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What is causing this?

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Well, i thought I was nearly there with my first football ground scenery only now I've encountered another weird problem.
The texture on one side of the building looks all blurred, well like this...

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Move slowly closer and it clears, move back again and it looks OK, like this..

good.jpg


Anyone know whats causing this and how to fix it?

BTW, I've just dumped the model at the BGLComp default location at Tacoma to see what happens if I compile it seperately outside of my scenery design prog.
It makes no difference.
 
You don't say what you used to build it.
I know there's been some long discussions here about this issue, but in my experience this is normally caused by me overlooking a polygon when it comes to texturing. For instance, in GMAX when I apply a boolean subtraction to a textures object, the new surface created has a very strange mapping -- sometimes the entire texture is repeated hundreds of times over the area, sometimes the mapping is just messed up. Either way if I forget to fix all these it affects performance enough to only show real small mipmaps.
 
Thanks Toprob

It was created in Gmax and I think i've found a fix/workaround using texture bitmaps without mipmaps. It seems theres a scaling problem and the map only changes to the correct one when you're really close up.
I was going to delete the thread, should have looked around a little before i posted.
 
I was going to delete the thread, should have looked around a little before i posted

Looks like some eXceLLent work all the same
 
I guess this problem is caused by a wrong texture scale in the MDL object. MakeMDL sometimes calculates this value wrong. Instead of removing mipmaps, you can also correct the texture scale, so that the correct mipmap is displayed. MDL Tweaker has an option to do this.
 
arno said:
I guess this problem is caused by a wrong texture scale in the MDL object. MakeMDL sometimes calculates this value wrong. Instead of removing mipmaps, you can also correct the texture scale, so that the correct mipmap is displayed. MDL Tweaker has an option to do this.
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MDL tweaker won't load the MDL :(

It reports an error:

"Error in procedure timerPreview_Timer of Form frmPreview"

OK'ing the message causes it to reappear, I have to use Task Manager to exit MDL Tweaker.
 
Are you using the latest version? Else please sent me the MDL file, I thought I had fixed this bug :).
 
Er, no I wasn't using the latest version, I was using 250, now got 259.

I still get the error mesage but it will cancel away if the preview window isn't opne.

How do i use it to fix my texture problem then Arno, do I just press the Check Texture Size button?
Or do i have to enter some data myself?
 
Can you send me the MDL file, so that I can debug that error message?

What you have to do is go to the "Texture list" dialog and press the button to correct the texture sizes. After that you need to save the MDL file again. That should be all.
 
Why would you want to do that? The idea behind mipmaps is a good one, they allow a better performance. So it is a good practise to use them.
 
You can attach it here at the forum, or mail it to:
arno _AT_ scenerydesign _DOT_ org
 
Hi Arno,

Thanks for the fix to mdlteaker, works lovely now.

I've uploaded my stadiums to AVSIM, seem to have been downloaded a few times :)
 
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