City and VAS

[MatthiasKNU]

Hello all!

First of all, a huge THANK YOU for this pre-christmas present!
AMS is really, really great, fantastic fps and it looks just incredible!

A small suggestion:
On my system the VAS is a little bit high too.
Would it be possible, to add an option where you can choose the density and the detail of the city, like in EKCH oder LGKR?

That would be really great!

Again thank you!
Kind regards
Matthias

[Sydney1962]

you can load the litex texture, but when reading topics it seems that this options is not working totally
as it expect to work, we will see certainly minor updates coming weeks, like almost every airport released
by all developers last year. but product is already 99,9 % okee.

[MatthiasKNU]

I know, the Litex Pack helps a lot!
The scenery is great, no question!

But the option would be very helpful because I am going to fly to AMS only with airliners, so I won't need such a detail in the city itself...

[Emi]

Hi Matthias,

I have asked the same question here already, even though still unanswered: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=9585

Let's see if one of us two can get a reply
Probably FlyTampa is busy sorting out the "main" issues before getting to our "smaller" requests.

[emilios[flytampa]]

There is a sort of 'hidden' option you can use with files that already exist in your systems.

You can copmletely replace custom city with autogen. If you do that, you will be able to save some VAS and you could potentially save even more because all buildings will be controllable by autogen sliders.

The way you do this switch is the following:

1. got to "flytampa\amsterdam\texture"
2. delete all files with the *.agn extension
3. open the "agn.trees_surr_lights" folder and select all files-->copy
4. past those files into previous folder, "flytampa\amsterdam\texture"
5. locate 'amsterdam_city.bgl' and turn it to *.off to de-activate city models
6. (optional). if you want to at least have some of the basic models/skyscrapers
you can rename 'amsterdam_city_basic.off' to *.bgl

[MatthiasKNU]

Hello Emilios!

Thank you for your answer!

Yesterday I was flying from T2G EDDM to EHAM at night with the PMDG 777, FS2Crew, Immersion Packs, openLC, ASCA+AS16 and so on... Even without the excludes...
I had absolutley no problems with the VAS, I have compared it, the VAS is like in EKCH, so everything is fine.
The STAR goes far around the city, so I did not mention a big VAS increase. All in all, after 15 min taxiing with GSX at the gate I had a VAS of 3,45 GB, so there is still room...

All in all, the scenery is really great, it was worth the long waiting period!
Thank you for EHAM!

Kind regards and already a merry christmas to you and the whole flyTampa-Team!