Flickering Textures on buildings

I was noticing a few buildings in cities that have flickering/shimmering textures as they switch lod's and found a solution by editing .../DCS A-10C/Config/Terrain/High.lua file (as I use High distance settings)

I found that if I set two parameters in bold to same value the flickering/shimmering doesn't happen:

district =

{

nearFullRenderDistance = 400; -- default is 800

nearDistance = 400; -- default is 560

there are 2-3 buildings more near by that also have textures shimmering but they are not in FoV. When I recorded the video I used values 200 and 100 so shimmering can be seen easier (due to degration in video resolution) and with default values 800 and 560 it's more pronounced and is seen at longer distance.

+1, you're starting to turn into gandalf with all these tweaks and knowledge of files!

That building has been fixed for 1.1.0.8 (it annoyed me)

Nate

Nice finds yet again Kuky :)

That building has been fixed for 1.1.0.8 (it annoyed me)

 

Nate

there's a few more things that anoy me in 1.1.0.7, I'll mention a few:

- lot of building textures of low resolution/quality

- grass does not get affected by aircraft landing lights, terrain and objects get lit up but not grass, makes them look black

- cannot adjust mirrors angle, right now the top mirror is looking almost vertically above (I checked in a turn, wingman appeared almost on top of me, not behind me... that's the point of a rear view mirror, to see your rear :doh:)

- there are many many duplicate textures, why don't ED delete them when they are adjusted or moved to another location... there are so many obsolete files, probably game files could be reduced by 1/10th (just guessing really :D)

- water is broken again for me in the mirror... when very close to the water the textures keep disapearing (maybe I should make quick video to demonstrate)

- there are no full shadowing to be seen on the aircraft when in the cockpit (anyone else noticed this?), in external view full shadows are there on viewed vehicle as normal

- the power lines poles disapear way too early

Also, right now the most anoying thing is knowing that ED are now continually working on improving the game code even more and makes me eager to see what they come up with next :huh:

Again, I have to say I feel this DCS series is the best thing that happened to us combat flight simmers, I can't wait to hear what next module will be and can't wait to get the next patch... :smartass:

there's a few more things that anoy me in 1.1.0.7, I'll mention a few:

 

- lot of building textures of low resolution/quality Maybe mustang could update his excellent high-res pack?

- grass does not get affected by aircraft landing lights, terrain and objects get lit up but not grass, makes them look black I'll take a look

- cannot adjust mirrors angle, right now the top mirror is looking almost vertically above (I checked in a turn, wingman appeared almost on top of me, not behind me... that's the point of a rear view mirror, to see your rear :doh:) odd, but I doubt they'll be made user adjustable

- there are many many duplicate textures, why don't ED delete them when they are adjusted or moved to another location... there are so many obsolete files, probably game files could be reduced by 1/10th (just guessing really :D)

- water is broken again for me in the mirror... when very close to the water the textures keep disapearing (maybe I should make quick video to demonstrate) If you do a video, please post the track it's from too.

- there are no full shadowing to be seen on the aircraft when in the cockpit (anyone else noticed this?), in external view full shadows are there on viewed vehicle as normal Known

- the power lines poles disapear way too early Not in High.lua somewhere?

 

 

Also, right now the most anoying thing is knowing that ED are now continually working on improving the game code even more and makes me eager to see what they come up with next :huh:

 

Again, I have to say I feel this DCS series is the best thing that happened to us combat flight simmers, I can't wait to hear what next module will be and can't wait to get the next patch... :smartass:

Nate

Tonight I tried to use Mustang's building's textures and was looking in all the RAR files and have found a few of the highrise building's and I changed the archive with his files but somehow in game it still shows the same... I couldn't figure it out :(

Oh one more thing wrong with the mirrors... if you sit in the cockpit and move the head sideways (not tilt) the image in the mirror rotates but it should move sideways also... it's wrong geometry

I was looking to change the power lines poles but can't find anything, must be defined in the 3D model lod's.

I'll make a short video of the water...

Nate, here's that video and attached track file

watch 480p and full screen.. easier to see the mirrors

and damnit, I uploaded 960x600 AVI video to youtube and it still looks crap when uploaded... any way to get full resolution... must I make the video to certain resolutions first?

Thanks, got it.

Nate

Tonight I tried to use Mustang's building's textures and was looking in all the RAR files and have found a few of the highrise building's and I changed the archive with his files but somehow in game it still shows the same... I couldn't figure it out :(

I've already had a trawl through the zipped texture files in DCS WH and have actually located all the building textures.....thing is, they're implemented in a totally different way, and if i was to export my work into this sim it would take a verrrry long time.

One day, once i'm in the right frame of mind to tackle it, i might give it a shot though :)

ooh glad I found this thread

I thought my GTX480 was playing up/overheating

it is an annoying artefact I have to admit - glad its been patched out

good news with 1.1.0.8 I don't see any more of this flickering on buildings

I do see flickering on the FARPS still in the newest patch.

I do see flickering on the FARPS still in the newest patch.

Yep, just like this

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1220856&postcount=24