You may need to fly with 2 or more flight models per frame for your plane.
Go to Operations and Warnings under Settings and up the number of flight models per frame, and the shaking will very likely stop.

Any time you modify a part of the sim and update, we ask you if you want to keep your mods or get the update. This is not going to change.

Have you forgotten to remove any feature with the latest update that does not allow any files to be replaced without getting the annoying update needed.. Tried to replace runway textures today after updating to 10.20 rc1, but when I start i get a question that I need to update again.. I love this auto update feature, but not liking it much if it keeps getting in the way of development..

Kind sound like a bugreport, but I know how you feel about those and where to put em, so sorry for asking, but did not managed to choose either way to go..

Not sure what you mean by fall line ? It does look silly as fly over them and they are still spinning but I still think it looks better then looking at the cardboard side of the trees. Maybe you can program them not to spin as you fly over them. Anyhow, we need some tropical looking vegitation for the islands ! The pine trees just don’t look right.

Regards………..

The above mentioned change in texture lightness is an illusion. The effect is noticed when XPlane is brought up on the screen from a start up. In this case the time is usually set to 12 noon and, because there is lighting from directly above, almost all the vertical textures are in the shade and appear at their darker level. Reversion to mid morning or afternoon lighting will produce the brightness expected. My observations were made in a hurry without taking this into consideration.

Also, another factor in Windows 7 tends to confuse this analysis. The Windows 7 Photo Viewer display of .png and .dds files, both in their full window display and in the snapshot display mode of Windows Explorer, show a considerable darkening of the .dds over the .png version of files generated by using X-Grinder to do the .png to .dds conversion. This problem is one that is a product of the Photo Viewer display program only. When used in X-Plane the .png and the .dds version of the same files produce identically bright object textures, even though they show substantial differences in their Windows Photo Viewer display.

I suspect this is a result of the improvement of the .dds format, now offered in X-Grinder to improve the resolution and size of its files, and not currently handled by the Windows 7 Viewer.
Bob Marsh

Thanks for your reply, I´ll try them out later 🙂

Oliver, over on the org you can get some AI planes from XPFW that Morten modified by stripping out all but the essentials for the AI system. As a result, they are greatly reduced in both file size and FPS hit.

Ever since V10 and across different GPUs, drivers and all rendering settings I experience a shaking/jittering of the scenery (and seems to cause some scenery elements to flicker and some scenery aliasing too.). I’ve seen this in many XP10 videos too. While flying you won’t recognize it, but on the apron or sitting on the runway it’s obvious (at least in my eyes). Nothing that I couldn’t live with but annoying and odd. Mostly because I’m curious: Do you have any idea what this is about?

Thanks
Flo

We’ve tried spinning and non-spinning trees and we decided on non-spinning. It saves a little bit of memory (which means we get more) and the spinning can be seen as you fly over them, which can look silly.

What we should probably do is rotate the trees so that one of the billboards is along the fall line – this would improve ridge lines without needing animation.