Thanks Harry, but I managed to find the location without much trouble. Your effort is appreciated

No trouble, Robert. Just another good excuse to fly a mission or two

Thanks for digging into it. Right now this is the only issue I'm having with your JSGME high end mod and I can happily live with it. There are many more issues with the medium mod on my machine, I think probably because that should really be labelled high end and I don't have enough CPU / graphics memory.

Cheers

H

Hopefully someone with the correct knowledge, can take the mods and make alterations to them to resolve the issue. I can certainly re-package them after that.

I have tried both and I can't say as I have had a problem with either one, but I'm running a GTX 1080 so graphics memory isn't likely to be an issue for me.

Robert, keep in mind that just because you didn't see the glitch on your first mission after removing the mod that it won't occur again! It could be a sporadic issue that needs to be confirmed by flying several missions. Having said that, I can see how the mod might create some strange graphic anomalies. I suspect that people with lower end video cards may need to lower the RingDims or the MajorDensity settings in the compositescenerybudgets.xml file a bit.

edit: Sorry, meant to say MajorDensity settings instead of MajorParticle settings

Robert, my anomaly occurred west of Chateau Thierry. And it does disappear when you get closer. I don’t think my VRAM is the issue. 6GB should be plenty.

I agree with you. You could try deactivating the mod and see if the anomaly goes away.

This strange river anomaly can be eliminated by tuning down either the LOD, MajorDensity or RingDim values in compositescenerybudget.xml file. MajorMagee described very well how it works earlier in this thread. Unfortunately, I have not saved my working test settings.

I see that both High and Mid mods have incorrectly calculated MinMaskRadius numbers in composite texture budgets. This may cause artifacts in terrain textures.
I have recalculated them for both versions and uploaded a new zip archive here (not self-extracting):
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvmtwF9vPtwVgYwXpGLGpOb1lXxikA

Maybe it will help. Though I have to say I've never seen this kind of artifacts (and I have seen a lot of them )

Thanks for chiming in here Ankor.
I will download your file and see if I can apply a fix to the mods.

Thanks

Regarding the question of the High System versus Medium System Mod naming being reversed I ran the values through my Budget Calculator.

________________________ Medium_____High
Texture_Outer_Dim_________15,645______31,291
Scenery _Outer_Dim_________8,474______8,148
Scenery_Density____________0.00046____0.0002
Scenery_Objects_Generated__25,947______10,430

So the answer is that it's mixed.

The compositetexturebudgets.xml is in correct folder but the compositescenerybudgets.xml is reversed from how they were labeled.

Major, I am trying to make sense of your data and having difficulty the names you refer to above are not found in the compositetexturebudgets.xml file and it is not clear to me how that data can be applied to all the necessary fields in the file.

Example
"Texture_Outer_Dim" where is that referenced and how is it named in the texturebudgets file? If it is refering to "MajorDensity" then there logically should be multiple entries for each of the levels (1 through 5).

I appreciate your analysis but I don't know how to apply it to the mods

Best Regards;

Ankor;

I tested out your modification to the mods and it seems that it has cleared up the river tile problem. I have only run 2 missions and everything looked fine.

Thanks for your time and effort, it is greatly appreciated.

Didn't you say that you had already reduced your scenery density from 4 or 5 to 3? Perhaps that is why you aren't experiencing the problem that others are having?

Sorry, my analysis was only looking at level 5 to see how the files compared to each other.

The one labeled Medium System uses a density of 0.00046 for all 5 levels. The one labeled High End System has a range of density values from 0.0001 up to 0.0002.

The diameter of the ring is calculated as the PatchWorldDim x RingDim / 3.14 ( derived from Pi x Diam = Circumference) where the Patch Dim is the dimension of the patch in meters, and the RingDim is the number of patches around the edge.

The number of objects generated is the Area x Density = (3.14 x Dimater^2) / 4 x MajorDensity

Thanks for the.formulas Major, but It is out of my league to apply that and generate the necessary mod changes.

The reason the medium mod has the same settings for all 5 levels is because Yaans only gave the numbers for level 5. I just applied it to all levels for continuity but it needs attention by someone knowledgeable.

The real point is that the scenery budget you placed in the Medium set-up should have been in the one for High, and visa versa. The texture budgets are already in their proper places.

Yes, I believe that Yaan98's scenery budget is too high for the "medium" setting. More specifically, Ankor's "High" setting for MajorDensity in the compositescenerybudgets.xml file is .00020, while Yaan98's "Medium" setting for MajorDensity is .00046, which is more than twice as dense as Ankor's settings. I experienced CTD's when I used Yaan98's MajorDensity values, but those went away when I reduced those values to .000335. So far, I haven't experienced any graphics anomalies like the river texture problem as described above, but that is with extremely limited testing.

My point being, that even Ankor's Fixed MinMaskRadius.zip file still contains Yaan98's MajorDensity values that are too high for "Medium" settings.

For comparison purposes, I have an i5-2500k cpu (3.7 Ghz OC'd to 4.5GHz) with an Nvidia 1050Ti video card.

Yep, that is what I supposed either.

A new version of the mod has been sent of to Sandbagger for the mods page. The update should be available soon.

In brief;

I have adjusted the mods so that the high end mod no longer appears to have the medium mod specifications and vice versa.
The mods have been slightly renamed so that they group together in your JSGME panel window.

Please keep posting any issues you identify so that the mods can be refined.

Best Regards