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Bouncing on Runway

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MenendezDiego

Charter Member
Sometimes when I'm sitting on the runway, even rolling, the plane bounces a few inches.

I tried to google the problem, but found little. Anyone know whats going on, and what the fix is?

I'm running xp 32 bit, with FSX+Accel

Regards, Diego
 
Its a thing..As far as I know there is no real fix...

I think some have adjusted the contact points and gotten some better results..But not sure about that completely...
 
harleyman said:
some have adjusted the contact points and gotten some better results.
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After my experience with the Flight Replicas J-3 bouncing all over the apron, I am certain that it's a contact-point problem related to a particular plane.

So, Diego, is it only a problem with one plane? Which one? I bet you are not the only one with the problem - look for help from the developer of that particular plane!

- Jeff
 
I've had problems with the Aerosoft Catalina Beta, the Aerosoft F-16, Iris F-18, FSX F-18, a bunch!

I'll ask the developers
 
There was a thread, which I think was erased in the Great Crash, that talked about how certain airports have "bumps" at certain points, where the aircraft will jump as if it hit something on the ground. I remember testing it out, and they were there. If I remember correctly, it was something to do with FSX itself, and was not fixable (although perhaps someone has come up with a fix since then).

Mike
 
But does it happen on every runway you have ever used? I think you are seeing the 'bug' that Mike mentioned, and depending on the contact point setup of a given model some are more affected by this than others. That has been my experience.
 
not something at the airports -

the bounce would even occur at times in the water with seaplanes...

the problem is caused by ground textures getting blurred slightly and then snapping into 'focus' as your rig catches up with the render...

some planes use too many textures or take too many draw calls in flight - or sometimes you have your terrain texture detail set too high...

so the penalty is usually a slight (or total) blur of the ground surface detail - as you land and taxi - the detail resets to full focus and for some reason - this pops the plane into the air for a second.

reduce your ground texture detail slightly and see if it helps - just reduce it until the popping stops.
 
Remember, there are three kinds of hopping

* Bumps in runway and tarmac
* Bad contact points causing issues that actually make the aircraft hop now and then
* FSX built-in bug where things, for some odd reason, hop.. the plane will hop/blink/stutter, and if at an airport, all ground vehicles will momentarily hop once in a while... Sometimes alot on some computers.


So it could be 1 (or 2, or 3) of the above issues.



Bill
 
limjack said:
Door number 3 for me then. Bummer for me but living with it.

Hopping Jim
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Mine also does neat things with clouds and runways. Clouds will disappear in groups in an area, then reappear. Runways turn into 'designer pink' or 'lime green' momentarily.

But! (but).. its running smoothly....! :d Bring on the pink runways man!


:ernae:
 
Could you post the Contact Points for the bouncing aircraft . At least the Point 0 , Point 1 and Point 2 lines .
They're in the Aircraft cfg .
 
MenendezDiego said:
I've come to realize it's all aircraft at certain airports
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which airports - because if they are 3rd party addons with extra ground / building textures - or FSX default large airports again heavy on the rendering side then try turning down your ground detail slider a notch or two - I had that hoppy business and this is the only thng that worked for me...until I can afford to go from 2 to 4 gigs of RAM anyhoos
 
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