PowerVR fully supports 8-layer multi-texturing, significantly improving on the dual, or triple texturing
capabilities of current generation traditional accelerators. With its support of multiple texture layers,
PowerVR allows more detailed backgrounds, realistically lit models and more plausible environments to be
created. When compared with traditional accelerators, PowerVR 8-layer multi-texturing results in significant performance and quality improvements.
Multi-texturing is the action of combining different textures together in order to obtain more realistic environments. One example might be a light map can be added to a texture (base map) to make it more
realistic. Other examples of multi-texturing effects include a shadow map, a light map, a bump map, an
exclusion map, or a fog map.
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