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Been messin' with textured polys...

Clutch Cargo

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experimenting... trying to create some good looking grass for the airport. I created some textured polys using SBuilder from some 1024x1024 bmps and they look pretty darn good. But two issues creep up:

1. - I get a "flash" of a solid green color for a split-second as I move about the airport. Like it is refreshing. The best way to describe it is if you have every created Hi-Res photomesh with SBuilder there will be moments as you fly around where the tile pops into view or focus. It sorta looks like that. Is there some relation? Is this a normal reaction for a textured poly? Should I be using a 512x512 bmp for the grass?

2. - I also noticed the poly is always on top of everything else. I can't seem to lower its priority layer. Can u?

thx
 
Hi,

Clutch Cargo said:
1. - I get a "flash" of a solid green color for a split-second as I move about the airport. Like it is refreshing. The best way to describe it is if you have every created Hi-Res photomesh with SBuilder there will be moments as you fly around where the tile pops into view or focus. It sorta looks like that. Is there some relation? Is this a normal reaction for a textured poly? Should I be using a 512x512 bmp for the grass?
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It sounds like a problem where the loading of the textures takes a while and then you see the fallback color of the polygon for a while. The easiest fix for this is probably to use a different fallback color, so that the effect is less visible. For example by using a color very similar to the texture you use or by making the fallback color transparant.

Clutch Cargo said:
2. - I also noticed the poly is always on top of everything else. I can't seem to lower its priority layer. Can u?
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Looks like these are SCASM polygons. You can layer them between each other, but they will always show on top of mesh and XML style scenery. Nothing to be done about that.
 
Yep. Been introducing myself to SCASM and it does appear to be the fallback color you mention about. But if I can see the texture perfectly clear and sharp and I am sitting right next to it, getting great FPS, why would it "fallback" to that?

Is this a common accourance when using textured polys? Or is this an older process method and has a few side effects when using in FS?

I now see this is more of a SCASM issue rather than an SBuilder issue so I will contiue this thread it over to that forum...
 
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Well, I believe I found the problem... and of course it was me! :o I was using 1024x1024 size textures. When I switched to 512x512 the flashing went away.
 
It's actually possible to use your own textures for VTP Polys in Sbuilder??
Wow, learn something new everyday! :)
 
Yes, with VTP polygons you can use your own textures (and SBuilder allows you to do this). But the higher resolution textures mentioned here are not VTP, but SCASM based.
 
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