Hello I was wondering is it a way to disable grass and ground people animations in the scenery. Thanks
It's likely you are asking this because you might have seen other developers using awkward external configuration utilities, forcing you to exit from the sim to apply changes. In the worse cases, they do it while installing, so they don't just force you to restart the sim, but to reinstall the scenery too.
They are forced to use these methods, because:
- They don't have the flexibility of our scripting engine, that allows to create/destroy objects on the fly depending on many conditions, so the external utility would force you to restart FSX.
- For the same reason, the additional objects would cause the fps to go down, so they offer you to remove the objects, because the scenery won't work very well if you enabled everything.
This is not needed in our sceneries, because the objects are already heavily optimized.
The ground people animations, for example, are ONLY displayed in the parking you are in, and in the 2 nearby parkings. And, they are created ONLY if you are slowing down below a normal taxi speed, so they won't cause stuttering while taxi. So, no need to exclude them, because they won't affect the fps.
Also, they interact with GSX, so they will be automatically removed on the parking you are in, as soon as you start a service, so they won't interfere with it either.
The grass is also loaded only when close to your viewpoint and not over a certain altitude.
In one case, we added an option to remove the C5 Galaxy on the military apron and, as you can see, this was made without an awkward external configuration, but directly in the sim, without having to restart and with your choice saved for the next flight. We did this for the C5 Galaxy, because they would occupy parking spaces you might want to use instead, which is not the case for human animations and the grass.
