manual texture settings

uberfuzzy · #1 10-09-2007, 06:27 AM

anyone know what/if any the commands are to change the texture resolution settings are?

i'm looking to add a couple buttons to the dressing room ui window so i can quickly flick the char texture setting to max, take my ss, then drop it back down to my normal play mode.

Othesus · #2 10-09-2007, 01:19 PM

That setting is stored in your eq2_recent.ini and should be called cl_charactertextureshrink. I haven't tried anything with it but I'm guessing 0 would mean the highest resolution mipmap and 5 would mean the lowest.

Hehe, when you say quickly you mean about 30 seconds to load the textures and then another 30 seconds to unload them? (On my computer.)

**gm9** · #3 10-09-2007, 01:34 PM

Since you can show more than just characters in that window, you will want both of these:

cl_textureshrink
cl_charactertextureshrink

As you said, 0 is the highest setting. ProfitUI uses 3 for the raid settings, but possibly you can go down to 5, just test it in game.

Othesus · #4 10-09-2007, 01:39 PM

Oh, I forget how many texture levels there are. Maybe 4 is the lowest?

**gm9** · #5 10-09-2007, 01:42 PM

I have got no clue really, except that I thought I was using the lowest setting for my raid settings. But has been a loong time that I looked at that. I did not need those settings anymore since I built my new computer beginning of this year.

uberfuzzy · #6 10-11-2007, 07:25 AM

bingo! exactly what i was looking for.

yes, the men selections are
0=max
1=high
2=med
3=low
4=min

but i was able to manually push the textures much MUCH lower, i got down to 7 when i stopped noticicing any further compression (the world was all very flat colors)

and on my system the texture change is only a few seconds, <5 ish. but my video card has alot of memory on it (either 256 or 512, dont remember, but far too much for a video card) and i have 2g of memory in the box so...