Mega Airport Paris 2008

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Postby Charl » Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:32 pm

I've had every LFPG scenery on my system since FS2002 - it's a large and interesting airport.
The latest from Aerosoft/Simwings popped up and on impulse I downloaded and installed it today.
Glad I did too...think FlyTampa Boston and Mega Airport Frankfurt - and then some.
It's a huge and complex scenery.



The blending of high-res photoreal and other textures is masterful.



Plenty of detail all over, and painstaking attention to frame rates at every point.
Despite that, the level of animation is amazing, and it runs smooth as butter.
Add a little AES, and there is a brilliantly interactive tubeliner experience awaiting.
To show you, I thought a series of video clips stitched together might do the job best.



I did this by hopping from one AI plane to another at the airport.
Unfortunately, there were about 250 of them, so it spilled into Part 2!



This was shot in FS9, there is an FSX version on the way - for free.
The clips are a little lumpy because FRAPS for some reason won't behave - it does this after processing, so you don't see it happen unfortunately.

I rate this airport scenery in the top five ever made

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Postby Peppermint » Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:00 pm

Bring on the FSX version I say! Another thing to look forward to with the mix of FSX/FSPassengers X (which should be out by the end of the year) I'll have to watch the videos tomorrow.
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Postby Ian Warren » Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:13 pm

Charles De Gaulle ... many European airports to visit ..... Charl de like the movies smile.gif
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Postby PiperDriver » Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:00 am

Nice scenery there charl. lots of ai traffic by the look of it.
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Postby Charl » Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:04 pm

Still playing there...Oliver Pabst has added a pull option to AES.
If you're not good at reversing your plane, have it done for you:



You can select the parking space too - just make sure it isn't occupied at the time, as the tug doesn't know it's there!
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Postby pilotgallagher01 » Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:32 pm

Awsome,Looked like you were going hit that 747 parked up hahaha
Any word on the FSX version?
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Postby Njbb1995 » Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:43 pm

If thats FS9 then FSX....... wow
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Postby AlisterC » Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:55 pm

Amazing scenery alright, thanks for giving us a virtual tour Charl biggrin.gif
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Postby Charl » Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:48 pm

Albatross wrote:
QUOTE (Albatross @ Nov 18 2008, 05:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Amazing scenery alright, thanks for giving us a virtual tour Charl biggrin.gif

It's a massive scenery, apologies for all the AI-hopping in the video, you get mesmerised by it all.
I think there were 248 AI aircraft in the window at once...

Now, the other thing that I missed first time round:



I thought the traffic stopped co-incidentally, so went off and blocked it on purpose - yes, it does stop for aircraft!
These guys are such pros, they'e done a lot of scenery, and they've thought it all through.
What a pleasure.

pilotgallagher01 wrote:
QUOTE (pilotgallagher01 @ Nov 18 2008, 04:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Awsome,Looked like you were going hit that 747 parked up hahaha
Any word on the FSX version?
Yes as I said, I picked the wrong parking spot.
All I did was pause the sim, advance the time 1 minute, and the AI had made place for me.

Postscript:
I don't want to be a damper guys, but if Budapest was anything to go by, don't get too excited about FSX, here.
I saw 4fps there with very little traffic enabled. This one is twice as complex.
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Postby pilotgallagher01 » Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:28 pm

Hmm what about a 2.83GHZ Quad Core andGTX 280??
Maybe more that 4FPS just tongue.gif
Man these guys are pros far
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Postby Alex » Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:24 am

pilotgallagher01 wrote:
QUOTE (pilotgallagher01 @ Nov 18 2008, 11:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hmm what about a 2.83GHZ Quad Core andGTX 280??
Maybe more that 4FPS just tongue.gif
Man these guys are pros far

Hahaha, Charl has a beast as well you know... tongue.gif

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Postby ardypilot » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:25 am

Really impressive stuff, those videos look so lifelike- add some shakes and too bright/too dark lighting into the mix and you'd never know it wasn't computer generated!
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Postby Charl » Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:47 pm

Going to be a while before I get this one out of the system...some gratuitous evening shots:





Trolly wrote:
QUOTE (Trolly @ Nov 19 2008, 12:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Really impressive stuff, those videos look so lifelike- add some shakes and too bright/too dark lighting into the mix and you'd never know it wasn't computer generated!


Shakes?? too bright?? c'mon we're in a digitally stabilised, autofocus, white-balanced age here! laugh.gif
My one regret is we don't yet have the bandwidth to share the original version...at 1920x1200.
Like this, let's see if this loads...

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Postby NZ255 » Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:36 pm

Did you crop that you do you have a super super wide screen? smile.gif






That or TH2GO
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Postby victor_alpha_charlie » Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:58 pm

Please Charl, no more super wide pics. You're making me want to spend money I don't have on a bigger/better system and another two screens.. sad.gif
More please biggrin.gif
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