Question about mipmapping (pics), Can it be made better than this? Options

[Olav]

Hope it's ok that I ask this here.

I have all settings/sliders at max within the game, and mipmapping set to best quality in the ATI Control Center. Still I'm not too happy with how it looks in game. Even after a short distance the textures disappear and the landscape looks very 'empty' and boring.

Note how the textures disappear after a while: Picture 1

I'd like the textures to look like they do on the left on this picture also on the right side: Picture 2

Anyone have any tips for adjusting this in the ini file or something?

Thanks.

[Khaan]

Yeah you mean the LOD terrain?

There are several mods to fix this, in varying sizes,

Try this link: http://rapidshare.de/files/17092655/4096lodtextures.zip.html for the largest, best looking textures i've found, however this can cause larger loading time and slightly more laggy ingame, there is a half way one but I cant find it at the moment as i'm at school with a firewall

Also try the normal map texture: http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.p...howtopic=330112 this gets rid of the blocky LOD terrain effect and gives the background a much smoother look

You can also change the amount of cells that your game loads (if your comp can handle it) by going into your .ini file and changing "ugridstoload=5" to either ugridstoload=7 or anything upwards from that making sure its uneven.

This squares the number of cells loaded I think though, so if there is 5 in the .ini there will be 25 cells loaded all around you. I dont recommend setting this above 11 unless you have a massive pc

This post has been edited by Khaan: Apr 24 2006, 01:49 PM