Comments on: DSF Will Be Extended, Not Replaced

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:11:58 +0000

The size of the scenery box loaded by x-plane is independent of DSF.

DSF can cover larger or smaller spans of area, by changing the lat/lon box in the header...X-Plane doesn't support this yet though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 May 2010 10:48:15 +0000

Without changing the dsf spec is it possible to change the number of tiles loaded at one time to say 9?

Is it possible to increase the number loaded the nearer the poles you get?

Is it possible to decrease the tile size to get a smoother loading and optionally load say 25 or 36 half sized tiles?

Thanks

By: Benjamin Supnik

Benjamin Supnik — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:58:48 +0000

madine, you are correct – the problem with the current scheme is that the polygon must be wide enough to see some trees, which are randomly moved…so it is not so precise.

The "edge" based scheme actually does not draw trees on the last side of the polygon, so an O-shaped polygon is more like a U, which lets you make a single line. But…I think this extension may change a bit more before we finalize it.

By: madine

madine — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:54:12 +0000

I think it is already possible to do lines of trees with the current system by creating a "small" polygon. You can see it on the scenery of Xpfrance. but it seems that sometimes, those polygons are too small to be used by x-plane so maybe it will be the solution. the question is : should it be only polygons or also lines (segment ?)