Maya 2012: Odd texture nonsense.

Joopson

Hey everyone,
So, whenever using textures in Maya, I have always used the good ol' "Shading>Hardware Texturing>Unfiltered"
But in Maya 2012, it doesn't work. I mean, it turns off the default bilinear filtering, but instead splits each pixel into around 5 very short but long pixels.
I've tried, too, going into the individual material and adjusting the Hardware texturing, and setting resolution to "Highest (256X256)", and texture filter to "Nearest"
And yet it still looks wrong. Very low res, and not at all sexy.

Attached is an example. The left from Maya 2012, showing the annoyance. The right being Maya 2009, which does it right...
Thanks for any possible answers.

ivars

What display mode are you using? Default, High Quality or Viewport 2.0?

Joopson

Default. If I switch to 2.0 or High Quality, this doesn't happen.

Grimm_Wrecking

Have you tried altering the settings in

Windows -> Preferences -> Display (select display)

Texture settings (its the top of the list that pops up.

Joopson

I have indeed- I've tried every combination of things I could imagine. It doesn't seem to matter to this specific thing, though. If I set the max resolution to really low, it goes really low- and if I set it all the way up, it doesn't go higher than this image looks. Which isn't full res.
Also, if I switch the emphasis to either high-quality, or Fast, it doesn't fix my issue.

ivars

Is this a texture on a material or an image plane in the camera?

Joopson

It's a jpg on a plane. Just mapped into the colour channel. Nothing special or complex about it.

ivars

Try using a texture that is 2^n (power of two - ie 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 etc.)
That should fix it.

throttlekitty

What video card? And does using another format matter? (like .tga)

Joopson

My video card isn't awesome- I think it's a GeForce 310 or something. But considering that the error isn't in the high-quality render, I wouldn't think that to be the problem.
And why would this all of a sudden only happen in Maya 2012? Seems odd.

Anyway, thanks- I'm going to try changing the image size- though that really is a painful solution.

ivars

I'm not 100% sure on this, it would need some testing but I think this is what's happening.

In default mode: when using non square, non 2^n textures it will scale down the bigger of the sides to match the smaller (making it square)

If the sides are 2^n it can still be non square, but anything else and it will be forced to a square texture.....

In High Quality mode: It will choose the nearest (smaller) 2^n for both sides independently)

I sounds a bit retarded, but it seems to be the explanation why. Now the bigger question is why would they fuck this up if they had it working before

Edit: The same problem occurs in 2011 as well

Joopson

That's pretty irritating- but it makes sense, I suppose. Oh well.