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For those who want to check out the globe in highest resolution  ;)- here is the link to download the pk3:


 
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Re: High Resolution Geoscape Texture Pack including High-Res Normalmap
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2010, 09:30:02 pm »
Installation Instruction:

Just copy the pk3 file into your UFO:AI/base directory.

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Re: High Resolution Geoscape Texture Pack including High-Res Normalmap
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2010, 12:31:05 pm »
NICE!!!! No more blurry earth now! \o/ Probably we should also improve the stars background. The stars look a bit "blocky".(Someone minecrafted stars? ;D)
« Last Edit: December 10, 2010, 12:34:33 pm by Crystan »

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Re: High Resolution Geoscape Texture Pack including High-Res Normalmap
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2010, 01:12:38 pm »
AFAIR the problem with the stars is that those are mapped on a cube & it simply does not look very nice when some 'milky way' gfx is used there...

But we should look @ improving those also, I agree 100%.

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Re: High Resolution Geoscape Texture Pack including High-Res Normalmap
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2010, 10:41:28 am »
Well iam sure a improved background like this would be enough. Dont need any nebula background. ;)

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Re: High Resolution Geoscape Texture Pack including High-Res Normalmap
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2010, 02:09:50 pm »
Well iam sure a improved background like this would be enough. Dont need any nebula background. ;)

Did you test this background - Here I get gfx errors when using it  ???
Maybe x & y size should be the same...

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Re: High Resolution Geoscape Texture Pack including High-Res Normalmap
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2010, 02:10:35 pm »
It wont work ingame. Its just a sample.

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Re: High Resolution Geoscape Texture Pack including High-Res Normalmap
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2010, 11:12:24 am »
For those who want to check out the globe in highest resolution  ;)- here is the link to download the pk3:


I tried it with GLSL but without postprocessing (ATI poroblems).
The night light are awesome (and if I am seeing correctly, now the desert shines under the sun) but i didn't experience any resolution improvement nor other effects (such as bump mapping). They're postprocessing, right?ù

Wait perhaps some bump mapping at the highest cliffs (himalaya) during Dawn...
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Re: High Resolution Geoscape Texture Pack including High-Res Normalmap
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2010, 02:59:08 pm »
Kaslak_CG, could you please post your ufoconsole.log ?

The globe with high-res textures enabled should look like this:
http://ufoai.ninex.info/forum/index.php?topic=4561.msg37339#msg37339


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Re: High Resolution Geoscape Texture Pack including High-Res Normalmap
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2010, 07:24:09 pm »
You should probably check if you set the textures res to the maximum in the options

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Re: High Resolution Geoscape Texture Pack including High-Res Normalmap
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2010, 12:21:57 am »
The game doesn't allow me to do so... it stays on "high"