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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Tolwyn on December 23, 2004, 02:36:19 am

Title: What is wrong with my glow?
Post by: Tolwyn on December 23, 2004, 02:36:19 am

It has been reported that on some GPUs (as in my case on Radeon 9700 Pro), glow maps do not function properly at a certain distance. They may fade in and out or exhibit intermittent flickering effects. Not very nice to look at, if you know what I mean :(

Title: What is wrong with my glow?
Post by: redmenace on December 23, 2004, 03:32:01 am

post a pic please

Title: What is wrong with my glow?
Post by: Tolwyn on December 23, 2004, 05:32:45 am

I will post a video :)

Title: What is wrong with my glow?
Post by: Bobboau on December 23, 2004, 05:41:53 am

eh, that's aliasing (or a combination of aliasing and texture sampleing), it's due to the fact that the image is getting rendered to a bitmap.

there's realy no way to fix it, other than FSAA and maybe mipmapping (both of wich are available in FSO), and even that has it's limits. this isn't a GPU problem it's sort of a limitation to useing a pixel based monitor.

Title: What is wrong with my glow?
Post by: Tolwyn on December 23, 2004, 06:11:19 am

you mean a TFT?

Btw, some people reported that never NVidia drivers do not have this problem...