Re: The poor mans sim pit - SOFTWARE
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:29 pm
If you've been reading this, you know that I'm unhappy in many ways with REX Essential Plus Overdrive.
It takes way to much time to start up. The manual is 70 pages, and overly complicated for what most of us want to do. Although I'm pretty sure that a budding meteorologist would be ecstatic with the program.
That's not to say that it doesn't have some strong pluses though.
It took me a while, but I finally found some settings that make me quite happy.
The ability to fine tune your flying environment is one of the best things about REX. Lets face it - no 2 parts of the world have the same water, clouds, sun, etc. What is perfect for Tahiti would look very weird to the inhabitants of the Sahara. And the denizens of Moscow would recognize the sky only vaguely.
If you want to be anal about it, you could make what, to you, would be the best sky for every part of the world and save each with whatever name you wanted.
As a W.A.G., I would say that you have, at the least, hundreds of thousands of possible combinations. It may even reach into the millions.
HOWEVER, during the time that it took to start the last time, I trimmed my fingernails. And had some time left over to sit and watch it load.
I'm not sure about this, (but I'm very tired of the wait, and don't intend to keep restarting it over and over) however after making some selections, REX, didn't save them unless I chose to click on "OK" when asked if I "want to fly now".
It was time to start looking for a better solution.
It takes way to much time to start up. The manual is 70 pages, and overly complicated for what most of us want to do. Although I'm pretty sure that a budding meteorologist would be ecstatic with the program.
That's not to say that it doesn't have some strong pluses though.
It took me a while, but I finally found some settings that make me quite happy.
The ability to fine tune your flying environment is one of the best things about REX. Lets face it - no 2 parts of the world have the same water, clouds, sun, etc. What is perfect for Tahiti would look very weird to the inhabitants of the Sahara. And the denizens of Moscow would recognize the sky only vaguely.
If you want to be anal about it, you could make what, to you, would be the best sky for every part of the world and save each with whatever name you wanted.
As a W.A.G., I would say that you have, at the least, hundreds of thousands of possible combinations. It may even reach into the millions.
HOWEVER, during the time that it took to start the last time, I trimmed my fingernails. And had some time left over to sit and watch it load.
I'm not sure about this, (but I'm very tired of the wait, and don't intend to keep restarting it over and over) however after making some selections, REX, didn't save them unless I chose to click on "OK" when asked if I "want to fly now".
It was time to start looking for a better solution.