Arkadian armor-texture - a design flaw?

As you can see it's pixelated unlike other things in the game; clothes, Calypsian armor, and so forth. Is this fixable? Will it be fixable? Is it low resolution and, if it is, will you fix it? It just doesn't fit in a game with CryEngine 2. It's like zooming into a taken picture and I think it's utterly ugly.

 

It may be something on your side. Sometimes somethings don't render to max graphics while everything around it renders correctly, It's happened to me a few times in the past. I'm sure that the others I have seen of this helmet rendered correctly but unfortunately I don't have this set of armor to check it out. You can ask some other players around you if the helmet is rendering correctly on their side to be sure and also see if a relog on your side fixes the error.

Also on what graphic settings are you working and what GPU do you have if it is an actual bug it will help the devs narrow down the problem if any.

 

DDL could you please upload the image here on the forum, as our rules (4a) don't allow linking out to other sites for images, and it would also help the image to be more viewable by the devs anyway if it showed in the post here. If you have any problems uploading here check the info about putting up images HERE. Thanks.

 

It's not only me; another person has seen the pixelation as well. AMD Radeon HD 6570 is my graphic card (I googled 'GPU' so I guess it's the name of the graphic card you meant) and I'm going with Very High settings. I don't know if I actually get Very High on everything even though I have the settings, but I do know that shading quality and shadows are working perfectly which was the problem on my computer until I got this graphic card.

I would love some pictures from other people taken from the same angle as mine was.

It's all done. Now, could you pretty-please change my name from DDL to Divide D. Impera? (Just thought I should throw it in there a bit casually.)

 

I don't personally see an issue with it. And it may actually be by design. Because of the "camouflage" style, smooth pixel transition may not be suitable for the Ark armors.

 

Why wasn't my post posted? Something about a moderator needing to read it first? Apparently this post worked. I have a AMD Radeon HD 6570. I am on Very High settings. Another person has confirmed the bad textures.

Puck: this is nothing "rough" or Arkadian with it; it's simply low-res textures, and I don't get why they would want low-res textures, so of course I have contemplated that the problem can be with my own computer, but other people have confirmed what I see. It doesn't have to be smooth like Calypsian armor (of course we want different styles and themes which separates the planets' and their culture), but to see the square-like pixels is simply bad texturing.

 

All right.

Yes, I know, thank you for your help. There are so many Entropian forums (which is highly irritating me) that I might as well have the same user-name on all of them.

That sounds like a good idea.

 

Keep in mind there are four EU forums (five or six, really) because of being official forums for specific planet partners (which are independent businesses). There are only a couple of player-operated forums that are "mainstream" (like EntropiaPlanets). There are several addressing other languages (out of necessity). But I recommend only really participating on those official forums that are for planets you're active on on a regular basis. That will help keep down the number of places you have to register (unless you actually want to participate on every forum).

 

thank you, soo annoying when people have completely different user names

And yes I saw your helmet and looks the same to me so it must be a design flaw or not, fast answers as usual

 

Or a design feature. I looked at the image and I really don't see an issue. Seems to be camo design. But I guess it could be a fkup since I don't know the PPs intent.

 

The problem is the extreme small player-base that EU has compared to other MMO's (or compared to anything really), now from that bunch there's yet another small part active on one or more forums.

It is what it is and I guess it started out because people wanted a forum not ruled by ... him, and Calypso seemingly having their own forum with the old database (a real "fuck you" to other PP's, in my opinion) created the way for other PP-forums. It's ridiculous. Maybe ten years from now it would've been necessery. Now it's just ridiculous. It's so ridiculous I would believe a politician by his word long before I thought of this as not-ridiculous. It - is - that - ridiculous. In my humble opinion EP would be perfect for all PP's; ruled by good, honest people.

I saw a guy with URSA armor (basically the same looking as CETUS, but red) and I didn't notice any bad texture on that armor, but it's hard to "zoom in" enough on another player's armor.

 

Feel free to take a walk into the larger of our two Arkadia shops (bottom floor of Sanctuary Cove Building #3). We've got everything up to Cetus for sale there (except Musca of course), so you should be able to get up nice and close for a look at all of them. Maybe then we can find out whether it's some kind of Cetus glitch or whether it's something across the board for the armour.

Also, I've seen this sort of "pixelated" - looking camouflage in real life before.

If it turns out that this is the nature of the flaw/feature you're talking about, then I reckon if it's good enough for real life, perhaps it's good enough for cryengine too In fact, you could then argue that "digital camo" would be an excellent design feature as it's playing on the fact that Arkadia is a digital world.

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The back of my Hydra helmet looks fine. My guess is it's a problem with some graphics cards, or maybe some of the sets of armor.

And off topic, but I like the fact that each planet has its own forum.

 

And I refuse to support EP for personal reasons. I MUCH prefer the atmosphere here on this forum.

 

Turn the pattern upside down and it would work perfectly with the ANZAC.