Store, load titles from disk: PackImage often aliased

[TMarc]

In the documentation for Title Packs, only the aspect ratio for the PackImage.jpg is mentioned (16:9).

Surprisingly almost all original titles from Nadeo have a nice image, except ShootMania Platform, ShootMania Royal, and TrackMania Platform, which show lot of aliasing, as if their resolution was to low.
Side note, a video animation is used for Storm and Stadium only, but not (yet?) for Canyon, Valley and the other official titles
Side note 2: in the title pack examples for Platform (different to the current one) and Solitaire, a PackImage with size 1920x1080 is used.
And for all custom title packs it is the same: despite their top logos look almost fine, the title images shown in the middle is coarse.

Good examples:


Bad examples:


So, what is the real problem here?
Is perhaps "16:9" alone not that good? Or are only typical texture dimensions with sides that are ^2 allowed, e.g. 512x288 (OK, this would indeed look coarse), 1024x576, 2048x1152,
Please give good advice and update the documentation accordingly.

[novationx]

The Elite logo in the menus after entering the title is also very pixelated.
I only have this when using "low" settings. Is that normal? The storm title is perfect tho...

Why would a setting have impact on a jpg menu image? The entire menu looks bad because of this.




Also: On the screenshot... Whats wrong with the paragon image in the news feed? Hmm

[TMarc]

Hmm... I have used High res setting (and both screen and game Fullscreen resolution is 2560x1440, so 16:9).

About low res setting, I didn't find low-res packimage in any of the Storm*_LD ZIPfiles, it is probably always the same,
therefore I think the engine internally also reduces the resolution of textures, e.g. to maximum 512 length, to save space in video RAM.

About missing logos, I can't tell, perhaps temporary connection issues or outdated/invalid files on the manialinks?

[novationx]

The paragon logo is aligned next to the actual news item or am i seeing things? It's not missing.
Should be a bug in the styling & layout.

[TMarc]

ah, that, I thought you missed another logo on the left where the black rectangle is highlighted.

[novationx]

ah, that, I thought you missed another logo on the left where the black rectangle is highlighted.

Hmm actually the images simply dont load. They arent missplaced.

[TMarc]

ok, but that's a totally different topic to this here