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[Jonay]

If anyone wants to see anywhere specific or anything - drop a line here and I'll try my best to produce

Taking an age to install though - god knows how long it would take if i selected the whole globe to install

[flare]

Any chance of a few shots round Corfu please?

[Jonay]

flare, on Feb 17 2012, 12:51 PM, said:

Any chance of a few shots round Corfu please?

- i forgot that i only installed certain areas, west + central Europe, N.America.

I don't think my tiles strech that far - I'll have a look and if I can I'll do it.

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On a side note - XP has actually managed to recreate my area of NE Scotland more accurately than FS has with some addons (mesh + landclass) the default tree line is much more accurate - no houses ontop of mountains

And this whole "plauseable world"  I'm still to see - cause what I've seen is pretty impressive in terms of building placements and road placement too.

Looking ace so far.

[flare]

That sounds pretty cool, I tried the demo but I just couldn't use it, feel a bit thick aha!

[Jonay]

Here's a comparison (of my place of residence) from default XPlane10 (take note of the roads)


By ruxtonj at 2012-02-17

And Google Maps (again the roads)


By ruxtonj at 2012-02-17

[Daube]

After reading the title, I thought you got nervous and threw your copy around the house violently
The roads on your screenshot don't look too bad. Why are there no houses around ?

Edited by Daube, 17 February 2012 - 09:00 AM.

[Jonay]

Daube, on Feb 17 2012, 01:58 PM, said:

After reading the title, I thought you got nervous and threw your copy around the house violently
The roads on your screenshot don't look too bad. Why are there no houses around ?

There are in the game screen - that was the "local map"screen - which it appears doesn't show buildings.

The buildings that were there were nowhere near as dense as what it actually is - but still a of a lot better than FSX has got.

[flare]

Looks good, can you post some shots of around the Flyde Coast? Blackpool etc...

[162db]

I hope you already know this. But use the installer found on the website, not the one on the dvd. Also the latest beta 10.04 has quite a few fixes, so I would suggest to update. If you do a lot of flying in Europe, there is some scenery I can recommend, including a nice freeware of EDDM I think it is if memory serves. I'll have to take a look.

[Jonay]

162db, on Feb 18 2012, 08:46 PM, said:

I hope you already know this. But use the installer found on the website, not the one on the dvd. Also the latest beta 10.04 has quite a few fixes, so I would suggest to update. If you do a lot of flying in Europe, there is some scenery I can recommend, including a nice freeware of EDDM I think it is if memory serves. I'll have to take a look.

I used the one on the DVD - what's the difference?

I'll update it when I get back on it tomorrow.

I do only Europe flying - some N.America.

[dubuque]

can you do dubuque iowa

[Jonay]

flare, on Feb 17 2012, 02:47 PM, said:

Looks good, can you post some shots of around the Flyde Coast? Blackpool etc...

I wasn't too sure how much you wanted - but here's the area around Blackpool airport.

Taken at 1920x1080 - so they're too big to post here really. Click the link to be redirected. Then the click the pic to see fullsize

http://imageshack.us...0/baron581.png/

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http://imageshack.us...8/baron583.png/

http://imageshack.us...3/baron584.png/

http://imageshack.us...0/baron585.png/

Edited by Jonay, 20 February 2012 - 11:03 AM.

[Jonay]

dubuque, on Feb 19 2012, 11:03 PM, said:

can you do dubuque iowa

I wasn't too sure how much you wanted - but here's the area around Dubuquw Regional airport.

Taken at 1920x1080 - so they're too big to post here really. Click the link to be redirected. Then the click the pic to see fullsize.

http://imageshack.us...3/baron586.png/

http://imageshack.us...1/baron587.png/

http://imageshack.us...4/baron588.png/

http://imageshack.us...8/baron589.png/

http://imageshack.us.../baron5810.png/

http://imageshack.us.../baron5811.png/

http://imageshack.us.../baron5812.png/

http://imageshack.us.../baron5813.png/

http://imageshack.us.../baron5814.png/

[_TW_]

Looks like FS2002    Everything's just so flat  

[Jonay]

Toby Werner, on Feb 20 2012, 04:18 PM, said:

Looks like FS2002    Everything's just so flat  

It's not great no.

I won't be spending anymore money on it in the short term. Fingers crossed it gets better.

[ChaoticBeauty]

That doesn't look like high settings to me.

[Jonay]

ChaoticBeauty, on Feb 20 2012, 06:16 PM, said:

That doesn't look like high settings to me.

Haven't touched them since I installed.




I'm just away to see if I can get them any better without decreasing performance much more.

[_TW_]

Does un-checking the "Compress textures to save VRAM" give a noticeable difference in quality?  Your GTX 570 shouldn't break a sweat with it un-checked seeing as you still have about 1GB of graphics memory left to use.

[LA_PHX]

I hate to ask, but if you do have some spare time, would you mind taking some screenshots around KPHX?  I'd really like to see how X-Plane models the interesting terrain here and the coloring of it.  To date, I believe I've only seen green environments, rather than a desert one.

Edited by LA_PHX, 20 February 2012 - 01:54 PM.

[Jonay]

Toby Werner, on Feb 20 2012, 06:39 PM, said:

Does un-checking the "Compress textures to save VRAM" give a noticeable difference in quality?  Your GTX 570 shouldn't break a sweat with it un-checked seeing as you still have about 1GB of graphics memory left to use.

Yeah I've just done that - it doesn't have seemed to done anything performance wise.

The clouds are the killers. I've only managed to set it to 10% without any hit. That's the odd puff here and there.

These are now the updated settings around Aberdeen in my new BK117 (payware) - although in-game screenshot (printscreen doesn't work - just gives a black screen!) method has compressed the image to .png with some jaggies - there are no jaggies in-game for moi. None have been edited apart from resized.