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There's your problem. If you're rendering this to video (720×480 or so), and the topo mesh is taking up the FULL screen, you're maxing out the filtering algorithm. If you've got a shot which starts out far away and then zooms in close (the worst case), your best bet is to use the TEXTURE-SHARPEN hidden 3DS.SET parameter with values between .8-1.2 to bias the filtering towards a less-blurry effect. But if you're staying a relatively-fixed distance from the mesh, without getting too close, you should re-sample the bitmap to twice the size of the screen (max… even less would be ok). You're better off with a map that's too LOW res, than too high. Experiment with a smaller map. It should make quite a bit of difference. – G