Simviation Forum - Reducing Ground Texture Blurr

Jul 12^th, 2005 at 5:13pm

edzmen Offline
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What are the best settings for reducing blurring of landscape textures when viewed from altitude?

Im having problems with mine blurring beyond a radius of about 7 miles around my plane.

It hampers the realism of the game and is bugging me. Is it just that more memory needs to be freed up??

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Reply #1 - Jul 12^th, 2005 at 5:34pm

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Do you mean that the ground further away from your plane blurs as in goes sort of fuzzy when you move the plane.If you are then you could try reducing the mip mapping quality in fs display setup.I was having a problem with distant terrain as well when I had mip mapping quality too high so i turned it down and it worked fine.

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Reply #2 - Jul 12^th, 2005 at 5:54pm

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Increasing the FSAA might also help.

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Reply #3 - Jul 12^th, 2005 at 7:05pm

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Quote:

Do you mean that the ground further away from your plane blurs as in goes sort of fuzzy when you move the plane.

Yes i do - lol - you explained it much better than me!

Thanks for that i'll try reducing MipMz - i had mine on full so that may be the cause...

Whats FSAA?? Is that connected to the graphics card drivers??

Thanks for your help! Wink

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Reply #4 - Jul 13^th, 2005 at 1:09am

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Seems to me there is a setting in the FSconfig that has to do with drawing distance precision.... maybe not, I might be thinking of the terrain mesh detail.....

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Reply #5 - Jul 13^th, 2005 at 8:55am

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Whats FSAA??

FSAA is short for full screen anti aliasing and can probably be changed in your graphics card setup screen which should be in the taskbar at the bottom right of your desktop.

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Reply #6 - Jul 14^th, 2005 at 5:51pm

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Don't forget, that in real life the scenery in front of you will always be blurred because of cloud, fog, mist, smoke, etc.

It is very rare that you can clearly see objects further than 5 miles from you.

Take a look at a real photograph of a real aeroplane in the air and note the scene in the distance...it will be blurred....!

Set your scenery rendering distance to no more than 10 miles.
That will be more realistic...and speed up your frame rates...!!

Cheers...!

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Reply #7 - Jul 18^th, 2005 at 1:29pm

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This is what my Terrain section looks like in the fs9.cfg file......

;
[TERRAIN]
TERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR=100.000000
TERRAIN_MIN_DEM_AREA=10.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=100.000000
;
;
TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=20
;    18 = 150m DEM
;    19 = 75m DEM
;    20 = 37m DEM
;    21 = 19m DEM
;
TERRAIN_TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=8
;This controls the terrain texture size. Valid values are:
;8 = 256x256
;7 = 128x128
;6 = 64x64
;
;
TERRAIN_AUTOGEN_DENSITY=5
;
TERRAIN_USE_GRADIENT_MAP=1
;
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=1
;
TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=9.800000 ; This is the default
;radius in textures for all rings, default is 2.5
;
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=4.800000 ; This is the radius
;used for the inner ring when the extended texture ring is turned on, default is 4.0
;
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=1242456 ; changed
;This works EXCELLENT for clear, extended ground textures.
;

So, as you can see, there is plenty of stuff to mess about with......... Grin

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Reply #8 - Jul 18^th, 2005 at 3:02pm

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Thats great thanks!

Where do i find the fs9.cfg file in the fs9 directory??

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Reply #9 - Jul 19^th, 2005 at 4:05am

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C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME\Application Data\Microsoft\FS9

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Reply #10 - Jul 19^th, 2005 at 10:43am

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It doesn't appear to be there?

I ran a search of my computer and It couldn't find a folder called 'Application Data'...

Any ideas where else the file might be located???

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Reply #11 - Jul 19^th, 2005 at 12:51pm

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Err, I'm sorry, I took it for granted that you have Win XP as an op sys.

I don't know where it is on other operating systems.

If you DO have WinXP, then it must be a hidden folder under your settings. You need to "unhide" your system folders and set your windows up to see what's actually on your PC.

XP sucks in the way it hides everything important from the user.

Open any window, go to TOOLS in the menu, select Folder Options and click the view tab. Go in there and make some adjustments - Show and Unhide things. SCARY! Wink

Apply the settings to "All Folders" by clicking that button as well.

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Reply #12 - Jul 19^th, 2005 at 1:06pm

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Yes i do have XP - and thanks for that help - ive just unhidden all my folder files and ive found the fs9 cfg file now.

Ill have a play around with it...

Huge thanks for your help! Wink

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