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Raining In Rotterdam NL 2000 V3








Bob

Although I'm not a fan of photo-terrain like this, the shots still look nice, Bob!  ;)

As good as these are 8-), pictures just don't do this scenery justice . No matter how hard I try I just can't seem to get the overall impact captured into just one shot and keep the detail and clarity like I see in the game , and the autogen blends in rather nicely also. BTW, have you flown the perimeter of this scenery yet? took me an hour and a half in a piper commanchee,and from 100,000ft you cannot see all of it! It just goes on forever! Close to the ground lower the visibility to 30-50 miles and you swear it's never going to end.

As good as these are 8-), pictures just don't do this scenery justice . No matter how hard I try I just can't seem to get the overall impact captured into just one shot and keep the detail and clarity like I see in the game , and the autogen blends in rather nicely also. BTW, have you flown the perimeter of this scenery yet? took me an hour and a half in a piper commanchee,and from 100,000ft you cannot see all of it! It just goes on forever! Close to the ground lower the visibility to 30-50 miles and you swear it's never going to end.

No I haven't. I've been just short hopping around the different airports.  You are right it's really hard to get everything you want to include in one shot. Take Schiphol (EHAM) airport for instance. It is one big airport.

Bob

ps. When are you going to post some shots?

[quote]Although I'm not a fan of photo-terrain like this, the shots still look nice, Bob!

Another really nice set Bob ... and now in typical Dutch weather too

I can clearly make out the Erasmus Bridge (nicknamed 'The Swan' and known from the Red Bull Rotterdam Air Race), the Rotterdam bridge and the Euromast.

And in your last shot you can see the stadium of soccer team Feijenoord.

Have you seen the Port of Rotterdam yet? It's the largest harbour in the world!

Photo-real scenery looks flat? Is that what you are saying? I prefer the stuff with a little elevation to it...

Nice yellow airplane making good contrast with the green background...

Photo-real scenery looks flat? Is that what you are saying? I prefer the stuff with a little elevation to it...

Nice yellow airplane making good contrast with the green background...

It depends on where you are flying. Photo-real scenery is not flat.

Are there any mountains in the Netherlands?

No, the highest hill in The Netherlands is the Vaalserberg. Its summit, if you will, is only 322.7 meters or 1,059 ft high.

Bob

Would you advise downloading this? It's kind of... large.

I have FS9 on an external HDD though (I don't care if I'm not supposed to, I have it hooked up through E-sata), so space isn't the real issue, it's the time downloading and not-being satisfied I'd be worried about.

This scenery is so massive and so detailed with its own AI (ships,cars,planes, & helicopters, civil and military) and Autogen that it could almost have been a stand alone sim. If you want a few hundred square miles of super detailed photo real scenery then yes, it's worth it. But, as mentioned, it is best viewed a few thousand feet up, but the airports are almost payware quality in detail on the ground. If you don't like photo scenery, this could probably change your mind. And unlike most PS it has great night textures included. It took my system 24 hours to download and install, but I grabbed all 5 zip files at once with speeds around 121kbps for each file. So if you have a faster connection, you should be able to get it quicker, Bob said he got it in 5 hours.

This scenery is so massive and so detailed with its own AI (ships,cars,planes, & helicopters, civil and military) and Autogen that it could almost have been a stand alone sim. If you want a few hundred square miles of super detailed photo real scenery then yes, it's worth it. But, as mentioned, it is best viewed a few thousand feet up, but the airports are almost payware quality in detail on the ground. If you don't like photo scenery, this could probably change your mind. And unlike most PS it has great night textures included. It took my system 24 hours to download and install, but I grabbed all 5 zip files at once with speeds around 121kbps for each file. So if you have a faster connection, you should be able to get it quicker, Bob said he got it in 5 hours.

Well, I tried downloading it with a download accelerator, and I download it really fast for the first 50%, then it crashes. Would it be wrong if I tried the torrent version? I've heard they're like, the #1 pirating thing  :-X

If what you're downloading is freeware, and is not prohibited from distribution, other than select places, it shouldn't be a problem

I'm not sure about the whole torrent thing, for the same reason. The forum there seems to suggest that it might work better, but I don't think that it can be considered piracy since it is free. If it asked to install a P2P type software, I would not do it. They do have a DVD exchange deal where they give you the set on disc in exchange for the same number of blank DVDs. That would be the safer way in my opinion. If you were able to get any of the files, I would try to get the others without the accelerator first.

I'm not sure about the whole torrent thing, for the same reason. The forum there seems to suggest that it might work better, but I don't think that it can be considered piracy since it is free. If it asked to install a P2P type software, I would not do it. They do have a DVD exchange deal where they give you the set on disc in exchange for the same number of blank DVDs. That would be the safer way in my opinion. If you were able to get any of the files, I would try to get the others without the accelerator first.

Well, right now I'm just downloading one at a time instead of all 5, and it's going well, 1,400 KBPS.

Man that's fast!! My best speed with one was just 380! It's worth it though!