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Setting the sim time to early morning, REX weather to a hazy 20 miles vis and pumping the autogen levels right up created a really imperative environment.

I had to keep the Cirrus' autopilot IAS hold function engaged for my CPU to be able handle loading all the terrain textures smoothly, but other than that, was really impressed at how far FSX has come since I originally installed the bare bones of the simulator.


Thanks to Charl for the inspiration to try something a little more creative than posting image after image in a row on the forums, I've always enjoyed the little extra effort you put in to storyboarding your flights!

FRIGGEN WELL DONE Andy , just love that approach ... That is so COOL

Sweeeeet Andy.
Be nice to have the screenies popup in a new window tho, then could close and be back to where you were, or leave open and refer to the original window?

deeknow wrote:

QUOTE (deeknow @ Oct 2 2013,5:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Sweeeeet Andy.
Be nice to have the screenies popup in a new window tho, then could close and be back to where you were, or leave open and refer to the original window?

Right click and choose 'open in new tab/window'.

victor_alpha_charlie wrote:

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Oct 2 2013,7:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Right click and choose 'open in new tab/window'.

Well yeah of course I know u can do that, makes more sense for that to be the default to me

Trolly wrote:

QUOTE (Trolly @ Oct 2 2013,2:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks to Charl..

Well, the baton has passed, very nice indeed!
One could pop up a little descriptor from a map clickspot, even.

Also, the series is one of the better FSX sets I've seen - no blown-out jpeg effect visible there.
All that remains is to get the water effects to scale - isn't there a good addon water configurator for FSX somewhere??

Charl wrote:

QUOTE (Charl @ Oct 2 2013,9:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well, the baton has passed, very nice indeed!

Now the next one to step up to the Mark .. ready set go , great example of thinking outside your PC case

Trolly wrote:

QUOTE (Trolly @ Oct 2 2013,12:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm just experimenting with some HTML image map linking...

That's great work, well done!

deeknow wrote:

QUOTE (deeknow @ Oct 2 2013,8:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well yeah of course I know u can do that, makes more sense for that to be the default to me

Updated the code to do just that, wasn't too difficult

Charl wrote:

QUOTE (Charl @ Oct 2 2013,9:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well, the baton has passed, very nice indeed!
One could pop up a little descriptor from a map clickspot, even.

Also, the series is one of the better FSX sets I've seen - no blown-out jpeg effect visible there.
All that remains is to get the water effects to scale - isn't there a good addon water configurator for FSX somewhere??

Mouse over description text added too, to make the page a little more interactive now. Good thinking!

FSX still has the ability to look cartoony to my eye, so everytime I fly, I always opt for early morning/late evening for dulled down lighting effects and always reduce vis to around the 20nm mark.
I've experimented with a whole pile of the REX water themes but the 'Deep Blue Eyes' for inland water and 'Ocean Blue' for the sea textures seems to look the least video-gamey to me. I also have WATER_EFFECTS=5 set in my cfg, so not the full reflection option, because in real life you'd be lucky to see that level of detail on a water body on only the clearest and calmest of days!

Charl wrote:

QUOTE (Charl @ Oct 2 2013,9:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

All that remains is to get the water effects to scale - isn't there a good addon water configurator for FSX somewhere??

Try FS Water Configurator, available here. It works, at least on my system.

Awesome mate