Jagged edges in your needles?

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One issue that we've seen internally is that some of our needles sometimes appear jagged on our analog gauges.  If it's been a while since encountering this issue, we may not remember that gauge bitmaps need to be at least 4 pixels wide in order for the bilinear filtering (basically, antialiasing) to be applied properly.

Hopefully we'll address this issue at a core level in a future version of Flight Simulator, but in the meantime, you should be able to simply widen your needles with a line of transparent pixels on each edge and the jagged edges will disappear in-game.

I hope this helps some of you out there!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Great post, explained really well and I could really understand. Thank you.

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2008
    Quote"  Next time I'll talk about data sharing in XML gauges, so stay tuned!" Still tuned in  -- and hopeful :)

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    September 26, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2008
    Hi, Am a young man of 30 yrs an IT Officer  from Accra,Ghana. I am a fan of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Currently i have the MS Flight Simulator 98 version. I need your assistace to enableme acquire the ohter verion especially 2002 and 2007 version. Am ready to bear the cost of acquiring it but my problem is accessiblity to the products in Ghana. Please I need your personally assistance to acquire this wonderful product. You may contact me on; NIGEL MENSAH MOBILE : 233 27 772 6668         233 24 354 3821 Email: nigelmens@hotmail.com       nigelmens@gmail.com Please your help will mean a lots to me.   Thank you for your co-operation.