EVE General Discussion

+1 i would love to have the option to do this

it would definitely be a nice option, now I didn't go through the 150+ pages (at all)

but yea, I'd love to have hi res textures and whatnot :D

+1! This makes me happy happy!

This needs to happen !

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I'll quote my post from another thread in January. Additionally, I'll add that while we do have higher-resolution versions of many textures, we'll likely have to go through all of them to make sure the quality is good enough to release at high resolution before we could proceed with such a feature. I don't believe anyone has ever claimed that there are not art or technical issues to work through on this.

Art panel have said exactly that...that the textures are ready to go and they are waiting on the delivery of the textures to the players.
I understand there is a lot of work involved (well, to be honest, I don't personally understand the work involved, as it seems a 'simple' as replacing the textures with hires textures, as they already scale with zooming in and out), but what you are telling us seems contradictory to this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiKGaXuYxiU 36.00 onwards<-- fanfest 2014 art panel.

When CCP BasementBen made those comments, that was the team's understanding. The textures we had at the time, particularly for ships, are in fact higher in resolution than what we deliver in-game right now.

Last year the problem seemed simple. Today, having looked at and worked with the textures recently, it's a lot more complex, but the understanding we've gained while working on other updates should help. Here's more detail:

What's changed since then is the introduction of physically-based rendering, and our current task of improving and refining our initial PBR implementation (which internally, and in the CSM minutes, we're calling V5++).

The work for PBR and V5++ have required artists to go through each ship to inspect and modify the textures. In the course of this inspection, it's become clear that there's a lot of variation in texture quality among existing textures that delivering them in higher resolution would reveal.

These textures will have to be quality checked, and possibly cleaned up. Much of this is happening as part of the V5++ update, but once we see ships in-game with full-resolution textures, it's almost certain that some further work will be necessary. This is not necessarily difficult work, but it does have to happen.

What I'll offer you is that the change in tone from last year's Fanfest to now reflects us having a much better picture of where we stand with our texture assets, which means that when the relevant technical issues are solved, we'll be in a very good place to proceed with the work to release high res textures, as it fits into our work schedule.

Edit: I will say that once the technical pieces are in place, I expect the team will be very enthusiastic about getting this work done, particularly since several of the key people doing the work have already posted in this thread to support high-resolution textures. :)

This is very exciting.

Good, good ...

Now go and spank those coding monkeys.

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