Replacement coud textures?

[skyhawka4m]

Haas anyone made any lower res. cloud textures? I believe the stock textures are 2048 square and hi-res. I know Pablo did some for FS9 that were in three formats.....I'd like to fly with some clouds but I'm taking a huge hit when I turn on the clouds.

[Snave]

All the payware alternatives - REX, Active Sky etc, offer different resolutions. But the problem may not be the textures but rather the `mix'n'match` of different texture sizes. If everything is the same size you ease the calculation burden on the GPU substantially. It doesn't have to be lower texture res either - I can get better fps from using the HD FTX 2048 textures for the Mooney and Cessna with the 2048 clouds.

In any case you can reduce the texture size with a single stroke - reduce the Global Texture Complexity slider from full right and you reduce ALL textures from 1024 to 512.

[skyhawka4m]

hmmmm....ok.....have to do some experimenting.