Low graphics quality of instruments on some planes - reasons?

[Dupxo]

Hello,

 

I noticed that several planes have instruments rendered with lower resolution than the others. I checked the files (data-graphics-planes-[plane_folder]-[plane_i.dds]) and that is not my "feeling", the situation is that many planes have 1024x1024 resolution of instrument .dds file while others have 2048x2048 resolution. Can someone explain what are the reasons with this situation? Even the new plane made 2 years ago - Sopwith Snipe - has the low resolution instruments, so issue is not related to porting planes from RoF. I noticed that right away when i bought the Snipe - you can clearly see the "pixels" of cockpit instruments in that plane. That is very odd.

 

Is it going to be corrected? Is there a mod to improve the graphics quality of the instruments?

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

Look at N11

[Dupxo]

Yeah, i know this too. When i first saw the N11's cockpit i was like: "How the hell they made it looks worse than in RoF"? Look at N11's tachometer and compare it to N17's tachometer (BTW. in N17 RPM gauge doesn't show correct values) - N11's RPM gauge looks awful.

Several planes in FC are pretty - both external and internal, but several have strange low-resolution fragments, details - for example: N11's tachometer and windschield, Hanriot's tachometer, Snipe's gauges.

[Dupxo]

Ok, so i have checked all [plane]_i.dds files and I noticed that Camel has the same distribution of instruments AND the same instruments on .dds file like Snipe BUT in 2K quality! I replaced this file with Sop Snipe .dds file instrument and it works...

 

So, just activate this attached tiny mod by JSGME and enjoy Snipe's 2K instruments.

 

The silly thing is that some aircrafts have even 4K instrument's textures (Nieuport 17 GBR) when some "suffer" with 512x512 (Hanriot HD1) textures xD

 

@LukeFF could I ask you to give a hint to developers to exchange Snipe's instrument's textures with 2K resolution Camel's instruments textures? This is 10 seconds of work and this is special collector plane so i suppose it should look brilliant.

 

 

SopSnipe 2K instruments.zip

[LukeFF]

On 3/15/2024 at 12:05 PM, Dupxo said:

@LukeFF could I ask you to give a hint to developers to exchange Snipe's instrument's textures with 2K resolution Camel's instruments textures? This is 10 seconds of work and this is special collector plane so i suppose it should look brilliant.

 

This is being looked at for a possible solution, thanks. ?