Broken terrain

What could be causing this behavior?



It looks to me like an entire tile decided to not load.



And here we see stuff floating all over...

Don't mind the ogre heads, they're put there intentionally for other purposes.

That happens on one of my lower end computer here that is running a geforce3, if you disable the shader (dynamic lod in the maps configuration file, will cause things to pop between lods rather that gracefully morph though), it should work fine, if it is the same problem.

This is my CFG file:

GroupName=PLSM2

LandScapeFileName=ps_height_1k
FileSystem=./

Width=2
Height=2

ScaleX=900000
ScaleY=150000
ScaleZ=900000

Deformable=yes
VertexCompression=yes

VertexProgramMorph=yes
VertexNormals=yes

NumTextureFormatSupported=18

TextureFormatSupported0=Image
TextureFormatSupported1=BaseTexture
TextureFormatSupported2=BaseTexture2
TextureFormatSupported3=InstantBaseTexture
TextureFormatSupported4=InstantBaseTextureEdit
TextureFormatSupported5=Splatting
TextureFormatSupported6=Splatting2
TextureFormatSupported7=Splatting2Edit
TextureFormatSupported8=Splatting4
TextureFormatSupported9=Splatting6
TextureFormatSupported10=Splatting7
TextureFormatSupported11=Splatting7Edit
TextureFormatSupported12=BaseTexture
TextureFormatSupported13=BaseTexture2
TextureFormatSupported14=InstantBaseTexture
TextureFormatSupported15=Splatting3
TextureFormatSupported16=Splatting5
TextureFormatSupported17=SplattingShader

TextureFormat=Image
ImageFilename=ps_texture_1k
TextureExtension=png
TextureStretchFactor=2

NumMatHeightSplat=4
MaterialHeight1=15
MaterialHeight2=50
SplatFilename0=splatting_sand.png
SplatFilename1=splatting_grass.png
SplatFilename2=splatting_rock.png
SplatFilename3=splatting_snow.png

HorizonVisibilityComputing=yes

BaseCameraViewpoint.x=41000.0f
BaseCameraViewpoint.y=674000.0f
BaseCameraViewpoint.z=8531.0f

Baselookat.x=0.0f
Baselookat.y=0.0f
Baselookat.z=0.0f


Could you tell me what options I need to change? I couldn't find the one you were referring to.

I just decided to start turning one option off at a time... luckily it was the 2nd option down that was causing the problem.

VertexCompression=yes

becomes

VertexCompression=no

And it's nice and perfect now.

Yea, that is what I have to do on that other computer, I wonder what it is about those junk cards that make them behave so poorly.