• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Orbx Releases 2S1 VASHON ISLAND - Now available for FREE download

J

JayKae

Charter Member
Orbx Releases 2S1 VASHON ISLAND - Now available for FREE download

Payware quality scenery for free!

John 'Prof' Hockings has done a sublime job of creating two beautifully atmospheric airfields on Vashon Island. Here's some of the features you will get in this V1.0 release:

- Photoreal ground imagery at three locations, full seasons, night lighting
- Fully integrated into FTX NA BLUE Pacific Northwest
- 2S1 Vashon Muni Airport
- WA69 Wax Orchards Airfield
- Boat harbors and ferries
- Vashon Village
- Unique vegetation, bushes and grasses
- Great collection of static aircraft
- Sloping runway (2S1 is a VERY challenging airport!)
- A control panel to allow custom vegetation and also airshow mode
- Dozens aof unique hangars modeled from hundreds of photos taken on-site
- Full support of the 2S1 airport management committee
- 20 page full user guide
- Great FPS and wonderful atmosphere!

Download by clicking on the link --> http://myftx.com/FTX_AU_BLUE/FTXUS2S1100.zip
 
How funny, I just flew into there for the first time tonight, using a late beta copy. I really like what he did with vegetation. It's some of the best shrubs, grass, and undergrowth I've seen for any scenery yet. This is a fun one, and a little challenging, too.
 
Just downloaded it and will install shortly. What a nice gesture making this quality of scenery freeware! Thank you!:salute:
 
spotlope said:
How funny, I just flew into there for the first time tonight, using a late beta copy. I really like what he did with vegetation. It's some of the best shrubs, grass, and undergrowth I've seen for any scenery yet. This is a fun one, and a little challenging, too.
Click to expand...

Nice little 'dogleg' to up to the 'green' on 2S1.
Least that's the way it looked, coming in at about 90kts this a.m.
Was interesting getting the Kodiak in there on the 'fairway' this morning.
Might have to replace a runway edge light or two...
Glad the Kodiak has a reversible prop. :icon_lol:

Great airport for low and slow. :applause:
 
A little candy in the candy dish. I like it. FSX doesn't work well on my machine at all. Just one big stuttering slide show.

Nice to be able to try your great scenery :)

Thank you

Edit: Looks like I won't be trying it. My machine about flatlined just reading the recommended settings. The pictures in the manual sure look impressive
 
This is really really good. My world keeps shrinking--used to be the whole world, then it was PNW, and today I can't get off Vashon Island. Back and forth between 2S1 and the Orchard in Luscombes and J-3's and Super Cubs. Watch out for those power lines.

Thanks so much for this. :jump:


cheers,
steve :wavey:
 
Hey it looks really nice but it's a FPS killer...

I get about 17 fps in default c172 vc... without the scenery I get 30 locked

With any sort of quality payware VC it's unflyable...

I will mention PNW also has this effect. MY settings are turned down quite low to begin with...
 
skyhawka4m said:
outstanding...tank you for a great addition. Getting between 25 and 35 FPS.....very nice!
Click to expand...

What system do you have?

It can be hard to tell if you have a fast/modern system.... You need to uncheck vsync and run unlimited and see what the average is with the scenery enabled and disabled.

A lot of people say "no fps hit or no issues here" yet they all have fast PC's and don't notice anything since they lock at 30 or 40fps
 
skyhawka4m said:
outstanding...tank you for a great addition. Getting between 25 and 35 FPS.....very nice!
Click to expand...


Ditto. (Low 40's for the top end actually)
With heavy, overcast weather today in the Seattle area to boot.

Scenery to Extremely Dense and Autogen to normal, on a two year old system.
Even running traffic.
Then again, I stripped out all of the old recommended tweaks and switched, to the letter, the tweak as prescribed by Mr. Altuve, plus his 3.0 shaders.

I love WA69 Wax Orchards, BTW!:jump:
 
Marvellous!
Many thanks guys:ernae:

vachon-1.jpg


vachon-2.jpg
 
ryanbatc said:
What system do you have?

It can be hard to tell if you have a fast/modern system.... You need to uncheck vsync and run unlimited and see what the average is with the scenery enabled and disabled.

A lot of people say "no fps hit or no issues here" yet they all have fast PC's and don't notice anything since they lock at 30 or 40fps
Click to expand...


I'm running my system at the "recommended" settings from ORBX. I wondeer why someone would want to run anything other than what is recommended by the developer. I would think the developer would have a very good idea of the FPS issues.

My system is not a top of the line. I have an i5 650, with 8gb ram, and an ATI 5500. All setting on the card are maxed except anti-aliasnig which is set at 75%.
 
Wonderfull, and even 2 fields included.
This gives me an other area of PNW to explore, normaly I'm around the high mountains.
This deserves a sticky maybe?

R.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top