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[Engine81]

So I put my model in the game and when I look at it the hose that is supposed to be yellow is red. The problem occurs only when I'm zoomed out, but when I zoom in the hose is yellow but with a red outline. Anyone know what might be causing this?

 

http://postimg.org/image/3ssmw3y2j/

[itchboy]

Something to do with how Em4 does textures. It "blurs" them as you zoom out further and there isnt any way to fix it. It may look correct in Zmod/Blender but Em4's rendering system likes screwing things up.

[Engine81]

Something to do with how Em4 does textures. It "blurs" them as you zoom out further and there isnt any way to fix it. It may look correct in Zmod/Blender but Em4's rendering system likes screwing things up.

Any idea if amount of polys may have an effect on this?

[itchboy]

Nope. Low poly, high poly, doesnt matter. Em4 does not discriminate when it comes to textures. Its a result of the game's piss-poor optimzation method that resizes textures to be lower-res as you zoom out.

 

They could have built a proper LOD system but nope, they didnt.

[Engine81]

Nope. Low poly, high poly, doesnt matter. Em4 does not discriminate when it comes to textures. Its a result of the game's piss-poor optimzation method that resizes textures to be lower-res as you zoom out.

 

They could have built a proper LOD system but nope, they didnt.

But why red?

[itchboy]

It may be the nearest color to the yellow part of the texture. Check any adjacent colors, it may well be the same red you are seeing ingame.

[Engine81]

It may be the nearest color to the yellow part of the texture. Check any adjacent colors, it may well be the same red you are seeing ingame.

The same problem is showing up in blender..

[itchboy]

What does the engine's texture look like? Is there any red color adjacent to the yellow of the hose?

[Engine81]

What does the engine's texture look like? Is there any red color adjacent to the yellow of the hose?

Yes 

[itchboy]

Then thats the issue right there. Some modelers bleed the textures onto models. Best solution is to make the UV map smaller so that it is farther from the red.

[Engine81]

Fixed it. Thanks