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Moire Patterns

airernie

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First attempt at generating thumbnails from object libraries today and I noticed that most if not all have, what for a lack of terms I would call a moire pattern.

Most of these will disappear if I rotate the object so that the area with the pattern is full front. Unfortunately, that's not practical when creating the thumbnail because you want a perspective view of the object.

Any solutions or is it something to live with?

Thanks,
Ernie
 

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Hi,

That is a well known effect of textures that have many horizontal or vertical stripes. I don't think there is much you can do about it, even in the sim you can get this effect. MCX already uses texture mipmaps which should reduce this effect. Maybe it helps if you change the zoom level or thumbnail resolution a bit?
 
Will play around a bit to see if I can lessen it. Honestly though I should be thanking you.. so thank you.. for creating a tool that will generate thumbnails of the object libraries.
 
I will check in the code if the mipmaps are rendered optimally.
 
Hi Arno:

This thread shows Moire patterns in MCX- and to a lesser etxent in MSFS- with use of a typical "corrugated" cladding hangar texture:

https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/non-pbr-texture-exportation-for-msfs.452818/post-884482


Is it possible anything might be done to also improve MIPMAP rendering when mapped onto 3D models compiled / output for FS display as well ?


Thanks in advance for any further enhancements you might be able to implement via MCX for such potentially problematic texture images. :wizard:

GaryGB
 
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Hi,

I have checked the mipmap implementation in the MCX preview, but I have to say it is a bit crude. I am going to update it so that the preview properly shows the mipmaps. That should hopefully reduce these effects and make it more similar to how it is shown in the sim.
 
Thank you for taking a look. As I said, I can live with it, but it is still very much appreciated..
 
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