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Orbx releases YCNK Cessnock Airport

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JayKae

Charter Member
Again at the danger of spamming but here is the press release :)


Orbx is pleased to announce the release of YCNK Cessnock Airport, which is situated right in the heart of the picturesque New South Wales Hunter Valley (about one hour's flight north of Sydney). The lush Hunter Valley is home to many acclaimed wineries and a thriving olive industry. A short flight from both YPEC Aeropelican and YWVA Warnervale, this airport is the final in Orbx's NSW Central Coast series.

YCNK also includes Orbx's new FTX Aero airport environment tool, which is powered by REX. FTX Aero create ultra-detailed bump mapping and markings to an airfield like nothing seen before.

Covering nearly 100 square kilometres in 60cm/pixel photoreal, and the airport in 15cm/pixel photoreal, this atmospheric scenery features full four seasons photoreal colouring, full integration with FTX AU GOLD or FTX Australia SP3, hyper-accurate autogen annotation for as-real-as-you-get approaches and circuits, every farm, house, winery, school, golf course, resort and university is accurate represented across the entire area, beautifully modeled airport buildings, watermasks for all dams, lakes and water bodies, modeled wineries close to the airport, the Cessnock township and the racecourse in photoreal, perfectly aligned roads and moving traffic, 3D night lighting for very atmospheric dusk/dawn flights, GA AI Traffic movement and a complete set of custom sound like birds, traffic, machinery, aircraft and people conversing.

Cessnock Airport is one of the most detailed and immersive GA airports Orbx has yet released. Best of all, despite this impressive amount of detail, it has the highest frame frates of any Orbx airport released so far.

YCNK is available now for download purchase from http://www.flightsimstore.com/product_info.php?products_id=995
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This is indeed a superb airport. I had to reinstall all my Aussie scenery this weekend as the textures had become corrupted. To celebrate completing the install, I bought this airfield. Tonight I took the Tailwind out for a spin in order to blast out the cobwebs and chose Cessnock as my location for the short flight.

Well done guys.

Pictures on the following page.

http://www.screenshotartist.co.uk/lionheart_tailwind_01.htm

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Jay,
Could it be that there are illigal AI lumberjacks at work at the Hunter Valley ? Looks like all me trees are chopped.... :blind:

I have Scenery Complexity and Autogen Density set at Extremely Dense but this is what i've got :

ycnk1.jpg


I also get to see this during a split second before the scenery loads :

ycnk2.jpg


It seems to have to do with FTXAA_ORBXLIBS. If i uncheck that scenery these objects do not show up. Alas no effect on the dissapeared trees....

I have also tried unchecking OZx_Aus but has no effect either.

All items are checked in YCNK CP, also setup some stuff in FTX Aero.

Any idea what could be going on here ?

Btw, didn't see any AI traffic up to now neither, GA traffic set at 75%...

Any help highly appreciated !

Even without trees the airport looks lovely but looking at the screenshots it's obvious i'm missing something here... :pop4:

Cheers,
Jan
 
Hmmm I have no idea what could be amiss there, please come to the Orbx forums and lodge a support request there so that the team can help you out ok?
 
Thanks, Jay ! All done and cleared up ! ( proved i also needed FTX AU Gold )

Most enchanting scenery i have ever seen in all my 20 years of virtual flying !! :applause::applause::applause::ernae::medals:

Cheers,
Jan
 
ORBX making FTX compatible airports is pretty much given, but they could be more specific about what features you'll miss if FTX is not installed. Checking that FlightSimStore link:"Whilst AU YCNK can be installed with FSX default terrain some features only found in the FTX AU Gold region will not be implemented"

One could easily think that autogen wouldn't be one of those missing special features since there's plenty of autogen in default Australian scenery.
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