Many textures low as HL1, w/o u even knowing it! *Pics*

Nanosuitguy · 11-17-07, 01:34 AM

This is what happens to many of the textures in crysis that gets shaded (not having direct sunlight on it);
All settings on Veryhigh!

And there is plenty of more. It looks like they use some kind of specular lighting or lightmapping to hide lowres textures. What do you think about this?

CaptNKILL · 11-17-07, 02:57 AM

Its a normal map.

There is a bumpy layer over the texture to make it more detailed. The bumps only show when they are lit from an angle. No light, no bumps.

If the "color" part of the texture was the same resolution as the normal map, the game would use twice as much texture memory.

Some day they'll be able to get around this, but with every object having 2 or more textures (and some being displayed as 3D surfaces with Parallax mapping), there just isn't enough memory to have them all super high res.

Nanosuitguy · 11-17-07, 03:20 AM

Thanks captnkill for the information. We love crysis anyway

Oh and btw, dont forget to check out my new crysis pictures in the screenshot 2007 thread.

11-17-07, 01:34 AM	#1
Nanosuitguy call me Nano Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 517	Many textures low as HL1, w/o u even knowing it! Pics This is what happens to many of the textures in crysis that gets shaded (not having direct sunlight on it); All settings on Veryhigh! And there is plenty of more. It looks like they use some kind of specular lighting or lightmapping to hide lowres textures. What do you think about this?

11-17-07, 02:57 AM	#2
CaptNKILL CUBE Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: PA, USA Posts: 18,844	Re: Many textures low as HL1, w/o u even knowing it! Pics Its a normal map. There is a bumpy layer over the texture to make it more detailed. The bumps only show when they are lit from an angle. No light, no bumps. If the "color" part of the texture was the same resolution as the normal map, the game would use twice as much texture memory. Some day they'll be able to get around this, but with every object having 2 or more textures (and some being displayed as 3D surfaces with Parallax mapping), there just isn't enough memory to have them all super high res. __________________ ---- Primary Rig ---- CoolerMaster 690 II Advance - Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0Ghz + Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme 6GB DDR2 @ 942Mhz 5-5-5-20 1.9v (2x1Gb Wintec AMPX PC2-8500 & 2x2Gb G.Skill PC2-6400) - EVGA Geforce GTX 470 @ 750/1500/1850 (1.050v) Sparkle Geforce GTS 250 1Gb Low-Profile (Physx) - Crucial RealSSD C300 64Gb SSD - Seagate 7200.12 500Gb SATA - Seagate 7200.10 320Gb SATA ASUS VW266H 25.5" LCD - OCZ GameXStream 700W PSU - ASUS Xonar DX - Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Surround - Windows 7 Professional x64 ---- HTPC ---- Asus M3A78-EM 780G - AMD Athlon X2 5050e 45W @ 2.6Ghz - 2x2GB Kingston PC2-6400 DDR2 - Sparkle 350W PSU Seagate 7200.10 320Gb SATA - Seagate 7200.10 250Gb SATA - Athenatech A100BB.350 MicroATX Desktop - Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic

11-17-07, 03:20 AM	#3
Nanosuitguy call me Nano Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 517	Re: Many textures low as HL1, w/o u even knowing it! Pics Thanks captnkill for the information. We love crysis anyway Oh and btw, dont forget to check out my new crysis pictures in the screenshot 2007 thread.