SDK Question Wow, no mip mapping ?

[dansteph]

Hello all,

I always thought that Orbiter use mip maping for models and so always saved my textures with them. (DXT1)

For my last model I was suprised to have so much pixeling at medium distance and drawed some red line on the mip map, nothing show.
So Orbiter really doesn't use mip maping or did I missed something ? (the SDK doc doesn't mention them)

Best

Dan

 

[BrianJ]

Hi Dan,
MIP maps are not used for vessels - but I think you can use MIP maps for planet or base meshes.

 

[RisingFury]

Why wouldn't they be useful for vessels?

 

[dansteph]

Thanks for the answer Brian.

I think it would be *very* usefull for vessel as sharp details like grid desn't look good at medium distance but for whatewer reason Martin didn't implemented it.

Maybe in next version ?

Best

Dan