Technical Question For Painters (please?)

[dougal]

Having upgraded my PC a while back, I'm once again having a go at large formation flying with WW2 heavy bombers.

However, even with a major overclock to almost 4mHz, I can't keep more than 12 - 14 B17s in the air (A2A) with crashing FSX.

I remember someone here suggested reducing the size of the dds files, but I didn't note which ones. How do I know which texture files in an addon aircraft to alter?

Any other help with this much appreciated.

 

[stiz]

for the a2a birds its just about all the textures that have _t, _spec or _bump

so for example

b17g_**_t
b17g_**_t_spec
b17g_**_t_bump

(where ** is a number)

 

[dougal]

for the a2a birds its just about all the textures that have _t, _spec or _bump

so for example

b17g_**_t
b17g_**_t_spec
b17g_**_t_bump

(where ** is a number)

Thanks. Being as the ac will never be seen close-up, are there any textures that can be removed completely while still showing main colours and markings?

I'd also wondered about about swapping out the aircraft after flight, with a low poly AI aircraft, using the converter in FSRecorder?

Anyone know where to get WW2 AI aircraft?

 

[Astoroth]

The recent Duxford Scenery (by ACG I think) has some very nice WWII AI included with it.

 

[dougal]

The recent Duxford Scenery (by ACG I think) has some very nice WWII AI included with it.

Okay, I have that, thanks.

I thought those would've been static models, but if they're AI, that's brilliant.

 

[dougal]

okay guys, next question....?

Got 30+ B17s now in formation at 22,000ft using AI, but no con trails. Can someone briefly explain how to put the effect in the AI aircraft?

Many thanks for the B17 AI tip - works a treat!

Okay never mind thank.

EDIT:
i found I could just ciopy another a/c effects/smoke settings etc.

 

[dougal]

Sorry guys, one more question...

When 'saving as' in DXTbmp, should I be using the option ACE DXT1 for the smallest file sizes?

Thanks