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this ATR 42-700 in PAN AM skin looked so sharp and then I notice the textures got blurry. Why does this occur, is my graphics card becoming defective?



                               before

                                after

when I look at the aircraft in the directory its pic looks sharp, but after I select it I get these blurry textures. Don't know if you notice the difference.

is there a way to refresh the textures on an aircraft.

I think it's probably due to mip-maps on the textures. The same thing happened with my 737 Janet repaint. Once you get it in-game, it should be fine, though it may get blurry from time to time (after pausing, changing views, etc.). I've found that if it gets blurry in-game, zooming in real close and then zooming back out fixes it.

A better, more permanent fix can be done by modifying the textures. If you have DTXBmp, you can open the texture files and un-check the "Inlcude mipmaps when saving" option, then just re-save the textures. It worked on my repaint, which now has prefectly crisp textures.

Note that I could be entirely wrong on this, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

thanks for the suggestion lazerbeak. I just discovered that changing views part you mentioned did remedy the situation. When I load the plane the textures went blurry, then when I cycled the views it got sharp again.

But whenever I press the alt key to do anything in game play the textures go blurry again. So I cycled the views again and again the textures got sharp again. I don't have that program you mentioned. But I rather keep it as is as to not disturb something I haven't a single clue about.

again thanks lazerbeak.  ;)

No need to cycle the views...sometimes you can just zoom fully in...and then back out...usually works out...

Just remove the mipmaps, they're quite useless in FS as they degrade the image quality beyond any marginal FPS gain they can help deliver.

Just remove the mipmaps, they're quite useless in FS as they degrade the image quality beyond any marginal FPS gain they can help deliver.

I would if I knew how to? But as complicated as Lazerbeak makes it sound. It sounds like something I don't want to mess with.

Well... all you have to do is open the .bmp files with DXTbmp and untick the 'include mipmaps when saving' box then save them (I always use DXT3, you can use 32bit too but it makes the files about 4 times as large with very little quality gain, bloody pointless IMO).  It's just as lazerbeak says, and it isn't complicated, less you be a simpleton .

Indeed, it's not complicated at all. It's as simple as unchecking a box and resaving. I like to be thorough, so I have a tendency to make things sound more complex than they are. In reality, it's the easiest thing in the world.

where do iget dxtbmp?