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tml suggested SonantAlpaca commented

The simulator should ideally create the blurred versions of spinning propellers, turbine fans, and wheels automatically

It is a bit silly that an add-on aircraft developer has to do it manually. As the SDK documentation says: The texture can be generated by screenshotting the still blades and radial blurring in Photoshop. To me, that sounds exactly like a tedious mechanical fully scriptable workflow that computers are good at, no? The simulator could do that process internally, automatically, whenever a new version of an aircraft is loaded, and cache the result. For aircraft in the marketplace, it could be part of the process that propagates an aircraft to the marketplace.

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SonantAlpaca commented

Hello,

While we agree that it would be really convenient, it's a tricky feature to implement, so we won't be able to do that anytime soon.

But we add it to the wishlist!

Have a good day.

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