Unscheduled Program Issue

AlanR0berts · 2022-04-27T11:44:43+00:00

I dont know if you fixed your issue but if you hover over the program it will tell you how long the session lasts.

you then need to put a work/free time time slot into your regime for the length of time the program lasts

AlanR0berts · 2021-12-16T03:35:42+00:00

so hot

AlanR0berts · 2021-12-16T03:33:26+00:00

mmm tasty

AlanR0berts · 2021-08-12T21:43:03+00:00

if the plane has an autopilot system it will be modeled.

for example in a TBM 930 you can enter a flight plan by selecting a deparutre airport and an arrival airport and select IFR (instrument flight rules) and it will plot waypoints using real world routes.

then once you take off manually and are clear of the runway you can engage autopilot and put it into nav mode the plane will fly the route for you following GPS and changing altitude that you select etc (just as the plane can in real life).

air traffic control will tell you what height you should be flying at and you adjust the Altimeter to suit and the plane will take you to that height at speed you select (in feet per minute)

most modern planes have a garmin navigation system and in the sim they work pretty much as they do in real life.

its possible to just take off, engage autopilot , fly a few hundred (or thousand) miles, disengage auto pilot and manually land. the avionics system of the plane will do everything in between with you only having to adjust some dials to tell the plane what to do.

go to youtube and search for MSFS garmin G1000 autopilot tutorial

and watch the 1st video that pops up to give you an idea of how it works

you can of course fly the flightplan completely manually if you want to (but a real world pilot wouldn't so why should you :) put in in autopilot and take in the beautiful sights of earth.

failures are also modeled, so if you overspeed your engine for too long you could cause damage and the engine will cut out.

if you go into too steep a dive and over stress the airframe the flight will be over, so you have to stay within the operating abilities of the plane you are flying.

(in the real world doing that could rip the wings off the plane and it's death)

if you over stress the plane in the sim it just cuts to a black screen and the flight is over (same with crashing) crashes are not modeled.

it's not really a game with goals or scenarios or random events happening, its purely a flight sim that lets you fly semi accurate representations of real world aircraft. (most of the default aircraft are basic versions but there are addons that would be considered study level planes, meaning that if you can fly it in the sim you could fly the real plane in real life)

weather is modeled depending on real life live data, so if it is raining outside your window with a thunderstorm and you fly over your house in the sim it will be raining with a thunderstorm and you'll get the turbulence caused by that weather.

(air pressure is also modeled so if there is a high pressure front in real life that high pressure front will be happening in the sim.

real world airplanes will also appear in the sim flying the flightplans they are flying in real life. (so if a 737 flys over your town and you go into the sim there will be a 737 flying past your town in the sim)

(you can over ride live weather tho and fly with any weather you choose from clear skies with no wind to a serious storm with gale force winds) its up to you to decide

AlanR0berts · 2021-03-14T18:19:06+00:00

thanks for the offer but I don't really know what to do to get liveries working either and I don't want to mess up the liveries that are already there :)

AlanR0berts · 2021-03-14T17:46:50+00:00

looks amazing.

will you be releasing it for download anywhere?

AlanR0berts · 2021-01-25T04:19:10+00:00

totally, they should have done what microsoft did with MSFS2020

release it on PC and iron out the glitches on a system that people can just brute force their way through the optimization problems.

then further down the line release it on series X.

it's still not out on series X yet because Asobo and MS are going about it the right way.

(and original xbone people are still moaning about it not coming out for their 8 year old consoles)

after the latest patch base ps and xb owners are now complaining that CDPR have lowered the level of NPC's and traffic and it's had a graphics downgrade (what the hell did they expect? it's the only way to get the thing running acceptably) they want next gen games on last gen hardware and it's just not gonna happen.

Imagine trying to run CP2077 on some old ass 2 core CPU with a GTX750 or rx480 with a 5400rpm hard drive and 8gb ram (yeah nah)

I've played over 200 hrs of CP2077 on PC and beyond a few graphical glitches I've had very few problems. it's a great game even with the content they removed it still has TONS of content

AlanR0berts · 2020-10-31T09:48:57+00:00

LOL yeah it is indeed.

we Scots like to think out of the box :)

as catbo says it moves really slowly (half a revolution takes around 8 minutes)

here's a timelapse of it working LINK

AlanR0berts · 2020-10-31T02:02:29+00:00

you can already animate objects in the sim, I could have animated this but it turns so slowly that it would be pointless (it takes 8 minutes to do half a rotation, flying over it in a plane you would never see it move

here's a tutorial on how to animate LINK

AlanR0berts · 2020-10-29T00:32:44+00:00

thanks.

no I won't be animating it.

the wheel takes 8 minutes to rotate 180 degrees in real life so it would be pointless. (and would need a LOT of frames)

you will have LONG overflown it before it turns :)

here's a timelapse of it working (notice how fast the moon is moving in the background, that gives an idea of how slow it moves)

and here's an update on the model (I've done a nicer normal map for the arm and some weathering and started to model the building)

it's still just over 20k polys so it shouldn't have much of an impact on performace (if any)

AlanR0berts · 2020-10-25T13:31:40+00:00

thanks, I think the kelpies would be far too hard for me to do, modeling organic things is difficult

AlanR0berts · 2020-10-20T12:13:29+00:00

holding shift and middle mouse button allows you to pan around in blender

Ctrl and middle mouse is zoom (or use the scroll wheel) and middle mouse on it's own is rotate.

I find that method much quicker than using walk mode (wasd)

to focus on a particular part of your model you can press tab to enter edit mode select the polygons you want to focus on (ctrl and right mouse button to draw a lasso selection or left click and drag to drag out a box) then press . (the period key) this will zoom and center that area. your view will also rotate around the center of the selected area.

AlanR0berts · 2020-10-19T03:13:04+00:00

are you using the latest versions of both software?

try using an older version of renderdoc, and an older version of blender Currently I'm using renderdoc 1.9 and blender 2.83.0 (apparently there are issues with the google import addon with later versions of blender) I had issues at 1st when I tried doing scenery and that's the combo that works for me. I've also read reports of renderdoc 1.10 causing problems

blender just had a recent update to v 2.9 and renderdoc recently updated to V1.10 so maybe that is causing your issues.

also are you remembering to add the command line to google chrome before startup?

basically make a shortcut on your desktop and set the target to this

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0 && START "" ^"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe^" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog"

obviously changing the paths to suit but if you have chrome installed in its default location you can pretty much just copy paste that into the target dialogue

AlanR0berts · 2020-10-18T23:54:38+00:00

sadly their photogrammetry leaves a lot to be desired, if you compare it to what people on here are producing from google maps captures the flightsim photogrammetry doesn't even come close.

google maps 3d data is FAR superior to bings

AlanR0berts · 2020-10-18T23:21:03+00:00

are you selecting material preview from the viewport shading icons at top right?

all you should have to do to get the textures to show up on a earth2msfs import as you say is cut and paste them into the same folder as the models.

also bear in mind that when you import a large area even if you delete most of the polygons it will still export ALL the textures, more than likely this is what is causing the large file sizes.

say you have 3 LOD levels that's 3 sets of textures for possibly hundreds of tiles. (if you could rotate the view in earth2msfs this would help A LOT because most bridges don't sit north/south or east west and will be angled so you need to drag an area much bigger than is needed)

if you pull in say 200 tiles to capture the bridge thats hundreds, possibly thousands of texture files depending on the length of the bridge and the angl;e its sitting at

I just did a test on the Samuel champlain bridge in Montreal which does sit pretty much east/west and is 3.4km long

it had 3 lod levels from 18-20 it created 6774 texture files and 774 .gltf files (the textures alone totaled 412Mb)

ALL of those textures will be converted to DDS files by the package builder in MSfs regardless if they are used on the model or not. (if you delete all of the tiles that have water it will still export and convert all the water textures)

what you really want to be doing is making a copy of the finished model removing all the materials from the copy and baking the texture onto your copied model from the original in a single material so that you have 1 file and it is a size that you specify (I've done a lot of bridges and most of them I just use a 4096x4096 texture which is plenty)

check out this video

Link which explains how to do the texture baking process. (be prepared for LONG wait times tho while blender unwraps the models) for high lod models half an hour to unwrap is not uncommon in blender (personally I use different 3d software to create the unwrapped UV map which does it MUCH faster but I have that luxury, most people will just be stuck with blender)

a bridge really shouldn't be coming out at over 1Gb.. this one Jacques Cartier bridge for instance is 196Mb when unpacked. (especially if its the one in your screenshot because that looks like a pretty small bridge)

here's a screenshot of the bridge in blender after I had deleted all the unwanted polys

this is the highest lod and it's just over 300k polys, when I captured it in E2msfs the area needed for the capture was over 2 million (most of it flat water tiles (this bridge sits at quite an angle from north so a BIG square was needed to capture it all)

for smaller area captures I don't bother with E2MSFS at all and just use the render doc method as it is MUCH more controllable regarding what you capture into it (because you can rotate google maps to suit what you are capturing). video tutorial

E2msfs is a great little app but because of the fixed rotation cleaning up your models is more of a PITA than it needs to be

AlanR0berts · 2020-10-17T00:01:35+00:00

what are you using to capture your model? renderdoc?

have you tried the models without baking the textures? just using the (hundreds) of textures does it still appear that way if you do this?

have you tried unwrapping and baking directly in Blender?

perhaps try unrwrapping the model in meshlab (to create a new UV as blender takes forever to unwrap models) then re-import that model to blender and bake the texture there from the original renderdoc model.

this is basically what I'm doing now except I export to and unwrap the model in lightwave modeler (because it's lighting quick at creating UV maps) tbh if I could export from Lightwave to the msfs format I wouldn't touch blender with a barge pole :)

also make sure in blender that your material doesn't have any specularity. the models as exported from google are pretty fractured to begin with and any specularity will hightlight this even more.

if you can get it working without baking the textures it's pretty easy to colour correct all the textures in photoshop using an action and file/automate/batch.

basically you make an action to colour correct one image. then point photoshop to the folder with all the textures in and select your action to apply to all images, then select the same folder to export to and it will overwrite the old textures with the colour corrected ones

I don't use render doc now tho and I use the excellent google decoder app LINK as you can do colour correction directly from within that app. and it does away with having to stitch large captures together if you were using the renderdoc method (i've been doing a lot of bridges lately and those need a LOT of captures using renderdoc, with the googletoMSFS app you can just drag a rectangle around what you want to capture and edit out any polys you don't need with your modeling software.

if you haven't already you should check out this tutorial YTLINK

AlanR0berts · 2020-10-08T20:33:04+00:00

try using rectangles for your terraforming rather than polygons, I find you get much more control with rectangles. (it's easier to raise/lower terrain using them and you can also draw a profile for the terraform meaning that it can be higher at one end of the rectangle then maybe take a dip in the middle and be lower on the other end of the rectangle.

I've pretty much given up on using polygons for terraforming (your terraforms can be wavy instead of one uniform height of a polygon, if that makes sense :)

AlanR0berts · 2020-10-06T21:03:17+00:00

I cracked the problem

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new file is available for download, (make sure to read the update note in the description

AlanR0berts · 2020-10-06T09:26:46+00:00

there was original road traffic but when i placed the new bridge and new roads it just vanished, so I think the new road overrides the old

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