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REX - tell me about it

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GregG

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Hi,

I've always been somewhat put off by the looks of FSX, but yesterday I found some videos and screenshots about Real Environment Extreme 2.0 - I purchased it immediately, but I won't have any time to try it until this weekend :(

So how exactly does it work? You start REX, set up your theme and then you start FSX from REX or what? I hope there's no need to fiddle with cfg files in notepad.

I downloaded their freeware roads and grass and it's a major improvement with no FPS loss.

Will my PC be able to handle it? What are the major performance killers one should avoid?

My specs:
i7-920 @ 2,7
GTX470 1280 (ish?) Mb
6 Gb RAM
Win7 64

Do you have any tips as to which water/cloued/etc looks best? I've heard "sparkly" water is breathtakingly realistic.

Cheers!

Greg
 
Greg,
First of all REX is now 50% off for the Holidays-what a steal...Flightsim store is a great place to grab it
Your computer sholud run it with no problem

Absoluely get the REX product-It will provide a WOW factor missing from FSX

After you download and install,you create your Theme,save it and then install into FSX-your done. No need to reload everytime unless you wnat to create another Theme
Also the REX textures will be in FSX even if you do not use the REX weather engine.....

You can select to start FSX through REX if you wish
"Sparkling " is my favorite and cloud set HD 49(OD package) delivers a beautiful sky full of clouds-there are many combinations you can try -fine which suits you the best


After you install REX 2 than go to the REX web site and download the FREE OD package..
Download this PDF from the REX site on how to install/ reinstall REX & REX OD: http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.co...x20-build-2320101027-and-od-for-fsx-new-file/


Here is the link to the REX web site: http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/index.html

Here is the link to the REX Forum:http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/forums/

If you have any problems post at the REX Forum and you will get assistance...
Happy Holidays!


Rick
 
Many thanks for the info, Rick! Now I'm sitting on needles - I can't wait to try it this weekend :salute:

What is this OD pack? Some extra textures to use?
 
The real advantage of REX comes from allowing REX to choose your textures for you. It downloads real-world weather data and uses that to adjust and configure the scenery textures to match the conditions. It might sound a little risky to let the program choose, but I've seen nothing but beauty, regardless of the conditions, since I've been using it.
Admittedly, I'm only using REX in FS9, but it sure ought to be the same in FSX!
I also maintain set for screenshot purposes, but I find I do more flying than screen-shooting, so the real-world function serves me best.
 
There are really two distinct elements of REX. One is the texture generator and the other is the weather engine. You can use them separately or together. You can use just the texture generator to customize your clouds, sky and water. Or you can use the weather generator stand alone. As one poster noted, you can integrate the two and let REX download the real weather conditions and spin out environmental textures that are appropriate to current weather conditions. Pretty cool. One warning: if you do a full texture update, it takes a long time. I learned that if I turned off the update of the water textures, the rest update considerable faster. I love REX2
 
"What is this OD pack? Some extra textures to use?"

Yes
Dowload from the REX web page link I provided
 
I purchased this last weekend and must admit, it is all it was advertised to be. However, I am still a bit confused how to use it with Shade, since one starts FSX from within both these applications....

So, what order?
 
Shade has nothing to do with textures or weather really. it concerns itself mostly with light values by manipulating ther hardware and software shaders. In the latest update on shade, you can select or create a light theme and not only save it, but write it to fsx ( set and forget ) and it will run that theme every timke you start fsx. this will allow you to start fsx within rex without having to worry about shade at all..
Pam
 
Here we go, I bought it!

...but I can't try it until tomorrow. Patience is a virtue, but not one of mines :)

I can't wait to spend my whole Saturday fiddling with it and checking out the different themes :jump:
 
Good morning :)..
Thought i might give you a basic idea of what you can look forward too tomorrow.. I need to qualify myself though. I've been awake for almost twenty hours now, and i'm cross eyed and goofy as it gets.. Theres a lot happening in these pics too.
All the pics are using Gizmo's "Shade". I changed shade presets about three times for the pics.. All the pics also are using Ultimate terrain 2. The first pic, is also using Active Sky Evolution in conjunction with REX+OD, the rest are just REX+OD..
ALL the pics were taken in the storm currently passing over Bowling green Kentucky..
Hope you enjoy..
Pam

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warchild said:
Shade has nothing to do with textures or weather really. it concerns itself mostly with light values by manipulating ther hardware and software shaders. In the latest update on shade, you can select or create a light theme and not only save it, but write it to fsx ( set and forget ) and it will run that theme every timke you start fsx. this will allow you to start fsx within rex without having to worry about shade at all..
Pam
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Thank you ma'am....I will run along and try to impose the light theme via set and forget and see if it loads correctly. I understood how shade worked versus REX....it was just a simple mechanics question.


BTW, it's snowing....on my screen.....
 
::lol:: Snowing on mine too.. Ickies subtle way of wishing you all the merriest of Christmas's and a happy new year..

PS:: ::chcukling:: you know me TeaSea. If you ask me what time it is, i'm gonna write a fifty page tome on the physics of time before i get to the point.. Part of whats beern wrong between myb ears all my life..
 
Well, physics or not you pointed me the right way and that took care of it.

It was actually staring me in the face the whole time.

Thanks!
 
Framerates?

Are there absolutely no impacts to framerates? I was considering getting REX but am concerned about any loss of framerates on my already taxed system running FSX.
My system: QX9770 3.2Ghz, GTX570, 12Gb RAM, Win7 64, TripleHead2Go pushing 3 monitors at 5040x1050 resolution.
 
I've got no problem with framerates.

However, it would be nice if it didn't install all the textures over again, when I only change one of them in the theme creator. It takes an awful long time :(

But it sure looks amazing!

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well if you go into 'Options' in REX and un-check anything you DO NOT want to over write - then go to themes and adjust only those things that you left a check mark ON for...

REX will load only those things and go through the loading process very quickly
 
sarwulf said:
Are there absolutely no impacts to framerates? I was considering getting REX but am concerned about any loss of framerates on my already taxed system running FSX.
My system: QX9770 3.2Ghz, GTX570, 12Gb RAM, Win7 64, TripleHead2Go pushing 3 monitors at 5040x1050 resolution.
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There isn't much if any if you only use the textures. If you use the weather engine, there is some frame rate hit, but since the REX weather engine runs outside of FSX, it doesn't induce the stutters near as badly as the internal Real Weather engine does.
 
heywooood said:
well if you go into 'Options' in REX and un-check anything you DO NOT want to over write - then go to themes and adjust only those things that you left a check mark ON for...

REX will load only those things and go through the loading process very quickly
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oh, good to know, cheers!
 
I went and bought REX2 last night and installed it. I don't know all the ins and outs of it obviously, but the interface wasn't hard to figure out. I set up the texture set I wanted, let it do its thing, then went flying.
I didn't see any framerate hit at all in FSX. Bear in mind I wasn't using the weather engine at the time, just let it swap out textures.
I am gonna fly some more tonight and see what I can figure out. Clouds and water look great.
 
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