Carenado Support

[Aviator 1]

Hi Guys back and happy flying again. I wanted to find out , I lost my code which allows me to install my Beech 1900D how do you get your code sent back to you. One very last question for AI traffic I use ultimate traffic 2 and I use to run a system through Obix that was Free Ai and General AI I can no longer see General Ai and the other does not seem to work any help

[Ian Warren]

Your invoice for the 1900 would be enough to get a support ticket - the big thing is who you brought it from , that is where it can get confusing , If you brought directly from Carenado and you know that , you should not have any problem , I never dealt with them but very sure they can track your order down .

As far as the AI is concerned , FTX-AI is superb , you may have corrupted a file along the way, I'm only just re-install FSX again myself and it has been years since required to install so I maybe off help in the next day or so.

[Aviator 1]

Many thanks for your support I will try again. Is Orbix North and South really good and worth buying

[Ian Warren]

If you have VLC , You might prefer sticking with that and buy Godzone photo-real simply because it now starting to cover such a huge area , course add the free from many others .. http://www.windowlight.co.nz/store/inde ... ucts_id=33 - My thing is you cannot beat accurate elev: and PHOTOREAL.

Now .. we have Wanga's incoming and there are a few other freewares .. I do like Orbx through Canterbury .. Its really now, really one half or the other. You do have many elevation issues with the Orbx product ... course a little more expensive.

[cowpatz]

I have both VLC and ORBX NZNI and NZSI. I also have Robs photo subscription series.
At the moment I am persevering with the ORBX scenery. It is good in that it has added some features to the airports that VLC does not (you get enhanced default airports and people flow).
The big problem with it is that the elevations are all wrong and it makes putting other scenery in place a real issue. VLC is much more accurate in this respect but of course you will need to find other 3rd party airports to add. It's Ok for FSX as there is still plenty available but it can be an issue with getting the locally produced freeware airports to work in P3D ....this where we need to collectively give Lawrie (Snowman) a prod to get his great sceneries updated to work in p3D and also for us to support others like Che and Rob to keep working on their airport projects too.

[mfraser]

I have both VLC and ORBX NZNI and NZSI. I also have Robs photo subscription series.
At the moment I am persevering with the ORBX scenery....

+1. I had used VLC exclusively for FS9 and decided to skip FSX altogether as the sim just didn't run well at all on my relatively high spec machine!

I am now a P3Dv2 convert and have just bought ORBX NZNI (NZSI and Rob's NZNS are scheduled for next pay!). VLC in P3D was very good but it just didn't provide the immersion I was looking for. If we had a good texture replacement that would work with VLC I'd go back as the ORBX stuff is quite a resource hog. And as cowpatz mentioned, there can be issues when you start to use other developers scenery with ORBX areas. I too like the enhanced airports ORBX provide and the people flow adds a nice bit of realism.

[toprob]

If we had a good texture replacement that would work with VLC I'd go back

Yes, VLC's use of mainly default textures has always been an issue, and I admit that any plans to build a custom NZ texture set were scuttled by the release of Orbx NZ -- as I've always maintained, this split the local market down the middle, and it wasn't really that big to begin with.

But there is no real reason why it couldn't be separate from VLC. If anyone wants to look at the possibilities, then it might be a good idea to start a thread in one of the scenery sub-forums. I do have a lot of ideas, maybe too many, and I certainly need to focus on payware airports for the time-being, but there's no reason why I couldn't be involved in a separate project, freeware or payware.

Some recent developments have made this the ideal time to look at this project.

[Ian Warren]

Yes, VLC's use of mainly default textures has always been an issue, and I admit that any plans to build a custom NZ texture set were scuttled by the release of Orbx NZ -- as I've always maintained, this split the local market down the middle, and it wasn't really that big to begin with.

Again this is were photo real kicks ass coming onto its own ... If had the luxury off the resource now available , its a no brainer .. VLC and photo-real SUB , this is one area I would keep up .

[cowpatz]

Yes photo real is good but it also has it's limitations....seasons being the biggy.
I would be very interested in a texture set for VLC.

Can the textures from ORBX be used for VLC? .....oops did I say that out loud....

[Ian Warren]

The seasons are a the issue , one thing can be said least the AGN changes to suit season giving some impression, four season , four photos making the file super sized - course another thing to help with the season change is your weather engine.

[toprob]

Can the textures from ORBX be used for VLC? .....oops did I say that out loud....

No, you can't, and not just because Orbx already had to let NZFF know that this is against their EULA... But mainly, because most of the textures need matching autogen (AGN) files, which need to be matched to the textures. So you'd also need to have a lot more FTX active, plus their autogen descriptions. So you could do it, but it would be a lot of fiddling. And you couldn't talk about it here:)

Incidentally, those autogen descriptions are the main reason why mixing and matching is just an issue -- and one of the reasons why now is the ideal time to look at creating a proper NZ texture set once and for all, as this issue is quickly being solved at FSDeveloper.com.