Visual Texture Blur

General Discussion
1

I have a texture on the walls of a building and there is a blur being applied to the textures based on the angle and distance being viewed.

Can anyone tell me where I can tweak the settings for this blurring? The blurring is killing the visual quality of the wall textures…

Thanks.

Matt

2

That’s probably mipmapping you’re seeing. You could disable mipmapping, but that will make textures flicker far away. I recommend enabling anisotropic filtering (while keeping mipmapping enabled), I’ve found that a value of 16 eliminates most of the blurring.

3

Thank you.

Where should I look to enable this anisotropic filtering? And what exactly is anisotropic filtering.

4

You can find information about it on the texture filtering page in the manual. You can also set a global configuration variable to control this for all textures - look through the list of all config variables on the manual.