EVE General Discussion

I renewed my account for three reasons:

1. To check out the changes in Odyssey
2. To show my support for this thread, and
3. To tell you just how wrong you are.

Right now, each ship class has a massive size difference relative to the other ship classes, but the textures are NOT able to keep up with this. The pixel density on a titan is far, far lower than the pixel density on a frigate, which makes it tremendously easy to get into a situation where the texture has only a quarter to an eighth or even fewer pixels than it needs to match the screen resolution. In fact, you don't even need to do any fancy zooming to start seeing blurriness due to insufficient texture resolution. Just move your mousewheel to the closest available zoom and you'll easily get into angles that show you one texel for 64 pixels of screen real-estate. Even the four-fold increase proposed wouldn't completely solve that issue (it'd make it 1 texel for 16 pixels), but it'd do a lot to mitigate it, and is a seriously major boon for the movie makers of EVE.

And even besides the ships, the nebula backgrounds would very clearly benefit from an increase in texture resolution as any sort of zooming will show you loads of blurring from the low resolution.

So in summary, you are wrong. Support high-resolution textures, thank you very much!

Signed!

Yes lets have optional high res textures

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Don't want it, don't need it

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With partial hi-res activation choices of categories/ships/BG if possible. In case it's found out that computer resource could not handle the fully applied hi-res pack.

oh hell yes! work my SLI cards!

Excellent idea.

Make it optional, and put a disclaimer and just DO IT.

Anything that makes this beautiful game better HAS to be a good thing.

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Personally, I would think this is a no-brainer.

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