Unreal Editor texture display problem

Dakkon

Hey guys. So I'm playing around in the Unreal editor a bit, and I'm having some problems with my textures displaying properly. Basically I imported everything, I was working on my model, and I shut down the program at one point. Later on, I re-opened the editor, and I noticed all the textures on my model looked like they got cut down to a quarter of the size they were at earlier.

I asked a co-worker about it, and we tried increasing the texture pool, altering compression settings, ect.... I then made a new package, re-imported the same textures and model, and I assigned them all again. The second model looked fine with the exact same textures. I then restarted the editor, and both models went to a low res texture display...

Any ideas?

Dakkon

Another person I spoke to gave me a temporary solution which should be fine. If I change the LOD group on the textures from World to UI, it'll always stay at the max resolution.

gamedev

Sounds like textures aren't streaming in. I assume if you open up the texture properties and set the flag 'neverStream' to true its fine? And your LODBias value is at 0 correct?

Dakkon

I'll check the LODBias tomorrow, but I did set everything not to stream. This didn't help. Changing the group to UI helped, but I'm guessing that's not a good solution.

gamedev

If forcing it to never stream didn't work than something strange is going on. Setting to the UI group will probably do this by default, as you usually don't want UI elements to ever stream. You always want them hi-rez and crisp.