Simviation Forum - NEED HELP GETTING BETTER GROUND DETAIL

Jan 31^st, 2010 at 6:35pm

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Evening fellow fltsim pilots, I need some help in optimizing my FS9 scenery. I have the following scenery add-ons and I'm not satisfied with the way my ground scenery looks like. See Pic

-FS Genesis + Landclass
-FScene all seasons
-GE PRO
-UT USA
-UT EUROPE

Thanks Don

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Reply #1 - Jan 31^st, 2010 at 8:54pm

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Don,

A bunch of those add ons (GE Pro, FScene, UT, etc.) are intended to replace ground textures. Having tham ALL installed likely is causing some conflicts... and likely the last one installed are the textures you are seeing. The rest are mostly or completely overwritten.

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Reply #2 - Jan 31^st, 2010 at 10:42pm

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You know I'm learning this scenery thing and I'm not up to speed yet, I've been searching the varies forums and all on this subject to find out what one software differs from the other, like FScene & GEPRO, or what makes a good combo to enhance my scenery? May I ask, what scenery add-ons are you running?

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Reply #3 - Feb 1^st, 2010 at 1:11am

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There is something about your screenshot that makes me think this may be more of a settings issue than a texture issue. Is your global max texture size in your FS settings set to the max?

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Reply #4 - Feb 1^st, 2010 at 5:13pm

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No it's at custom and I have all sliders at max except water texture.

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Reply #5 - Feb 1^st, 2010 at 5:41pm

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Rocket_Bird wrote on Feb 1^st, 2010 at 1:11am:

There is something about your screenshot that makes me think this may be more of a settings issue than a texture issue. Is your global max texture size in your FS settings set to the max?

I agree.....
I am currently using UT, GE pro, and Genesis mesh similar to your set-up and it looks to me like you need to adjust settings......perhaps you could post a couple screenshots of your settings.

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Reply #6 - Feb 1^st, 2010 at 10:00pm

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Here you go!

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Reply #7 - Feb 1^st, 2010 at 11:00pm

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turn up mipmapping, see if that does anything for ya.

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Reply #8 - Feb 1^st, 2010 at 11:27pm

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Yeah I tried that all ready but that caused to mush shimmering.

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Reply #9 - Feb 2^nd, 2010 at 5:43am

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A couple of ideas to try:

Try lowering the sight distance to 60nm, drop the Land detail slider to 'Land Only' and raise the water slider to Max, and reduce the cloud coverage distance to Medium or High.
Lastly, un-check the sun glare & lens flare.

It may sound strange to lower the sight distance, but when in real life flying will you ever be able to see 120nm? It may be that it's trying too hard to draw things that far out, and just isn't. Setting the Weather to Real World conditions, or just simply adjusting the visibility to be closer to real world norms (40nm or less all the way up to 99,999ft)
helps to lighten the load some.

example of the visibility & water settings: http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/SG_FS9_xv9theme2.jpg

That's the only difference in our settings, and my system specs are no where near as good as yours. Wink

For some additional tweaks see these threads :

By NickN for FS9: http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1211055375/0#7

This one is a little older, but still has plenty of relevant information : http://www.flightsimworld.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=28865

If you don't have them already, Opa's Tips & Tricks series is always a valuable source of help. You can download the entire FS9 series here in one package : http://www.simviation.com/simviation/index.php?type=item&ID=91&page=0

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FS2004 Tips & Tricks complete series
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All 25 issues of David 'Opa' Marshall's award winning Tips & Tricks series, and a bonus: Uninstall & reinstall Tips & Tricks for FS2004. Each issue provides facinating and helpful information for extracting the most from your FS9 experience.

If all of these tips fail to fix the problem, I'd say it would have to be some internal settings with those addons.

« Last Edit: Feb 2^nd, 2010 at 11:16am by ShaneG »

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Reply #10 - Feb 2^nd, 2010 at 9:47am

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FScene is textures. GE Pro is textures. Use one or the other. It is possible there is some conflict. I used FScene before GE Pro came out. Removed it when I put in GE Pro....because GE Pro is going to overwrite most if not all of the FScene stuff anyway.

I'd opt for GE Pro because of the "matching to weather" and other features it has.

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...............john

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