Simviation Forum - scenery ... edges

Jul 23^rd, 2004 at 2:31pm

Omag 2.0 Offline
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Hi all,

Since some time i've been having trouble with edges in the landscape. As one flies, there is alwas a highly detailed "spot" of ground around the aircraft. Further away there is less detail and even one step further there is no detail at all.

I know this is the way the passing landscape is build, but it seems to me that the blurred areas are becomming bigger and the detailed areas become smaller.

What could be affecting this and how can it be improved, keeping in mind i ain't having the heaviest of grafics-cards. Wink

Any commends are welcome...

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Reply #1 - Jul 23^rd, 2004 at 3:35pm

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Omag old bean you are clearly not drinking enough Stella. Drink a few more and everything blurs nicely together and then you are ready to face the Golden Gate in inverted heavies Wink

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Reply #2 - Jul 23^rd, 2004 at 3:58pm

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Omag old bean you are clearly not drinking enough Stella. Drink a few more and everything blurs nicely together and then you are ready to face the Golden Gate in inverted heavies Wink

Ozzy

....lol..

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Reply #3 - Jul 23^rd, 2004 at 5:28pm

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Omag old bean you are clearly not drinking enough Stella. Drink a few more and everything blurs nicely together and then you are ready to face the Golden Gate in inverted heavies Wink

Ozzy

OK, not quite the answer i was expecting.... Grin

And one more time ... Sigh... why drink an ordenary Pilsner like Stella when my country has so much more ( heavy) beer to offer? .... Grin

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Reply #4 - Jul 23^rd, 2004 at 8:52pm

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Oh come on you guys,I'm begining to feel thirsty Cheesy

why don't we answer about MIP maping and gloval texture size,I'm begining to want to go to the store,having this strange feeling of drinking something,in my country we call it Polar 5.7°

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Reply #5 - Jul 23^rd, 2004 at 9:16pm

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I'll take a Chimay Rouge...

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Reply #6 - Jul 24^th, 2004 at 3:31pm

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Which drivers are you using. typically, the 4x.xx series works best on the Ti4200. Try playing around with the view distance, trilinear filtering, texture size, and other graphical settings and see what happens.

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Reply #7 - Jul 24^th, 2004 at 4:14pm

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Is there not a tweak in the fs9.cfg that can be made? I am sure I have read a thread on here before about it but I cannot remeber what it is you hva to adjust. It alters the distance away from the aircraft that the ground textures start to get less detailed.

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Reply #8 - Jul 25^th, 2004 at 3:14pm

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Is there not a tweak in the fs9.cfg that can be made? I am sure I have read a thread on here before about it but I cannot remeber what it is you hva to adjust. It alters the distance away from the aircraft that the ground textures start to get less detailed.

Yes there is.
These are the values I use in FS9.cfg

Under "terrain"

TERRAIN_MIN_DEM_AREA=10.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=180.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=21
TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=5.000000
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=8.000000

These values seem to give a good balance between detailed terrain in the distance and realism.

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Reply #9 - Jul 25^th, 2004 at 8:34pm

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im with u oz stella all the way baby!

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