icon texture fix for lower texture detail Thread - DoctorX Call of The Zone mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

I'm not uploading this in the addons section as i guess the problem will be fixed in the mod itself at some point directly so this will be of no use anymore.

When you lower the texture detail in current 1.0 version of CotZ , you'll quickly notice the various icons in the UI are broken. The source of the problem is that in CotZ the textures used by the UI have mipmaps in them.

having mipmaps is good for performance so a game engine can use lower mipmaps are long distance, not wasting memory for displaying the higher res one. But in the case of the textures used by the UI it's bad as they screw up texture coordinates used by the UI, and mipmaps are what lower texture details will use primarly if they exist in a dds file.

Removing the mipmaps f'rom those specific dds files will fix entirely the problem and allow the player to play with lower texture details while still having . You can do that yourself with program like this :

Nexusmods.com

But for convenience i uploaded the fixed ui textures for you so you can simply download the archive there :

Mediafire.com

And move the included gamedata to your \S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of The Zone\ directory.

IMPORTANT NOTE : if you're using additional weapon or outfit or whatever additional addon that use icons in the inventory and is not already included by default in CotZ 1.0 , it will break their display, so don't use that fix in that case, only use that fix if you're playing CotZ 1.0 without extra weapon/outfit addons

Edited by: Sanctuary

Thanks for the fix! I'll incorporate it into the next patch and give you a shout out in the credits

Thanks for this