Detail textures on Static Meshes in D3D9/8 & OpenGL (227i)

[AlexNitro44]

I have noticed that, by default, the D3D8, D3D9 and OpenGL renderers do not display detail textures on static meshes. Setting UseHardwareClipping to False in any of the above renderers result in the detail textures appearing, albeit with a performance impact.

Upon further investigation I have discovered the "classic" Direct3D and Glide renderers do display detail textures on static meshes. I'm not sure if this is a bug or limitation of the updated renderers, so I am posting this here in the hopes of clarity.

Below are some screenshots from a map I was making to practice using the terrain brush tool and how feasible it would be for a terrain to be a static mesh.

Classic D3D (sorry for poor gamma) - same result under Glide:



D3D9 with UseHardwareClipping False (same effect under D3D8 and OpenGL):



D3D9 with UseHardwareClipping True (the default, same effect under D3D8 and OpenGL):



The GPU in use in all above screenshots is the Intel HD Graphics 530.

I am posting this as this has a noticeable effect on visual quality in maps such as this that use the Static Mesh feature, and changing settings impacts performance. Is this a bug, or merely a limitation of these advanced renderers?

[Smirftsch]

It's been a while, but iirc this was a limitation of UseHardwareClipping, which should be fixed already for next release (227j). Will check again.
I have to admit, that "UseHardwareClipping" is a bit misleading, it not only changes clipping behavior, it also batches draw calls to one bigger call, which results in the better performance for static meshes and therefor it left out also detail textures.

With the new XOpenGL renderer it is done entirely different then anyway and not hurting performance anymore.

[AlexNitro44]

Thanks for the quick response. I just found it a little odd that it only happened in the new renderers. Glad to see that it will be addressed in the upcoming release.