[2020] Very low quality of models of people, animals and other objects in the scene.

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Hello friends. Today I installed the Complete Edition and played Anno 1800 for the first time for a few minutes to test its performance on my computer and make adjustments. I realized that the quality of the models of people, animals and other objects in the scenery is very bad, they are "polygonal" (the wooden barrels of the port for example are square). The Object Quality option is set to very High. I checked the game files and they are 100%. I am using the updated Radeon drivers version 20.4.2 5/15/2020.

My computer: Gigabyte B360M Aorus Gaming 3/i3 8100 3.6Ghz/Radeon RX560 4GB/RAM DDR4 16GB 2400Mhz

My Anno Configuration:

DirectX: 12
Resolution: 1920x1080 fullscreen
V-Sync: Off
Texture: High
Lighting: High
Water: Low
Object: Very High
Terrain: High
Feedback: Low
Anti-Aliasing: 2x
Shader: High
Shadow: Low
Post Processing: Low
View Distance: Low
Fixed Sun Position: On

over 4 years ago - Ubi-Thorlof - Direct link

Heyho - feel free to share a screenshot of the issue, but in case it looks like this (random video I picked from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUpOgDa6K8E), that's working as intended, or rather: this is how the game looks from up-close.

The first person mode is an Easter Egg, basically.

over 4 years ago - Ubi-Com_Raven - Direct link

The characters in the game are indeed a bit roughly when it comes to polygons, and that is fully intended for two reasons:

1. You usually spent most of the time zoomed out, where you won't notice it, and crucially
2. It is needed for performance. Anno games can have hundreds of thousands (or even millions, for some of our most ambitious players) citizens whose needs and demands must be calculated, and can have hundreds of beautiful houses on the map. In addition, you can at any time jump to any place on the map, and even the other sessions without any loading times to interrupt your gameplay flow.

While it would be nice to have prettier characters, we think that the scope of Anno is more important, as we want you to really feel as if you are building a huge, globe-spanning empire.

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