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FSXA How is set visibility distance of AI airplanes?

Kekelekou

Kekelekou

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Hello there!

I have just bought the splendid « Trafic France » AI package, but I have noticed that the AI airplanes from the addon appear or disappear at a much closer distance than default AI planes (default ones remains visible from much further than the addon ones). This creates a pop-up effect which kind of brings the realism a notch down.

So I am wondering what is the parameter that sets the visibility distance of AI models? Is it written down in the aircraft.cfg or in the MDL file?

Any input will be much appreciated!
 
In fact, nobody that I spoke to or got in touch with, knows.
I have the same problem on my computer with AI ground vehicles that pop up once they are very close to the user aircraft but then funnily enough, others do not have that problem with those same AI.
I have thought of changing video card settings, adding and changing LODs and many other things but with no result.
Your thread is very intriguing as I never found out why certain aircraft have those specific LODs (e.g. 280, 120, 60, etc.) and why not just 100 downward.
 
So I am not the first one struggling with the issue. This « Living world » is not the busiest one on FSDev, so I am going to post it in Aircraft modelling too in an attempt to get more exposure to the ol’ wizards.
Thanks for your feedbak anyway to bith of you.
 
In France VFR package, aircrafts are not LODed to ensure maximum visibility. I have a friend who gets LOD issues (LODed objects vanish too soon), but we can't figure out, as cfg and so on are "the same". There must be some hidden property of setting...?
 
Same thing for me, some MDLs deseapear then reappear in close distance.
Salut Alain!
 
In my experience, MDL files created with early versions of FSDS2 disappear at relatively short distances. MDL files created by later versions of FSDS and those created by GMAX do not typically do this.
 
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