high cell size - bad quality ?

[shephart 1]

hello, i have a question about the cell size : is it true that when the cell size is higher, the quality of the map will be worse ? which means the textures (i believe) should have bad quality like in operation flashpoint or cs 1.6.

here this is the max terrain & cellsize, when i would use them, do i have a bad quality map ? if yes, would it only affect the terrain texture ? or would water, sky etc... bad quality too ?

[Sealife 22]

Yes it will be bad and also current visitor does not allow placement of objects in certain areas of the terrain when using 4096 ^2 size Heightmap :(.

Your better of using small heightmap and then let the BIS Unlimited terrain deal with the outlying world , of course you cant place objects on the terrain that is procedural but same for 4096^2 so using BIS procedural is most efficent.

Largest map i saw so far is 2048 using 100M cells 201km * 201 km , not pretty at all to be honest apart from the constant FPS.

also you will see above at the bottom of your table your current settings are INvalid at 7

[shephart 1]

Yes it will be bad and also current visitor does not allow placement of objects in certain areas of the terrain when using 4096 ^2 size Heightmap :(.

Your better of using small heightmap and then let the BIS Unlimited terrain deal with the outlying world , of course you cant place objects on the terrain that is procedural but same for 4096^2 so using BIS procedural is most efficent.

Largest map i saw so far is 2048 using 100M cells 201km * 201 km , not pretty at all to be honest apart from the constant FPS.

also you will see above at the bottom of your table your current settings are INvalid at 7

thanks for fast answer ! hope bIS will fix it for arma 3 that we can use such big maps, would be good for big cities etc... and hope that BIS will make it so that the quality will stay

[Sealife 22]

well you can have some quality if your satelite map is very very quality , however when you start to use clutter the RVMat become Massive for each section and even with streaming technology Out of Memmory error is always round corner :) :(

[shephart 1]

well you can have some quality if your satelite map is very very quality , however when you start to use clutter the RVMat become Massive for each section and even with streaming technology Out of Memmory error is always round corner :) :(

is there maybe an example out ? i mean a big map with bad quality or a small map with bad quality or even a video or picture ?

want to see how it looks in bad quality

[Sealife 22]

Here is a poor quality terrain , High size download so i think original sat was large.

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=14787

Here is same terrain with smaller terrain cells but no clutter still (IIRC)

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=14830

[shephart 1]

Here is a poor quality terrain , High size download so i think original sat was large.

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=14787

Here is same terrain with smaller terrain cells but no clutter still (IIRC)

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=14830

thanks man ! will try them out now !

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ok i tried the first map : on some places, there are normal textures, no low-res but anyway, we have alot of graphic bugs like flickering, or the camera "lags" .... hope it will be fixed in arma 3

[rip31st 98]

When large maps come to mind, also remember it can be a monumental task populating the map with objects. Once 5,000,000 objects are surpassed, the .wrp file that contains the locations of all objects becomes to large and unstable.

[memphisbelle 99]

Did you notice the terrain size of 4.069.000 x 4.069.000 (in words, more than 4 Million x 4 Million pixel)? No Program could handle this, not to speak of the game and Visitor. A map which is that much large would never been finished anyways. It is way to big.

I suggest to reduce to a terrain grid size of 2096 x 2096 and use terrain cell size of 10, which ends up in a map of 20 x 20 km. The Sat and mask layer map would have been a total size of 20960 x 20960 and a dimension of 1 meter per pixel in the Game world...if this is not enough?