Comments on: Dude, Where’s My Taxiway? /2014/10/dude-wheres-my-taxiway/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:28:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Ralph Wigzell (Raffles) /2014/10/dude-wheres-my-taxiway/#comment-9609 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:28:43 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5771#comment-9609 In reply to Ben Supnik.

It will be much appreciated 🙂

]]> By: Ben Supnik /2014/10/dude-wheres-my-taxiway/#comment-9607 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 03:10:26 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5771#comment-9607 In reply to Gal Cohen.

First, if the tech press stuff is correct, you can go turn on DSR without app intervention. We’re certainly not planning to do anything to support it.

And…from what i can tell, DSR isn’t a whole lot different from what we do with 4x SSAA in HDR mode. I would expect the performance hit would also be almost exactly the same; the technical description of DRS I found is “render the image bigger and down-size” – that’s exactly what HDR SSAA does. (In nerd lingo, our SSAA is called OGSSAA for ‘ordered grid’, which just means the sub-sample points aren’t rotated).

So my expectation is: you won’t get better speed. You might get better performance; for example, their down sampling filter might be better tuned. But this is just a small fraction of the cost of the anti-aliasing.

]]> By: Oscar /2014/10/dude-wheres-my-taxiway/#comment-9606 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:00:34 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5771#comment-9606 That’s the kind of answer I was hoping to hear… so it’s likely just a mistake, not a choice XD

]]> By: Gal Cohen /2014/10/dude-wheres-my-taxiway/#comment-9605 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:03:10 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5771#comment-9605 Hey Ben,
sorry that this post is a bit out of topic … 🙂
I assume that you did see the Dynamic Super Resolution that Nvidia published with the new drivers for the 900 series , and it’ll follow for the 600 and 700 series in the next drivers I think.
As I understood it works almost like SSAA that is in XP , while it’s more gentle on performance.
I didn’t try it myself because I have and old GTX 460 , but do you think that it’s possible that as a user I can run lower AA in XP while DSR is on , and get basicly the same result with higher perforamnce , that let’s say 4XSSAA + FXAA?
And mainly , should it work with XP or you , the developers will need to do some code stuff in order to take advantage on that ?

]]> By: Ben Supnik /2014/10/dude-wheres-my-taxiway/#comment-9604 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:40:38 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5771#comment-9604 In reply to Ralph Wigzell (Raffles).

This is why I think we need an auto-checker in WED – it’s really really really hard to find these errors by hand!!

]]> By: Ralph Wigzell (Raffles) /2014/10/dude-wheres-my-taxiway/#comment-9603 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:57:32 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5771#comment-9603 In reply to Ben Supnik.

Hi Ben, I found the error after 2 days of searching with a fine toothcomb using WED. It was indeed an overlap. The scenery came from FS2004 and was probably converted using a conversion tool. I had a great learning curve. Your link above helped a lot.
thanks
Ralph

]]> By: Ben Supnik /2014/10/dude-wheres-my-taxiway/#comment-9600 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:11:30 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5771#comment-9600 In reply to Rudy.

Others have responded to this more eloquently than I was going to…I was just going to write something snarky like “don’t fix bugs in other people’s features, implement MY feature!”. 🙂

I do agree that the bezier S curve bug was a small one and people want visibility badly. But the result of the S-curve bug is a major regression bug in 1030, so now it’s important.

]]> By: Ben Supnik /2014/10/dude-wheres-my-taxiway/#comment-9599 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:10:26 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5771#comment-9599 In reply to Oscar.

That is weird that it is in markings-1 and not taxiways or something…

]]> By: Ben Supnik /2014/10/dude-wheres-my-taxiway/#comment-9598 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:09:44 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5771#comment-9598 In reply to Ralph Wigzell (Raffles).

I’ll try to post one next time I have one open in WED.

This link is super-old but has a few pics of fubar beziers:

http://scenery.x-plane.com/library.php?doc=apt_guidelines.php

]]> By: Oscar /2014/10/dude-wheres-my-taxiway/#comment-9597 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:54:14 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5771#comment-9597 Ben, on a related note:

I’ve given the X-Plane library’s custom pavement a try, wanted to use some asphalt for runway shoulders and such, but I noticed that all custom pavement is in layer group ‘markings -1’, which kind of seems to negate the flexibility the layer system was designed for in the first place 😉

Would it be possible to put them in a layer group between taxiways and runways, e.g. ‘taxiways +3’ or ‘runways -3/-4?’
I realize this will affect airports that rely on the current layering, but I doubt that it will be many…

anyway, I like the WED validating stuff 🙂

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