hobofat
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If you mean Cockpit, then yes. If you mean the cabin as in the place the passengers sit then no, we don't have a highly detailed cabin. What we do have is a cabin that looks good from outside the plane.
And for this, both I and the cooling fans on my poor laptop thank you.
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I just downloaded and tried Cork EICK. I'm impressed by all the details there - but it runs in an alarming 12fps on my system when I flew the BK 117. My point is - I'd like my sceneries to fly well even on a mid-end computer like mine (compared to what's hot today..). Sadly, loads of geometry eats more performance than good textures.
Noted, Karingka.
I never bother with scenery because while I always seem to be able to make frame heavy aircraft work fine, even basic scenery sends my fps plummeting. Would love some good looking well-made scenery that won't cook fried eggs on my computer case...
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Absolutely fantastic news. Thanks Philip for stepping up to the plate! Just a quick question: Will there be an option to turn off the persons in the cockpit? Understandable if not, just a personal preference so I thought I'd ask.
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But anyway, as it looks there is no other way to close that stupid argument :
I personally say, "Don't feed the trolls," but as frustrated as you must feel defending your freeware offering to the rabid masses, showing up and responding personally on this public forum shows good form. Thanks for taking the time to do so.
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Which scenery is that Cameron?
TBA at a later time.
We can still speculate endlessly though, right? I'm gonna guess Reno.
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That's a real smart looking livery! Not overdone, but a nice splash of color.
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Going to go off-topic here
and say that I absolutely loved AirHauler for FSX. Queue the shocked gasps ... but it puts a little game back into my simulation. One that I'm entirely in control of, which taps into ones creative tendencies. I spent a lot of time doing repaints for Air Gondwana, my freight company in Papau New Guinea!Alright, back to discussing Macs. ::yawn::
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now if only we could get A2A over here
I kept FSX as long as I did merely for A2A's 377. Would love a high quality 377 in X-Plane...
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Have you perhaps got "Auto-hide the Taskbar" selected in the task bar properties menu?
Yes, which I did on purpose to enable me to click on the bottom left or right corner of the X-Plane window to resize it. The window just won't resize.
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drag your mouse to the bottom left corner and then drag. that should resize it
Thanks for the responses. That is exactly what's not working. It won't let me click the corner and drag. @gil: The X-Plane toolbar is there, I was referencing the bottom menu bar of Windows 7 itself.
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http://www.x-plane.com/pg_Sys_reqs.html
The minimum resolution is 1024X768. It wont shrink further.
I'm trying to increase the size of the window to fill the screen without using the "fullscreen" option so I can leave my windows toolbar uncovered to rapidly switch back and forth between sim and documents. When I uncheck "fullscreen" in the rendering options the X-Plane window shrinks down to 1024x768 and I can neither move the X-Plane window or resize it. If my explanation is not quite clear I can take a screenshot of what I'm talking about.
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Did you uncheck the box that says something like "Use Monitor Resolution" or something of that nature? It's in the top corner of the rendering options screen.
Yes.
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Note: I've done a full search of the .org for a solution, but the only pieces of advice offered (RTFM and reset preferences) have not worked for me. I don't dare ask there as the automated "old-timer" response system will undoubtedly point me in the direction of aforesaid already read manual.
I'm trying to resize my x-plane window. Normally I just use the "full-screen" mode option, however, I'm trying to work through a pdf tutorial and only have one monitor (a laptop actually) and switching in and out is a pain. Apparently you can resize the X-plane window via clicking and dragging the lower right hand corner, but this does not work for me.
My laptop resolution is at 1366 x 768. I've tried different resolutions, to no avail. I've moved my windows toolbar out of the way to make sure I could click the corner, no go. I'm using the latest version of X-Plane, 9.67. Any advice appreciated.
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If you can get used to GIMP, it has a pen tool and is more than sufficient for texturing. It's all I use for my texturing and about 600.00 cheaper than photoshop. Everybody has their own environment they feel comfortable in I know so it's not for everybody...but my point is that money doesn't have to keep you from getting results. GIMP is available for mac/windows/linux.
GIMP is a wonderful resource, much more powerful than most payware paint programs short of professional packages. Plus you can find plenty of how-to resources around the web for it.
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Isn't that the one that indi's mentioned ripping his code off?
I may be wrong there, so no assertion made.
It is the same helicopter as was sold from ifly.it, just under a different name. Take that for what it's worth, if you've followed the history at all.
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Thanks for writing about the experience! Now I'm even more interested in your project
Ay, it was a nice write-up indeed!
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It's looking fantastic! Incidentally, just checked out your armchair aviation website, very organized and easy to read. Looking forward to more "how to" articles.
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Thanks for the new paintkit! Opened it up and played around with it a bit, will try to work on something when I get the time. Not sure when that'll be. But have a particular livery in mind if I can manage it!
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Update on the Saab...
Release is delayed.
Phew, I was scared you were about to announce the release at the start of the work week, and that just would not be good.
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I am working on 3d cockpit
Now that's music to my ears!
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You're making a version without Garmins? Excellent!! I have some weird issues about navigating by GPS, perhaps I should see a counsellor, but I much prefer lining up those little white needles and watching the numbers on the DME. Flying according to the flight-plan I sketched beforehand on a sheet of paper, much better than using the mouse to dial it into a simulated computer!
That's what sucked me into flight simming in the first place. I bought my first flight sim because I was at the comp store and saw it on the shelf and said, "I like airplanes." Fiddled around with it, then dropped it for a bit, as it was too sandbox. Then I picked up a tutorial on navigating via NDB and VOR and tried it out in the wee ol' Cessna 172 and have been hooked ever since.
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Unlearning is MUCH harder than learning.
You would be amazed at how fast my students "unlearn" absolutely everything. :-\ Although I guess it would be more appropriate to say they never learned it in the first place...
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I bought X-Plane solely because I wanted to fly the MU-2 and Tyler's was the only one on the scene. After that I got sucked into flying helicopters which felt so much better to me in X-Plane than in FSX. Once the BK-117 came out, and other high quality products started appearing (I love the SeaMax and the T-34 is next on my purchase list [can't get everything at once after all]), I more or less dumped my FSX and solely fly in X-Plane now.
The whole point being that innovative products can pull people in, at least it did for me. I think that you, Javier, are well positioned to attract more people like myself. Of course I have no idea what actual sales numbers are like for X-Plane products, and the pay-off for time invested ratios, etc. But no need to be depressed I'm thinking!
Sunday Morn
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No sharks here, but I did end up take a nice long "siesta" once when the barracuda started showing up.