'Hi Honey, what are you doing? Your mouse is clicking permanently.'

'Oh, I'm building polygons.'

'Why? And what is a polygon?'

'Well, some guys on flightsim.to asked for it. A polygon is that red thingy with lots of lines and dots. It kills trees.'

The look on her face and you know, you're in trouble...

What this mod does or and does not do

Well, you asked for it so here it comes. Another mod to improve performance at an airport. I guess with Aerosoft Stuttgart coming up, this is something some blokes are looking for. This mod removes the photogrammetry trees around Stuttgart airport. They are not only ugly but eat away chunks of your simulator performance. Since the sim depicts forests as photogrammetry and puts lots of autogen trees on top to cover them up, you are much better off performancewise if you have the latter removed.

There still is room for improvement by enlarging the area of photogrammetry removal and I will do so when time permits. You can see the area I worked on in the last top-down screenshot.

In my Frankfurt mod I also added lots of polygons to thin out the overly dense autogen forests. There is little potential to do it near Stuttgart because the forest is already thin in most areas. I even had to add some for visual reasons. So this is not only for performance but also a beauty mod. ;-)

It will do relatively little for your fps in straight and level flight but in turns the sim has to load and unload a lot less data into the pre-terrain-cache, so you get a smoother experience at the airport and on approach.

Compatibility

This mod is compatible with any payware of freeware version of Stuttgart airport (I know there are quite a couple)! This mod does nothing to the airport itself, it just removes photogrammetry trees around it.

It is compatible with Rex Accuseason (tested) and probably also Bijan seasons.

Other mods

You are looking for the same for other airports. Check this out:

Budapest Performance Mod:

https://flightsim.to/addon/95307/budapest-performance-and-tree-mod-lhbp

Frankfurt Performance Mod

https://flightsim.to/addon/95067/frankfurt-performance-and-tree-mod-eddf

Washington Performance Mod

https://flightsim.to/addon/107623/washington-performance-mod-kiad

Installation

Unzip the file into your community folder.