diff --git a/panda/src/gobj/config_gobj.cxx b/panda/src/gobj/config_gobj.cxx
index e437f20743..b8307c8f95 100644
--- a/panda/src/gobj/config_gobj.cxx
+++ b/panda/src/gobj/config_gobj.cxx
@@ -74,6 +74,14 @@ ConfigVariableInt max_texture_dimension
           "loaded from a file) will be automatically scaled down, if "
           "necessary, so that neither dimension is larger than this value."));
 
+ConfigVariableDouble texture_scale
+("texture-scale", 1.0,
+ PRC_DESC("This is a global scale factor that is applied to each texture "
+          "as it is loaded from disk.  For instance, a value of 0.5 will "
+          "reduce each texture to one-half its size in each dimension.  This "
+          "scale factor is applied before textures-power-2 or "
+          "max-texture-dimension."));
+
 ConfigVariableBool keep_texture_ram
 ("keep-texture-ram", false,
  PRC_DESC("Set this to true to retain the ram image for each texture after it "
diff --git a/panda/src/gobj/config_gobj.h b/panda/src/gobj/config_gobj.h
index 0de4b81c12..9dadb68f43 100644
--- a/panda/src/gobj/config_gobj.h
+++ b/panda/src/gobj/config_gobj.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ EXPCL_PANDA istream &operator >> (istream &in, AutoTextureScale &ats);
 
 // Configure variables for gobj package.
 extern EXPCL_PANDA ConfigVariableInt max_texture_dimension;
+extern EXPCL_PANDA ConfigVariableDouble texture_scale;
 extern EXPCL_PANDA ConfigVariableBool keep_texture_ram;
 extern EXPCL_PANDA ConfigVariableBool preload_textures;
 extern EXPCL_PANDA ConfigVariableBool compressed_textures;
diff --git a/panda/src/gobj/geomVertexData.cxx b/panda/src/gobj/geomVertexData.cxx
index 7b6a9a306d..7672b3ce40 100644
--- a/panda/src/gobj/geomVertexData.cxx
+++ b/panda/src/gobj/geomVertexData.cxx
@@ -1873,9 +1873,6 @@ unclean_set_num_rows(int n) {
 
   bool any_changed = false;
 
-  int color_array = -1;
-  int orig_color_rows = -1;
-
   for (size_t i = 0; i < _cdata->_arrays.size(); i++) {
     if (_array_writers[i]->get_num_rows() != n) {
       // Copy-on-write.
diff --git a/panda/src/gobj/texture.cxx b/panda/src/gobj/texture.cxx
index f084a3b2db..dc59d7d939 100644
--- a/panda/src/gobj/texture.cxx
+++ b/panda/src/gobj/texture.cxx
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include "bam.h"
 #include "zStream.h"
 #include "indent.h"
+#include "cmath.h"
 
 #include <stddef.h>
 
@@ -2816,6 +2817,9 @@ consider_rescale(PNMImage &pnmimage, const string &name) {
   int new_x_size = pnmimage.get_x_size();
   int new_y_size = pnmimage.get_y_size();
 
+  new_x_size = (int)cfloor(new_x_size * texture_scale + 0.5);
+  new_y_size = (int)cfloor(new_y_size * texture_scale + 0.5);
+
   switch (textures_power_2) {
   case ATS_down:
     new_x_size = down_to_power_2(new_x_size);