Flying Stations Camberra!

[nazca_steve]

Lol, what, you don't want a whole decked out VC just to see out of the tiny little side windows? Agreed, a VC view for that is questionable, but I would certainly model a fair bit of detail in there for opening the nose cone on the exterior model. WHEN it comes that is

[Chris Sykes]

Ah sounds great!!! A PR9 is a must, if its possible!

[peter12213]

Lol, what, you don't want a whole decked out VC just to see out of the tiny little side windows? Agreed, a VC view for that is questionable, but I would certainly model a fair bit of detail in there for opening the nose cone on the exterior model. WHEN it comes that is

Sensible idea mate lol!

[nazca_steve]

Evening all,

for those FSX users that recently picked up the Master of Tasks pack, you may now be interested in picking up some repaints for it: http://www.flyingstations.com/repaints-can-mot.html

I also just uploaded a nice colourful new TT.18 for the Tugs & Trainers pack that some of you may have: http://www.flyingstations.com/repaints-can-tt.html

[nazca_steve]

Evening all. For those that have had problems with VC glass being black in some Canberra cockpits in FSX, please read on.

The easy workaround for this, rather than me spend ages going through, re-mapping it to glass_T.bmp and re-compiling the models, is to copy the existing glass_T.bmp you have in the 'black' cockpit Canberras and rename it to: glassvc_T.bmp. Leave the old glass_T.bmp in there too. Voila, it solves the problem with the soon to be released Master of Tasks pack, and my guess is it will do the same in the other packs too.

Steve

**UPDATE 12/3/12:

Finally realised this might be of more use than a simple text solution. So here is a the missing glass texture on here for all those FSX users having trouble with black glass. Just drop this into the texture folder of the offending a/c and you're in business.

[greenie]

Thank you Steve , up and running now .

[nazca_steve]

Good to hear, Greenie. All I ever ask is post some screens - it'd be nice to see how they look on something other than my (at present) bog-standard version of FSX!

[greenie]

Here ya go mate, some postcards from Australia , Alice Springs and Cairns...contact pionts in look out of adjustment in Alice Springs but ok elsewhere . Odd, but no problems anyway .

[nazca_steve]

Whoa. Greenie those shots look flipping fantastic! (You should be running the Aussie GAF B.Mk.20 mind you!) Ok so this is peaking my interest in how these run in FSX...which by all means does not look too shabby from an exterior standpoint. Canopy glass still an issue but I am going to sort that out at some point soon. Contact points - yeah odd but hopefully a freak occurrence there.

Next questions: What setup are you using in FSX, such as addons, light bloom etc. as those screens look the dogs.

[spatialpro]

What airfield is that??

cheers

Andy

[nazca_steve]

Hah. Not Llanbedr as it should have been...it was Lossiemouth where I most of my testing these days. Nice and quiet up there

[greenie]

Steve,
What settings am I using ? I have been playing around so much lately with my settings I'll take a guess at what it is . I use Shade and the shots may be using "ethereal sky". Im playing around with a lod of 7.5 .REX is Sparkling water and the clouds could be anything ,try Cumulous 57 and my visibility is usually at 20 miles.

The Cairns scenery has its own mods to the local ocean water.

In game .light bloom on , all aircraft shadows on , Scenery - all maxed out except mesh @5 metres

I think what really helps is my i7 2600k and a GTX580 :-)

If you want a more specific screenshot i.e. a close up or whatever, just sing out.

[nazca_steve]

Hmm, well, I may not be quite up to that setup...nevertheless, good to know what can be achieved with sliders right in FSX (apparently a heck of a lot!) If I can get half of that on my humble rig I will be happy. I have a lot of playing around to do to see what happy medium can be achieved.

**UPDATE:

I started messing around with some addons tonight. Bought Active Sky Evolution (serves both sims, so good for me) and installed some of the free REX textures. Got a fair way to go making it look pretty, although with light bloom and ASE running I noticed a decent frame rate hit Despite that I have to say, having hardly messed around with the Dark Side, I am impressed with what I see so far...things are far more 'alive' now with all the airport tugs etc. Pretty cool stuff.