics preference settings.... it'd be neat to also have a texture cut-off slider/numerical entry. For instance, we could disallow any textures larger than 1024x1024. Those would remain 'gray' in-world, but the world should download and render more quickly.

They wouldn't even have to remain gray for that matter... when client streams things you can clearly see textures are loaded one-detail-level at time, getting progressively sharper. So it could as well just stop loading after 512x512 or whatever requested level is reached...

Actually, I think it's CTRL + ALT + D, although the shift key addition probably works too.