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Seamaster (virtavia) anyone?
- Thread starter keithb77
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Navy Chief
Senior Member
From their website. I have not bought it yet, but am not that impressed from this screenshot from their webpage:
DennyA
SOH-CM-2023
It's the quality you'd expect from Virtavia -- looks like one of the better FSX/P3D planes. Not the super level-of-detail you'll get from the best MSFS planes, but c'mon, who else is going to do planes like the Seamaster, Stirling, F4D Skyray, etc?
I feel like it's worth $20, but I love this era of aviation.
dd
Real cockpit for comparison:
What Virtavia did was a pretty good representation of the actual cockpit as pictured.Some shots. Higher-resolution versions here.
It's the quality you'd expect from Virtavia -- looks like one of the better FSX/P3D planes. Not the super level-of-detail you'll get from the best MSFS planes, but c'mon, who else is going to do planes like the Seamaster, Stirling, F4D Skyray, etc?
I feel like it's worth $20, but I love this era of aviation.
dd
Real cockpit for comparison:
OK ! Thanks !
Remarkable, these puddles of water look so real and that hangar too, i guess this must be the famous Miramar scenery ? The total lack of any kind of weathering and further detailing of the Seamaster model made me think it's the sim, then again not used to see something like that 'drivable dock' addition on a Virtavia model. Still, overall, at first and even second glance, that picture sure had me fooled.
I might have a look at it as well, just because it's such an iconic plane. (didn't Phil/Alphasim do a Mariner too for FS9 or something ?.. He should be looking into texture baking and PBR, that'll give that cockpit a bit of realism boost too)
Are you gonna depth charge that poor Godzilla ?...
Thanks Denny,
Rallymodeller
Charter Member
Hope we get that fixed in a future SU.
DennyA
SOH-CM-2023
Yep! That's the thing... Virtavia's stuff might not pack the visual "wow" of the best MSFS planes, but they're pretty accurate as far as visuals and systems go, and the flight models are generally what you'd expect from what's being modeled. Plus the prices are now half what they were in the P3D days.
I love that Phil's doing these historic planes.
AvAngel's review - beat me to it!
Cheers: Tom
Asobo's water physics is not very good. Seaplanes tend to bounce along the surface and do not cut through waves with any realism. Sad, because Asobo introduced several seaplane legends. Maybe FS 2024 will be better.