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FSXA Difference in resolution TmfViewer / FSX

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Is there any way I can make FSX display at the same resolution as TmfViewer?

Screen resolution 1920x1080, Aniso and AA.

TmfViewer:



FSX:

 
Zoom out (reduce magnification) and move your viewpoint closer? Not easy to do in top-down view.

It depends what your end-resolution is (7cm/px?) FSX will tend not to display that.

If you are using resolutions greater than 7cm/px and the global texture resolution is set to max (7cm/px)

then you may need to use the tweaks described by Dick Ludowise (rhumbaflabby)
 
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I feel such a fool Ian.

I had texture resolution set to 60cm :o

With resolution set to 7cm I can easily create ground polylines / polygons:

 
Hi George:

I wonder if even higher resolution settings in the FSX.Cfg file might prove helpful to some types of FS development work when grabbing screenies or working in a FS run time interactive editor utility via top-down view ? :)

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showpost.php?p=627852&postcount=6


NOTE: FSX automatically sets the FS GUI terrain mesh resolution slider to 10 Meters when we set the texture resolution slider to 7 cm.

One might wonder if there is any benefit to manually setting terrain mesh resolution even higher (via FSX.Cfg edits) when setting the texture resolution slider to higher settings (smaller numeric values for inter-pixel distances) than 7 cm. ...such as when displaying some recent add-on sceneries using 'synthetic' 2 cm resolution textures ? :confused:


Assuming "Texture resolution" is the FSX equivalent of TMVL, as illustrated here:

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showpost.php?p=633002&postcount=31


...one might consider these numeric relationships as a basis for use with higher resolution FSX.Cfg non-default scenery display parameters:

Code: 
[TERRAIN]
MESH_COMPLEXITY=100
MESH_RESOLUTION=22    <--   9.6 Meter ('10' Meter)
TEXTURE_RESOLUTION=29 <-- 0.075 Meter ('7' cm)


Hope this helps ! :)

GaryGB
 
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Hi George:

Hmmm... Now, why did I already know you were going to post that, and why did I still not explain it in advance via my post above ? :o

I guess one just can't be thorough enough when you are participating in a thread, George ! :D


So, even though I think it likely that you already know this, rather than leaving other readers confused about whether, how, and when this actually happens, I'm going to go the extra distance and explain it here (...which I really should have done in my post above. :rolleyes:)


To see the initial "automatic" coupling of terrain mesh and texture slider change when setting texture resolution to 7.5 cm in the FSX GUI:

1.) Set FSX Menu > Settings > Customize > Scenery tab GUI sliders to minimum resolution settings for terrain mesh and textures

2.) Be sure FSX.Cfg is not open in any text editor, so it "saves" parameter changes made via FSX GUI

3.) Exit FSX

4.) Restart FSX

5.) Navigate to: FSX Menu > Settings > Customize > Scenery tab

6.) Set Terrain Mesh resolution to 19 M < yep... 1 LOD short of "10 M" ! :stirthepo >, and Texture resolution to 7 cm

7.) Click "OK"

8.) Still in FSX, Navigate again to: FSX Menu > Settings > Customize > Scenery tab

9.) Observe that both terrain mesh and texture sliders changed when manually setting only the texture slider to '7' cm in the FSX GUI.

10.) Specifically, note that terrain Mesh resolution slider changed to "10 M" when "OK" was clicked after Step 6 above


NOTE: Obviously, the FSX Scenery display slider can be manually set to an even higher terrain mesh resolution AFTER one has had FSX "automatically" apply the initial 'required minimum mesh resolution' parameter relationship between the terrain mesh and texture sliders for a texture resolution of at least '7' cm via the FSX GUI, as we see in your screenie above. ;)


Hope this helps those considering these numeric relationships as a basis for use with higher resolution FSX.Cfg scenery display parameters ! :)


PS: Thanks for keeping the bar set so high for "thoroughness" here at FSDeveloper, George ! :p

GaryGB
 
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