SDK 1.5.7 - Propellers Turbines and Blades - Low Detail Model - description typo?

Version: *1.6.34 SDK 1.5.7

Frequency: Consistently

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Bug description:

The first paragraph in Low Detail Model section makes reference to Turbine fans and Passenger Jet, when it makes more sense to say TurboProp and Large cargo or military aircraft. It is suggested in the sentence before that a single mesh is used for turbine fan blades and NOT a low detail mesh

For something like a simple propeller, this is not usually an issue, but if you are applying this blur technique to something like a turbo fan on all 4 engines of a passenger jet, then all of a sudden, there can be 100,000+ triangles x N (and depending on the rotation speed, N can go easily to 15).

perhaps it should be:

For something like a simple propeller, this is not usually an issue, but if you are applying this blur technique to something like a turboprop on all 4 engines of a Large cargo or military aircraft, then all of a sudden, there can be 100,000+ triangles x N (and depending on the rotation speed, N can go easily to 15).

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Hello @DA40CGDFQ

This was fixed in SDK 1.6.5 documentation.

Regards,
Sylvain

Still a bit confusing to me. You mention don’t use a low detail for turbo fan, but later say that there is a performance issue if you don’t. Do you mean turbo prop? Or should you use a low detail for turbo fan.

This contradiction has been removed in the latest docs version. (There was an issue with the online flighting version of the doc that was not yet up to date)
Here’s what you should see:

Regards,
Sylvain

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