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Cutout Texture Flickering/Curved effect with Camera movement
The following effect has been driving me insane.
That is. With distance and camera movement, the texture starts to shimmer and curve up. It's really glaring.
I've tried all I can think of to alleviate how obvious this effect is. Including messing with the camera planes, adjusting the alpha channel of the texture, and increasing the shadow draw distance. While some parts look nicer as a result, the curved flickering remains always. It's gotten to the point where I've started considering reducing the smoothness of other areas in the scene to make the ugliness of anything using this texture look less glaring in comparison.
While I realize that it's never gonna look as nice from a distance, there has to be something I'm missing, that may alleviate this greatly.
So far, my frantic searches for an answer have yielded nothing relevant to this particular problem.
@Smidgens do you have generate MipMaps checked on in your texture import settings? It should alleviate the problem. You are trying to push a lot of detail in a small amount of screen space from so far away and this is exactly what mip mapping handles best, you may also want to look into reducing the frequency of the texture as well.
This did indeed alleviate the flickering greatly. Seems to have removed it entirely in fact. Incidentally, I had experimented with the mipmap settings before posting the question, with little luck. Turning it on seemed to make it worse.
I really can't say why it worked so swim$$anonymous$$gly this time around. Apart from messing with the alpha channel on the texture a bit, and switching between a transparent background to an opaque one (which is cut away regardless using the alpha channel), nothing seemed to make a difference.
In any case, using mipmaps was definitely the way to go here. If anyone stumbles onto this, I'd say be extra vary of what settings you're using in your texture file, and not just Unity.
Also, for reference. The texture file here was 512px in size, fully opaque, but with an alpha channel cutting away unneeded bits.
