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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: wb2002 on July 09, 2014, 12:10:03 am

Title: What May Cause This - Landclass, Mesh, Terrain, Elevation
Post by: wb2002 on July 09, 2014, 12:10:03 am

What cause these peaks to show through scenery, in the attached photos?

Thanks,

Title: Re: What May Cause This - Landclass, Mesh, Terrain, Elevation
Post by: virtuali on July 09, 2014, 12:06:27 pm

Quote from: wb2002 on July 09, 2014, 12:10:03 am

What cause these peaks to show through scenery, in the attached photos?

Not having set the Mesh Resolution/Complexity sliders as indicated on the KIAH manual.

If you set them *higher*, there will be artifacts too, because they are a result of rounding errors by FSX, when an airport tries to flatten a too high resolution 3rd party mesh underneath.

Title: Re: What May Cause This - Landclass, Mesh, Terrain, Elevation
Post by: wb2002 on July 09, 2014, 09:43:04 pm

Problem Solved........

Thanks Umberto. The solution for this problem was my setting has always been on max resolution of 1. I wonder why I did not notice this on any of my other airport scenery?

One other question. When I look at my FSX.cfg file, why does it show MESH_RESOLUTION=23 and while looking at my FSX Settings - Display/Scenery drop down menu it is set to 5? Just curious


Portion of FSX.CFG file:
[TERRAIN]
AUTOGEN_DENSITY=5
DETAIL_TEXTURE=1
LOD_RADIUS=4.500000
MESH_COMPLEXITY=100
MESH_RESOLUTION=23
SWAP_WAIT_TIMEOUT=2
TEXTURE_RESOLUTION=29
WATER_EFFECTS=6
TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_TREES_PER_CELL=4500
TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_BUILDINGS_PER_CELL=3000

Thanks

Title: Re: What May Cause This - Landclass, Mesh, Terrain, Elevation
Post by: Orion on July 09, 2014, 09:57:54 pm

Ooh, I like the NOAA repaint!  Where'd you get it? :P

Title: Re: What May Cause This - Landclass, Mesh, Terrain, Elevation
Post by: virtuali on July 09, 2014, 11:31:27 pm

Quote from: wb2002 on July 09, 2014, 09:43:04 pm

One other question. When I look at my FSX.cfg file, why does it show MESH_RESOLUTION=23 and while looking at my FSX Settings - Display/Scenery drop down menu it is set to 5? Just curious

It's just a different unit of measure.

Title: Re: What May Cause This - Landclass, Mesh, Terrain, Elevation
Post by: Orion on July 09, 2014, 11:53:08 pm

Do you know what the units are?  It doesn't seem to correspond to LOD or QMID.

Title: Re: What May Cause This - Landclass, Mesh, Terrain, Elevation
Post by: wb2002 on July 10, 2014, 07:39:32 am

Quote from: Orion on July 09, 2014, 09:57:54 pm

Ooh, I like the NOAA repaint!  Where'd you get it? :P

This plane is the Eaglesoft Citation I. This is a repaint for that model and I could email it to you if you like or you can do a search on Avsim or Flightsim.