Hi all, 

 

I have noticed recently a strange visual effect while flying:

 

- when I look at the landscape through the airplane cockpit windows or while in wing view I see a high level of terrain detail, ie no blurred scenery. 

 

- when I switch to any of the external views, say looking at the plane and the terrain from a POV above the plane, the terrain scenery is blurred and the higher level of detail cancelling the blurring is loaded in noticeable chunks, ie I see zones of the terrain switching in a progressive way from blurred to non-blurred. This is very evident when from my POV above the airplane I look down just perpendicularly to the terrain. The terrain below the plane appears initially blurred and then higher detail is rendered. This happens not only right when I switch the views, but continues along the flight while remaining in the same view for minutes or hours.

 

Given that I set the LOD_RADIUS parameter to 5.5 and I never change it, I have no clue about the reason for this annoying behavior. 

 

My major point is then: if my hw+sw+settings are such that it is possible to render the scenery in high resolution while looking at it through the windows why do I get blurred scenery when looking at it from external views ? Ideally, I'd like to have the same rendering in cockpit/external views.

 

I understand that the "amount" of scenery to be rendered may be bigger while in external views than while in internal views, but when looking down perpendicularly to the terrain from above the airplane I think the amount of scenery to be rendered is actually smaller than the one I could reach while looking through a lateral cockpit window...

 

Thanks in advance for whatever advice you may offer !

 

Aldo

 

 

 

In external mode, set your zoom level to a more realistic 4.0 or 5.0.

 

Best regards,

Thanks a lot for the advice will give a try and report

Regards,

Aldo

Hello Jim,

 

I had right yesterday the opportunity to reach again my FSX PC after the summer holidays and tried your suggestion. It definitely worked, setting the zoom as you suggested eliminated the annoying effect I was seeing before.

 

Thanks a lot for the advice !

 

Aldo

I an having this same issue. Since I built a home cockpit if I use the 2d panel view and hit "w" to make the panel disappear, the color is vibrant and clear, but then when I switch to virtual cockpit the colors are dull and look "tinted".

Many aircraft have tinted windows.. which aircraft is this happening in?

Wilco CRJ Nextgen.

Don't have... but sometimes you can check the Texture files and find the tinted windows and replace them..

What would they be replaced with if I find them. Example?

First try renaming the file and see how it looks without..

 

Otherwise check other airplanes and see if something suitable can be found.. look for "Transparent"

Another difference between the VC view and the external view is the sim rendering 2 different models.

 

Depending on the plane, an external model that uses a bunch of HD textures might have a negative impact on scenery rendering. I suspect this impact might be greater if the exterior model has a variety of texture formats.

 

Do the ground textures in exterior view get better if you wait a bit?

 

regards,

Joe