LOD distance in miles?

[steve howlett 137]

Only reason i ask this question is because i'm wondering why i have blurry texures in the distance.can't be more than 5 miles away.

sitting at FTX Kjac from my VC the Photoreal textures of the mountains are a blurry mess.only when i fly within a mile or two  do they start to load in.

I have my settings for detail at ultra (so LOD at 6.5)and just sitting there they remain blurred.could this be a prepared 3.35 problem .don't remember this in 3.2.

run a stock cfg.something is wrong and deleting cfg does nothing.also reinstalled everything and still the same.

 

any ideas

  thanks

      steve

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

http://www.avsim.com/topic/485019-v32-scenery-lod/

 

You might want to try the same test procedure for 3.3.5.

[steve howlett 137]

Thanks jay

Just looking through my CFG i noticed that the Lod radius is 5.5,wasn't it 6.5 in 3.2.seems that LM have shrunk it maybe to increase performance.

 

        thanks

          steve

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

I'm not at my flight sim computer ATM, but I'm sure that someone else here can check that. What happens when you manually edit the value to 6.5?

[steve howlett 137]

I'll try that jay.

just noticed it a few minutes ago.then got sidetracked.

problem is once i noticed it i uninstalled that scenery and reinstalled orbx vector and Eur LC,I'm now waiting for NA LC to be released before i revisit that scenery.i will try with another airport though

 

               thanks

                 steve

[Novation 534]

My P3Dv3.3.5 CFG still shows 6.5 when the LOD slider is at max, so this does not seem to have been changed as suggested.

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

Same here.

[WebMaximus 372]

Where do you guys normally keep this setting at?

 

I always had this set to 'High' and guess I got used to blurred terrain with the exception for the terrain closest to the aircraft but maybe it's time to try a higher setting.

[Samaritano 304]

I have mine set up at max (6.5) and it is too a blurry mess around that same distance. I don't know if it is my 21:9 3440x1440 monitor along with my GTX 970 that can't handle it. I have tried everything and it's always blurry. With FSX is crystal clear. 

[Novation 534]

With FSX is crystal clear.

 

I do notice the distance in FSX seems sharper compared to recent versions of P3D. Way back I did compare and they were the same, so I will do another side-by-side (default max) later and see if it is actually the case.

[steve howlett 137]

just realised while messing with the settings that i had left it at high.

that would explain why my cfg was set at 5.5.

while trying to get sharper textures at a distance i did set it at Max and that didn't make any difference,so i guess that p3d max setting only goes out to about 3-4 miles .

it must be more noticeable when using photoreal textures which look awful when viewed from a distance.

 

   steve

[WebMaximus 372]

Weird if you don't see any difference between high and max.

 

I did a quick test just sitting on the ground in the NGX observing the FPS and noticed how the FPS dropped about 8 FPS when I had it set to max vs high but if the visual experience is the same when not using photo real scenery I see no reason to go any higher than high.

[RockStarofRust 4]

In FSX you could go beyond,

 

[TERRAIN]

LOD_RADIUS=6.500000

 

Worked great for all those years using tileproxy.

 

Seems 6.5, (blurry past a few miles), is the max radius in the latest iterations of P3D. Downloading v3 of MegaSceneryEarth AZ and will see if there is some way to increase the radius...which I doubt.

 

Safe skies

[MikeT707 1,181]

 

 

Seems 6.5, (blurry past a few miles), is the max radius in the latest iterations of P3D. Downloading v3 of MegaSceneryEarth AZ and will see if there is some way to increase the radius...which I doubt.

I believe Rob A has stated before that the 6.5 is a hard limit. The reason is related to code to support tessellation.

[Slayer 190]

I find that running unlimited FPS or a setting your PC can't handle will have the side effect of blurries, making you believe that it is a LOD issue when it really isn't. A quick test of this is to simply pause the sim, if you notice the textures finish loading and get sharper then you are asking too much from your system. I suggest to start at the default 20 FPS and work up from there. Remember , the faster you fly the heavier the load it will put on your system. If it's just photoreal you are having the issues with you might look to increasing TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=30 a bit higher. 

 

 

There is a lot more going on in the  P3D rendering pipeline than in FSX so we can't really compare them LOD to LOD.( well I guess you could if you disabled all the eye candy that FSX doesn't have such as cloud shadows, tessellation etc etc)

 

I'm sure all the affinity mask/vsync/frame time tweakers will chime in soon but in my experience it amounts to a hill of beans. Get your sim settings in line first and try tweaks as a last resort if all else fails.