Slow To Load Skin

Kyman2008 · Post by **Kyman2008** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:40 pm

I injected a dodgeball skin over the skin of a coconut on Zanzibar. However, after I shoot a coconut, it takes the coconut a couple (like 10 seconds) to show the skin I created. Before the skin loads, the coconut is just black. Once the skin shows up, if I walk too far away from the coconut, it just turns black again. Anyone know what's wrong? Thanks

[users]MrBalll · Post by **[users]MrBalll** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:06 pm

Try clearing your cache. Just FTP and delete everything in your X, Y, and Z drives.

Kyman2008 · Post by **Kyman2008** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:30 pm

I tried that and it didn't help at all... Any other ideas? Could the file be too big (too much detail)? I don't know, I'm out of ideas.

JNic · Post by **JNic** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:51 pm

When you save the skin as a .dds did you save it with MIP maps. This may be the problem at least to it turning black at a distance.

Kyman2008 · Post by **Kyman2008** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:29 pm

It is saved with MIP maps... It's weird because you will shoot the coconuts and they will be black for a while and if you continue to shoot em, in a couple minutes, they will come out the way they are supposed to be (yellow with text on em). However, if you don't shoot for a while, they will turn black again.

dazzajay · Post by **dazzajay** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:42 pm

hunt around for an app called Halo 2 Machinima Companion

it will lock the LOD of the skin to max, so it shouldent appear black anymore.

Kyman2008 · Post by **Kyman2008** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:16 pm

Awesome... Thanks a lot man. If anyone else is looking for this program, you can get it here

Juniorman030790 · Post by **Juniorman030790** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:52 pm

The machinima companion wasn't intended to fix the skin problem but It seems to do the trick quite nicely anyway.

dazzajay · Post by **dazzajay** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:24 am

it fixed all the skin problems in all the maps i make, so i swear by it.

[users]jlddodger · Post by **[users]jlddodger** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:31 pm

All it's doing is locking the LOD on the highest level / the first mipmap. So basically the bad mipmaps are just never shown. This is harder on the XBox CPU though, so be careful.

dazzajay · Post by **dazzajay** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:00 pm

my modbox is overclocked, so im allready hard on the cpu.

xXxCocoFangxXx · Post by **xXxCocoFangxXx** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:11 pm

You should try to clear your Cache. That might work.