MSFS 2024 SDK Tutorial - The "new" LOD Selection system

[@grassorob]

Ottimo video Federico! Grazie per la condivisione!!

[@marionetteworks]

Thank you so much Federico, this was really useful to show examples of the LOD debug and Statistics profiler.

[@Stefano_SPGamer]

Thank you again Federico ❤

[@ragnaregeland4630]

A very good and informative video. Looking forward to your next modelling/LOD video.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@ragnaregeland4630 thanks!! It will come Monday I hope!

[@HonestHans365]

Thank you KZbin algorithm. You have explained LOD very well. Now I understand what it is and won’t set it on max on PC.

[@brianbuckley6713]

Arrrgh! 😢😢😢😂 Grazie Federico. You have explained LODs beautifully.

[@joe_ger]

Thanks for the video. Now everyone understands. We can start again with the new scenery. Perfectly explained.

[@flyingfries1027]

Good job Frederico. Very well explained! I remember also Seb saying that in FS2024 the correct mip map is loaded for each texture according to distance (while in FS2020 all the textures where loaded anyway, regardless of the size of the object to display). So even by not creating dedicated and smaller textures for your intermediate LODs, you should benefit from a smaller texture footprint in memory in FS2024. I haven't checked, though :) On another note, the "new" LOD system was mostly the fact that, to match this enforced (but not new) LOD policy, we should split our aircraft (or big buildings) into several simobjects. So each part can benefit from its own LODs. That's the new thing that can become a bit of a headache for developers.

[@KOCHONNET]

Hello Federico and thank you for this instructive video as usual , as everyone is looking forward to seeing your next video of the "how to make LOD in blender" has a great day😐

[@kazuar13]

thanx man! kindly waiting for video how to automaticaly create all this LODs for existing models or how to reduce number of verticles in our models by some plugins or Blender tricks

[@Captain8004]

very intersting. I am waiting for your video. In one future video please explain too some basic example how to illuminate a Floorlight depending of the Lod.

[@614NLV]

anyone can be on the camera any cat will always steal the scene 😸

[@stfosteeeen5588]

very interesting Federico. Could you do tutorials how to build simple custom airfields in MSFS2024 grazie mille

[@Borgillios]

Hi Frederico. Thank you for your tutorials. I have learned a lot. I have built fs2020 sceneries and some of them works in 2024 without any LOD problem. How can that be?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@Borgillios guess you have been a good boy and added LODs in the 2020 3d objects 🙂 Or they are so big that their LOD0 keep at a large distance

[@pilot-maia]

Hello Federico. Great content, as always. I noticed that some of my objects were disappearing from the screen very early in fs2024, some are only displayed when I'm on top of them (lol). I have a few questions, if you can answer them: 1. Does the relationship between the number of vertices of the object and the maximum number of vertices have any connection with the graphics settings of fs2024? 2. I noticed that in fs2024 there must be an xml file for each texture file, when are we going to have an exporter addon that already creates this xml, as well as the inclusion of the animation configuration lines in the object's xml? Thanks for everything. Hugs.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@pilot-maia thanks ! 1. Technically yes, the Object LOD settings limits the max vertices 2. The Blender exporter is already been updated for 2024, but is still missing the ability to add animation lines. It is available in the SDK core download, but has a little bug that prevents it from working correctly A working and configured Blender installation including working plug-in is always available in my Drive drive.google.com/file/d/1TS4dBaVMVVzMjc8xupkyHfk3Q1YeV-U7/view?usp=drivesdk

[@emarcel-l4i]

hmm... One small object may not be visible from a distance, but a group of objects representing a larger structure will be. For example, a farm of windmills on the shallow seas.

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@emarcel-l4i a single windmill has a giant bouding sphere by itself because of its height, there shouldn't be problems at all. Actually, this is the case to force with the .xml a lower Lod in order to save on performance (a windmill is extremely easy to LOD)

[@benedictrastetter3084]

Do you know which graphic setting is needed to have the ultra lod limits applied instead of the ones shown for high settings? No matter what I try it stayed at the high limits

[@EthanLessiter]

Fantastic video! Can you publish the link for the diagram at the end?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@EthanLessiter thanks Ethan! Sure, docs.flightsimulator.com/msfs2024/html/3_Models_And_Textures/Modeling/LODs/LOD_Selection_System.htm Updated video description as well with useful pages

[@Borgillios]

Now I am trying to make LOD:s as your tutorial for ms2020. But the texture turn grey when LOD 1 to 3 is active. Any idea why?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@Borgillios ehm no, if you are in the Discord, please share your object so I can take a look!

[@akaristudiosaks5080]

Yeah we had that Problem on xbox in 2020 but only at the beging. At the End of 2020 the Lod Was almost just the same like on PC. So what have they done to make it better?

[@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS]

@@akaristudiosaks5080 can you please elaborate? On my Xbox X, bad LOD models still behaves in the same way as described in the video

[@Viviansen]

​@@MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALSCredo che l'utente si riferisca a uno degli ultimi update per MFS 2020, dove il LOD dinamico fu reso molto più aggressivo per prevenire CTD e il blackout sulle avioniche ( specie sugli aerei più complessi ). Un video molto informativo, è stato addirittura postato nel forum ufficiale sul topic che raccoglie i feedback sulle performance ( pessime ) su console. Gli utenti Xbox al momento sono piuttosto confusi, come dire.

[@v-pilot]

Hello @MSFS-SDK-TUTORIALS