Oblivion - Detailed Terrain, New Landscape Shader System

[Neil79]

Detailed Terrain, New Landscape Shader System

Detailed Terrain updates the technology used to render the game's terrain textures. The traditional shader simply fades from one texture to the next, creating ugly, muddy looking transitions in many areas. The new shader uses alpha information added to each landscape texture to mask the textures when they are blended with the textures below them, producing crisp beautiful transitions that give the illusion of much greater detail in texture application. What’s more, this effect is achieved with practically no impact on performance!

The textures included in this mod are based on the terrain textures in Qarl's Texture Pack III, and have been updated to include alpha channels with appropriate masking patterns.

http://www.omnichron.net/external/comps/
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=808462

 

[uv]

looks very nice, cheers Neil

 

[TheBrooder]

ooo looks good, I've thinking about carrying on with game recently and this may provide the push I need.

 

[Neil79]

looks very nice, cheers Neil

No problem

ooo looks good, I've thinking about carrying on with game recently and this may provide the push I need.

Hah , i usually do that then uninstall it within 5mins

 

[KPeh]

I think the image you have there is a before image?

 

[Neil79]

I think the image you have there is a before image?

Ahh yes , well spotted

 

[Neil79]

EDITED

 

[Scougar]

Finally managed to install this after being forced to register at one of the sites to get the files

Looks better IMHO, but the one thing that detracts from it is that after a few metres the AF (or severe blurring) occurs on the textures now. This is horrible on a pathway Any idea how to sort this with?

Matthew

 

[robgmun]

Am i the only that can't see hardly any difference between the screen shots? I mean it's hardly worth it for the frame rate hit.

 

[Neil79]

Am i the only that can't see hardly any difference between the screen shots? I mean it's hardly worth it for the frame rate hit.

Some can some can't , its not a huge difference so don't expect to be wow'd

 

[unwashed potato!]

Am i the only that can't see hardly any difference between the screen shots? I mean it's hardly worth it for the frame rate hit.

nope your not alone, i sware they guy is showing the exact same picture twice just with a different header.

 

[Hen_Dawg]

I can't tell any difference either

 

[Neil79]

You did visit the link didn't you? and see the gif animation

 

[Steedie]

nope your not alone, i sware they guy is showing the exact same picture twice just with a different header.

lol I can't tell the difference either

Will visit the link, the gifs should show it better

 

[Neil79]

Lmao , if people aren't visiting the links then whats the point of posting links at all

 

[Steedie]

Lmao , if people aren't visiting the links then whats the point of posting links at all

Why post the pics then if we need to visit the links?

Even after visiting the link, the difference is so slight it seems rather pointless

 

[Neil79]

Why post the pics then if we need to visit the links?

I was going to hotlink the changes but the damn site didn't do gifs just jpg's swapping over

 

[Scougar]

Am i the only that can't see hardly any difference between the screen shots? I mean it's hardly worth it for the frame rate hit.

Textures do look sharper , and does look improved. I didn't get the actual individual texture packs however, just the 'beta' file that's 128mb. Not sure if I need the other files?

Still wondering about the very short blurring distance on this though

Matthew

 

[Hen_Dawg]

Lmao , if people aren't visiting the links then whats the point of posting links at all

So I don't have to visit another site? And you didn't say we needed to

But now I do see a difference

 

[Lysander]

The difference is too minimal to be of any merit.