Scale of Speedtrees in 2.5

Agreed. Especially in contrast with the trains, which seem awfully small compared to those trees, even at a 30% reduction.

Yepl I had traffic turned off when I did the 30% mod. Lesson learned. Even at 60%, the trees are still way too big. We'll see what 70% or 80% gives here shortly.

Ok Fellas,

Here's the final product. 80% looks to be about right. Any further and I think the trees will start to show too much terrain in the forests. It does look great and perception of speed and altitude has increased significantly. Enjoy:thumbup:

JSGME Ready. You can download it here. UPDATE: Deleted due to bad folder structure in the download. Will be posting an updated version later in this thread.

There are folders for 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, and 80 percent. Choose which you want to use. Only use one folder at a time when loading the mod in JSGME.

Ok Fellas,

 

Here's the final product. 80% looks to be about right. Any further and I think the trees will start to show too much terrain in the forests. It does look great and perception of speed and altitude has increased significantly. Enjoy:thumbup:

 

JSGME Ready. You can download it here. DCS 2.5 Trees Fix.zip

 

There are folders for 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, and 80 percent. Choose which you want to use. Only use one folder at a time when loading the mod in JSGME.

Would you mind posting screenshots/video, and is this IC compliant? Thanks!

Please, show screenshots with reduced

trees, indicating the percentage reduction.

Sorry for the translation of Google.

@ Badanimal - The 80% seems about right mate, maybe a tad slow but pretty good, anyway thanks for your enthusiam and looking into this and putting out a mod to fix it..

Would you mind posting screenshots/video, and is this IC compliant? Thanks!

yes please...

Is anyone else getting a freeze after dropping any of these .ref files into the folders?

I've had to replace both the .ref files with my originals to get it running back to normal again.

Is anyone else getting a freeze after dropping any of these .ref files into the folders?

 

I've had to replace both the .ref files with my originals to get it running back to normal again.

Not here but I'm running on a box with 64GB of RAM.

Please, show screenshots with reduced

trees, indicating the percentage reduction.

Sorry for the translation of Google.

I do enough of that kind of stuff at work. It's a simple mod and not worth that level of effort in my eyes.

@ Badanimal - The 80% seems about right mate, maybe a tad slow but pretty good, anyway thanks for your enthusiam and looking into this and putting out a mod to fix it..

I agree. Just a tad slow. I thought about going to 90% but at 80% I noticed some openings in the forests, so stopped there. Looks like I hit the threshold for tree placement. I suspect going below 80% will be very noticeable. I can try 90 and 95. Theoretically, at that percentage, the trees should be shrubs, but I don't believe the sim is rendering at the full percentage reductions.

Would you mind posting screenshots/video, and is this IC compliant? Thanks!

What is IC compliant? As far as screens, perhaps someone else can. I don't have enough hosted space to fill it up with screens.

Not here but I'm running on a box with 64GB of RAM.

On 16gb here like many users, but what would RAM have to do with these modifications?

I'm currently using the 30% reduction that I did myself manually and that works fine, just wondering why the greater reduction files are causing a loading freeze.

On 16gb here like many users, but what would RAM have to do with these modifications?

 

I'm currently using the 30% reduction that I did myself manually and that works fine, just wondering why the greater reduction files are causing a loading freeze.

The only thing I can think of is that it looks like it loads more trees to a certain point. I went from 49 FPS to about 42 at 80%. Perhaps some tweaking of options is needed. I'm running Reshade with FXAA enabled. AF and AA in game are off and I set FXAA allowed and 2XSS in nVidia Inspector.

What's your frame rate looking like?

Thanks for the work Bananimal. I'll check it out tonight.

As far as any loss in FPS, more trees at max range will cause some drop. Maybe decrease the draw from max (Mine is around 12000) to offset the extra trees.

I think I've found an easier way to adjust the tree scale in Config\terrain\terrainoptions41.lua

line 370 blockTreesScale = 1.0;

edit: disregard, seems this parameter has no effect if altered.

The only thing I can think of is that it looks like it loads more trees to a certain point. I went from 49 FPS to about 42 at 80%. Perhaps some tweaking of options is needed. I'm running Reshade with FXAA enabled. AF and AA in game are off and I set FXAA allowed and 2XSS in nVidia Inspector.

 

What's your frame rate looking like?

FPS is fine, not really measured it but the difference seems negligible.

Seems I can use the 40% reduction files fine but as soon as I try anything past 50% the PC freezes up on loading and CTD's.

What is IC compliant? As far as screens, perhaps someone else can. I don't have enough hosted space to fill it up with screens.

Sorry, the multiplayer integrity check. I’m assuming this would affect it

Here is the JSGME ready version. Hope Bananimal doesn't mind ;)

 

S!

In case some haven't noticed. The mod as downloaded is not quite JSGME ready. Don't forget to remove the contents from the "DCS World 1.5" folder.

Thanks Pedro for the heavy lifting on this.

EDIT: OH yah, Thank YOU Bananimal.

In case some haven't noticed. The mod as downloaded is not quite JSGME ready. Don't forget to remove the contents from the "DCS World 1.5" folder.

Thanks Pedro for the heavy lifting on this.

It has been updated by Bananimal already :thumbup:

anyone able to post up some side by side screenies to show the effect of mod?

Seems I can use the 40% reduction files fine but as soon as I try anything past 50% the PC freezes up on loading and CTD's.

Same here. Only 40% works for me as well.

Same here. Only 40% works for me as well.

I have the same

only 40%:( but I want more!!!

What I need to do for this?

Ok now can we please see some screenshots? I don't want to apply this to my vanilla copy without evidence.

Ok now can we please see some screenshots? I don't want to apply this to my vanilla copy without evidence.

I can't see any differences (40%)

1-st with -40% 2-nd with original

What do I do wrong? Why the mod does not work for me? Trees do not decrease even by a cm: ((((((((((((

What do I do wrong? Why the mod does not work for me? Trees do not decrease even by a cm: ((((((((((((

Verify that the folders in my mod:

Trees - Default

Trees - Smaller -30

Trees - Smaller -40

Trees - Smaller -50

Trees - Smaller -60

Trees - Smaller -70

Trees - Smaller -80

are in the JSGME mod folder specified in your JSGME.ini file. This file should be in the root of your DCS folder along with JSGME.exe.

In my case, I have a folder called 0 Mods where I put all of my JSGME mods. My JSGME.ini points to this. See below.

[MODS FOLDER]

Name=0 Mods

[JSGME DETAILS]

FullPath=D:\DCS 2.5\JSGME.exe

[FORM SIZE]

Main Height=737

Main Left=1447

Main Top=526

Main Width=676

Main WindowState=0

Next, just double-click JSGME.exe in the root of your DCS folder (where it should be if you set it up properly) and select one of the tree mod folders. Click the right arrow to move that folder into the sim. Just click one of the tree mod folders, as trying to import more that one will only result in warnings asking you to overwrite.