Posted: 20 Apr 2017, 21:05
Respect for former member_danevich, he is right 
We have to fit all given images provided by plugins into the 1024x1024 texture window which we have reserved for plugins. That's a difficult problem so we just throw images into the window in a really simple way. With a recent update we replaced the algorithm by a better one. However, a perfect solution might still not be found. In computer science this problem is related to the Knapsack Problem. The problem is NP-complete which means that it's expensive to find a perfect solution (or at least no efficient algorithm could be found yet).
We have to fit all given images provided by plugins into the 1024x1024 texture window which we have reserved for plugins. That's a difficult problem so we just throw images into the window in a really simple way. With a recent update we replaced the algorithm by a better one. However, a perfect solution might still not be found. In computer science this problem is related to the Knapsack Problem. The problem is NP-complete which means that it's expensive to find a perfect solution (or at least no efficient algorithm could be found yet).