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| - Ex_mipmap.png|Mipmap of the Supermarket 2 floor. Bmq regions.png|Mipmap regions (yellow). Basically, a mipmap is a lower-resolution (half-sized) copy of the main texture and are used both to improve the game performance and smooth the textures. In Re-Volt, mipmaps are single bitmap files that have their extansion renamed to BMQ, and can be opened with any image editor, including Microsoft Paint. The guess is that the "Q" stands for "quick". BMQ files help to keep the frame rate (FPS) stable and faster. For meshes which are more or less distant from a camera, it will be textured using the mipmap files instead of normal maps files (BMP). When the camera get near of these meshes, the mipmap will be replaced with normal BMP. Mipmaps have the same name of their related texture. For instance, market2.bmp and market2.bmq. The standart size of a mipmap is 128x128 pixels. 64x64 sizes are possible too, but do not usually bring a satisfactory result. As well as Bitmaps, mipmaps are auto resized if they aren't within the standart size.The patches RVGL and Re-Volt 1.2 allow the use of multiple mipmap sizes. This is frequently used by car and track makers to add higher resolution textures for their creations and keep the compatibility with the legacy versions of the game.
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