NATE & SUPER

[mason22]

how much have you guys experimented with the artwork/skins of the models? I was messing around with our FDB nose art and had a thought.

When the edges are aliased, the 3D AH engine will further smooth them out when viewing the artwork in game. So, i tried an unaliased version...and...the art looks much better in game because of the "smoothing" the 3D engine provides. Is this the case in the artwork of the AC etc. etc. ??

Was just wondering if the skins work the same way? Things like logos, rivets, sheet metal lines, insignias, numbers...and all that jazz, are they designed at a certain resolution and then the 3D engine "resizes" as necessary according to the view?

just picker yer brains....plus, i'm kinda curious about all this stuff  

[mason22]

knock knock, who's there <punt>  

[Superfly]

Yes, the skins work the same as any texture within the game.  We draw the textures at one size, but we can scale them on the faces of the models as we're texture mapping the models.  They become really blurry if you scale them up too much.  The engine doesn't actually resize them.  It's all done in Multigen.

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