[666maslo666]

Look at the screenshots. Fighter explosions are OK but if something bigger goes down, explosions are undetailed and look retailish. Explosion texture in adveffects is good{thanx Lightspeed} and gameplay is smooth, so why the game take this blurry LOD? I think that Taylor claimed to had this fixed but I never noticed any change. Is it a bug? Looks like something with mipmapping. I use recent rc7.9x build and mediavps. Is it only me or everybody have this?
I mantised it long time ago here http://scp.indiegames.us/mantis/view.php?id=1007

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[Kaboodles]

Are you sure you don't have some random misplaced mod vp or something in your data folders causing it?

[spartan_0214]

It looks like you have the detail setting on low. Is it low?

[666maslo666]

/data folder is clean and I have everything maxed.

[666maslo666]

Someone post capship explosions screenshots pls. I have to compare something.

[taylor]

Ok, here is what I get...

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[DaBrain]

Take a look into your data/tables folder. Look out for a fireball.tbl.

If it's there open it with Notepad/Editpad/whatever.

It's a small and simple file.

Just check that all (five?) LOD lines look like this:

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$LOD: 1


[666maslo666]

It works now. I dont know what caused that but all lines except of first were set to 4. Now it looks great THANX DaBrain! 

[Huggybaby]

Hey, I don't have a fireball.tbl file. Where can I find it, or is it included in some other file?

[aRaven]

look in your root_fs2.vp

[Huggybaby]

Thanks much aRaven!

I take it then that the following isn't correct?
And if not how many other tweaks am I and other noobs missing?
This is from a ShivanSPS/Turey updater install, not from retail:

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; fireball.tbl
;
; Table file for specifying which filenames are to be used for which explosions
;
;
#Start

$Name: exp04 ; Used for the 4 little explosions before a ship explodes
$LOD: 1

$Name: WarpMap01 ; Used for the warp in / warp out effect
$LOD: 4

$Name: WarpMap02 ; Used for the KNOSSOS warp in / warp out effect
$LOD: 4

$Name: exp05 ; Used when an asteroid explodes
$LOD: 4

$Name: exp05 ; ship explosion 1
$LOD: 4

$Name: exp06 ; ship explosion 2
$LOD: 4

#End

[Huggybaby]

Nope, tried changing the numbers to 1 and the game wouldn't launch.

[karajorma]

What error did it give? Does it give a different one with the debug build?

[Huggybaby]

Well, it makes the CPU go to 50% and stay there, so it never gets to an error message. I think this means that one of my dual cores is pegged. The debug build does the same thing. I'll do some more testing to see if I can find out anything more.

[Huggybaby]

I started a new topic, please see http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,44225.0.html.