If i read you right: You have found a way that you can display any Logo on any car that way, without having to save the whole Car texture as a template? Like a TV where you can decide what will be shown on a car? That's amazing. That way you can display almost anything you like on your airports.
Exactly, that's Render To Texture. In the current released version of GSX, we used it only for two things:
- the Jetway numbers
- the Battery charger indication in the jetway power unit ( this is not very noticeable, since it requires entering Avatar mode and checking the jetway visually on foot)
But for the next update, which will add PBR for most of the objects as well, we'll use it extensively, for all logos used by handling operators, catering and jetways. And the fuel indication on the fuel truck, which is now made by different object for each letter, but will be replaced by a single polygon with a texture we can write into it with code.
This will reduce the number of objects and the number of object variations on the sim because, instead of having a separate livery/repaint for each operator and for each GSX object, we'll only have a couple of basic color variations, with the logo drawn programmatically, like the jetway number. Over the years, GSX grew to include more than 200 different operators, and adding a new one increased the overall number of installed simobject variations, which slows down the sim startup, the airplane selection page, the multiplayer session startup time and also the time it takes in GSX to find a suitable operator. And, it made creating user repaints very difficult, since users had to add all the repaints and not make a single mistake in the icao priority rules.
With RTT, this will all be gone: we'll reduce the number of installed simobjects by about 7000, so the sim will load faster, the airplane selection screen will be snappier, and it will be much easier to create custom repaints.
KORD V2 will also use this feature for the active panels on gates, and the AI monitor screens inside the terminal
