(it's my first 3d project, i know it still needs a lot of work :( )
I tried using anisotropic filtering but that was a disaster for my framerate. Is there something else i can do? Should i make my texture bigger, i'm not an artist, so the quality of the textures i use is not very good (mostly things i find for free on the net)
Thanks in advance
linear filtering problem
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Hi, i have another question, i have a terrain with a road but the road is blurred to much in the distance or in certain places. see image below:
(it's my first 3d project, i know it still needs a lot of work :( )
I tried using anisotropic filtering but that was a disaster for my framerate. Is there something else i can do? Should i make my texture bigger, i'm not an artist, so the quality of the textures i use is not very good (mostly things i find for free on the net)
Thanks in advance
(it's my first 3d project, i know it still needs a lot of work :( )
I tried using anisotropic filtering but that was a disaster for my framerate. Is there something else i can do? Should i make my texture bigger, i'm not an artist, so the quality of the textures i use is not very good (mostly things i find for free on the net)
Thanks in advance
Hi,
It seems to be a mip mapping problem, you could disable it for the road, but then you'll get all kind of aliasing in the distance. Have you tried playing with the D3DSAMP_MIPMAPLODBIAS sampler state when rendering the road? It will give you better control over mip map selection. I've never really used it so I don't know the performance impact or what value to set it to (I know it's a float, try using +/- 1.0f to see how it goes).
It seems to be a mip mapping problem, you could disable it for the road, but then you'll get all kind of aliasing in the distance. Have you tried playing with the D3DSAMP_MIPMAPLODBIAS sampler state when rendering the road? It will give you better control over mip map selection. I've never really used it so I don't know the performance impact or what value to set it to (I know it's a float, try using +/- 1.0f to see how it goes).
Author
thanks for your reply, but changing the lodbias didn't do the trick :(
This is what i now have
should i change anything about these values?
This is what i now have
// road tex_device->SetTexture( RoadTexDesc.RegisterIndex, _road);_device->SetSamplerState(RoadTexDesc.RegisterIndex, D3DSAMP_MAGFILTER, D3DTEXF_LINEAR);_device->SetSamplerState(RoadTexDesc.RegisterIndex, D3DSAMP_MINFILTER, D3DTEXF_LINEAR);_device->SetSamplerState(RoadTexDesc.RegisterIndex, D3DSAMP_MIPFILTER, D3DTEXF_LINEAR);should i change anything about these values?
Those states are correct.
Hmmm.. You can try to sharpen the low resolution mip map levels if you generate them by yourself, but I'm not sure how much of a difference it will make, if any..
Or there could be a way to change or split the road texture so that you'll minimize the mip mapping artefacts. Can you post the texture?
Hmmm.. You can try to sharpen the low resolution mip map levels if you generate them by yourself, but I'm not sure how much of a difference it will make, if any..
Or there could be a way to change or split the road texture so that you'll minimize the mip mapping artefacts. Can you post the texture?
Quote:Original post by XerXis
Hi, i have another question, i have a terrain with a road but the road is blurred to much in the distance or in certain places. see image below:
(it's my first 3d project, i know it still needs a lot of work :( )
I tried using anisotropic filtering but that was a disaster for my framerate. Is there something else i can do? Should i make my texture bigger, i'm not an artist, so the quality of the textures i use is not very good (mostly things i find for free on the net)
Thanks in advance
Much of this depends on the quality of your mip levels. How are you computing them? Be sure the mip levels are computed in linear space (instead of gamma space that it is currently in), and use a nice minimization filter to get best results (maybe a window sync).
It could be because the texture is rectangular and stretched over a good distance. You can see the generated mip map levels with the DirectX Texture Tool by loading the texture and making it generate the mip map chain. Then with Page Up/Down you can browse the levels. You'll notice that the white lines are pretty strong even in the smaller mip levels, so you can see why you get those huge blurry white spots on the road when those small levels are stretched over a few pixels.
Here is a part of your original texture, now 256x256:
It may be worth trying to use this one instead (as-is on the left side, mirorred on the right side), but you'll have to change the road model a bit. Unfortunately, I'm not 100% sure if this is going to be any better.
Also, it is usually preferable to use power of 2 textures since most devices are not officially supporting non-power of 2 textures. If you loaded the texture with D3DX, it was probably resized internally.
Here is a part of your original texture, now 256x256:
It may be worth trying to use this one instead (as-is on the left side, mirorred on the right side), but you'll have to change the road model a bit. Unfortunately, I'm not 100% sure if this is going to be any better.
Also, it is usually preferable to use power of 2 textures since most devices are not officially supporting non-power of 2 textures. If you loaded the texture with D3DX, it was probably resized internally.
Author
thanks, i didn't know you could see the mipmap chain with texture tool, i'll try your advice tomorrow. now it's time to go out and celebrate new year :)
so a happy new year to all of you :)
so a happy new year to all of you :)
Author
well, changing my texture from a rectangular rather small texture to a bigger square texture solved the problem (at least it's not that blurred any more) without changing the filters, actually, it makes a lot of sense ;)
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