Added vegetation exclusion for FS2024 Corrected fencing transparency for FS2024 Added VDGS support for FS2024 passenger airliners Added VDGS support for Headwinds A330 Added VDGS support for iniBuilds A350 Added VDGS support for FBW A380

abhishek_dey

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Jun 27, 2023

Thanks for making this airport. I particularly like the price. But I do have an issue to report. I think the LOD transitions are a bit too abrupt and sometimes too noticeable. Two such cases that I observed with half an hour of roaming around in the drone mode are In the ground side, a large block of greenish glass wall suddenly turns opaque and white, this is visible in day but particularly noticeable in night when the LOD change causes the area to become brighter instead of darker. From the airside, the roof textures and some other materials change LOD too quickly in my opinion, the LODs change when hovering just over the runway which is not very far. Depending on the lighting conditions, this one may be too noticeable or barely noticeable. Also, clearly noticeable in night. I don't have too much experience with developing models for MSFS but from my very limited experience, I think this can be solved by having a couple of intermediate LODs with gradually decreasing details, but this means careful culling of details to create the intermediate LODs. Otherwise, a cheaper solution might be making the LOD transition point a bit further if performance impact is negligible. Apologies for the lecture on LODs.

ChrisJSetteringtonalmost 3 years ago

Hi abhishek_dey, thanks for the review! We have seven LOD models for the terminal already, so some adjustment of when the lower less detailed are visible should make things better. We try to set them to a point where the transition is 'just visible but not really noticeable' after LOD1 and 2 where the bitmap textures start getting replaced. We generally optimize LOD for landing, taxiing and close proximity to the terminal. For the Showcase camera view we've noticed a difference from time to time from the cockpit and external views, where it can take longer for the LODs to increase in detail, we think that's due to the camera speed. But we'll see what we can do in the next update.

abhishek_deyalmost 3 years ago

Thanks for considering it.