Why turn off rr's and roads UTX Europe?

Here a screenshot of Paris with UTX Minor Urban Roads, Minor Rural Roads ansd Minor Urban Roas ( residential ) disabled.

rpowers46 wrote: For US UTX I disbled minor urban residential roads and urban encasements and it looks good to me so far.

As I posted above, the primary problem is in how the roads interact with the tiles. The LC tends to land tiles in a 'grid' which in the USA the primary roads follow a grid and therefore are not as intrusive as they appear in Europe.

The Europe road system is not on a North America style grid and instead reflects (sort of) the Roman era road layout. Since the sim lands textures in a grid formation for the most part, any road system that would not have a defined grid pattern to it will exacerbate roads cutting across the tiles abruptly by 10 fold. That is why the suggestion of turning off roads, or, reducing the roads in use to major roadways is suggested for Europe.

As for static roads on the textures themselves, they must be there or:

a. People who do not use UTX or a product that adds roads would not see much of any roads outside of urban areas. And even though UTX may provide a extensive road system that does not mean that a veg or other landclass will place rural textures with structures within the road system, which leads to the next point....

b. Houses, buildings, structures both inside, but especially outside, of urban areas would appear to be sitting there with no roads leading to them at all which would look quite silly!

The problem with static roads "stopping" at the edge of a texture is because the LC's and the textures are not made as one and predefined manually sq km by sq km a very expensive and extensive project for a continent. The same problem with that also displays places where textures may appear mixed up or scrambled, which is a LC layout issue since the GEX textures are designed to appear SEAMLESS with roads that will not stop abruptly and edges that will mate-up with a smooth appearance.. its where the LC cuts off or changes the texture classification that causes that issue, and, mask use by the system, its not a "GEX issue" and never has been. Its the default sim design.

 

Then there are the 'scale' problems..

 

A typical large tree in the sim is an average of 200ft tall in real world scale and houses/buildings can be 2-4-8x their real world counterpart. The scale is way off in the sim which is why I listed the UTX width changes to compensate visually, that and the fact that the narrower the roads/encasements the less autogen is removed.

 

It has nothing to do with performance, but visual quality and an estimate of the 'visual' scale of roads and their easements to the rest of the scenery based on the skewed scale problems in the sim.

 

I showed, using photoscenery, how the reduced width roads and other items such as ocean piers/bridges (UTX section, end of the FSX Tuning Thread: http://www.simforums.com/forums/setting-up-fsx-and-how-to-tune-it_topic29041.html ) I posted mate up with proper scale photoscenery/GEX here:

 

http://www.simforums.com/forums/a-europe-sneak-peek_topic26352_post180350.html#180350

 

So as you can see, the deal is not about being 'exact with real world" but to 'compensate for the poorly designed default sim' so it all 'visually' works better together.

 

 

We dont make landclass, roads, buildings, custom models and airports. Our focus is to try and relieve the sim issues as much as we can, upgrade the default texture/autogen environment, offer the largest coverage area possible and keep the cost as low as possible for the work involved.

 

 

 

 

.... now back to my regularly scheduled vacation which is already in progress