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English forum => Ship Simulator 2008 => General discussions => Topic started by: firestar12 on August 23, 2008, 01:02:37

Title: What is the "Grid Size" in Settings?
Post by: firestar12 on August 23, 2008, 01:02:37

What is the "Grid Size" in Settings? What does it affect? Is it better to have more or less?

Title: Re: What is the "Grid Size" in Settings?
Post by: Mad_Fred on August 23, 2008, 01:05:40

Hi firestar,

The Grid Size, represents the quality of the sea/ocean.

The higher the slider, the better the water looks, but it will possibly slow down performance.

So it can be a trade off, if your machine cannot handle the game on full graphics settings.


Regards,
Fred

Title: Re: What is the "Grid Size" in Settings?
Post by: llamalord on August 23, 2008, 04:32:25

The "Nodes" are part of a "Wire Frame" The verticies or where the lines connect.  Some times when you load the game just before the main menu come up you will see a light blue flicker of a wire frame where the water will be.  If you play with is Slider you will see that there will be more/less nodes which also means more/fewer lines connecing them.  The Below two pictures illistrate a low Node Wire Frame and a High Node Wire Frame.

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Low:
(http://www.mikejamesmedia.com/media/3d/terrain_3d_wireframe.gif)

High:
(http://www.blacklabsentertainment.com/img/meshy_thumb.jpg)