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Dynamic Textures in P3D

Skinner_11

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This is amazing!

At the moment I started watching the demo, a ton of stuff we could use this for came into my mind.

Like projecting advertisments to the side of buildings in NY, or model a board for airport interiors which shows the arriving/departing aircrafts...

Endless opportunities... :)
 
WebSimConnect

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Thanks All,

Heretic said:
You've basically just fixed missing rain on cockpit windows.
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Indeed, you could apply it to the windshield texture easily.

In FS9 the effect was done with animated material and chained bitmaps (16) and was deprecated in FSX most probably (not sure though) due to performance impact.

Using Dunamic Textures you could:
- create "rain" logic, e.g. introduce small/medium/large/snow drops, change intensity over time, different animation when stopped and moving, speed dependant, add windshield wipers effect, etc. I guess skilled in the art could create and art out of it ;)
- performance should not be an issue, bacause WebSimTextures are built with DX11 with as much as possible GPU support, running in separate process and not "interfering" too much P3D rendering.
- at any time (e.g. when airborne) you could switch off the animation and then performance lost is 0 !!! Textures stays in GPU memory and behaves as any static texture. The only drawback is I do not support mipmaps: I think for dynamic content does not make much sense, for VC as well, though for less dynamic content in the environment it might makes sense and I could add it. In fact, this is the first version of WebSimTexture, I am now collecting feedback for changes.

nice effect would be environment snow effect. With a time you could add some snow textures depending on the snow coverage reported by weather station, that would be cool ;)

anyway, feel free to apply. I am here to support your "imagination".

br

Marcin
 
jtanabodee

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Wow! That's amazing stuff.
I think most of us want to use it automatically by getting information from the P3D or FSX itself. Switching or controlling by another window is good but it will be better if it works automatically.
1. Weather changing by the calendar and the area of the world beside weather report from the internet would be good. It can be used with trees and buildings.
2. Changing texture by the wind speed and direction. We can have texture of trees changing due to wind speed. I'd love to see grasses and trees move with wind.
3. VGDS is a dynamic texture that should be implemented as well.
 
WebSimConnect

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jtanabodee said:
Wow! That's amazing stuff.
I think most of us want to use it automatically by getting information from the P3D or FSX itself. Switching or controlling by another window is good but it will be better if it works automatically.
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I agree, everybody expects end products, it's just I am providing a tool for the community to develop end products. Moreover my graph skills are very poor so I believe other might do much better and I encourage to do so.

The only "end product" I did was the WebSimChart:


however as I have not come to an agreement with skyvector owner (not even for payware version) I cannot give for the public. Pity, because it's very useful planning tool, but this is how the things are.

We can have texture of trees changing due to wind speed. I'd love to see grasses and trees move with wind.
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I am afraid for objects animations you'd need a bit more and cannot be done by dynamic textures only and it needs to be addressed by LM.
3. VGDS is a dynamic texture that should be implemented as well.
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Indeed, it should be a trivial task now.

regards

Marcin
 
jtanabodee

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Tree and grass animation do not need to be animation. It can be 3 sets of tree textures changing back and fort to simulate the movement. It will be better than animation and fps will be better.
 
WebSimConnect

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indeed, SSW not only saw the potential in it, but made a very creative usage of the engine they call Red Panda. Hope you'll see the astonishing results soon ...
 
bina

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"Amazing" is not a proper word! This is going to be a true revolution in flightsim. Please keep up!!!
 
=Hollywood=

=Hollywood=

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Would love to set up some Drive In screens (the few that still exist in the world) and be able to project videos onto them in sim, also would be great to animate the building and billboard signs in Las Vegas as well as possibly even adding animated christmas/holiday lights to autogen :)
 
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