sim issue Control Tower LOD Bug

[nmahink]

I've noticed that the control tower LOD does not load at all, but when I move much closer the tower loads in. Can you please look into this bug? It's ruins the immersion when I am parked at a gate or taxiing along and the control tower does not load. I never had this problem in FS20. I have OLOD at 200 and TLOD at 200. Only add on installed is just the airport.

[nmahink]

Here is the tower loaded in in when up close.

Edited April 7 by nmahink
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[richboy2307]

Hi @nmahink
Thanks for your report.

FS2024 has a new LOD system that works differently to FS2020, hence why you wouldn't have seen this in 2020 or a version of the scenery made with the FS2020 SDK.

There are considerable challenges still to this system and what you're noticing is one such instance. In order to keep it loaded in at a higher Level of Detail (LOD) you have to make the bounding sphere of the ATC Tower asset extremely large, which will in turn can have a significant performance impact on some systems as the sim does not like them to be so large.

Setting them to standards as described in the SDK leads to "aggressive" pop-in or "LODing" so a balance has to be struck. The way it is currently is the best that can be achieved without sacrificing too much performance for the end users as we have seen in testing.

We are hoping that further refinements to this system are made in future sim updates so we can better harness the performance benefits with less sacrifice of visual fidelity.
Asobo are aware of this as this issue has also been raised by other scenery developers, for example:

https://devsupport.flightsimulator.com/t/bounding-sphere-issue-lods-screen-size/13580/10

Thanks!

[nmahink]

Ah I see, thank you for the explanation. I really hope the developers at Asobo can fix this. LAX is my home airport and control tower is what makes the airport truly stand out.

[tubbsds]

I absolutely agree this is very unfortunate as the control tower looks cartoonish and completely kills the immersion of an otherwise wonderful scenery.

[nmahink]

Is there any chance to maybe have a temporary workaround for the tower to load? Maybe use the 2020 tower model? The scenery is wonderful is it just that the tower not loading takes away from the immersion and is preventing me from using the airport.

[Eddie]

Hello,

Unfortunately that isn't possible due to how the scenery in its entirety is structured. We continue to look at ways to mitigate the LOD-popping, however, as it stands, Rich's comment above is the latest information regarding this. Apologies for the inconvenience gents. 

Thank you