Pixels or Sprites

[Jorge Juan]

hello fellow players of SS

While im playing SS i cant help but to feel frustated to see the sprites in the battle map, looks ugly and gives me the impression that how much u retouch the game to make if feel realistic, its just a game.
My comp will be able to handle the game without them, I just want to know how to delete em and just make the units in ALL ranges look 3D not Sprites.

What do i change? Where? How?

[Andytheplatypus]

sprites in the battle map

What?

[k/t]

He means when you zoom out the units don't look good anymore. I think that's an engine issue so it can't be fixed.

[Andytheplatypus]

Dont think I have ever had that happen. Anyone have a screen shot of it?

[Ferdiad]

I know a fix, turn your unit gfx to highest, there problem solved

[Jorge Juan]

see the difference?

so you know the ugly ones are commonly known as Sprites =)
and i turned to unit highest

[Andytheplatypus]

see the difference?

so you know the ugly ones are commonly known as Sprites =)
and i turned to unit highest

You mean the units farther away so that the game doesnt run like ?

[Tyrael.]

hmm well my units look like that as well...but i have a pretty old graphics card if that has anything to do with it :$

[Caesar Clivus]

You have to set the unit detail to highest in the config file, not within the game to get rid of sprites.

[Andytheplatypus]

You have to set the unit detail to highest in the config file, not within the game to get rid of sprites.

Where is this config file located?

[Forever Knight]

there is another way to increase the quality...you just have to edit the modelsdb...

for example:

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15 italian_militia
1 4
62 unit_models/_Units/EN_Peasant_Padded/italian_militia_lod0.mesh 121
62 unit_models/_Units/EN_Peasant_Padded/italian_militia_lod1.mesh 900
62 unit_models/_Units/EN_Peasant_Padded/italian_militia_lod2.mesh 2500
62 unit_models/_Units/EN_Peasant_Padded/italian_militia_lod3.mesh 6400
5
5 milan
77 unit_models/_Units/EN_Peasant_Padded/textures/EN_Peasant_Padded_milan.texture
78 unit_models/_Units/EN_Peasant_Padded/textures/EN_Peasant_Padded_normal.texture
54 unit_sprites/papal_states_Dummy_EN_Spearmen_sprite.spr

change the bold numbers to 6400...(it should improve the unit graphics, not sure though)


Edit: It will take a LONG time to change it for all the units

[Polloasesino]

in 6.3 i was able to fix this setting unit detail on highest but seems this no works any more in 6.4...

[Kilgore Trout]

For 6.4 I went into the Medieval II preference.cfg file and set the unit detail to highest. But I found that my battlemaps were often freezing up, so I went and set it back to high again.

With 6.2 I was able to set the unit detail to highest in the options menu, and the battles didn't freeze up on my computer. Why the difference? Do I need a better graphics card to play battles with unit detail set to highest on 6.4?

[Ferdiad]

For 6.4 I went into the Medieval II preference.cfg file and set the unit detail to highest. But I found that my battlemaps were often freezing up, so I went and set it back to high again.

With 6.2 I was able to set the unit detail to highest in the options menu, and the battles didn't freeze up on my computer. Why the difference? Do I need a better graphics card to play battles with unit detail set to highest on 6.4?

Most likely yes.

[Jorge Juan]

thanks Ceaser Clivus worked like a charm

[riknap]

minor related question, but isn't there a texture optimization submod/update/patch being made? would that, once released, decrease the amount of resources needed to render far away units, or is the difference negligible (ie. far-away units with the default textures require the same resources as far-away units with the soon-to-be-released/updated texture optimisation thing?)?

or was it discarded?

[Ferdiad]

minor related question, but isn't there a texture optimization submod/update/patch being made? would that, once released, decrease the amount of resources needed to render far away units, or is the difference negligible (ie. far-away units with the default textures require the same resources as far-away units with the soon-to-be-released/updated texture optimisation thing?)?

or was it discarded?

AFAIK it's still being made.

[Caesar Clivus]

Check both the m2tw config file in the M2TW folder and the default.cfg in the SS folder.

[Andytheplatypus]

Is this it? And what do I change?

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<config>
- <databases>
<skin file="/Config/Skins/Default/default.xml" />

<localisation file="/Config/localisation/localisation.xml" />

<news file="/Config/News/news.xml" />

<update file="/Config/Update/update.xml" />

<versions file="/Config/Update/version.xml" />

</databases>


</config>

[Caesar Clivus]

No it's default.cfg in the SS6.3 folder

[video]
no_background_fmv=true
grass_distance=9000
unit_detail=high

Change the selected to highest. If it still doesn't seem to work, also change it in m2tw.preferences.cfg in the base M2TW folder.