Poor Body Textures Outside of CAS
Shazaam:
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Just to make certain - I had all graphics turned up when I began my game but I still had to manually turn up the "Sims Quality" so that may be a factor as while my sims have some weird texture to a degree, they are not nearly as blotchy as the pic above.
What do you mean with manually turn up the "Sims Quality"?
Do you mean we still can tune up the graphic setting of Sims model beyond EA setting? Can you share us a trick for it?
Ashkitty:
Quote from: Shazaam on 2009 June 16, 10:02:49
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Just to make certain - I had all graphics turned up when I began my game but I still had to manually turn up the "Sims Quality" so that may be a factor as while my sims have some weird texture to a degree, they are not nearly as blotchy as the pic above.
What do you mean with manually turn up the "Sims Quality"?
Do you mean we still can tune up the graphic setting of Sims model beyond EA setting? Can you share us a trick for it?
I think they meant that all their graphics sliders IN sims were up, except sim quality maybe got toggled lower somehow and they upped it.
That said, I did get a nice little boost to AA and some better lighting on sim skins after I went and fooled around with my graphics card settings in Nvidia Control Panel, or whatever the advanced graphics settings are now. Really love the visual quality of my game, and my performance has taken no obvious hit.
But my computer is a monster, YMMV.
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Doc Doofus:
I played around with my graphics settings to see what would give me the best bang for the buck in terms of better looking sims, and the slider that seemed to help the most was setting Sims Quality (middle/bottom right slider) to VERY HIGH. If you're tweaking your settings, that's the very first place to start.
Lighting came second in terms of improvement. There was a substantial lag impact from boosting that. The best improvement came from the highest setting, which had the worst impact, so I just leave that completely off.
My graphics card is old, so it's considered low-end now: an ATI 9700 w/256mb on card.
minx:
The comparison shot I posted was with graphics all set on maximum.... like i said in my original post. Theres no slider to increase - everything is as high as it will go. It is very zoomed in and played on an extremely high resolution - from afar, the smudgeyness isnt as noticable. I also noticed when playing on my sisters laptop, which plays on a much lower resolution, the difference isnt as obvious because the CAS sims dont look as good to begin with. Dunno.
My video card is an ATI HD4370 x2 and my computer is godly, so its certainly not a hardware issue. All drivers are up to date. I suppose i can play around in catalyst a bit and see if anything changes.
Also, these arent default skins.. again. They are HP's replacements. Great looking in CAS, FAR superior to default.. turn to blurry smooshy messes in live. The defaults are way lower quality, so there isnt much to ruin when it comes to cas vs live there. It seems the better the original texture, the more it gets destroyed in live vs cas.. it blows at rendering fine detail.
AllenABQ:
Gah... well unless and until they fix this, any of the fine detail work I did for TS2 for male body hair on the skin tones would be completely useless applied to TS3.
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