"Zebra stripe" uniform folds in NTW/ETW: what causes it?

Okay, I've got a question: one of the graphical annoyances of both NTW and ETW for me is the way many darker uniforms can look like they have lighter "zebra" stripes on them when viewed up close. Because the stripe patterns are identical, it can really look quite distracting:



Is there any combination of graphic settings anyone's aware of that can reduce or alter this effect? What causes it? I'm on an ATI card on running at high settings with no significant framerate issues (screenshot above taken on model 3-high shaders, AAx2, Trilinear filtering, Ultra settings for most everything else (incl unit details and textures), with volumetric, SSAO, hardware shadows and distortion checked, and HDR and DOF off).

Anyone else annoyed by this? The effect of dark shadows on a light uniform is less noticeable, but on redcoats in particular it can often look quite odd.

I believe its to simulate the folds of the fabric and is a combination of the texture and the normal map, it does look a bit exaggerated in your game but i dont think it looks particularly bad however im not sure how to change the look of it

Have you tried toggling the HDR on and off to see if that makes a difference?

Moved to Technical Help.

Well for land units its the _colourmask.dds, CA didn't allow for movement of the models. The colour mask is what applies the colours to the normally white uniforms. But the colourmask.dds wasn't applied properly by CA so the white sometimes comes through at seems.

My guess is it has to do with SSAO. Did you try disabling it yet?