Vasanth,
Got your new beech tree. Blocks clouds from ground level now.
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As per the new tbins objects tests, here is my first report.
Been busy working 2 weeks every day on 12 hour shifts. Big oil refinery shut down, for planned repair work. A bit tired out, now..
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All tests are with Free Flight > Croydon > Sunny.
All tests use this bdg text setting for frame rates:
SMOOTHEN_FRAMERATE_MODE=NONE # valid modes: NONE, LIMITED, SMOOTHEN, LIMIT_AND_SMOOTHEN
1. First tests used these settings.
Option settings:
- Texture Quality = Maximum
- Object Quality = Maximum
- Horizon = High
- Ground Object Density = Full
In most tests I tried to fly at 700 feet. (except in parentheses where I flew higher than 750 feet)
Tests were done on many different days.
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Note about the "Pop-up Poof! Pop-up" bug viewing ground objects when flying toward them.
I have seen that this happens at specific flying altitudes. A very very narrow angle of view.
That is.. as I try to trim the aircraft for level flight,
I still do some "porpoising" (not a true English word, but what US Navy sailors say)
like a dolphin (porpoise) swimming just under the sea and jumping up for air, back to sea, back to air, etc. like a long wave length sine wave. ~~~~~~
Anyway doing this porpoising, I see a very and definitive altitude where the Pop-up occurs, and where the popped-up buildings go Poof!
Specifically, and repeatedly.. the Pop-up occors at exactly 730 feet of altitude,
and the buildings go Poof! and disappear at exactly 720 feet of altitude.
A very narrow angle of view, but it is noticeable. Even with the new tbin objects.
The new tbin objects do nothing to prevent the "Pop-up Poof! Pop-up" bug, except to reduce the amount of them that do so,
by preventing many of the far away ones from appearing in the first place.
So... I look at how the new tbin objects will effect frame rates.
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- Stock tbins tests:
1. Lowest fps 22. Average fps 44
2. Lowest fps 22. Average fps 38
3. Lowest fps 22. Average fps 37
4. Lowest fps 22. Average fps 37 (always flew higher than 750 feet)
5. Lowest fps 22. Average fps 34 (always flew higher than 750 feet)
- 50,000 max draw distance to tbins tests:
1. Lowest fps 34. Average fps 58
2. Lowest fps 33. Average fps 58
3. Lowest fps 32. Average fps 56
4. Lowest fps 29. Average fps 55 (always flew higher than 750 feet)
5. Lowest fps 29. Average fps 55 (always flew higher than 750 feet)
- 47,000 max draw distance to tbins tests:
1. Lowest fps 33. Average fps 57
2. Lowest fps 28. Average fps 58
3. Lowest fps 29. Average fps 55
4. Lowest fps 30. Average fps 55 (always flew higher than 750 feet)
5. Lowest fps 28. Average fps 56 (always flew higher than 750 feet)
- 45,000 max draw distance to tbins tests:
1. Lowest fps 30. Average fps 54
2. Lowest fps 31. Average fps 55
3. Lowest fps 30. Average fps 54 (always flew higher than 750 feet)
4. Lowest fps 28. Average fps 56 (always flew higher than 750 feet)
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Conclusions as per frame rates:
1. The new tbin objects do give better frame rates at London. Much better.
2. I am not seeing any big improvement in frame rates using the 47,000 or the 45,000 max distance tbins, over the 50,000 max distance tbins.
So, if I was to use one, I would use the 50,000 one.
3. London is the "most busy" place in the "bobworld" as per objects. Many hundreds of objects make it up.
In all other places there are very few objects, and frame rates are not such a big worry.
Nevertheless, London does have a lot of Targets that the Germans should have been bombing early. Not later.
London is important, and the Battle will sooner or later go there.
Anything that we can do to improve frame rates at London can only be a good thing, in my opinion.
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Next, I will do tests using these Options settings, to satisfy my own curiosity and ability to inform Players on the difference, if any:
Option settings:
- Texture Quality = High
- Object Quality = High
- Horizon = High
- Ground Object Density = Full
Go for it
(that is until any other bright 
flashes by)
