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Sometimes FS makes you go wow....

Looks like I need to get that TrackIR stuff!
Everybody's on about it. I haven't even tried or seen it yet...
 
2012 and FS9,......................wow :mixedsmi:

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Stunning shots Thunderbolt!

Thunderbolt; "2012 and FS9,......................wow"
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Yes Sir! FS 2004-12

and dash twelve will see even more awesome developments - and while the original makers are trying to make a new one,

our community are making a better job of it with the one they like best!
 
My first screen shots for 2012. Beech Baron 58, wearing a really nice skin I found on Flightsim.com (made for the FS2002 Pro Baron 58, but works perfectly on the FS9 Baron). From Concrete Municipal to someplace (can't remember the name of the airport I flew to....a nice 48 minute flight). Weather via FS Metars.

OBIO
 
A few What The Heck? screen shots.

First one is right out of the Steven King move, Langoliers. They ate the back half of my plane

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While I was flying, I though I'd see what other planes were up in the air (using the Control W command, I think that's right). Saw these two C-172s flying in close formation. At first I thought it may be do to having a duplicated traffic.blg some place, but the call numbers were different on each plane and they had different paint schemes called. So, I guess it's just some close formation work for the Air Force now that they have had drastic budget cuts or something like that.

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OBIO
 
Yes, TrackIR-enabled, we go back to some great oldies

...in this case, Milton's D18S, for which a very fine repaint by David Reed appeared recently.

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And if a picture is worth 1000 words, a video has 1000 pictures.
I got carried away and did a "commercial" using Youtube's annotation tool.
With head tracking, doing the VC thing on engine controls takes on new life.

[YOUTUBE]1&v=btJyRL0gjng[/YOUTUBE]
 
Yes, TrackIR-enabled, we go back to some great oldies

...in this case, Milton's D18S, for which a very fine repaint by David Reed appeared recently.

B182.jpg


And if a picture is worth 1000 words, a video has 1000 pictures.
I got carried away and did a "commercial" using Youtube's annotation tool.
With head tracking, doing the VC thing on engine controls takes on a new meaning.
The clip is in HD, if you want to see it properly.

[YOUTUBE]btJyRL0gjng&list=UUO1vQGj8WGqdIRbfGPtbE4g&index=1&feature=plcp[/YOUTUBE]
 
Phenick Field

A USD10 "Baked Texture" whimsy.
See the lamp glow on the wall, and highlights on the fridge door.
FS9 is as big as your imagination will let you be.

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One of these days I'll need someone to explain to me what this baking of textures really is and maybe even how one goes about doing it.
For now all I can say is it looks great...and the ultimate Stearman is certainly a treat.

Cheers
Stefan
 
Stefan, Baking is Ambient Occlusion or as i put it "Natural Shadow"... i used it when creating the textures for Miltons Avia 51 internals, and for my HAS'...

it's done inside 3DSMax or with a lot of trial and error in your texture editing program.....
 
Thanks Matt...I will try to read up a bit more on that.

The scenery looks a lot like the Rhine Mosel area in Germany...so maybe VFR Germany ???

Where are the two airplanes found...the Robin looks a lot better than any I have seen....and I am still thinking on the first one as to what it really is. Zlin maybe ?

Stefan

PS ... If you have a web cam this software here promises to work as TrackIR without any additional hardware. I have not tried it yet.

http://facetracknoir.sourceforge.net/home/default.htm
 
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