NECROPOST:Horrendous FSDT LAX ground texture

[romangeber 23]

Wait you guys see this only since v4? I've seen that in v3 all the time and just accepted it as a the way FSDT sceneries work.

cu
Roman

[spearmint_flyer 579]

5 hours ago, romangeber said:

Wait you guys see this only since v4? I've seen that in v3 all the time and just accepted it as a the way FSDT sceneries work.

cu
Roman

Way to revive a thread. Funny thing is I just started seeing it again last night. Did a live update to see if that will fix it 

[vincent357 0]

I still have the weird ground textures, even after a live update. 

[ha5mvo 254]

To be honest I get that effect with dynamic lights in many airports, none of which is FSDTs (I have none). I always took it for a general shortcoming with the way dynamic lighting interacts with some asphalt textures.

[virtuali 4,421]

21 minutes ago, ha5mvo said:

To be honest I get that effect with dynamic lights in many airports, none of which is FSDTs (I have none). I always took it for a general shortcoming with the way dynamic lighting interacts with some asphalt textures.

Of course you see it in every airport that is made with proper ground textures, including normal maps. It won't appear on airports with just a plain color texture, which of course will look very flat and unrealistic at every time of the day.

The only issue is, since normal maps are more visible with dynamic lights, it's usually require to tone them down for dynamic lighting.

But the FINAL effect depends on all of these:

- the screen resolution

- the antialiasing mode

- the strength AND the angle of the dynamic light used by the airplane

- the eventual usage of a tweaker like PTA

- the hdr settings on the sim

- the individual user definition of "weird"

It's basically impossible to create a texture the will always look equally good with all these changing variables.

Edited October 22, 2018 by virtuali

[vgbaron 3,627]

I don't see any benefit in reviving this old thread. If someone has new issues, feel free to start a new thread but this one is gone.

 

Vic