Why road texture looks ...

[wh1sp3r]

... so ugly ?

 

i would like to have sharp texture, how can i make it ?

[Michael Betke]

Increase filtering in editor. I use 16, the max.

[Canardia]

I don't know why most textures which come with the SDK have these horrible 4x4 pixel squares.

It's not a issue with DXT5, since you can take a 4x4 pixelated texture and blur it in Paint.NET, and then it looks much better. However, to get the pixel sharp details, you need to have the original texture, which you can then save as DXT5 from Paint.NET without getting those 4x4 pixel squares.

[DaDonik]

wow, it took 3 minutes to load that picture...

 

You could also try a uncompressed texture, but it would use half of your texture memory

[wh1sp3r]

DaDonik: texture has 900KB ;-)

 

It's not about texture actually, but road tool doesn't care about texture, it scretch it as it wants ..

 

EDIT: ah, i understand, how it works exactly .. i draw a circle on texture texture is repeating very often ....

[BrokenPillar]

The tessellation property for the road nodes causes texture coordinate to compress making them tile more. The higher the tessellation, the more compressed the coordinates get and the more frequent the texture will repeat. Try lowering the tessellation value and see if that fixes it for you.

[wh1sp3r]

yes, it fixes my problem, thanks. so, it should not compress texture

[BrokenPillar]

I don't think it is supposed to compress the UV coordinates. Higher tessellation should be used to add more geometry to help the road conform to more complex terrain, which this property does accomplish. I think the UV coordinates getting compressed is probably a bug.

[wh1sp3r]

i hope, It's a bug !

[Marcus]

All of my texture look horrible in LE and good in other engines. Not sure why. Same compression and everything else.

[Josh]

Turn on trilinear and anisotropic filtering.