What is the best setting for Antialiasiing and Anisotrophic Filters for my graphics card to get the sharpest textures using Tileproxy? I currently have them both off and things look pretty good. Any suggestions?

Anisotropic filtering is a "must" when looking at an angle onto a textured surface (like e.g. from your plane towards the horizon). Bilinear and Trilinear filtering just don't consider enough neighbor pixels for accurately reproducing a texture at an angle.So without anisotropic filtering, tiles near the horizon will look "muddy" and lose a lot of detail. Take the same screenshot without and with aniso and compare. The effect is noticeable especially in city areas where a lot of manmade detail is on the ground.Christian

I sort of arrived at that conclusion by trial and error yesterday. I had conservatively upped my anisotropic filtering to 4X. It helped some but I am going higher. I had read somewhere to turn off antialiasing when using photo image scenery. I think it was some advice for the Megascenery product when using FS9. Any advice there?

to be honest, the modifactions that tileproxy made to my FSX.CFG on install, made my graphics become really grainy.I remember seeing this exact type of thing when I was messing around with setting a while back.I presume it has somthing to AA or mip mapping, but I reverted back to my original FSX.cfg and it removed the grainyness.With so many different types of cards its impossible to make every card happy with one setting.cheers!P.S I have an ATI Radeon X1650 PRO 512MB AGP if your curious.

I cranked the AA and AN settings all the way to the max on my video card and the textures look pretty good with minimal impact on frame rate. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbbrown/sets/...211649192/show/

"to be honest, the modifactions that tileproxy made to my FSX.CFG on install, made my graphics become really grainy."It's probably the MipBias fsx.cfg setting, which TP sets to 6 on install. Look for [Display.Device.Your Graphics Card Name.0] and remove the line "MipBias=6" alltogether.He probably did this to counter the blurriness of the textures but with 8x aniso and proper videocard settings, it's not needed. On my system, it just made the detail maps (the "grainy" effect on scenery textures) flicker and moire like crazy.

I can remove that MipBias setting, if you guys think it's counter-productive.Christian

It might be counter-productivr for some users, but like the fiber option, you might want to provide it as an optional item in the next beta :)

I had to drop my MipBias back to 4 - looks okay on my (PCI-E)Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB (Catalyst 7.1 WHQL)Mike

I also pushed mipmap back to 4. I'm using an nvidia 7800GS AGP with 512 megs of ram. Like so many others, load times take a while. I just consider that pilot pre flight prep time...:-)The blurries, however, do become an issue in the course of flight. I've said elsewhere, and I'm saying it again. THANKS CHRISTIAN for the best fs addon ever!Sherm