Shiney troubles

[Zpock]

Im working on texturing now, and I noticed a certain uglyness after turning on reflections (the big ugly pixely jagged thingie at the edge):



So it looks to me like the reflection spills over from the top polygons on the other side of the edge, and/becouse their also badly stretched? (guessing here)

I wonder if this can be fixed somehow. Is it the normals? If they were set to hard edges maybe it will be better? At the moment I havn't bothered with normals at all, their all smoth edges. Or is it the polygon structure itself that's screwed up and confusing the shaders? It's modeled with the "all quads" principle.



The reflection is set to 5green except for the windows that are at around 100 green.

[smoth]

blah blah... that is not the shinneh, it is the shaddows.

[Zpock]

"/shadows 1 4096" command makes the jaggidness smaller (higher resolution shadow map). BUT the thing only happens when reflective units setting is on.

The key issue is I wonder if it can be reduced by doing something to the model/texture itself. I'll have to try and set the normals for a proper hard edge there and see what happens.

[smoth]

or shadows suck at a close distance. Argue the point if you choose but I have the same thing on the whitebase and gaw.

[Argh]

Shadowmaps aren't scaling correctly with camera distance to the ground... said that quite awhile ago, but was mainly ignored

[smoth]

I listened but meh

[Zpock]

Shadowmaps aren't scaling correctly with camera distance to the ground... said that quite awhile ago, but was mainly ignored

Wait, your saying it's looking at stuff with the camera high up makes this uglyness? So looking closely at an aircraft you get the above? Obscure bug indeed, I wondered why it seemed worse on this unit then other (ground) units...

Guess Ill just ignore it then.