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Battlezone Universe => Archive Vault => Public 1.3 Beta Archive => Topic started by: appel on March 01, 2004, 03:19:24 AM

Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: appel on March 01, 2004, 03:19:24 AM
I feel like the terrain of the map is way too smooth, and blurred. I liked the details of the textures in 1.2. Please check this out.
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: Tempest Storm on March 01, 2004, 03:36:07 AM
Your texture mip map settings are probably on auto, and BZ2 lowered it due to your specs, you can manually raise it in the graphics options menu though.
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: Speedy on March 01, 2004, 03:56:53 AM
Or in gameprefs.ini, its (I think) the 5th option of the video group (the 1st group). In 1.2, it was 0, I use 2. Default is 4.
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: appel on March 01, 2004, 04:03:16 AM
See:

Same map, full graphic settings on. MIP on highest settings. See how 1.3 blurrs everything?

Strategy Arena in 1.2 (http://www.private.is/arni/1.3/starena.12.jpg)

Strategy Arena in 1.3 (http://www.private.is/arni/1.3/starena.13.jpg)


Also notice how the sky is messed up.
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: Tempest Storm on March 01, 2004, 04:23:05 AM
They don't show for me. :(
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: BZ FeebleEffort on March 01, 2004, 05:05:41 AM
Its clear as day for me, and Appel IS right....But th tweak suggested above by Tempest was a big big help for mine. I went to"2" and I may go to -0-
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: aougli on March 01, 2004, 05:27:58 AM
Terrain appearance seems fine for me.
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: technoid on March 01, 2004, 05:56:42 AM
Yes, try the Mipmap buttons in the Graphics options.  Try #2, just as FE has done. Textures will stand out.  A lot will be determined by your videocard as well.

You can thank moi for requesting it as a menu feature.  :D
And also to the dev for the followup.
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: Avatar on March 01, 2004, 03:44:38 PM
Thank you moi...  whoever that is...  hehe  ( I know it's "mwah")

Those pics do look like something is set lower than full out...  The 'auto settings' feature seems to jump in constantly for some people, maybe it's overriding things?

I love the mipmap settings.  I prefer a slightly grittier look and they let me choose it...

-Av-
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: appel on March 01, 2004, 03:48:01 PM
As I said, I had my graphics set at full, both in 1.2 and 1.3, and the MIP stuff was also set at maximum (which btw I tried setting to lowest and highest without much difference)
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: Avatar on March 01, 2004, 03:52:57 PM
Were these shots taken in an MP game?  If so, the auto-graphics-lowering feature may be at fault.  That's the only time I see this sort of thing happen.

-Av-
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: Zero Angel on March 01, 2004, 04:29:11 PM
The textures look OK to me. Are you sure that your graphics settings didnt jump down on you? I still noticed the bug where some graphics settings would be different then whats selected on the gfx options screen. In your case, i'd try setting the texture quality to low then back to high...
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: appel on March 01, 2004, 04:49:17 PM
I made sure that's not the case Zero :)
Title: Terrain looks too smooth and stretched
Post by: GSH on March 01, 2004, 04:56:06 PM
Texture size isn't affected by auto-change in MP. It's a setting only applied when textures are loaded, and that's something you don't want to do in MP.

-- GSH
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