taxiway textures

[Jimmy]

I found a great file on flightsim.com that will make your defualt taxiway textures look a lot better.



File name: taxiwy2.zip (flightsim.com )

All you have to do is replace the old 42.7kb bitmap with the new 1mb one:blink:

James

[ZK-Brock]

Looks good jimmy, there are lots of different ones available. The problem with textures like yours though is that the cracks end up being very repetitive.

[ZK-MAT]

Replace a 42kb bmp with a 1 meg one? I hate to think how often that bmp needs to be repeated to draw all the taxiways, and wonder how it affects system performance....

Have you noticed any slow-downs, Jimmy?

[Mike M]

Looks good Jimmy.

Does it effect performance in any way?

[Jimmy]

Have you noticed any slow-downs, Jimmy?

at first I was very reluctant thinking about load times (as it already takes half a mintue to load textures sometimes) but I after I backedup the old one I gave it try , and I havent noticed much differance, not that youd aculty be able to tell with the way my fs performs I recomend trying it, it shouldn't be to much work for your pc as its only the one image to load not 5000 differant ones!

James

[AlisterC]

Try getting in spot view, and then spinning your view around. You'll probably see a stutter whenever you need to load an airport. Nice to look at for the five minutes you are at the airport anyway

[Jimmy]

yeah well that happens anyway. If im sitting on the ground (or in the air) at wigram for example when I look over towards nzch (I have Heaths photoreal one) my fps drop in half, its such a pain when IM flying a straight in app too. taxiway textures or not. I think once I have more RAM and a better grf card itll stop happening...I hope.

ill see how it gos for a week then switch back to compare B)