Performance impact of elevated platforms?

[k_kukushkin]

Has anyone tried creating lots of objects with hardened elevated platforms in them? If yes, is there is any measurable FPS impact caused by the platforms?

Thanks!

[Kai503]

Hi Konstantin,

I didn't try it with many objects, but with two covering the whole airfield. It was simply a tryout. The airfield is sloped in both directions. I made one platform for the concrete and one for the grass areas, to be able to use the detail textures. Total size was about 1200 x 800 meters. It looked quite good, but it dropped the fps more than 50%, so I dropped the idea.


Kai

[arno]

Hi,

I haven't tried many objects with platforms, but for sure an object with many platforms will hurt the performance.

[rhumbaflappy]

With FS9, attached platforms could not span over an LOD8 bounds. I'm not sure if that was fixed for FSX.

Dick

[k_kukushkin]

Thanks a lot!