Bump maps and antialiasing...

[Tuttle]

This weekend I'm testing my track with low graphics settings and some new textures upgrades...but I'm "shocked" by the very low quality of bumps maps rendering. I've a lot of moire patterns everywhere, especially on buildings with corrugated surfaces.

The only way to manage this issue is running at AA8x/SSAA...:/

I've tried lowering sharpening on normal maps or using positive values on MIP Bias...but nothing changes. The track on low settings looks far better without bumps maps on vertical surfaces...

AA8X/SSAA:

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AA8X/MSAA:

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[Luc Van Camp]

These are the Mip Bias values I tend to use for most TSOs now:

• Diffuse Map: -1.0
• Specular Map: -0.5
• Normal Map: -0.5

That's about all I can say right now ...

[Tuttle]

These are the Mip Bias values I tend to use for most TSOs now:

• Diffuse Map: -1.0
• Specular Map: -0.5
• Normal Map: -0.5

That's about all I can say right now ...

Thanks Luc. I will try these settings...

Could be interesting to know what settings are you using on normal filter exporter.

[Luc Van Camp]

Rather default values really, and I tweak them according to my needs. I usually soften the normal map effect with a zero layer (128,128,255) where I need.

[Tuttle]

Rather default values really, and I tweak them according to my needs. I usually soften the normal map effect with a zero layer (128,128,255) where I need.

Tnx.

BTW, I've tried your MipBias values without improvements. For now I can manage the track with settings maxed out..but I hope to see one fix on AA compartment for a better MSAA/AMSAA.