Textures - Low Quality?

[Stollie]

Hey X4 Team,

So happy to see this update drop today, I've been holding off playing since I bought the game a year plus ago until it had some more polish and content.

Just wanted to offer some feedback though based on coming back to this game, the first thing I've noticed is the really low quality of some of the textures. Some of them look like 1024x1024 resolution!

One of the planets in the background skybox for instance looks 'jagged' compared to gas giants which look to be of a better texture quality. The asteroid textures look very basic as well. I can see the attempts that have been made to use LOD's based on distance but even close up they don't look that great.

The cockpit in the starter vanguard ship looks like the type of cockpit you would have seen in a 1990's space game. It would be really great to add some spit and polish to these textures and add things like scrolling LCD panels, some low level emissive textures on switches, things that respond to control changes like weapon group selections etc. in the cockpits, they just look so lifeless while the outside of the ships looks great, its pretty weird and jarring.

Anyway, great job, interested to see what you will be adding to the game next :)

P.S. I'm running on High Quality with highest FXAA setting, I cant turn the graphics up any 'higher'.

[yongbing1]

Not having this problem. I provide this so that you have a datum to compare to your data. This will enable you to make some kind of judgment about the situation. How possibly to proceed.

[CunkFeatures]

I pointed this out too, stars in the skybox look like blury blobs, the moon sector I also don't like, looks like a picture taken from the actual 60s moon landing.

I play in 1440p on a 27" with 20/20 vision so these things are noticeable.

[Stollie]

Yeah, maybe its a question of manpower?

Some of the textures and sky boxes are gorgeous then all of a sudden you see something that looks god awful and its like.. what the?

[Tiny Pocket Ninja]

I'm a bit disappointed too. The stars backgrounds are filled with static, blurry and blobby pixels which pretend to be stars. (not mentioning some hideous low quality planet textures)
In comparison with X Rebirth, it's like night and day.
In XR, stars look sharp, colorful, pixel perfect and shimmer/glimmer slightly as you move your view.

I mean, come on! It's a space game where we look at the space background most of the time. It should have a better quality.

[Kondiq]

Originally posted by Project Danny:

Why do people keep necroing old threads...

Maybe to show that they didn't fix it for years?