737 Triangles

[axmiha]

Hi, anyone. I have these triangles showing now. I never noticed before, but I'm almost sure they weren't there. It's like the "smooth" is set to zero in the geometry or something like that. Is this a bug or some setup in X-Plane?

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[Cameron]

@tkyler check this out.

@axmiha what video card do you have? Mac or Windows?

[axmiha]

Windows + GTX1070.

[axmiha]

I'm quite sure it's the smooth on that geometry (like the phong angle thing), since the rest is smoothed. Funny I never noticed it before.

[axmiha]

More noticeable in the morning light. Here's a later light for comparison.

[Litjan]

Hmm - Tom has seen something similiar on his machine, but I was unable to confirm it on my end (Geforce 1080). It warrants further troubleshooting, maybe a combination of drivers, Vulkan, graphics settings?

[tkyler]

we may have to move this one "up the chain" to Laminar.  I know I haven't touched this particular object and even on my end the "triangles" just appeared at some point.  That being said, it is probably something we can fix on our end...this is typical of Laminar tightening up their graphics code that exposes some weakness that wasn't exposed before...  It is only on this one object on my end.  We'll dig into it for sure.

-TomK

[PEDRO MORAES]

hi, try to increase the texture resolution to the maximum level on graphics options on X-Plane...solved for me!! 

[axmiha]

Well, Pedro, waddya know. Being a CGI man myself, I was sure it was a phong / softness thingy, but raising the texture quality to maximum fixed it. It's another kind of rendering, obviously, so I'll throw an egg on mi face.

With Vulkan off, setting texture to max doesn't fix it, though. It only works with Vulkan. If I can't fly with textures on max, I'll complain again :-)

On X-Plane 10 this doesn't happen (and I must confess I still like XP10 a lot).

Ok, thanks guys for the replies. It's not a big deal, really. 

[Litjan]

A very interesting lead on this issue, Pedro. This might still be a thing to take to Laminar and/or check on our side. I think most people can run with max textures these days, but I think it should still look nice if you don´t.

Cheers, Jan

 

[jpee27]

Hi, i've just made a new normal map for this object, that fixes the wrong face normal values without the need to changing the texture resolution in the graphic settings. Just put it into your aircrafts objects directory, and owerwrite the existing texture.

[Litjan]

Sweet, thanks a lot!

[axmiha]

Jpee27, you have a beer and a meat empanada to your credit. I was just gonna say I can't run XP with textures on max. The card seems good enough (I think - GTX1070 / 8G) but it was stuttering and taking ages to load. So thank you for that one!

[jpee27]

I'm glad to help you guys!