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doggy
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany306 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-17 11:39:35
May 17 2013 11:34 GMT
#1
Hi, i have a problem with the sc2 physic engine, it doesnt seem to work for me. here is a pic of my graphic settings
I hope anyone knows how to fix it

[image loading]


i also tried to set everything on medium and enable high physics for ragdolls, doesnt work either
Nimix
Profile Joined October 2011
France1809 Posts
May 17 2013 11:45 GMT
#2
Low models have simplified animations for deaths so physics shouldn't affect them. On medium though you should have them working I guess.. Maybe they only work with high/ultra shaders or something? Be careful though, physics eat a ridiculous amount of CPU, so be wary of this if you enable them.
doggy
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany306 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-17 12:01:47
May 17 2013 11:48 GMT
#3
I even tried it on high settings, no physic effects at all. A other thing i noticed, e.g. Idra plays on lowest graphic settings with high effects, and when eggs pop he has a little pool of blood around the popped egg, same goes when bio units that die. i dont have any blood remaining on the ground. its kinda annyoing to me i hope anyone has advice


EDIT: you were right about shaders and models, shaders need to be set on medium and models on high for those effects.
i didnt notice earlier because i had to restart to see if it works.

sorry for making a thread and thx for advice
Psychobabas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
2531 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-17 12:37:55
May 17 2013 12:33 GMT
#4
You are not getting physics because you have low shaders. Low shaders also do not allow for death animations, splat effects etc as they automatically keep low models.

However, if you want all the gore and splats and death animation etc with LOW shaders there is a way:

1. First of all, go to your graphics options and set your preferred options. I suppose you want low shaders, which will automatically make the models low. You will probably also want medium effects or higher but that's up to you. Now exit the game.

2. Go to your documents folders and find Starcraft 2. Open the variables.txt file.

3. change the following (notice the bold numbers)
GraphicsOptionModelQuality=2
lowqualitymodels=0
useLowqualitymodels=0

4. Save and close the file.

5. Right click on the variables.txt file and go to properties. Tick the "read-only" box.
This step is done so the game doesnt reset the settings. Without making it read-only, SC2 will always replace high models with low models.


PS: Any time you want to change the graphics settings you will have to untick the read-only box. SC2 will never be able to override it unless you untick.
doggy
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany306 Posts
May 17 2013 13:15 GMT
#5
awesome, thank you man!
Aleks1122
Profile Joined September 2013
Latvia1 Post
September 29 2013 13:07 GMT
#6
Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to enable Ultra shaders on sc2
Eu
TheBlueCraft
Profile Joined January 2021
1 Post
January 20 2021 11:19 GMT
#7
my "lowqualitymodels" and "uselowqualitymodels" are using true and false instead of numbers. what should i do?
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