Updated to Beta 4 w\o issue.
Went into Greebo's CraterMA arena and finally noticed that the Beta had me listed as a Rook.
Ever since I've been in AH I have always been listed as a Bishop.............
I just KNEW something wasn't feeling right!
Now I know where to change country at..................
Went up in me ole Spitty Mk IX & flew around & saw a con taking off from a base that I was flying over (109K) so I just thought I'd evoke a little 1 vs 1 just to get the hang of the Beta during an actual engagement. Wasn't gonna shoot, just engage and try to saddle em up.............
Now I know that the plane FM's weren't changed in any way but I'd swear that the Beta client has been MUCH better optimized to run from a performance perspective vs AHII.
All controls seem to perform far smoother & more precise in the Beta than in AHII from a "feel" perspective and when I pull up the graphs of my box's performance while running the Beta vs the graphs while running AHII from MSI Afterburner I can clearly see that the Beta is making far, far more use of both my box's CPU and GPU over AHII.....by a fair margin to boot!
Now on the cockpit shadow jaggies...........
When the cockpit is casting a shadow across either wing I can clearly see an invisible line that is running along the Hispano wing humps where the shadows are switching from being correctly ant-aliased to the blocky edged look.....from the humps in towards the cockpit the shadows are correctly anti-aliased, moving past the humps towards the wing tips the shadows are blocky. The plane itself (object) is correctly anti-aliased. The plane shadow that is cast on the ground while sitting on the runway is correctly anti-aliased on certain sections & is blocky on other sections. The cockpit bar shadows that are cast within the cockpit are also blocky but at a much smaller rate than the shadows that are cast outside of the cockpit.
Is this just an issue of telling the shaders where to apply FXAA on the mip mapped shadow edges?
I'm sure that y'all prolly already know what the issue is and are gonna get to it sometime but I'm curious so I'm asking.
Greebo, the Beta CraterMA terrain is just frikken beautiful to behold!
In the meantime I can't wait till this goes full open...........
Good stuff is a coming..............