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REX is released!

Hector - I'm glad it helped. There is nothing worse than getting frustrated.

Yes - there are many texture variables within REX which is good, but time consuming to find the sweet spot...ofcouse being able to tailor the look and feel of FSX to ones own senses is a huge benefit and the developers of REX must be given great thanks for doing such a tremendous job after all.

I hope with patches the weather engine loading times can be improved - I am sure Tim and the rest of their crew are working on the bugs and stuff even as we type. :ernae:
 
heywooood said:
I hope with patches the weather engine loading times can be improved - I am sure Tim and the rest of their crew are working on the bugs and stuff even as we type. :ernae:
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We are working as I type.. yes ;) We appreciate the feedback, good and bad, to help us deliver a polished update.

Thanks again!
 
timest said:
We are working as I type.. yes ;) We appreciate the feedback, good and bad, to help us deliver a polished update.

Thanks again!
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That's a great attitude Tim and exactly why I'll buy it. :ernae:
 
heywooood said:
jmig - I thought the same thing about the water textures - it didnt seem like they were adjustable - but they are.

you have to use the sliders to make the tint and contrast and algae adjustments when you clivk on the inland water or ocean water textures - move the sliders one at a time to the extreme right - then wait...then you see there is a lag but the right hand comparison window does change..then you just make your adjustments then SAVE - you must save each of your adjusted textures one at a time AND when you have made all of your adjustments - you must ALSO save the theme.

This works

But I agree with you about the weather engine loading lag...not too good.
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I have tried that. I still get pea soup green for all the inland water. FEX had brown/grey water. Why can't REX?

Besides, it keeps locking up FSX on me. IRTrack is not working. I am going to give it one more try, If it craps again, the POS is coming off my computer.

Sorry, Tim and company. I know you poured your heart and soul into this. However, it isn't working for me. I haven't had this kind of trouble with any other graphics program and I have tried most of them.
 
ahhh man sorry to hear its not working jmig....

I don't have the TiR deal so I can't speak to that problem, maybe someone who does knows of a tweak or cure for that.

Note to Timest...Just got the disc in the mail - that was quick so the Flightsim store is rushing the orders out incase anyone else is waiting for a hard copy of REX.
 
jmig said:
I have tried that. I still get pea soup green for all the inland water. FEX had brown/grey water. Why can't REX?

Besides, it keeps locking up FSX on me. IRTrack is not working. I am going to give it one more try, If it craps again, the POS is coming off my computer.

Sorry, Tim and company. I know you poured your heart and soul into this. However, it isn't working for me. I haven't had this kind of trouble with any other graphics program and I have tried most of them.
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Hi jmig:

I don't take it personal, but I would LOVE to get you up and running AND happy.

1. Have you tried coloring the water to your liking?
2. Do you have the latest TrackIR software?
3. Have you visited our forums for help?

Like with any software there is a bit of learning curve, but once you have that down, it really is a different experience.

heywoood: Glad to hear! :)
 
timest said:
Hi jmig:

I don't take it personal, but I would LOVE to get you up and running AND happy.

1. Have you tried coloring the water to your liking?
2. Do you have the latest TrackIR software?
3. Have you visited our forums for help?

Like with any software there is a bit of learning curve, but once you have that down, it really is a different experience.

heywoood: Glad to hear! :)
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Hi Tim! Here is what I have done and where I stand.

1. Yes, I have tried recoloring the "Brown" water and saving it under LA Brown. I also saved the entire theme as a separate theme. The local water still looks green.

2. Yes, I do and I figured out how to get it to work. The IRTrack is only a symptom.

3. No I have not been to the site. I have only been venting here because of the troubles.

Here is where I was last night. If I do what Heywood suggested, start REX and load the theme into FSX, it will start and run. Everything works. This takes, between FSX and REX, ten minutes. I am not going to do that every time I want to fly, especially with FSX's propensity to crash and require a reboot.

If I go through the above process and then exit FSX. I have to start over. Trying to start FSX again without REX first will let it come up and load the plane and airport. When the VC comes up every thing is frozen. The airport textures don't finish loading before that happens. I have a grey runway and red blocks where the "Parking Brake" text would be.

This program would have been a lot more user friendly if there was a easy "graphics only" mode. Then you could later try the weather engine and flight planner.

I have tried the "I just want to fly" button. However, it still wants to load weather. Having the sim freeze for 30 sec at a time just to update weather is unacceptical to me.
 
jmig,
My own inland water is a yukky green colour while the ocean colours look great.It quite often can be a mixture of the green and blue and i noticed that if there is a lot of cloud cover,the inland water is practically all green as it is reflected from the clouds.
I made a flight from Belfast city airport with REX turned off but still noticed that Belfast Lough was green.I will try again later and see what happens

Hector
 
If anyone just wants to use the textues and not bother with either the weather engine or the flight planner just do this:

1 - Open REX
2 - Ignore the 4 big buttons
3 - Click on Theme Creation tab at the top
4 - Chose your textures
5 - Click install and wait for it to install
6 - Go over to the Configuration manager tab
7 - untick "Enable REX Weather Engine"
8 - untick "Enable Auto Launch Flight Simulator"
9 - click save and close REX
10 - open up FSX and fly as normal

NOTE:- you may have to do 7 and 8 first

:wavey:
 
Exactly!

I think the interface with REX and the general lack of a complete step by step overview left too many questions for us end users.

You only need to create and load a theme once - unless you want to have more than one...then just load it and fly FSX independantly as you always did...no need to touch REX or load the theme every single time. Once it is loaded into FSX you are done with it - unless you WANT to change your theme or a setting within your theme.

Disabling the weather engine in the config. manager and autostart is important to do - atleast until timest and co. can get a few things sorted.

After your theme is loaded you can set your weather in FSX free flight just as before only now all of the texures will be the REX ones you selected...

Loadtimes are long - especially when you already have a theme installed and all you are doing is changing one texture...why that takes the full 5-6 minutes makes no sense to me - REX should be able to see that only one thing has been changed and just load that, but instead it reloads the entire theme :kilroy:

the new coral...not much of a frame rate hit for me atall...
 
heywooood said:
Exactly!

I think the interface with REX and the general lack of a complete step by step overview left too many questions for us end users.

You only need to create and load a theme once - unless you want to have more than one...then just load it and fly FSX independantly as you always did...no need to touch REX or load the theme every single time. Once it is loaded into FSX you are done with it - unless you WANT to change your theme or a setting within your theme.

Disabling the weather engine in the config. manager and autostart is important to do - atleast until timest and co. can get a few things sorted.

After your theme is loaded you can set your weather in FSX free flight just as before only now all of the texures will be the REX ones you selected...

Loadtimes are long - especially when you already have a theme installed and all you are doing is changing one texture...why that takes the full 5-6 minutes makes no sense to me - REX should be able to see that only one thing has been changed and just load that, but instead it reloads the entire theme :kilroy:

the new coral...not much of a frame rate hit for me atall...
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heywoood:

did you know the OPTIONS manager IS the place where you tell REX which options you want installed? Just deselect the items you don't want to install. For example... if you are happy with tropical water, deselect them in the OPTIONS manager, and bingo, REX will NOT take the time to install them.. BTW the tropical water takes the longest to load.

Cheers.
 
timest said:
heywoood:

did you know the OPTIONS manager IS the place where you tell REX which options you want installed? Just deselect the items you don't want to install. For example... if you are happy with tropical water, deselect them in the OPTIONS manager, and bingo, REX will NOT take the time to install them.. BTW the tropical water takes the longest to load.

Cheers.
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Ok - see thats what I mean - I thought the idea was to start there (after setting the pathways to FSX and building the inital saved textures folder) so I started there and unchecked the sun and flare boxes because I do not have Vista Dx10 - and because I like 'nicks sun fix' texture - and reduced the cloud textures for performance reasons.....

Are you saying that if I want to adjust a theme by changeing just one texture - the sunset texture for example- I would just make that change, then go to the OPTIONS manager and uncheck everything but the sky / dusk box - then go back to THEMES and save and load - that REX would then load only the altered texture....?

So that now when switching between two or three themes I need to remember which textures are different - then go to the options manager and tick / untick accordingly....afraid my memory aint that good, timest

but if I can just save one theme and adjust single textures the way you describe that seems like it would shorten the loadtime - if I am understanding you correctly that is :kilroy:
 
timest said:
heywoood, we are taking notes on user issues/suggestions while we work on an update. So thank you.
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Yes - and I want to tell you that I recognise that this is a very comprehensive program that allows the individual end user great flexibilty in adjusting a tremendous portion of the FSX experience - and so must by default be quite a handful from the development side.

My hat is off to you and the REX team for making the effort to work with us on the user end who have widely varying degrees of aptitude where it comes to implementing these kinds of apps.

I must count myself among the lower tier of such folks dontcha know:kilroy: so any help you guys can offer is greatly appreciated.
 
I just got everything up and running and i love it so far BUT, i have no tropical water. Areas like hawaii and st maarten etc have regular ocean single color textures, none of the sexy shallow textures that i have seen, i have tried using different tropical textures and everything is ticked under options but no sexy water any ideas?
 
Thanks for that heywoood.

deimos256 I responded in our forum to you. We do not touch waterclass in FSX so that is a weird one. In our video, AND screenshots we are using the TNCM area for this. Can you try there and report back. It's the TNCM and surrounding areas.
 
Time to eat crow

OK, time for me to belly up and buy a round. REX was not crashing my FSX. I deleted the program and had the same texture problems. After deleting the CFG file, the problem was solved. :redf:

So, I reloaded REX set the textures like you guys stated and I like it. :)

It looks good. I did lower the water to high 1x to get rid of the waves on the bayous and the water looks more real.

Weather and start FSX are off for the time being. I will see what happens.
 
Track IR unable to center or disengage

jmig, I thought I saw something in your previous post about problems with Track IR. Anyone else have the problem of the center and disengage hot keys not working with REX and FSX running at the same time. I have change the input keys several times but to no avail. ]

At the REX forum Tim says to change the key assignment, that it worked for him. I can not get this to work for me no matter what key I select. With both REX and FSX running, I checked the Track IR program with heads view and the center keys do not work there either. With this program running if I close REX, the Track IR View Head program flickers and the center key works fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Tom
 
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