texture slash lighting issue?

It's called specular and it's not a bug, it's just normal shading.

One of the most recent updates made specular a lot uglier, now it's overdone and grainy. Although Torque3D's shading system is really ugly to begin with.

 

I've noticed this too. I think the latest update has changes to/addition of specular values on the vehicle textures.
My personal opinion of it makes the cars occasionally look like they have a fine misting of oil all over them.

 

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i apologize to everyone i was saying that it was a mistake. it's not that this game has to be pretty
it's not the style of this game has it's subtense that count's
also by the way this game has changed alot since i started playing
i have also grown used to seing grainy shadow's.
i again apologize.

 

First of all... this game isn't ugly it's easily somewhere in the middle.

The new shadows made high look like last versions medium so if you want grain-less shadows I'd say at least run medium or crank it to high it doesn't make a huge impact. [on a decent desktop GPU I'd say GTX760/960 or Higher/equivalent] would run high shadows [@ 1024] pretty decently.

2nd if you want to remove that ugly black blahh-ugh filter they have for under the car and in the engine bay n' stuff. Turn off "SSAO", it is very poorly implemented in Tourqe3D as of right now.

3rd Dynamic reflections... )= I hope one day they can improve on these but for now they serve to be far more beautiful than the lame cubemaps. however right now on any mod car it seems to be impossible to fix this but the reflections generally don't work properly and show unnatural angles, and stretch out when you aren't facing north.

also to vastly improve FPS lower mesh quality to "Low" there isn't much a difference just a small number of very distance trees may look poor but it does give a 10++ FPS boost on tough maps.

And if you have a high-end GPU you can edit the maps shadows to be twice the res.
[1024 to 2048 res shadow map] - if this interests you just ask and I'll show you how to do this.



I've been playing since 1hr after release when I had the tech demo, due to purchase complication I didn't play my purchased version right away until about 5hrs after release. ohhh 2013 sept.....



But I do agree that the new spec maps are terrible. [please excuse the negative feedback but I'm sure the devs will get right on this in the next update]


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Ohh... the sunburst seats..


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As you can see here you can have pretty heavy shadows [however on this map 2048 bogs my GTX770 to the floor..]

These are determined in the map config not in the options so it is kind of hacky to change this but only takes a few seconds.. it shouldn't cause instability.

All shots captured with "High" shadow quality enabled.

Left shots are close ups Rights shots are when distance begins to reduce sharpness.
2048 Shadows

1024 Default

512 Reduced [this is good for higher fps if you have a mid end GPU or CPU holding you back]

256 what is this the first game to have real-time shadows on maxxed settings?

128 ugly begins





* One thing that bugs me is that it feels like the GUI still eats your FPS or their is still something in the overall interface that is lacking... idk what it is but my FPS between each version is all over the place.

I really want a new GPU mine is meh... it's not exactly stable either it crashes it's driver on BeamNG, CS:GO and Project CARS [even tho I don't play much Pcars] but never GTA V for some reason.
And it's had major instability in the past, including artifacts.


This happened the other day across numerous games and I had to reset the computer to fix my intoxicated GPU... it was in Beam, stress testing, GTA V, Videos, webpages, everything with any rendering involved. [all images shown from CS:GO]


Sorry for a monstrous post. [And mild off-topic-osity]
Sorry to Beam servers for over abundance of images. 18 to be exact.

 

That's nice of you, also I'm sorry for my unfriendly reply.

If I set mesh quality on lowest, some meshes disappear.. At Hirochi Racetrack, all the barriers are gone then (Still, they remain 'physically' there, it's like crashing into an unvisible wall). In Riverside Expressway, the supports of the guardrails are missing.
Turning it back makes everything normal again.

 

Low, not lowest. Same thing happened with the track in gridmap, when you set mesh quality to lowest it just disappears

 

Ah, indeed. I think it's a bug, no?

 

Yes, it certainly is.

 

I said "low" not "lowest"

 

clayton pointed that out as well..

Anyway, still a bug.

 

Thanks for the information update!

Hope things go well

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Sigh...

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That is also exactly why I didn't say lowest.. because ever since around the time scenarios were released that has been a bug.


I don't see why you had to reinstate the obvious.

 

I misread something, that's my bad. However, I pointed out another issue which I hadn't seen before.
Let bygones be bygones

 

thread is dead

NO MORE COMMENT'S PLEASE!!!!


let this thread die this next weekend

also no bumping if you stumble apon this don't comment

also sorry for the use of comic sans

 

Re: thread is dead

Explain to me why it is a sudden issue for people to speak out on this thread.

It's not a rage pit about a bug towards the devs exactly like some bug threads are unfortunately

 

Re: thread is dead

that is why i don't want post's on this forum anymore and people started getting butthurt because i said that the dev's messed up a little code.