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Looks good...

FlyingTrucker wrote:Looks good...

Thanks!

Nice shot

Thanks,


Looking at that shot Id really like tyo hear some input on X-Plane......

Not trying to troll you guys but Im hoping to show you what kind of potential we have here.....

I bought the full disk version of X-Plane 10 when it came out. I felt it was important to support Austin Meyer's fight against the troll.


As a relative newcomer to FSX I'll easily admit that the user interface was a pain in the XXXX. But I found that of X-Plane 10 was a little more so (although some settings are MUCH easier to change).

Obviously, given time, I would have gotten used to it, so that isn't really a problem



What turned me off was the lack of airport buildings and vacant countrysides.

In FSX, many small unimportant airports at least have some buildings. An example would be the Hazleton, PA airport, KHZL.

X-Plane 10 A VERY lonely looking place.




FSX The airfield may not be all that accurate, but it does give you something to look at.




Google The FSX area around the airport is closer to the real airport.



I've brought this up on some X-Plane sites. The answers range from (in order);
There are lots and lots of free airports out there. Just download the ones you want.
There are lots of payware scenery out there. Just buy the areas that you want.
If you can't find freeware or payware for the airport that you want, just make it yourself.
And if you persist, or say "But FSX has that area covered right out of the box," You get @#^$$*$% ##$# @%$@% X#$^$ $#$!!!


I like to fly low & slow. An idea will pop into my head to fly around Madagascar, Halifax, or Palma de Mallorca. If I get the idea to fly around Sri Lanka all of a sudden, I don't want to try and find scenery for it on the internet, or make it on my own.

The point being that I don't just fly between the same 2 or 3 points.



So, yes. Your planes are GREAT. You scenery is very good. But not all of X-Plane is good enough for me.

Of course I would like the scenery to be real. But in truth it only has to be believable. Vacant, doesn't cut it for me.



Every 3 or 4 months I start up X-Plane 10. I install any updates. I fly for a short while. I wait for another 3, 4, or 5 months.

But I keep seeing scenery like this in too many places.

Awesome! I agree with you, Laminar is adding user submitted "lego brick" airports in all the new updates to fix this problem. So far, I think, there is something like 300 user submitted airports. Of course this list will need to grow and users have really stepped up adding airports. To me this makes X-Plane the "peoples simulator" I love the concept and it helps LR tackle the problem....

Adding a product like UrbanMAXX will bring the density up in the urban environments, not perfect yet and an update will be released when 10.30 ships.....

Hazelton huh? PA guy?

A salesman through and through.


For those who like to fly high, UrbanMAXX looks good. And the price of UrbanMAXX Extreme V2, $7.95 would be hard to beat.

It sounds like (from what I've read), and definitely looks like, pseudo-satellite scenery with some 3D buildings tossed into the mix.



From UrbanMAXX (Freeware)
"The textures included in Urban Maxx are not actual satellite overlays but were developed to give the impression of flying over an urban environment."



Without actually having it on my system, I would say that it probably makes X-Plane 10 (it's not compatible with X-Plane 9) much more enjoyable. For the high & fast crowd that is.

But it is a move in the right direction. Just not my direction; low & slow.



As to where I live, I'll keep that a secret.

The V3 release will hopefully appeal to a larger crowd, LR admitted that the conventions used in the urban textures will not refined and will not be fixed until the "DSF Recuts" happen......Im hoping 10.30 will be the time this happens. When that happens Ill be able to create textures depending on population density which will make UrbanMAXX more realistic.........

But as it stands now UrbanMAXX V2 is a nice addition to X-Plane 10.......

I'm sure that X-Plane will get better and better. That's why I keep checking back with it every now and then.

BTW - Madeira isn't all that bad in X-Plane 10. MUCH better than the stock FSX. But no where remotely close to MadeiraX for FSX.

When I say "we" I feel as if Im part of a group, not isolated and alone as if I belong to a corporation.....

With that said we are working towards bringing the best experience to any flight simulation out there. Hang tight man, you are going to see a huge push in the coming months......