nazca_steve
Charter Member
Hah. Not Llanbedr as it should have been...it was Lossiemouth where I most of my testing these days. Nice and quiet up there 
Flying Stations Camberra!
- Thread starter peter12213
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greenie
SOH-CM-2022
Steve,
What settings am I using ? I have been playing around so much lately with my settings I'll take a guess at what it is . I use Shade and the shots may be using "ethereal sky". Im playing around with a lod of 7.5 .REX is Sparkling water and the clouds could be anything ,try Cumulous 57 and my visibility is usually at 20 miles.
The Cairns scenery has its own mods to the local ocean water.
In game .light bloom on , all aircraft shadows on , Scenery - all maxed out except mesh @5 metres
I think what really helps is my i7 2600k and a GTX580
If you want a more specific screenshot i.e. a close up or whatever, just sing out.
What settings am I using ? I have been playing around so much lately with my settings I'll take a guess at what it is . I use Shade and the shots may be using "ethereal sky". Im playing around with a lod of 7.5 .REX is Sparkling water and the clouds could be anything ,try Cumulous 57 and my visibility is usually at 20 miles.
The Cairns scenery has its own mods to the local ocean water.
In game .light bloom on , all aircraft shadows on , Scenery - all maxed out except mesh @5 metres
I think what really helps is my i7 2600k and a GTX580
If you want a more specific screenshot i.e. a close up or whatever, just sing out.
nazca_steve
Charter Member
Hmm, well, I may not be quite up to that setup...nevertheless, good to know what can be achieved with sliders right in FSX (apparently a heck of a lot!) If I can get half of that on my humble rig I will be happy. I have a lot of playing around to do to see what happy medium can be achieved.
**UPDATE:
I started messing around with some addons tonight. Bought Active Sky Evolution (serves both sims, so good for me) and installed some of the free REX textures. Got a fair way to go making it look pretty, although with light bloom and ASE running I noticed a decent frame rate hit Despite that I have to say, having hardly messed around with the Dark Side, I am impressed with what I see so far...things are far more 'alive' now with all the airport tugs etc. Pretty cool stuff.
**UPDATE:
I started messing around with some addons tonight. Bought Active Sky Evolution (serves both sims, so good for me) and installed some of the free REX textures. Got a fair way to go making it look pretty, although with light bloom and ASE running I noticed a decent frame rate hit
Despite that I have to say, having hardly messed around with the Dark Side, I am impressed with what I see so far...things are far more 'alive' now with all the airport tugs etc. Pretty cool stuff.