NitPick-Ship Graphics

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Hi guys, this is totally a nit pick, so please dont even bother with this kinda stuff till you all get the other bugs fixed. I noticed some ships are VERY detailed and some ships have very blurry / blocky textures and bump maps. The following screen shots were taken on the exact same computer, exact same resolution, same level of zoom in the game (all the way zoomed in.)

First, the terran colony ship, showing an example of a highly detailed ship: Link

Now a ship with fuzzy textures, the Altairian flag ship: Link

And one more with low detail textures, the Torian Colony ship: Link

Thanks all for the wonderful game!
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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's kind of odd. They're all in vectors, so it's not like they don't have the same possibility for sharpness in the textures. My best guess (and I'll best it's dang close) is that the reason is this:

The human ship is comprised of a pretty basic hull, and many modules stuck to it. If the hull and each module were to have the same maximum texture resolution (seperately), then together the whole ship would have a higher apparent resolution. The Torian and Altarian ships both have larger hulls. You can see from the modules plugged on that those modules have a fair amount of detail, but that's because they're smaller than the main hull. Smaller objects with the same resolution look more detailed.

So all that blabbering is saying is: the human ship has several small parts, each with its own texture map. The overall texture size for the human ship is higher than the alien ships (due to the modules giving most of the detail), even though the actual size of the ships is equal.

It seems pretty odd to give the hulls such a low resolution. Hopefully the hi-res texture pack will rectify this somewhat, whenever that comes out.

Blahblah, I'm half-asleep and should stop typing.
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