Ok Zappa. Thanks for the considered reply. i'll look into it a bit more.
But surely the most distant depiction of any aircraft at maximum range will be a single pixel? This is what i understood, and a post earlier today from Oleg ( I think - could've been Luthier?) said as much.
For newer high-res monitors that single pixel will appear smaller on screen and thus be harder to spot. My point was that real-life pilots had to contend with similar issues - and that the max distance depiction of a near-invisible single pixel would be closer to that reality than the larger, more easily visible pixel on say an 800x600 screen?
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ok, home now, and had another look. Yes - I can see what you're getting at.
Part of the problem too was a bit of sloppy use of language in my original post - as you identified concerning 'rendered more precisely'.
Seems I have made a few assumptions which may not have been correct. Seems the key issue as to whether it is more realistic or not is when the lod-switching is triggered - and I can see that in the move to higher res that could skew the original balance.
Basically, I'm not a competitive online flyer, so it isn't something that has been an issue for me
Last edited by kendo65; 02-08-2011 at 07:01 PM.
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