Your best Skyrim "Awesome pictures"? - Page 458

Originally Posted by Slightly skewed 

Any tips on how to tone down super bright fog in dungeons?

Originally Posted by modinn 


Look at the mountains in this video.


Z-fighting refers to the way that 3D rendering engines choose what to display on the screen on the Z-axis a.k.a. "depth plane". The Z-buffer is what gives 3D worlds life, it is what allows us to feel like we're actually in the world itself and not looking at a 2-D image.

Whenever a game engine figures out what to draw on the screen, it looks at the depth buffer (z-plane) and determines which objects are closer to the screen and when to display them. For instance, it you are looking at a building and there is a mountain behind it, then the building will "override" the mountain because it is closer to you. The mountain is still there in the game's cell buffers/cache, it is just not rendered until it is in sight of the player. This is a pretty normal calculation and it is done millions of times for each object in the world while you are playing.

Z-fighting takes place whenever you have an object, such as volumetric clouds/fog, being placed in front of landscapes. If that fog has a transparent property to it, then the game has a harder time deciding how to draw the volumetric object and the object behind it. This is a pretty glaring issue and obviously there are some bugs in the way that Bethesda implemented it in to the Creation Engine. I hope they find a way to fix it some day.

My explanations could be a little inaccurate as I do not have real-world experience with 3D engines (someone feel free to correct me). But my learning at Uni has told me this is basically is what is happening and what is giving Boris so much trouble implementing SSAO.

Originally Posted by Lifeshield 

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9571

Originally Posted by Slightly skewed 

Well ya, that would cure the issue, but I'm not looking to remove it.

Originally Posted by Slightly skewed 


Well ya, that would cure the issue, but I'm not looking to remove it.

Originally Posted by Droogie 

Ok. This is really weird. All of a sudden, Breezehome is written in either gibberish, or Draconic