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I am new to this game but I am loving it and the dynamic campaign is amazing. my only and only problem is that planes just dissapear in the distance, literally just dissapear a short distance a way, around 200 - 500 meters away? not too sure but its very off putting and its clearly an issue for gameplay.

I am using Patch July 2013 

Wings over Korea mod

I play on 3840x2160 4K resolution (I'd prefer playing on that) I have extracted the flightengine ini into SF2 Filght folder as well as to the korea folder and made some changes like turned off fade away and increased mesh values, but still to no avail? Anyway to fix this? Its literally the only thing destroying the fun I have with this game.

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If you have corrctly modified your flightengine.ini, then it must be the Aircraft itself.

Earlier Aircrafts don´t use distance lods only one main lod.

 

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4 hours ago, Soulfreak said:

If you have corrctly modified your flightengine.ini, then it must be the Aircraft itself.

Earlier Aircrafts don´t use distance lods only one main lod.

 

I see thank you. Would you know if that is editable at all?

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1 hour ago, ProblemChild said:

I see thank you. Would you know if that is editable at all?

Only if the original model will be changed in 3D max.

 

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3 hours ago, Soulfreak said:

Only if the original model will be changed in 3D max.

That sucks, is this common in this game or just mod related? 

 

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It is nmod related.
Most of the newer mods do have distance lods.

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What aircraft have you noticed this with? If it is just one or two, you might have a mismatch between that aircraft's INI file and the LODs in that aircraft's folder.

For example, in the F8F-1B Bearcat folder, you will see:

[LOD001]
Filename=F8f.LOD
Distance=100

[LOD002]
Filename=F8f.LOD
Distance=250

[LOD003]
Filename=F8f_001.LOD
Distance=1000

[LOD004]
Filename=F8f_001.LOD
Distance=2000

[LOD005]
Filename=F8f_001.LOD
Distance=10000

 

If the F8f_001.LOD is not present in that folder, or if for some reason there is a typo in the INI file in the name of the longer-distance LOD, the Bearcat will disappear when 250m or more away. The names have to match exactly, or you won't see the aircraft.

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4 hours ago, Gatling20 said:

What aircraft have you noticed this with? If it is just one or two, you might have a mismatch between that aircraft's INI file and the LODs in that aircraft's folder.

For example, in the F8F-1B Bearcat folder, you will see:

[LOD001]
Filename=F8f.LOD
Distance=100

[LOD002]
Filename=F8f.LOD
Distance=250

[LOD003]
Filename=F8f_001.LOD
Distance=1000

[LOD004]
Filename=F8f_001.LOD
Distance=2000

[LOD005]
Filename=F8f_001.LOD
Distance=10000

 

If the F8f_001.LOD is not present in that folder, or if for some reason there is a typo in the INI file in the name of the longer-distance LOD, the Bearcat will disappear when 250m or more away. The names have to match exactly, or you won't see the aircraft.

I have noticed this with the North Korean aircraft, I haven't played with Western planes yet. So far i tried the Yak 9 and Mig 15 A and B same results..

Looking at the Mig ini, these are the LOD specifications:

 

[LOD001]
Filename=MiG-15.lod
Distance=100

[LOD002]
Filename=MiG-15_lod2.lod
Distance=250

[LOD003]
Filename=MiG-15_lod3.lod
Distance=500

[LOD004]
Filename=MiG-15_lod4.lod
Distance=1000

[LOD005]
Filename=MiG-15_lod5.lod
Distance=8000

Edited by ProblemChild

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Are the MiG-15.lod files in the MiG-15 folder?

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27 minutes ago, Gepard said:

Are the MiG-15.lod files in the MiG-15 folder?

Yeah, everything is in its own folder. Really frustrating I even downgraded the game to May 2012 in hopes that it could just be a patch issue but still nothing.

Definately something wrong when you can't see a plane beyond 200 - 500m in a flight combat sim... Would editing those LOD files maybe help me fix this annoying problem?

Edited by ProblemChild

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You play with 3840x2160 4K resolution . Perhaps this is to high for the game engine. Test it with a lower setting. Maybe that this help.

Your problem is strange. Never happened before.

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Another possibility (perhaps the most obvious one) - have you checked your game Graphics Options settings?

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4 hours ago, Gepard said:

You play with 3840x2160 4K resolution . Perhaps this is to high for the game engine. Test it with a lower setting. Maybe that this help.

Your problem is strange. Never happened before.

Tried that, seemed to make it better i think, I'll have to test it more to see.

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26 minutes ago, Gatling20 said:

Another possibility (perhaps the most obvious one) - have you checked your game Graphics Options settings?

Everything is set to the highest amount possible.

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You could try reducing your screen resolution in the sim, under Graphics options, to 1280 x 720, or even 1024 x 768, and see if that helps. The sim is a decade or more old now, and probably wasn't designed for such hi-res as 3840x2160.  

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:lol: A decade old????

the thing came out in 2003!!!! So, think 1990s game engine

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Strike Fighters game engine does really have a problem with drawing distant objects, which is the most noticeable with stock assets.

I assume the game was developed with having "markers on" in mind, so this wasn't considered as a some kind of problem.

The solution is to have at least target markers on, otherwise, suffer from planes going invisible

In my set-up, I have all indication disabled except for red box on selected target

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