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Products Support => GSX Support MSFS => Topic started by: ayousry on April 17, 2023, 12:47:08 am

Title: Pushback tug in VR
Post by: ayousry on April 17, 2023, 12:47:08 am

hello

i just purchased gsx pro ,mainly for the pushback option, in VR the pushback disappears as soon as it is 10m or so away from the aircraft and sometimes when panning in external view,
i understand that it might be a LOD default problem . but its a big immersion breaker in VR , is there a workaround for this problem?
maybe if i forced gsx to choose the lifter tug instead of the towbar?

my LOD setting is at 100

thanks

Title: Re: Pushback tug in VR
Post by: virtuali on April 17, 2023, 08:50:58 am

We are aware of the problem, but raising the LOD just for VR would cause an unwanted performance and memory hit for all users, and it's not easy to dynamically select different LODs settings on runtime.

Title: Re: Pushback tug in VR
Post by: ayousry on April 18, 2023, 01:56:01 am

Would it solve or minimize the problem , if i edited the files to select the lifter tug instead of the tow bar? In that case would u kindly explain how to do it?

I mean since the lifter is bigger, also i dindnt notice this problem when i was using toolbar pushback

Also is it possible to add an option of a pushback without a driver so lod rules would be less obvious?
As a pilot u wont see the driver anyways if u r in the cockpit

Thanks

Title: Re: Pushback tug in VR
Post by: kdfw on March 17, 2025, 06:09:41 pm

Quote from: virtuali on April 17, 2023, 08:50:58 am

We are aware of the problem, but raising the LOD just for VR would cause an unwanted performance and memory hit for all users, and it's not easy to dynamically select different LODs settings on runtime.

instead of adjusting LOD at runtime or apply to everyone, why not an option in the configuator to go easy on LOD culling for VR users? instead of LOD<7:0>, make the LOD1 model same as LOD0 and so on, LOD<7,5,4,3,2,1,0,0>

Title: Re: Pushback tug in VR
Post by: virtuali on March 18, 2025, 03:20:40 pm

Quote from: kdfw on March 17, 2025, 06:09:41 pm

instead of adjusting LOD at runtime or apply to everyone, why not an option in the configuator to go easy on LOD culling for VR users? instead of LOD<7:0>, make the LOD1 model same as LOD0 and so on, LOD<7,5,4,3,2,1,0,0>

You can't change the LOD behaviour on the fly. In order to do that, you would need to:

- Exit the sim

- Recalculate all LOD levels for all GSX objects, by scanning the installed package and modify every model .XML behavior file.

- Recalculate the layout.json of the two GSX packages (in MSFS 2024 even a smallest mismatch would cause the whole package to be unloaded)

- Restart the sim

Clearly is not a feasible solution, considering you might want to switch in-out of VR in the same session.