Dynamic LOD by altitude/flight level

[hobanagerik]

I mentioned it back in 2021.

LOD Problems - Distances revisited

I’d like to see dynamic LOD based on your altitude. I fly with LOD 500. This looks great while in the air, and you can see structures a long way away. But its frame heavy in some areas when on the ground, and oddly not always where you might think. I don’t need to see that far out while on the ground, so it would be a nice if the sim lowered the LOD right down when on the ground, but as you climb the LOD ramps up to whatever high mark you have set.

[Toddimus831]

Doing dynamic LOD in a feed-forward mode based on altitude is just the first step. And it would help tremendously.

Taking it to the next level of using FPS and maybe even frame time standard deviation (i.e. “stutteriness”) in a feedback algorithm would be even better!

Really, this wishlist item has essentially the same goal as the one I started, and the votes for both should be considered as one. The method to achieve said goal is slightly different however. More of an enhancement to the original, than a completely novel idea.

I didn’t come up with the idea (aside from maybe exposing the relevant variables in MSFS/Simconnect). As mentioned above, the concept of adjusting graphics parameters dynamically has been around for a long time.

I’m glad this thread is being resurrected!