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Problems with display when very (VERY) high

Misho

Misho

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High in altitude, that is :p

When I go to the upper reaches of the atmosphere and even to space (high enough to see the curvature of the earth), the polygons on the horizon start to shimmer. Does anyone know the remedy for this? Perhaps something in the settings?

Thanks,
Misho
 
Hi Misho,

What kind of altitudes are we talking here? I remember that I once read somewhere that FS is designed to work up to 100000 feet.
 
arno said:
Hi Misho,

What kind of altitudes are we talking here? I remember that I once read somewhere that FS is designed to work up to 100000 feet.
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Hi Arno! FSX is capable of 30 000 000 ft altitude. That's 9144 km - far beyond Low Earth Orbit :) Funny thing is, even at that altitude, there is still air :(

We're working on a full spaceflight module for FSX! So far so good, although there are a few naggies and glitches such as this one, which I am trying to address.

Misho
 
Hi Misho,

I must have messed up some numbers in my mind then :). I never tried to "fly" that high, so I am afraid I can't give a solution. I'll try to give it a try here and see how your problem looks.
 
arno said:
Hi Misho,

I must have messed up some numbers in my mind then :). I never tried to "fly" that high, so I am afraid I can't give a solution. I'll try to give it a try here and see how your problem looks.
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No problem... here's a screenie from FSX :cool:

http://www.terrabuilder.com/SFM/SFM2.jpg

Sometimes, on the very edge of the disk (horizon) there would be shimmering, flickering polygons - very annoying and distracting. This is not the result of my "re-skinning" of the Earth... it happens in the default FSX (on Earth) with the latest service packs (I didn't try it with acceleration though)

Misho
 
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hmm I originally thought you meant the water polygons being comparatively too large and sparkling too much.....

But with a re-skin of the moon that wouldn't happen (no water on the moon....or is there? ;) so now I don't know what you mean- Is it present in the pic you attached there??
 
Timmo said:
hmm I originally thought you meant the water polygons being comparatively too large and sparkling too much.....

But with a re-skin of the moon that wouldn't happen (no water on the moon....or is there? ;) so now I don't know what you mean- Is it present in the pic you attached there??
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No it's not - but if you slew up to say 500 000 ft and then slew forward (hold down the slew direction button so you get going rather fast) you'll probably see the effect. I'll try to capture it and post the screenshot. It's something ACES guys never tested, probably thinking "who's gonna go up there??", but there's always some fool (like myself) who's going to try and break something :D
 
Hi Misho,

I tried as you described (also tried 1.000.000 and 9.000.000 feet), but I don't think I see your problem. It does not look really shimmering to me.

It could of course be that I have some settings different in my FSX.
 
arno said:
Hi Misho,

I tried as you described (also tried 1.000.000 and 9.000.000 feet), but I don't think I see your problem. It does not look really shimmering to me.

It could of course be that I have some settings different in my FSX.
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Thanks Arno! I sure hope a setting takes care of that. I'll try to take a screenshot of it and post it here. It may be that it manifests only while our orbital simconnect DLL is active. I'll try to re-create with a clean FSX setup.

Misho
 
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