Kritikal
November 27th, 2001, 00:39
Ok, so I pulled out Perfect Dark and checked out the textures. Smiff had posted two screens of PD. One with really clean textures, one with blurred textures. Actually, both of them are correct. Someone had mentioned that it depended on your resolution and video output. It also has to do with the mip mapping. Look at a wall up close and it looks just like the clean textures in Smiff's first shot. Move away and it eventually changes to be like smiff's second shot. No, it's not just cause it gets smaller. You can see the texture suddenly change and detail get lost. It's the mip maps. On high resolution the textures do look cleaner farther away, but I think it's cause they altered the mip map distances to make high resolution mode look more natural.
On a side not, pj64 previously had not used mip maps in goldeneye. The textures stayed at the highest resolution constantly. Maybe that's a good thing since we will be running the game at higher resolution than n64. Maybe it's an option that could be put in Jabo's plugin? Mip Maps on/off?
Here's one of smiff's shots and one of pd from rare's site. I don't remember the url for smiff's second shot.
http://www.smiff.clara.net/misc/PD_oldDX6.jpg
http://www.rareware.com/graphics/pd/pd_ss_large/pdshot30_1_.jpg
BTW, the rareware shot isn't actually from a part of the game. There is a later mission where joanna is in a dress at the carrington intitute but that shot isn't part of the cutscene. I guess rare set that shot up for the look of it. Or that part of the cut scene got changed.
On a side not, pj64 previously had not used mip maps in goldeneye. The textures stayed at the highest resolution constantly. Maybe that's a good thing since we will be running the game at higher resolution than n64. Maybe it's an option that could be put in Jabo's plugin? Mip Maps on/off?
Here's one of smiff's shots and one of pd from rare's site. I don't remember the url for smiff's second shot.
http://www.smiff.clara.net/misc/PD_oldDX6.jpg
http://www.rareware.com/graphics/pd/pd_ss_large/pdshot30_1_.jpg
BTW, the rareware shot isn't actually from a part of the game. There is a later mission where joanna is in a dress at the carrington intitute but that shot isn't part of the cutscene. I guess rare set that shot up for the look of it. Or that part of the cut scene got changed.