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  2. The great agricultural lands of the San Joaquin Valley, south of Sacramento. This is the heart of California's croplands and is often referred to as the "Food basket of the world."
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  3. All right, here we go... After fiddling around converting sceneries learning as I go, making repaints for third party planes mostly for personal use, although I shared a couple so far, I decided to embark on my first original project. I want to start moderately with one small airfield in the Mexican Caribbean Island of Cozumel. It features 2 airports. The MMCZ International airport and a small Airfield that doesn't even come with the default Global Scenery. This airfield is home of the Cozumel Air Show and recently the place for Fred Cabanas last flight. In Memory of Freddy... http://cabanasaerobatics.com/category/videos/#ooid=A3c21oODpjfNA0ntEM-mdHb7CM7HsrjA Last video on the page I have not use some of the tools that I will need for this task but I am determined to lear by doing. I chose this not only for the love to the Island since I lived there many years, but because It will allow me the opportunity to grow in developing skills: First I want to do the Cap. Eduardo Toledo airfield and then continue with the International Airport with its Air Force Base and then whole Island with its beautiful coastline, landmarks and stuff. I should have a lot of fun learning as I go. Edit: I was not able to post a direct link to the tribute video
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  4. Here's some screenshots of our upcoming Australian Scenery replacement project: This is from YSSY and YMML areas: Updated YSSY Terminal v1.4. Note the water and sky reflections on the tarmac. A320NEO Payware Airbus, with Jetstar Repaint Andras's AlPilotX's HD Tree Repalcements, John's SkyMAXX Additional Animals from RUScenery OpensceneryX wooden fences ISDG Replacement Fence Facades Additional Reeds and grasses from Ropeless and SimmoW, 3D object by Skyflyer New Melbourne Tower by Sethesus UrbanMAXX Australian Replacement urban textures, and CloudMAXX cloud replacements. Hope you enjoyed! - CK.
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  5. Like the topic says.... I wanted a way to view my current position in XP10 without having to pause the simulation to open the local map in the sim, so I created my own custom application to grab the UDP data gram and build a KML file that is read by Google Earth on a timer. I can specify the eye level for the zoom and provide a custom icon for the aircraft position. I run this on my laptop over a wireless link sitting next to my XP10 monitor. Development was done in Visual Studio Express 2010 as a WPF Tray Application in C#. I use IPEndPoint and UDPClient objects on an interval timer to fetch the data and a BinaryReader to parse it out into Lat and Long for the file which is just an XML File. Google Earth is setup with a new Network File pull to the location on a interval of 2-5 seconds. Sectional Overlay: I found a KML link file called Aero_Charts that allows me to toggle a sectional chart on and off for my location. If anyone is interested in trying this tool, I am close to having something to distribute.
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  6. Well, I just cut the rope and kept on moving, too. I also just got banned from the so-called "org" - more like the Borg. Unless you are willing to drink their coolaid all the time, that in and of itself is enough to get you banned. And, don't even think about asking intelligent questions about X-Plane, or make any intelligent (patently obvious) critiques of X-Plane on the Borg Collective Forum, as that will get you nothing but a collective "Go fly the demo to get your questions answered," or it will immediately get you labeled a "troll" by a pretend Cop wearing a "Moderators" uniform with the crack of his butt showing each time he sits down at his computer. I posted some very direct questions about the "Application Architecture" of X-Plane, and was rudely interrupted by the very same Trollish Attitude that I got labeled with, merely for asking intelligent questions. For the Moderator and his Borg-like Minions to behave that way, was just flat out stupid. What's the point? What's the point of even having a forum with the name X-Plane.org. What - did they really think that having a name like that and allowing public registrations for membership would lead to no one asking questions based on their observations of X-Plane? How absurd a notion is that. The Moderator temporarily suspended my account - merely because I levied the truth on their forum about how I was displeased with the difference between what the official X-Plane Sales Video shows -vs- what you actually get out of the box when you install the product. You don't get the nice looking scenery, high resolution ground level detail, precise surface topology with respect to major landmarks, etc., with X-Plane 10 Global. My X-Plane 10 Global, looked absolutely nothing like the video and all I did was echo what I've seen others say before about their Out-The-Box experience with X-Plane Global and the apparent discrepancy between the polished video -vs- what ultimately gets installed on their HDD. The level of rudeness, arrogance and total blindness on that site is beyond my ability to cope. I wrote back to the Traffic Cop (moderator) and told him to not just temporarily suspend my account - but DELETE my account entirely, as I had absolutely zero need for such an arrogant environment. I also made it abundantly clear that I LIKED X-Plane, even more than I liked FSX. So, I'm not some FSX Vendor Water Boy. I went there to learn - but apparently, you can't learn a damn thing inside the Borg Collective, unless you agree with every hallucination they can fathom. It was an unreal experience to say the least. The arrogance on that forum is palpable. I suspect this forum is a whole lot different? I've also seen a number of other forums with a lot more traffic, a lot more learning going on and a lot less ego to throw around. What is it with arrogance on forums anyway? Why do people lose their social skills when they enter a forum? Why bring that kind of obnoxious anti-social attitude into a forum, when you know darn well you won't have that same arrogant attitude standing directly in front of someone? What you see, is what you get with me. I'm polite and courteous in-person and I'm the same way online. I don't attempt to over compensate for some kind of weakness, merely because I go online. Yet, I see this time and time again on forums. What's the deal? Weren't these people reared by parents who taught them at a young age, how to conduct themselves in public places and how to remain consistent in demeanor, whether in public or private? I was taught that by my parents. I'm so sick of all the online idiocy and Group Think Mentality. Drink the coolaid so you can get along with the "Borg," or you will be classified as a Troll. And, we ban Trolls. We don't ban ourselves for acting just like trolls, but we do ban others who we say are acting like trolls. In other words, we are total HYPOCRITES and we like it that way (with a stupid grin on the face, no doubt). Oh, man! I am SO sick of that online attitude! When does it stop? When do people stop acting like this online? When do we get down to some intelligent discussion, rational debate, healthy challenges and some actual learning without all the Borg'ishness behavior? Why can't these be real places of learning, sharing, cultivating, knowledge transfer, understanding, development and growth? What - am I asking for too much for people to be civil with each other? PLEASE tell me that this forum is different in its approach and its overall attitude? I brought my own beverages, thank you very much. I don't drink coolaid, but I am willing to share what I do have. I've got some chips and salsa, too. I can't cook very well, but I can roast the heck out of a chicken (lol!). I'm also getting better making Lasagna, and once upon a time, I made a stir fry dish with 100% fresh ingredients and it was just as good, if not better than anything I've ever experienced in a nice restaurant. Thus, I have developed a whole new level of respect for Professional Chefs - how they get it perfect every single time, I will never know. But, I have to watch what I eat, or my blood sugar levels will get out of whack - don't want that to happen. Like I said, what you see is what you get. Now, I was saying something about X-Plane....
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  7. Well, like Cameron so eloquently points out, there's good and bad on both sides for sure. I don't like some of the batles over there either. But I don't like some of the immature name-calling and foul language here either. So, I ignore it all and just get on with my hobby. With a dash of common sense and respect, which serves just as well in the real world. Cheers, bc
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  8. Awesome work you folks have been doing! Finally a scenery package for all the homestead ranchers who know that northern Ca doesn't end at Sacramento. Well done.
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  9. Wow, that looks great bc. Wish I could participate with my Beaver. Well, the time will come for sure. Is it possible to fly it at a later date on your own, or would I need to participate in "real time"? Pete
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  10. First person to come up with a X-Plane plug-in that can display aircraft position on SkyVector would be on to a winner!! VFR, Lo Alt IFR, Hi Alt IFR. :D cessna729.
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  11. After PHNL my goal is to model Kauai for VFR flying - in my opinion the most beautiful island in the world.
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  12. Impressive. Keep up the good work. I am now officially following this looking forward for its release. Edit. I lived in Kauai for a few years and flew into PHNL several times, Would love to recreate my travels and perhaps use it as a stop over on my way to Australia and New Zealand to enjoy Chris K's australian airports and alpilots' New Zealand Pro.
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  13. Microsoft/ACES spent considerable time with a team to develop bigger cities with some accurately placed CUSTOM scenery, not autogen. This would be why you would see more accurate depiction of such elements. This comes down to time, size of team, and money, all of which Microsoft has (had) a ton more of. That said, X-Plane 10 is a complete re-write (or near it) of the scenery engine compared to version 9, and is leaps and bounds better. As time moves forward I think it would be safe to assume the scenery engine will make great forward improvements as well. Until X-Plane 10, Laminar's focus has never really been eye candy. It's always been about flight dynamics, but Laminar is now starting to cater to both sides with the latest changes. For someone coming from X-Plane 9 it's a massive improvement eye candy wise, for someone coming from MSFS it is a different story. I don't understand this question. You are asking about FS X? Perhaps that was a typo? Either way, both sims are not repetitive and there are technically no "boundaries". For X-Plane there are tiles that just fit together like square pieces in a puzzle. Each piece is intended and unique for its section of the world. You don't even know you reach the seam/boundary in X-Plane (or FS X for that matter). I don't believe Austin made such a statement. The way the system works is it takes the power lines, railroad, roads, etc. data and fills in autogen in between it to the best it *thinks* it should plausibly do. Nothing is perfect here, but it's also not horrible. You would need to pump up your street settings to see them all. Be aware that doing so does and will have an impact on your frame rates. This is why the default setting does not set it to show ALL streets in the scenery even though they are there. There's not much to read up on here. Open X-Plane and the Rendering Settings menu and enable HDR! I actually don't think you fully understand still. For the most part, all scenery locations are pretty well consistent so long as you turn up the rendering settings. It is not exclusive to Seattle.
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  14. Finally took some leisure flying time, did a short hop between CYVR and KSEA, both of which have decent scenery on my machine. 747 in Canadian Airlines livery from the 1980's. I hate doing Seattle approach in the dark. Too many damned lights. I love it up here in Canada. Looking for an airport? Just go for something with lights, there'll probably be an airport, since we don't really have bright cities...
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