Way to keep far away textures from going crazy?

[Adamt]

[Noah Kadner] “I’ve got a large floor with a marble texture applied. When I render an animation the area near the horizon dances around like it’s being calculated at random. I tried bumping the antialiasing way up but this doesn’t seem to help. Any ideas for keeping the look of this texture steady?”

Is that a bitmap texture or procedural?

[Noah Kadner]

Hi Adam- it’s a procedural.

-Noah

[Noah Kadner]

If this is a procedural map- how can I get around this?

Noah

[Adamt]

[Noah Kadner] “If this is a procedural map- how can I get around this?”

Sorry for the delay. 🙂 Okay, a couple of things I would suggest, in order of priority:

In render>AA settings:

* Set MIP scale to 100% if it isn’t already there;
* Lower your AA threshold (start at 2% and lower if necessary);
* Try Best AA set to 2×2/4×4.

In my basic test those settings did the job. If it doesn’t work for you try upping the AA to 4/4 and maybe even 4/8. If *that* doesn’t do it you might have to use some scene motion blur.

You could also try changing your AA Filter to “Animation” if you’re using something else.

[Adamt]

Oh yeah, also make sure you test with an uncompressed .mov or .avi file to eliminate compression as a possible source of the problem. Also turn off shadows to eliminate them as a possible source.

If none of the above works you might consider baking the texture.

[Noah Kadner]

I think I’ll try baking it to avoid the hit in render time of that much AA. Thanks for the help!

Noah