Bota:16 Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Got to thinking (scary) about the exporting of maps. Does it do more good lets say to bump up the quality with less passes or lower the quality with more passes. The editor says that medium quality with 3 passes should be sufficient for most maps. But would high quality with only 2 passes be better? Not sure if anybody has tested this or not. Maybe someone from GRIN can answer. Basically what I'm asking is what scenario has a better rendering quality to render time ratio (lower quality more passes or higher quality lower passes)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonehead Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Be nice to know, I have problems rendering the dusk lighting on mission 4 sky evironment. Not sure if the number of passes has anything to do with it or the quality settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRIM-GENERAL Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 Medium 5 passes is what I use. you should give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AW Shinobi Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 (edited) The texture quality is how good the objects' textures look, whereas the number of passes is how many times the editor calculates the lightmapping (shadows and stuff). Considering that not many people have computers that can play this thing on High texture settings (and the rest that play MP usually keep it on Medium even when they can have better anyway), your best bet would be Medium textures and plenty of passes. The more objects you have in your map, the more passes you'll want too. Edited October 2, 2006 by AW Shinobi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bota:16 Posted October 3, 2006 Author Share Posted October 3, 2006 Thx. An answer I can use. Didn't realize quality was for the textures. Thought both quality and passes were used for lightmaps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AW Shinobi Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 That's what I've learnt anyway. Don't go and trust me blindly. Whatever is correct, medium and lots of passes is better than high and fewer passes - that I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evilducky Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 When you just want to test, you can get away with a 1 pass draft, so you dont have to wait hours to go test it out. Only when your 100% done should you do a 5 pass on medium resolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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