[#3501] 7.50 M plasma looks seriously off under zoom

[LameFox]

https://youtu.be/68dmhALKv70?si=4uOFRizSlmsmP67j

save: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZHKy0a ... sp=sharing

To be honest I feel some of this game's projectiles really don't hold up visually, and this is one of them. A weird green fuzzy sprite looking thing compares very unfavourably to many of the others that are large enough to see, like L pulse or gravitons. It also just doesn't even resemble L plasma, which is weird. However in this case, it seems actively broken, too. Seen here being fired from the same station as L plasma, the sizes are way off what they'd be up close.

It wouldn't be the worst thing IMO if this was taken as an opportunity to replace these entirely.

[Imperial Good]

Looks like a LoD issue? Like the scaling is too large. Possibly this is deliberate to prevent aliasing artefacts? A work around might be to use discontinuous mipmaps where the projectile gains size in lower resolution mipmap levels.

The zoom is mostly to help resolve very distant objects such as ships or stations, not really to watch space fights with. Instead you can select the station (or any ships) and remote view it which should bring it into high attention and use the nearby high quality graphics as well as give you free camera controls.

[LameFox]

That is how I noticed it in the first place: seeing some distant fighting and zooming in to see if I can tell what ships are involved. I paused it when I saw how weird it looked and then made the save/video.