I see the question 'Why cant I see the flaps move' every now and then.  The answer is always tick Advanced animations (or something)

 

Question is - Why does a tick box exist in the first place? Is it a performance factor?  

 

I fly the 777 with the outside model disabled, can I uncheck that box to free up resources or are animations needed for pure VC flying?

 

Cheers

 

 

can I uncheck that box to free up resources or are animations needed for pure VC flying?

 

I doubt it.  I have no idea why it's there though.

In FSX a new kind of animation was introduced - skinned animation.

 

As far as I can make it out (I am not a modeller though. Take with a grain of salt.), it makes it easier to animate a skin-like structure based on arbitrary "bones" by not having to animate individual skin components, just by animating a single invisible "bone" component. Think of it as not animating the wing skin flexing, but animating the wing spar and telling the skin to follow it. It may also make it easier to make some other components follow the animation (ailerons, flaps, flaperons).

 

An input from Jason would do well here.

When FSX was originally released some systems likely weren't powerful enough to use all the animations and that's why the checkbox is there . You guys have to remember FSX came out in 2006, it's 8 years old this year... At the time of release the most powerful systems were first generation dual core CPUs, systems had 1-2GB of memory and GPUs had 128-256MB of VRAM.

I found out that the 777 taxi/landing/turn off lights don't work with advanced animations off.  Anyway, was just curios! Thanks for the info guy's

I fly the 777 with the outside model disabled

How is it disabled?

 

Michael Cubine

How is it disabled?

 

Michael Cubine

 

Navigate to your aircraft model, in my case C:FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes\PMDG 777F\model

 

Look for model.cfg  (back up just in case)

 

I added // in front of normal.  Remove // to get the model back

 

[models]

//normal=PMDG_777_200F.MDL

interior=PMDG_777_VC

 

 

Just switched to DX10 today (Beautiful on a fast rig)  Will probably enable the model again. Removing  definitely gained me some performance under DX9

 

Regards

Thanks for the information.

 

Michael Cubine

 

Navigate to your aircraft model, in my case C:FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes\PMDG 777F\model

 

Look for model.cfg  (back up just in case)

 

I added // in front of normal.  Remove // to get the model back

 

[models]

//normal=PMDG_777_200F.MDL

interior=PMDG_777_VC

 

 

Just switched to DX10 today (Beautiful on a fast rig)  Will probably enable the model again. Removing  definitely gained me some performance under DX9

 

Regards

 

You will still gain in DX10. test @ busy airport like EHAM EDDF etc I gained 10 points at AS EDDF, which is a badly optimised airport.

I fly the 777 with the outside model disabled

I made the changes per your instructions and it is really the hot setup. Although I have never had an OOM error with the 777, I checked the VAS to see what difference it makes in memory use. It does away with about .3GB - a really big reduction.

 

Michael Cubine

(...) It does away with about .3GB - a really big reduction.

 

Michael Cubine

 

 

Wow ... thank you, Michael, for reporting this back.