v1.61 See Thu Texture Edges

[aalaardb2]

This is a bug I call the see thru texture edges. I've seen it in other games so I know what to look for. To see it, you must zoom up really close to trees. I am posting a screenshot, but it is much easier to see what I'm talking about by zooming in on some trees over a yellow plain, because the trees are swaying. *edit* it can actually be seen at any range except global.
This bug is probably fixed by sorting textures with 'soft' edges back to front instead of front to back, but this will probably decrease performance.

http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f95/aalaardb/?action=view&current=Civ4ScreenShot0004.jpg

 

[MrCynical]

I'm not sure what you mean, and can't see anything wrong in this screenshot. What exactly am I supposed to be looking at? In any case it is not worth sacrificing one iota of performance to 'fix'.

 

[aalaardb2]

If you can't see it in the screenshot, which is understandable, you'll have to look at it in the game.

I forgot to mention what to look for, since I have several other bugs to post. When you look at the trees in the game, if they are on a plain they will have yellow pixels around their borders.

 

[MrCynical]

This may be specific to one graphics card since I can't duplicate it on my computer. I think I can maybe see one you mean on one tree in the screenshot, and seriously question whether this is visible at any but the closest zoom.

 

[Dusty4prez]

Minor graphic details are nothing. I really don't care if you were trained to report them all these shouldn't really bug the gamers unless they're that hung up in which if they are they shouldn't even deserve to play the game.

 

[aalaardb2]

This is a part of the picture in the above link. It has been blown up 4x. (Edit: image reshrunk, lcick it to open large version). Please note that it doesn't look great because the screenshots are saved as jpgs, and blowing it up just worsened that. But though yellow pixels are *not* artifacts of the jpg, they are the bug I am talking about.

Look at the tree's shadow. It goes from green leaves to yellow border around the leaves to black shadow. The yellow border is the plain beneath, in fact it is even beneath the shadow, yet it still shows up. To you it may sound like a minor issue, and it is, but at the same time it's less minor than you think. Just because of the way things are handled, you'll get yellow pixels popping in and out as the trees sway, at any zoom! This effect becomes more pronounced at lower resolutions.

I really don't care that you really don't care. It's not up to you.

 

[kazapp]

My opinion is that this bug should be given the lowest priority possible.

 

[Karl Townsend]

yea i can see it there are holes in the trees