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X-Aviation Extravaganza.....Bringing it all together and all of it will be available here!

Its the weekend, Im here testing out SkyMAXX Pro so far so good! I want to share a few shots from my test today.......enjoy

A bit more diversity in Laminars approach would be nice, there's nothing wrong with the textures themselves.... they're just used too often. Plausible though.

night shot. a video should be coming along in the near term. Not just a pretty face as the upcoming video will demonstrate...most everything is operable with considerable attention given to immersive detail...aural, visual and tactile. TomK

Lets not forget hehe:

2.4 right now, I go between 2.2-to 2.6 but you may be seeing the sun glare from the crepuscular rays, this will wash out the scenery it simulates sun glare......

There are some differences with HDR on and off mainly at noon. I have covered this before, it looks OK but we will get it 100% once 10.30 drops and we have access in the SDK....Here are a few shots with HDR turned on... The first shot is at noon, Im not found of the lighting here but thats me just being a perfectionist as you can see it looks nice but not exactly what I want: Here are a couple more at different times of day, looks more enhanced than with HDR off especially the lighting: Once we have access to the SDK we will tweak the lighting some more, the clouds are a tad too light IMO.....What do you think? Here are a couple more just for fun:

First full flight with my new PC! Late afternoon departure from Adelaide (YPAD) for a night landing in Melbourne (YMML) while on Vatsim 64bit Jetstar A320 neo from Jar Designs and ISDG's wonderful Adelaide scenery

Its all relative P3D V2 isnt that much of a big deal.....

From Last nights Live Stream Enjoy

BTW guys thats RealScenery Washington state.........Must have IMO

You are hurting me John, I really want to fly in that ASAP !!!

I wouldn't worry about P3D or who buys it, just my opinion there. I hope by titling this post as P3D V2 I didnt offend anyone. My goal was to throw out a few screenies of SMP to remind folks we are still at it

my Dad's computer is a lot stronger than my old Mac, so i took the plane out and pumped up the settings! she looks great, doesn't she?

We are all very lucky that we have a choice of two very good flight simulators which are both being updated. I have both (will be buying P3D 2.0 also) and enjoy both for different reasons. If there was ever one flightsim remaining - that would be a hard choice. If developers would develop more for X-Plane, I'm pretty sure X-Plane would be the winner! Just for your info - I like FSX/P3D because I like 3D Vision which unfortunately X-Plane can't do because it's OpenGL but I like the feel of X-Plane. Cheers

At this point, I'm just rather tired of all this "different" camp crap. As someone said at Avsim............we all share a common interest, don't we? As far as I'm concerned, a desktop simulation will just be an extenstion of flight, that I enjoyed in the past. It will be to re-create flights, some nostalgia of piston machines before my time, and an interest in modern commercial airliners (visted Boeing last evening). I don't care to be limited by one specific simulation. After using desktop sims since there beginning, I'm well aware of quality additions versus the lesser variety. Each sim has both, and everything in between. Most of all, I could care less about comparing stock to addon's. It doesn't mean a damn thing, if you're trying to achieve the best out a simulation. It's pointless to even use it as an argument, yet so many seem to do so. I don't believe it will benefit too many, to use LM's marketing as an excuse to head the simming population in one specific direction. Although I don't regularly participate in the LM discussions, it's become a dead issue at the other forum. If developers are counting on P3D to fall through, anytime soon, then you might want to get a second job, if you haven't already.

I think I read Tom's post correctly - he's suggesting something along the lines of Orbx, but just not as colourful. XP's default scenery's colours are closer to real world than the brightness that is Orbx's offering, but the basic mesh of XP-land is awful. Something in the middle would be great - a better mesh sort of like Orbx, but with the dulled-down colours of xp. That's what I think he's suggesting. I like the idea.

Lockheed Martin had gross income of almost $5 billon dollars last year. The amount of money they make selling P3D is not even a blip on the radar of their financial statement. Because it is SO inconsequential, you can be sure they will not defend their position, with respect to their agreement with Microsoft, with very much vigor. It probably also means that the upper management sees P3D as a "toy", or at least a drop in the bucket (especially where the consumer market is concerned) in the overall picture of their business plan, and in their eyes makes it's continued existence rather fragile and certainly not significant. It may continue to be available to the consumer, it may not, and that uncertainty is something everyone needs to consider when making a choice as to where they will invest their simulator dollars. BTW, John, P3D has got nothing on SkyMAXX... your product makes X-Plane far superior to anything they have shown yet. And then they (P3D fan boys) will argue that SkyMAXX is an add-on and we shouldn't be comparing it to "stock" P3D... Oh! the irony!

And you have apparently misunderstood me as well. You say want improved textures. I'm asking if you are suggesting that the X-Plane developers (Laminar) create (improved) default scenery that is equivalent to ORBX payware add-on scenery? Otherwise, why post the ORBX pictures? Anyway, that's not going to happen... but third party X-Plane developers could certainly match or exceed what ORBX has done.

Of course, good for Skymaxx, looks great. As for Lockheed pulling the plug, that would never happen, they are making money by selling a "commercial sim" to entertainment users, which goes against their EULA, that they agreed upon when they took over the code from Microsoft. The only one that would pull the plug, is Microsoft, but so far, they don't appear to care. Yet...

back atcha.

That's laughable. P3D is marketed as a training simulator only, not an entertainment simulator. If you do not believe me, check the EULA that comes with P3D. It specifically states that it is not to be used for entertainment purposes. Of course, that does not stop Lockheed Martin from selling it to individual users, who claim that they are using it for training purposes. And then the even more laughable thing, is that P3D is marketed as an FSX replacement, and all of the add ons are compatible… So much for a non-entertainment sim...

This is looking absolutely beautiful!

Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King over Raiatea island (by Dawson Design and Virtavia)

Approaching a random Aleutian mountain! Summit! Did a loop, coming back over the summit to the field. ..... I seem to have got the engine management down, carb heat helps a ton. Tailwheel problems aside, bush flying seems very interesting to me. Many flights to come with annie