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Textures and Framerates

Vern O

Vern O

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Hello
I've had some success in designing a few sceneries which have been generally well received. However the most common complaint I've had, it is hard on framerates for medium and low end computers.

I plan to redesign some of my sceneries and would like too know from the more knowledgable designers, how can I improve my scenery so it is more framerate friendly?

Some info
To design the scenery I use Airport for Windows. For the macros I use FSDSv2 and save them in API format. When making the macros I make every attempt too keep the object points to a minimum. I create my own textures using Paintshop Pro v7 and save them as 256x256 8 bit. In the scenery that is affected most I also use a lot of Gerrish Grey trees.

Any pointers would be most helpful and much appreciated.

Thanks and Best
Vern
 
Hi Vern,

It is always hard to say how you can improve performance.

My first attempt would be to take a look at the placement of your objects. Are the v1 and v2 values optimal for example? If you set these ranges wrong that can cost a lot of performance.

Other things to look at are if you have one model that takes most performance, then you could try to optimize that. Or if you use one object a lot, it would certainly be worth to put it in an object library.

You might also be able to get small improvements by converting your textures to the DXT format with mipmaps. But usually that does not make a really big difference.
 
Thanks for the suggestions Arno.. much appreciated. By V1 and V2 values I'm presuming you mean visual distance. I keep the more important and bigger hangers at 15 km and the small stuff at 3 km.

I will convert the textures to DXT and see what happens.
Best
Vern
 
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