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Sightseeing flight around Cairns

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Wow!!! Fantastic, these shots look so real!

The scenery looks so real I had to look harder to verify it was a sim! What are you using for that?

Gregg Seipp

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Thanks, guys. The scenery is ORBX Cairns Australia. I believe the deep contrast of the ground shadows is contributing to the sense of reality.

 

John

Nice set of pics.

 

Al

Alan Bradbury

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Love the detail.

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Patrick

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The airport scenery package comes with over 100 sq/km of 30 cm/pixel photoreal coverage of the surrounding area including the entire city of Cairns and some of the suburbs. I like to buy the ORBX products that feature the most amount of "bonus" area.

 

John

+1 very realistic looking pix, nice!

Wow, those shots are fantastic, great detail in them.

John B

 

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What settings do you use for water?

 

 

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My water effects setting is kept at Mid 2x. But I like to play around with FS Water Configurator -- a great free utility -- to cut back on "Specular Reflection Intensity." With these particular shots, however, the credit should really go to the photoreal water textures that are part of the ORBX scenery.

 

John

Cairns really came out nice!

It is one of the best Orbx scenery IMO .

 

 

David DD

David

My water effects setting is kept at Mid 2x. But I like to play around with FS Water Configurator -- a great free utility -- to cut back on "Specular Reflection Intensity." With these particular shots, however, the credit should really go to the photoreal water textures that are part of the ORBX scenery.

 

John

 

Thanks

 

Ill try that tool.

 

My reflections are just too much, or the way they are makes the plane look like a small model

 

 

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I know what you mean. With FSWC, my favorite settings put the "sun specular reflection intensity" as low as 4%. Minimizes all that overdone glistening, sparkling effect.

 

John

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