Last night while modifying the lights on an ac (that I guess they dont want any modifications made to their ac) I started thinking about how much I enjoy simming,and how much I like modifying my panels and ac. Since I dont fly on line,my repaints and modifications never meet the eye of others so I figure,no harm,no foul..and I modify away to my liking. The folks that create the planes we download,especially those unselfish,generous souls that give us the freebies that they work so hard and for so many hours on are the best! They must seriously love their sim world and enjoy sharing their fantastic skills of ac designing to offer them to us freely.
In the past,I got into a heated debate over the POSKY ac,stating that I dislike 2 features about their ac design. (( I'm pretty well known for being quite the grouch over the stupidest of things ))...
1) I hate their strobe and nav lights. Some show up the size of basket balls,and some show up hardly at all. I would rather use the Shockwave lights product to add my own lights effects.
2) Those damned flex wings. I love simming as much as the next guy,but when I sim,I dont spend my flying time in spot view googoo eyeing the wings to watch them flex. The wing flexing is the reason I (we ) cant add our own nav and strobe lights. You set them up when the plane is on the ground,and once flying they end up suspended in mid air,several feet under the wing tips.
So,tho POSKY has some very detailed ac textures,I avoid their downloads best I can until they offer versions without wing flexing.If they never do that,I will continue to look for the ac by other modelers .
Even at that,I have to say to them ALL,POSKY designers included,..
THANKS SO MUCH FOLKS for your generosity,your hours of work,and the willingness to deal with the headaches while designing and debugging those freebies you offer us...
AND,I dont want to forget to say THANKS to you folks that create the free gauges ,the land meshes and terminals,..and the whole range of freebies that come to us.
And lastly,but with no less appreciation,thanks so much to the admin and Simviation for being here,and in my opinion,being the absolute BEST sim site in the world,with some of the greatest,most helpful sim enthusiasts in the forums around !!!
My hat is off to you all ! Because of your selflessness,and generosities , I get to enjoy the sim world like I never thought a game could be enjoyed. I even hesitate calling it a game,but instead,a great experience !