Pilotasso Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 I ask because I got the desert Israeli skin, but as soon as the planes wearing them get away from me for a couple hundred feet, their skin reverts back to the original grey cammo of the following lower LOD, and it kinda disrupts the whole look of the F-15. Worse, when there are F-15's on both sides we cant visualy IFF them but down to LOD 0, and then it might be too late. Is there a way to hand pick and replace LOD textures individualy? (Before you ask, yes I intend to shrink the texture size down for lower LOD's) .
Deadman Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 Pilotasso its been a wile but it sounds like you don't have a lods problem but a mitmap problem i don't know how you installed did you just throught a bitmap of the skin in to the temp texture file?Cosmonaut has a great tutorial CDDS Tutorial V2 on installing skins for walimus's F-15 you should check it out 1 https://forum.dcs.world/topic/133818-deadmans-cockpit-base-plans/#comment-133824 CNCs and Laser engravers are great but they can't do squat with out a precise set of plans.
Pilotasso Posted February 8, 2007 Author Posted February 8, 2007 My current GFX settings makes mipmap be sharp at long distances. Thats not it, but thx anyway. .
Deadman Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 No problem I delt with the same type of problem for GG at the 44th but you will figure it out some how:thumbup: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/133818-deadmans-cockpit-base-plans/#comment-133824 CNCs and Laser engravers are great but they can't do squat with out a precise set of plans.
Pilotasso Posted February 8, 2007 Author Posted February 8, 2007 I found that I can replace each LOD texture in LOMAN5 but LOMAC gets errors on load, and quits to windows...perhaps texture size mismatch? .
Laud Posted March 1, 2008 Posted March 1, 2008 BUMP! Facing the same issue. Please help! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Asus ROG STRIX Z390-F Gaming, Intel Core i7 9700k , 32gb Corsair DDR4-3200 Asus RTX 2070 super, Samsung 970 EVO Plus M2, Win10 64bit, Acer XZ321QU (WQHD) TM HOTAS Warthog, SAITEK Rudder Pedals, TIR 5
jermin Posted March 2, 2008 Posted March 2, 2008 Yes. I'm also seraching for a solution. I've downloaded many fantastic skins from lockonfiles.com and packed them up into a single CDDS file. Seeing them (espcially with dark colors)returning to the oringinal ones during flight is really an immersion killer. Is there a parameter controlling the distance at which default skins come in?
monotwix Posted March 3, 2008 Posted March 3, 2008 In this case I think that the texture won't stick to the lower LOD model (each LOD i.e 1, 2, 3 ... has it's own model and with it's own poly count, and arranged in desending order so for example there could be 30k model in LOD1 and 20k model in LOD2 which would be rendered from a grater distance) .Now how do you find which texture belongs to the lod model (that didn't render)? No idea only one thing, if I wanted the textuer other than grey I would start looking in f-15.cmd by viewing it with a notepad and at the bottom of there some names like .bmp and tga that can be found. This is just a clue tipe information. I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
Deadman Posted March 3, 2008 Posted March 3, 2008 Are you having problems with the old F-15 or something else? https://forum.dcs.world/topic/133818-deadmans-cockpit-base-plans/#comment-133824 CNCs and Laser engravers are great but they can't do squat with out a precise set of plans.
monotwix Posted March 3, 2008 Posted March 3, 2008 Some thing elves didn't go hand in hand so that's applicable. I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
jermin Posted March 3, 2008 Posted March 3, 2008 Are you having problems with the old F-15 or something else? I've only fiddled with Su-27. I'll test Mig29 when I'm off work.
EricJ Posted March 3, 2008 Posted March 3, 2008 That's been an issue with the Su-27/33 for ages though, far enough away and cyan blue for you..... Homepage | Discord | Linktree | YouTube 'Nearly everyone felt the need to express their views on all wars to me, starting with mine. I found myself thinking, “I ate the crap sandwich, you didn’t, so please don’t tell me how it tastes.”' - CPT Cole, US Army
jermin Posted March 3, 2008 Posted March 3, 2008 Yes, both Migs are OK. None of them is replaced by default skins at any distance.
Jace11 Posted March 3, 2008 Posted March 3, 2008 I read somewhere that several planes use a different texture at long distance. Is it a smaller version of the textures we are adding - can't be cause they are the wrong colour.. is it a seperate texture all together.. maybe, or is it reverting to the smaller mipmaps of the original textures in the original cdds instead of using the smaller mipmaps we add - probably... In the CDDS file there is a small F-15C skin like the soesterberg one (tail letters CF). It is smaller than normal F-15 textures and has the tails on the same texture as the wings etc, I wondered whether the game was switching to this so I editied it and made it darker... It didn't work...it still switched to light colour at long range. Once solution I did find is this.. Open your graphics.cfg file in your config folder... Find the graphic option set you are using... low, medium or high etc (mine is custom) Find the LOD, this = 1 at low, 1.5 at medium and 1.5 at high.. If you increase this value for whatever setting you are using (say high) to 2.0 or 2.5, the distance at which the aircraft textures switch is significantly increased... However expect a slight performance hit.... This solution is OK but I'd prefer a better one, so hope someone can find one... Aurevoir for now...:smilewink:
Laud Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 The problem could be solved if we only knew which file is loaded when LOD switches so we could replace it. Any Dev has an answer for us here?? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Asus ROG STRIX Z390-F Gaming, Intel Core i7 9700k , 32gb Corsair DDR4-3200 Asus RTX 2070 super, Samsung 970 EVO Plus M2, Win10 64bit, Acer XZ321QU (WQHD) TM HOTAS Warthog, SAITEK Rudder Pedals, TIR 5
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