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OZx 3.0 Released!!

J

JayKae

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Once again at the utmost risk of being called a spammer... another release :)

OZx is proud to announce OZx 3.0, the latest standalone version of our Australian scenery project. It introduces over 20 new fields and heliports, 13 water starts and ½ a dozen new VFR sceneries to the Aussie landscape to make a total of more than 300 OZx sceneries and airfields, not counting drillrigs and wheat silos. Add this to Ant's 30+ Freeware fields and ORBX's 8 Freeware and 9 Payware fields and you'll always have somewhere to explore. Let OZx take you further into your journey of discovery of our ancient land represented by the stunning ORBX FTX payware textures.

From the lush greens of Eastern Australia with tiny aerodromes like Old Bar and Coorooman Creek; through the fiery red outback with airfields that service the many mines such as Barrow Island and Shay Gap. Adventure into deserted strips like Taroom and Wandoan - seldom used except by the likes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service's iconic King Airs and PC12s.

Then continue your sojourn over the gold of the great western wheat belts with silos dotting the landscape from Esperance to Perth - rest at Collie, Katanning, Narrogin and others. Then let your wings soar over the azure of the Indian Ocean and the great North West Shelf searching for Legendre, Griffin Venture or some of the other huge oil rigs that harvest this black gold from deep beneath the ocean floor.

You will find the Australian landscape coming to life beneath you with mines like Broken Hill and Moura, Wolfe Creek Crater, huge salt pans and mighty wheat storage depots and terminals. Locate Kingfisher, Snapper, Cobia and many more lonley oil rigs toughing it out in Bass Strait where the frigid winds of the Antarctic scream their tortuous way northward. Watch these same winds blast Woolnorth windfarm on the north western coast of Tasmania with a freezing fury. Turn north again to fly at a more leisurely pace as you search for the numerous farm strips around the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.

So join us in the greatest FSX freeware project ever. Travel again through this vast land and experience the beauty and remote majesty of our harsh continent of extremes.
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http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=8
 
I'm unable to download it. I download the first file and run it, but the second download never starts. Just sits there at 0.

Jim
 
May I seek some clarification on the OZx concept? I haven't bought any of the DVD's as yet as I haven't the system to run them. But Ted has given me an excellent (short term) solution so once that happens, look out FSX!! :jump:

Anyways my question is ..... is OZx a revamp of the standard FSX Australian landscape, or of the airports? Or both? Being in Canberra I do a lot of my flying (invariably low and slow) in and around the region. And improvements in the landscape is (to me) more important than airports. For example Canberra in standard FSX is awful. So any improvemenst there would be most welcome. Cheers. :)
 
Pips

The OZx concept is to provide freeware airports and landmarks for an Australia that has been improved with the FTX payware textures. This is different from VOZ for FS9 where the ground textures were part of VOZ.

For FSX FTX provides ground textures and landclass, redone coastlines and new tree and building autogen textures. They are a bit pricey (when compared to the cost of FSX but about equal to other similar addon scenery packages) but well worth the money as it turns the awful default FSX representation of Australia into something much closer to the real thing.

OZx provides photoreal airports that blend with the FTX textures so for the best effect you have to buy the FTX textures. Having said that, you should still be able to install OZx without FTX although it won't look as good.
 
Possible Pips. If you already have FTX then get OZx (yeah and get my stuff as well, it includes Cooma and Polo Flat. Used to live in Canberra myself :) ).
 
JayKae said:
Once again at the utmost risk of being called a spammer... another release :)

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http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=8
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Mr. Jay Kae "Bat Man",

This is really awesome! :pop4::applause:
I can't get my mind :isadizzy:around the fact that this (being FREEWARE) is better than and FAR more in content/quantity than most payware products. I just spent a few minutes reading the v3.0 manual (while downloading) and am very impressed that you are even using AM stations for NDB navigation; can you listen to the broadcasts, too, over the audio panel's ident/Volume (squelch) buttons? If, so, that would be really awesome and reminds me of many a (real) VFR flight doing just that here in the U.S.

One other quick question; Is HolgerMesh already part of this installation? I have FSGlobal2008 (and soon 2010) so I didn't manually install it. Do I have to, now?

Again, really nice work and thank you to all the team! :applause:
 
Thanks for clearing that up Ant. At this stage I don't have either, but once I've sorted my computer upgrade I'll grab both! And I won't forget your add-ons, I've been eyeing them off for ages. :)
 
Hmmm I am not sure about that one, I would have to ask one of the boys because I have not had time to fly for a single minute in the last 48 hours, been too busy with the release and trying to catch a few zzzz's lol .. by the way for anyone who had some download problems, the servers are evening out load now so please try it again.

Also anyone who needs a seperate download link just PM me and ask and you shall get one from me ASAP :)
 
Mr. Jay Kae,
JayKae said:
PS HolgerMESH is not part of that install
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OK, Thanks! But, still a little confused. I'm still downloading (59mins+ remaining)... Am I going to have "issues" because the manual states this... (Please see Pic. attached)
 
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