Technical questions (hard level).

[anthonyda]

Hi,
1/ Any idea how you can prevent the shadow from loading at all? Look at the pics. The shadows are appearing at mid/short distances, but not at long distances. It feels really weird when it's moving

http://hfr-rehost.net/http://self/pic/180b757acedd6d94685c2399352d5febc04d1699.jpeg

http://hfr-rehost.net/http://self/pic/22bfca7a1225e9c481a2d6fd2e4b1ca7d3bcb739.jpeg

2/ Anybody knows how you can reload roengine.ini while playing ingame? (with the console ofc).


Cheers up!

 

[anthonyda]

Looks like the title scared everybody away

 

[StardogChampion]

I'm not really seeing the problem. Maybe it's a texture filtering or mip-mapping issue.

 

[anthonyda]

Right, this is due to LOD detail

Inside the roengine.ini, there are many lines like this :
TEXTUREGROUP_Character=(MinLODSize=64,MaxLODSize=64,LODBias=64,MinMagFilter=Aniso,MipFilter=Linear)


Does anybody here knows which values can be put for the different texturegroup? Because if you set a too low value, then the textures goes black
I'd like to be able to set & force the minimum level of detail. And despite the value posted above, I still have 2/3 level of detail ingame.

 

[Machete234]

This does close to nothing performance wise

 

[anthonyda]

This does close to nothing performance wise

I'm not doing this for the performance but the overall visibility ingame.

 

[Etienne.S]

Just search the forums, already several threads about this. And most of them have turned into flame wars because the majority of us don't want people playing like this.

 

[anthonyda]

Just search the forums, already several threads about this. And most of them have turned into flame wars because the majority of us don't want people playing like this.

Unfortunately, "LOD" is too short, so I can't perform and search about it.

Do you think you can link me some thread?


ATM, i'm only looking for a way to modify the 3 level of lod to a single one.

Also, I probably need to contact tripwire since I've found some easy way to remove texture from walls for example (which gives huge advantages when you only see targets).

 

[Maj.Faux-Pas]

1. I don't see a shadow.
2. No, you have to restart the game for the game to reload the initialization file.

Not so hard.

 

[Maj.Faux-Pas]

p.s. your picture shows a static mesh with pre-shadowed textures. It would look like that with no shadows in the map anyway. The shadow is on one side of the box and the box can be rotated by the mapper when he copies and pastes it.

 

[anthonyda]

1. I don't see a shadow.
2. No, you have to restart the game for the game to reload the initialization file.

Not so hard.

Well it's kind of a pain, especially when you are toying with the ini files.

Ah, I miss the idtech based game ...

p.s. your picture shows a static mesh with pre-shadowed textures. It would look like that with no shadows in the map anyway. The shadow is on one side of the box and the box can be rotated by the mapper when he copies and pastes it.

Here is a screenshot of what I get atm (click on it to enlarge it) :


There isn't really any shadow left

But what really annoys me, is the multiple level of LOD, and despite all my research, I can't find any way to get a single level of LOD. It's a bit hard to explain, maybe I'm not clear enough?

Thanks for your reply anyway

 

[anthonyda]

Hum, so it seems to be hardcoded
http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showpost.php?p=901895&postcount=11
Do you guys understand the same thing?

 

[Poerisija]

IMO all the help you deserve for this is a CD-key ban.

That's borderline hacking.

 

[u-s-e-r]

IMO all the help you deserve for this is a CD-key ban.

That's borderline hacking.

Agreed.

 

[anthonyda]

IMO all the help you deserve for this is a CD-key ban.

That's borderline hacking.

Hu?
Did you ever played competitive FPS?

 

[u-s-e-r]

Hu?
Did you ever played competitive FPS?

You obviously are playing on public servers with this. Competitive my ***.