Poor Body Textures Outside of CAS
OpiumGirl:
It's not terrible but, once I get into play/live mode, the body textures look nowhere near as nice as they do in CAS.
In CAS the skin is very high resolution, crystal clear and really smooth. Once I get the sims out of CAS and into play mode, it seems like the skins have been replaced with lower resolution textures or mip maps...Nothing at all like the ones in CAS.
I have a pretty solid computer and get around 150+ fps with all settings maxed, on a normal sized lot with a couple people, so it's not due to lacking hardware or graphics card (4870x2).
Has anyone else noticed this distinct drop in sim quality outside of CAS? Is there a difference in how they render the two states which would cause such a drastic quality difference? They would look really amazing if the quality carried over to play mode.
I should note that the quality isn't literally terrible or unbearable. The textures just look disappointingly dull once they're out of CAS.
Caraleede:
Lrn2Srch?
http://linna.modthesims.info/download.php?t=343769
:)
OpiumGirl:
It wasn't a mod I was looking for.
I wanted to know about the default skins and if other people were experiencing the same thing with the quality difference because the CAS skins are so amazing that no mod would be needed if they were used at their full resolution in-game.
Lrn2Read?
Anyone have anything useful to bring to the conversation? :P
Doc Doofus:
I've noticed it too, even with HP's new default skins. I'm not sure why this is, but it seems that the game runs with higher graphics settings in CAS mode. The lighting of the faces, in particular, seem more stark in CAS, so it may be that they temporarily reset shadows and lighting to Highest in CAS. In mygame, I have been using Sim Textures at Highest and everything else Low.
Perhaps you also noticed how much better the Sims looked in the start up video.
OpiumGirl:
Yeah, that's exactly what I was talking about.
After playing a little more, I've noticed that the weather lighting effects are really terrible as well. Even at highest detail, the sims look completely dull and even worse at certain times of day (pink/purple morning anyone?). I'd much rather use what's available in the game rather than use that mod, or any mod. I hate the work people do on skintone faces...It scares me more than the original skin tones. ::)
Does any tech savvy person have any idea what the difference is? I mean, in CAS, do they possibly use much higher quality meshes and textures? Or is it purely the lighting. I'd love to see a way to force the same settings, if it's at all possible.
Anyone actually know this stuff?
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