diff --git a/libraries/fbx/src/FBXReader.cpp b/libraries/fbx/src/FBXReader.cpp
index 917009956e..2e6544fbdb 100644
--- a/libraries/fbx/src/FBXReader.cpp
+++ b/libraries/fbx/src/FBXReader.cpp
@@ -1468,25 +1468,26 @@ FBXGeometry* FBXReader::extractFBXGeometry(const QVariantHash& mapping, const QS
 
     // HACK: until we get proper LOD management we're going to cap model textures
     // according to how many unique textures the model uses:
-    //   1 - 7 textures --> 2048
-    //   8 - 31 textures --> 1024
-    //   32 - 127 textures --> 512
+    //   1 - 8 textures --> 2048
+    //   8 - 32 textures --> 1024
+    //   33 - 128 textures --> 512
     // etc...
     QSet<QString> uniqueTextures;
     for (auto& material : _fbxMaterials) {
         material.getTextureNames(uniqueTextures);
     }
     int numTextures = uniqueTextures.size();
-    const int MAX_NUM_TEXTURES_AT_MAX_RESOLUTION = 7;
+    const int MAX_NUM_TEXTURES_AT_MAX_RESOLUTION = 8;
+    int maxWidth = sqrt(MAX_NUM_PIXELS_FOR_FBX_TEXTURE);
     if (numTextures > MAX_NUM_TEXTURES_AT_MAX_RESOLUTION) {
-        int maxWidth = sqrt(MAX_NUM_PIXELS_FOR_FBX_TEXTURE + 1);
-        int t = numTextures;
-        t /= MAX_NUM_TEXTURES_AT_MAX_RESOLUTION;
-        while (t > 0) {
+        int numTextureThreshold = MAX_NUM_TEXTURES_AT_MAX_RESOLUTION;
+        const int MIN_MIP_TEXTURE_WIDTH = 64;
+        do {
             maxWidth /= 2;
-            t /= 4;
-        }
-        qCDebug(modelformat) << "max square texture width =" << maxWidth << " for model" << url;
+            numTextureThreshold *= 4;
+        } while (numTextureThreshold < numTextures && maxWidth > MIN_MIP_TEXTURE_WIDTH);
+
+        qCDebug(modelformat) << "Capped square texture width =" << maxWidth << "for model" << url << "with" << numTextures << "textures";
         for (auto& material : _fbxMaterials) {
             material.setMaxNumPixelsPerTexture(maxWidth * maxWidth);
         }