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Ground polygons: polygons vs textures

jtanabodee

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I was wondering if it is easier to make layer in Photoshop, making appropiate alpha chanel for each layer, set transparency of each layer and make just only one texture for what we want to do. With all respect, I'm not a computer guy so I'm so dump about tweaking ASM. May be the result is the same, but I'm not sure about that. If anyone can discuss about this would be helpful.
 
Hi,

You would have to use a very high texture resolution to get really sharp edges and lines. That is why most people prefer to use polygons for this kind of features, they look better.
 
I see..... Thanks for clearify this for dump newbie like me.
Just another two quick questions;
1. I was wondering if a lot of gmax planes on top of each others will cause low frame rate or the FS will see them as if they are just only one polygon.
2. I did that once, the taxiline and apron, before I read this Wiki. But I complied them separately into line.bgl and apron.bgl in FS2002 stype, tweaked ASM to hide shadows, and put them in scenery folder. It works! I saw lines and aprons as they meant to be. The question is why we need to tweak them to be a single bgl file. Does it boost the performance?
 
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Hi,

I moved your questions in a new thread, as they were not really discussing the Wiki article.

jtanabodee said:
1. I was wondering if a lot of gmax planes on top of each others will cause low frame rate or the FS will see them as if they are just only one polygon.
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No, they will affect the performance. All of them will be drawn. So it is usually best to limit the amount of layers you are using.

jtanabodee said:
2. I did that once, the taxiline and apron, before I read this Wiki. But I complied them separately into line.bgl and apron.bgl in FS2002 stype, tweaked ASM to hide shadows, and put them in scenery folder. It works! I saw lines and aprons as they meant to be. The question is why we need to tweak them to be a single bgl file. Does it boost the performance?
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No, it is not necessary to tweak them to separate BGL files. You could also tweak the ASM code so that everything fits in one BGL file. But the tweaking is easier for multiple files and it will not matter so much for the performance.
 
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