Blury sprites

[Smintar]

Mine are also Blurry. I have hd4870 ati I ck those 2 setting and they r set 2 and 4

[Rob Son of Paul]

I have same issue. Also, nothing is discernible on the regiment flags (blurry).

Everything is on 'best'.

[pcelt]

I have to agree --I have a high spec comp and card at 1920/1080 and on high setting with AA and Anis set at 4 and 8 all my sprites and flags etc are blurry. I have just gone back and looked at my hires TC2M and sprites and flags are far clearer.
I notice there doesnt seem to be a choice re hi and lo- res re sprites in the Options?--only re the uniform quality.
This apparent reduction in res is disappointing (unless there is some other cause for the blurriness )
It is not a game-breaker but very unfortunate if true.

[Jim]

You all have to remember that under no circumstances are these going to be as good as the soldiers in the WW2 games. There they have at most a few 10s of figures on-screen and can afford the poly count to make them look sharp. We have gone in a different direction and we are putting over 10,000 soldier sprites on an extremely detailed map. This takes a lot of memory to handle and there is simply not enough memory available on a 32 bit OS to bring 10K+ sprites into sharp focus when you are very close. The screenshots are as good as it gets so if that is the quality you are getting, that's all there is.

-Jim

[pcelt]

Jim--Thank you very much for your response and explanation. So is it because SOW Gettysburg has so many more sprites and more detailed terrain than TCM2 that the level of resolution re sprite and flag must be less?
And as I have said elsewhere it is in any event most impressive visually and in my view very atmospheric and really immersive.
Many thanks to you and the whole team.

[bedbug]

Our aim was to produce realistic rather than toy soldier looking sprites... as well as accurate models.
As I remember the last game even had bayonettes coming from the top of the rifle.... where the sights are. :laugh:
I think we achieved this realism, though sprites are sprites and you can't view even hi-res sprites close up without a certain amount of blur.
On the other hand most people don't spend much, if any, time that close to the sprites they are commanding.

[pcelt]

Thats true---and any sprites which I am commanding dont last long enough to leave any lasting impression anyway...........

[Jim]

pcelt wrote:

Thats true---and any sprites which I am commanding dont last long enough to leave any lasting impression anyway...........

Patience grasshopper. I have been commanding virtual CW battles since the early development of CWBR and I am still only average as a commander.

The nice thing about MP is that we can set up a 'School for Generals' to help people learn the basics.

-Jim