Effects settings question

[Rends 166]

If i set in Options the effect setting above medium it will always turn AA on.

Even if i tweak the options.ini and set AntiAliasing= 0 it will be on ingame.

My intelHD4000 can't handle AA well it will result in low framerates.

 

What i want is bumpmapping ingame.

 

PS: with Jumas terrain updated installed i have bumpmapping only at the riverbank tiles. Is there something that needs to be done to get it on other terrain tiles too?

[Rends 166]

Noone?

[+quack74 329]

I'm not sure of an answer to that, but, I'm pretty sure the same bump map is used at all times for every tile. Not just river tiles. There is a WATERNORMAL.bmp and a NOISENORMAL.bmp. Are you only seeing the WATERNORMAL.bmp for the rivers? My effects are set to High and I get the bump mapping on land. I think If I set the effects to medium I still see the bump map. I too get a big hit on frame rates with AAA. It seems to be the heaviest hit object next to too many planes at once.

Below is what I use for my Verdun terrain using Jan Tumas upgrade. This data is found in the Verdun terrain folder in the Verdun_DATA.ini. Cross check it with yours. It should be very similar to the other terrains as far as the Normal textures are concerned.

 

 

[TerrainMesh]
TextureThreshold=0.80
LowDetailMeshThreshold=0.50
MedDetailMeshThreshold=0.30
TileToHeightGridRatio=4
RenderMeshVertexCount=4096
RenderMeshIndexCount=6144
SolidObjectVertexCount=4096
SolidObjectIndexCount=6144
AlphaObjectVertexCount=4096
AlphaObjectIndexCount=6144

 

[HeightField]
DetailScale=1.0
DetailFrequency=1.0
MaxHeight=1000
MinHeight=1

 

[HeightOffset]
NonTexturedMesh=-0.5
TexturedMesh=-0.1
LowDetailMesh=-1.0
WaterMesh=0.3
BumpAmount=0.4

 

[NormalTextureMaterial]
UseEffectShader=TRUE
EffectShaderName=terTerrainEffect.fx
DepthBufferCheck=TRUE
DepthBufferWrite=TRUE
RenderedInOrder=FALSE
AlphaTestEnabled=FALSE
CullMode=CLOCKWISE
LightEnabled=TRUE
SpecularEnabled=FALSE
EmissiveEnabled=FALSE
FogEnabled=TRUE
AmbientColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000
DiffuseColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.0000000
ZBufferOffset=0.000000
BlendOp=ONE
NumTextureStages=1
TextureStage[01].TextureName=
TextureStage[01].MipMap=TRUE
TextureStage[01].FilterEnabled=TRUE
TextureStage[01].StageColorOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE
TextureStage[01].StageAlphaOp=NO_OP

 

[WaterTextureMaterial]
EffectShaderName=terWaterEffect.fx
DepthBufferCheck=TRUE
DepthBufferWrite=TRUE // FALSE
RenderedInOrder=FALSE // TRUE
AlphaTestEnabled=FALSE // TRUE
CullMode=CLOCKWISE
LightEnabled=TRUE
SpecularEnabled=TRUE
EmissiveEnabled=FALSE
FogEnabled=TRUE
AmbientColor=1.500000,1.500000,1.500000,1.500000
DiffuseColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000
SpecularColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000
SpecularPower=4.000000
Reflectivity=3.00000
ZBufferOffset=4.000000
BlendOp=ONE
NumTextureStages=1
TextureStage[01].TextureName=
TextureStage[01].MipMap=TRUE
TextureStage[01].FilterEnabled=TRUE
TextureStage[01].StageColorOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE
TextureStage[01].StageAlphaOp=NO_OP

 

[backgroundMaterial]
EffectShaderName=terFarTerrainEffect.fx
DepthBufferCheck=TRUE
DepthBufferWrite=TRUE
RenderedInOrder=FALSE
AlphaTestEnabled=FALSE
CullMode=CLOCKWISE
LightEnabled=TRUE
SpecularEnabled=FALSE
EmissiveEnabled=FALSE
FogEnabled=TRUE
AmbientColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000
DiffuseColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.0000000
ZBufferOffset=0.000000
BlendOp=ONE
NumTextureStages=1
TextureStage[01].TextureName=
TextureStage[01].MipMap=TRUE
TextureStage[01].FilterEnabled=TRUE
TextureStage[01].StageColorOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE
TextureStage[01].StageAlphaOp=NO_OP

 

[solidObjectTextureMaterial]
DepthBufferCheck=TRUE
DepthBufferWrite=TRUE
RenderedInOrder=TRUE
AlphaTestEnabled=TRUE
CullMode=NO_CULL
LightEnabled=TRUE
SpecularEnabled=FALSE
EmissiveEnabled=FALSE
FogEnabled=TRUE
AmbientColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000
DiffuseColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000
ZBufferOffset=0.000000
BlendOp=BLEND_SRC_ALPHA
NumTextureStages=1
TextureStage[01].TextureName=
TextureStage[01].MipMap=TRUE
TextureStage[01].FilterEnabled=TRUE
TextureStage[01].StageColorOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE
TextureStage[01].StageAlphaOp=TEXTURE

 

[AlphaObjectTextureMaterial]
DepthBufferCheck=TRUE
DepthBufferWrite=FALSE
RenderedInOrder=FALSE
AlphaTestEnabled=TRUE
CullMode=NO_CULL
LightEnabled=TRUE
SpecularEnabled=FALSE
EmissiveEnabled=FALSE
FogEnabled=TRUE
AmbientColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.00000
DiffuseColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.00000
ZBufferOffset=2.000000
BlendOp=BLEND_SRC_ALPHA
NumTextureStages=1
TextureStage[01].TextureName=
TextureStage[01].MipMap=TRUE
TextureStage[01].FilterEnabled=TRUE
TextureStage[01].StageColorOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE
TextureStage[01].StageAlphaOp=TEXTURE_BLEND_TEXTURE_ALPHA

Fade=NORMAL
StartFadeDistance=50.0
EndFadeDistance=50.0

Edited March 17, 2014 by quack74