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Tips on reducing shimmer and object flashing

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Please accept my apologies if this has been asked before. I want some tricks on reducing shimmer (the sparkling effect) and an object slightly flashing.

What program do I need and how?

Shimmering object like an antenna.
Flashing object like a hangar.
 
I think this is related to your settings in FS. Things like anti aliasing and so on. There may be some settings in the FSX.cfg or FS9.cfg that will help as well as settings for your graphics card.

Perhaps someone else can provide a better answer.
 
scruffyduck said:
I think this is related to your settings in FS. Things like anti aliasing and so on. There may be some settings in the FSX.cfg or FS9.cfg that will help as well as settings for your graphics card.

Perhaps someone else can provide a better answer.
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Thanks.

I want to know how I can take an object that is blinking and fix it.

Sometimes shadows blink. Can I use Material Editor to fix this and how.
 
Hi,

What kind of objects are flickering? If it affects all objects it is most likely a settings of the graphics. But if it is one specific object it might be that there is some z-fighting. In that case it would be good to know what kind of object is giving this problem.
 
arno said:
Hi,

What kind of objects are flickering? If it affects all objects it is most likely a settings of the graphics. But if it is one specific object it might be that there is some z-fighting. In that case it would be good to know what kind of object is giving this problem.
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Arno,

It's just a part of the object.

It's a blinking/flashing effect unlike a sparkle effect. It's happening in an area of a terminal object.

The shimmers are occurring in lamp posts. I'm not sure if there a trick I can try just to reduce these little annoyances.
 
Is this terminal a custom 3d object? It could be the object has polygons that are on top of each other. Did you make it yourself?

Send from my phone using Tapatalk, so excuse the short sentences and possible typos
 
arno said:
Is this terminal a custom 3d object? It could be the object has polygons that are on top of each other. Did you make it yourself?

Send from my phone using Tapatalk, so excuse the short sentences and possible typos
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No. These objects are part of the FlightZone KPDX for fs9. It was successfully ported over to FSX and all I'm trying to do is reduce some flashing on some objects, some shimmering poles, and I'm hoping to convert all the ground textures so that the comply with the FSX.

Unfortunately, some of the ground textures will not open, so there are 4 ground textures that I can't convert.

Since I have no idea on what program I would need to open the ground textures, I'm stuck with some empty ground at KPDX. The scenery looks excellent, with just a couple of issues.

Maybe in the future there will be a program that opens these ground files. Maybe there's a way to recreate the one that are not able to open?
 
kevintampa5 said:
sbuilder should work with imagetool.exe. worked for me. both are free.
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Thanks! How did you do it?

I'd really appreciate some help. I have no clue of what to do. That's why I came here looking for assistance.

I'm extremely appreciative that there's such a community.
 
Do a forum search for reformatting textures. In the BLUE BAR top of this page near the end. There are a lot of post covering how to do it. :)
 
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