Newbie question about low quality texture

StukaJohn

Hi, I am new to Daz 3d and to digital modeling in general so this may be a dumb problem but, the Genesis 8 model is loading in with real poor quality. In addition, some of my camera controls have white rectangles over them. The last few times I loaded the Genesis 8 models up they had a much better texture than this. What gives?

Thanks in advance

Richard Haseltine

That looks like a flat shaded perview (which is just as well as I would have to delete it otherwise). Does your system have two GPUs, an on-CPU one from Intel and a real GPU from nVidia or AMD? If so, make sure that DS is currently using the real GPU rather than the Intel.

StukaJohn

Oh my gosh, that worked! I guess my computer was auto-choosing the lesser GPU for some reason. Thank you so much!

Roman_K2

It is possible for a texture to get muddled up - what was previously a good-looking object takes on a sort of low-resolution quality in subsequent renders. I can't put my finger on it but a least one symptom is that a lot of jaggy rectangles will seem to move in where smoothness used to be. Had it happen twice recently when testing "water" surfaces.

In this first example we have nice glossy looking water but after I played around with it for a while in come the jaggies in the second example; in this case that's supposed to be the reflection of a fluorescent light fixture on the ceiling of the "Public Indoor Pool" set.

I happen to have some sort of "Open GL" somethingerather graphics on one computer that did this, but the other day I got the same thing on a more advanced, Blu-Ray capable laptop with built-in Nvidia graphics. Mind you I'm not exactly a whiz at stumbling through the Intel and Nvidia web pages and to D/L the right drivers.