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Switching default texture format to DDS (view source)
Revision as of 14:33, 5 September 2014
, 5 September 2014→DDS Test at the airport of Orio (Bergamo - Italy)
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[[File:Terrain texture scheme DDS 01-2000.jpg|800px|thumb|Comparison of texture in relation to the three possible choices in "Rendering Options" -> "Terrain texture scheme"]]The final result, with all the "Shader Options" active, is not very satisfactory, I would say very poor. Apparently not check on any improvement in the speed of image loading. I think on modern machines with quad-core processors 16 GB, with latest graphics cards (NVIDIA 870) 6 GB, the loading of these images is not really a "bottleneck". I propose to insert the DDS functionality, but in a transparent way, ie convert "on the fly" the images before inserting them into the temporary memory, for example using the convert function of ImageMagick. However, I do not know if it really is a useful feature, I think there are many other things to do before this.<BR>These are the parameters used by the startup script "run_fgrun.sh": | [[File:Terrain texture scheme DDS 01-2000.jpg|800px|thumb|Comparison of texture in relation to the three possible choices in "Rendering Options" -> "Terrain texture scheme"]]The final result, with all the "Shader Options" active, is not very satisfactory, I would say very poor. Apparently not check on any improvement in the speed of image loading. I think on modern machines with quad-core processors 16 GB, with latest graphics cards (NVIDIA 870) 6 GB, the loading of these images is not really a "bottleneck". I propose to insert the DDS functionality, but in a transparent way, ie convert "on the fly" the images before inserting them into the temporary memory, for example using the convert function of ImageMagick. However, I do not know if it really is a useful feature, I think there are many other things to do before this.<BR>These are the parameters used by the startup script "run_fgrun.sh": | ||
{{Note|To reproduce this test, you can use the following [[Fgfsrc]] file - you should set up [[$FG_ROOT]] and [[$FG_SCENERY]] specifically for your own system though.}} | |||
<code> | <code> | ||
--airport=LIME | --airport=LIME | ||
--aircraft=757-200-PW2040 | --aircraft=757-200-PW2040 | ||