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Apr 16, 2003, 9:43pm

Is it just me or is there a lot of z-buffer between the terrain and the
water? It seems really ugly and pixelated right where they meet.

-Dion

Apr 16, 2003, 9:58pm

this is one of the reasons that i dont think i will be using the new water
feature is because of the z buffering with terrain, it looks great from
ground level but the higher you fly up the worse it gets.

Apr 16, 2003, 10:03pm

Its due to the increased view range I believe, the mapping goes to pot cause
of the dynamics.

- Mark

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Apr 16, 2003, 10:40pm

....and for today's weather report. The highs are in the lows of the uppers.
Or something like that. Speak english! :P

Chris

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Apr 17, 2003, 10:08am

has anyone noticed z buffering effecting objects aswell as terrain ?


i made a medieval build set which has cross beams going diagonally across
the walls and with 3.3 there is no z buffering between them but with 3.4
there is, from standing the same distance away from the walls in each
version.

Apr 17, 2003, 9:11pm

I have also noticed the amount of z buffering depends on what kind of video
card you have. There's not really much you can do although why the amount
of z buffering would change from one version to the next while still using
the same video card is quite beyond my faculties to compute.

=|:-)

Chris

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Apr 17, 2003, 9:41pm

It's because they increased the far clipping plane limit to 1200. By
increasing the distance you can see terrain, you have to sacrifice
something, and in this case, it was z-buffering. :-/

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Apr 17, 2003, 9:49pm

" It's because they increased the far clipping plane limit to 1200. By
increasing the distance you can see terrain, you have to sacrifice
something, and in this case, it was z-buffering. :-/ "


to be honest i would prefer it how it is in 3.3, ok so you wont be able to
see asfar but what you do see will look much nicer as i think z buffering at
the moment really messes a world up if you have terrain and water acitvated
and look down on it from up high.

Apr 18, 2003, 2:40pm

Well all we can do is suggest that in 3.5 they have an option for how far
you want to see the terrain.

Perhaps they could have a slider in Options with "Less Z-buffering" at one
side and "More Terrain Visibility" at the other

"chiana" <stonkingv8 at hotmail.com> wrote this
(news:3e9f2f7b$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com) in general.discussion on 18
Apr 2003:

> " It's because they increased the far clipping plane limit to 1200. By
> increasing the distance you can see terrain, you have to sacrifice
> something, and in this case, it was z-buffering. :-/ "
>
>
> to be honest i would prefer it how it is in 3.3, ok so you wont be
> able to see asfar but what you do see will look much nicer as i think
> z buffering at the moment really messes a world up if you have terrain
> and water acitvated and look down on it from up high.

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