Irrlicht Engine

Morning,

I have noticed something weird in the game I am busy developing.

When I use Direct3D9 or Direct3D8 my background images on my menu don't look very high quality.

http://www.geekworx.co.za/PaintballEA/screen_01.jpg

http://www.geekworx.co.za/PaintballEA/screen_02.jpg

But if I use OpenGL, the images look remarkably better ... not sure why though.

http://www.geekworx.co.za/PaintballEA/screen_03.jpg

Has anybody else experienced this ... just wondering.

Maybe all images are not of the correct size, but either the third one is not scaled that much, or OpenGL Anti-aliasing is doing a better job here. Try to use a background with 2^n width and height (not necessarily same n for both) and use only a part from that texture for your screen. that avoids scaling of the images.

All images are of the same size.

I have noticed the same problem with the skyboxes that I created using Terragen.

In OpenGL it looks beautiful ... in DirectX it looks crap.

I will upload some pictures later and show you what I mean.

That sounds like a driver thing - I had that before, ugly artifacts and colour banding and stuff. Nothing wrong with Irrlicht, you just need to update your drivers.

Kewl ... thanks Nick.

I will try that right away, but in the meantime here is what I mean.

http://www.geekworx.co.za/PaintballEA/screen_04.jpg - this is using DirectX

http://www.geekworx.co.za/PaintballEA/screen_05.jpg - this is using OpenGL

http://www.geekworx.co.za/PaintballEA/screen_06.jpg - this is using DirectX

http://www.geekworx.co.za/PaintballEA/screen_07.jpg - this is using OpenGL

Anyway, I will update my driver and let you all know. Thanks for the advice.