Kaphias
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Cool, I was thinking of taking off before school and then put the autopilot on (for my first time across) then land after school but is it good for your computer to do this?
Should be fine on any computer, just make sure it's well ventilated and kept cool, especially if it's a laptop.
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Great to see the flight model updates. I'm getting closer and closer to buying this plane.
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Only one thing to say to you regarding that first picture: you're a screwed-up nut.
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Almost a week has gone by and no entries? Time is running short everybody!
You need three things for a competition to work well in the X-Plane community:
-Organization
-Promotion
-Prize
Sadly, there are none of the three here... put some time into planning things out before jumping into them and you'll succeed much more often.
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Yep... heard that too. I think they're all gonna be operated under Pinnacle, so it'll be a mix of everything. Right now, I'm lookin at Mesa/Colgan, Whiskey, and PSA as my first choices. Eagle would be nice, but since AA is spinning them off, who the hell knows where they'll end up. Rergionals are sketchy, to say the least right now...
Have you looked at Horizon at all? If so, why aren't you considering them?
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Good luck on your venture!
As a side note...last I remember, Mesaba will have nearly all Saabs retired around the end of 2011. CRJ is your likely bet knowing the state of Mesaba's fleet plan!
If you want to fly Saabs, come up here and fly for PenAir... they have a fleet of two 340A's and ten 340B's- with no retirements anytime soon.
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You may not choose to enter both categories if you like.
Really?
What?It can have real life features, I.E. photos from real life in the screenshot, as long as you keep it X-plane centred. -
I miss that old X-Pilot feature that would tell you all of the latest posts since your last visit! I totally missed the news about NorCal being done!
The feature is still there: click on "View New Content" in the top right corner of the page.
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The next high-quality airliner release by anyone smart enough to include a 2D cockpit.
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117 days to go, 26 min...... 26.5.......
It's getting farther away!
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I do believe Simon put that on there himself.
Likely to be a silly joke.Oh yes I know he put it on there himself, just found it funny in relation to the situation.
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It's no problem making that within an hour. Depending on what tools you have available and how well you know them, it's fairly simple. I remade that one in 5 minutes. Adding more details like lamps, windows, roof etc takes some more time, but it's still gonna be less than an hour.
...using a $1,000 program which you have hundreds, if not thousands of hours of experience in.
I'm jealous.
a better example of these two types
first type 1 texture with AO
and a type 2 texture with higher detail
Thanks for your insight nimi. From your examples I'm a fan of type 2; the higher resolution textures really make it for me.
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Idiot Savant
Oh dear.
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Wonderful move by United.
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You are such a liar, Kaphias. NO WAY you could do that in an hour. It looks great, personally though, I'd go for textures for detail over modeling.
No lies. SketchUp is so unbelievably easy to learn, not to mention very quick at doing basic squares (which is all the hangar is, except for the door knob). Thanks for your input.
I love to see high detail in scenery, such as your examples above, as long as it is implemented well.
The use of LOD groups is perfect for this sort of thing, and the additive LOD coming in v10 will make things even easier for high res scenery object authors.
Ah yes I remember reading about LOD groups a while ago. Once V10 comes out and I understand it more I'd certainly be willing to give it a go.
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Funny how people are so bent out of shape over how great the PDMG 737 is, to me I can appreciate the systems modelling, but graphically it looks like a lot of freeware FSX/FS2004 stuff I've seen shots of. Kind of a pale pasty complexion, and really odd stretched and clumsy looking dials, switches, controls, etc...
There's a huge difference between modeling for purely an artistic purpose and modeling for a flight simulator. Sure it looks great, but don't expect it to run on your computer if it was in X-Plane.
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I flew on this aircraft a few months ago, so I have some close up shots of the engines and nose if anyone is interested.
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Users may upload up to 30MB in images (just around it anyhow), with a single file being UP TO 16MB. The 500kb restriction was left behind for the normal members group, which has now been changed. Everyone should be equal now.
Yep, that's what I've got now. Thanks Cameron.
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I'm open to hearing users opinions, but in reality 500kb in itself is quite large for a single file!
That said, the max filesize upload allowed on the server right now is 16MB.
You have used 260.5K of 500KI think you may have your numbers mixed around Cameron; it seems that 500kb is the amount of space I have, not per upload.
Regardless, I've always considered it good practice to use a external host such as Photobucket to store my images. It takes a little load off of the forum's servers.
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I bet it is the same issue I was having uploading a user image. There is probably a limit set on the size of an image to be posted. The limit for user images was 150 x 150 pixels...
Must be fairly large then; the second shot in my above post is 1440x900 and 200kb.
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Testing:
...seems to work just fine here.
...and so do large images.
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That looks great. I think most will agree that phototextures look the best and most realistic. In terms of polygons/detail, adding doors, windows and trim is awesome if you can get away with it. Weighing how important an object is to a scene is key. I model doors and windows if the object in an intergal part of the scene. You can do some awesome stuff with normal maps. The corrugated metal and building trim would be great candidates for that.
Normal maps aren't something I have looked at at all, thanks for the idea. Seems like they would work great for the corrugated stuff.
Also, are you doing this for XP9 or 10? That will make a difference in which way you go and anyone for that matter.
Well at this point it would be for V9. Ideally I'd provide a version for V10 as well as V9, but that all depends on how many people move to V10 and how much of a difference the new features will make to the scenery.
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Wonderful news, and how about those engines! Woo!
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Hello aerot,
Please read this topic: http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php?/topic/2369-x-aviation-buyers-to-x-aviation-and-org-to-org/
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