creativechaos opened this issue on Feb 06, 2003 ยท 49 posts
Dark_Whisper posted Fri, 07 February 2003 at 9:45 AM
Attached Link: 3D Universe
Hi guys, What Great Bizarro is saying (with the mask example) is spot on. What this program does is it takes a single triangle of texture from the source texture, and rotates/scales/stretches it to fit into the corresponding place on the target texture. It is completely impossible to do this without some stretching / loss in quality. The size of the input texture has a big role to play in how the converted texture comes out - 1500x1500 is going to give poor results compared with an original texture of 4000x4000. Sizing the 1500x1500 texture up to 4000x4000 before conversion is gaining nothing, as detail is lost anyway. In the current upgrade in development, I am including support to read and write to BMP files. Being a compression free format, this will get over the problem of JPEG compressing an already compressed texture. With highly detailed textures like the jokers wild one you show here, because of the mere fact that the program is pushing and pulling the texture to fit the new face shape, small details will be lost. This cannot be avoided. I have a forum open on www.3duniverse.co.za to help customers with problems they have, and suggestions for upgrades. Please post this sort of information there in future for two reasons: 1. If it had not been for the kind people who alerted me to this thread, I would not have seen it, and therefore not been able to help. This gives the impression of bad customer service from my side which is definitely not the case. 2. Many people will see this thread as bad publicity (wether that was your intention or not), and in the end a post like this will only hurt development of the product instead of aiding it. I am trying very hard to work with all the buyers of this product to make it even better, and cater for all of your needs, but I need your help to get there. Please contact me directly with any queries/complaints you may have so I can assist rather than posting this type of thread in a public forum that I may never see. Thanks in advance, Steve