VISSIM 5.30-05 User Manual

4 View Settings
Traffic Signals
● PROPERTY DEFAULTS opens the 3D Traffic Signal Defaults window (cf.
4.1.4.2).
● Display Style: Defines the way signals are displayed in 3D mode. These
options are available:
- Signals & Blocks
- Signals & Stop Lines
- Signals Only
- Blocks Only
- Stop Lines Only
- None
Level Of Detail
User-defined LOD cutoff distances to provide simplified display of objects
that are far away from the observer and thus speeding up 3D graphics
display. There are several levels of simplification. Their threshold values
(min. distance of activation) can be entered separately for each level of
simplified display:
● Simplified vehicle geometry beyond: Simplified display of vehicles as
boxes with lighting, the object surfaces are painted uniformly (no “shiny”
surfaces).
● No lighting beyond: Simplified vehicle display as boxes without lighting.
● Draw vehicle blocks beyond: Simplified display of vehicles as cuboids.
These settings are saved with the *.INP file.
4.1.4.1 The Texture Manager
Click the appropriate button provided via VIEW - OPTIONS... - [3D] to open
the Texture Manager for the option listed to the left. Here standard textures
(image files) can be selected to be displayed on links/connectors, land or
sky.
A preview of the selected texture is shown in the right part of the window.
While the corresponding option is enabled in VIEW - OPTIONS... - [3D], the
selected texture is shown in the 3D mode.
For one or multiple links/connectors, a different texture can be selected, cf.
section 6.3.1 and section 6.3.2. The same applies to walkable construction
elements, cf. section 7.1.4.3 and section 7.1.4.5.
Almost every type of image files can be used to store a texture. Please
note, that textures for links/areas and land need to have dimensions that
are powers of 2 (e.g. 128x128, 256x128, 256x256 pixels etc.). Otherwise
the tiling effect looks poor.
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