After flying around for a few days with FS Water (I was a skeptic at first), I must say if anything else this add-on does wonders for FS2k4

How bout some extensive screen caps of your sky? I dont really use water effects in an effort to keep the FPS high(er). However, sky textures are interesting to me.Eric

Agreed - I bought it the other night and it's fantastic - was doing some overwater stuff and up at altitude the shade of the sky plus the nice looking water was one of the most realistic looking scenes I've seen in FS...

>After flying around for a few days with FS Water (I was a>skeptic at first), I must say if anything else this add-on>does wonders for FS2k4

How is performace with FS Water? I have a 3.2 p4 running windows xp with 1 gb of ram. FS runs a little slow because of the 100% traffic and modified afcad2 files and I haven't found a set of water yet that doesn't cause slowdown when looking at it and that doesnt have a shimmering/flashing effect. Thanks-Alex

I took the plunge yesterday and bought it, and I've been very pleasently surprised. It is gorgeous, a real visual treat. What struck me was that the screen shots really don't do it justice, you have to see it in action before you see how good it is. That's a shame, 'cos many people will say: It doesn't look any better than the freeware I have now, why buy it? I think they're wrong! It's better than anything I've ever tried out in the past, and better than what I was running up to now. Framerates? No hit at all, my frames have actually got better, I had micro-stutters sometimes when flying curves in VC view, and they're gone completly after installing FS Water over my old texture set.My system specs are underneath, and otherwise I tried it with MyTraffic and ActiveSky, and also with the VisualFlight VFR england and wales mesh together.Good frames and looks good! What more could you ask for?BestGrahame

I will probably buy FS Water soon, but I have some airport scenery I want to get first.

There is far more water around the world than airports. You won't be dissapointed with FS Water.Greg

Eric,I just bought FSWater. I thought I already was using incredible water textures, but still I am amazed by the great appearance I get from these new ones. But like others mentioned before, the new sky textures are worth the price of the addon by themselves. Attached two screen shots showing a VOR-DME approach to EHAM rwy 24 while using todays weather generated by ActiveSky 2004. I was so impressed by what I saw (screen shots do not do it justice) that I forgot to set the altimeter ;-)Cheers,Henrihttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/88595.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/88596.jpg

I agree. I bought FSWater a couple of days ago and spent about three hours today flying around in the Alps betwen Italy and Switzerland. The sky was absolutely mind blowing.Doug

I bought FS Water today! Never even thought about it before... just decided to buy it on the minute. Golly--$15 though! But a nice add-on.

Well, people seem to be pretty happy with their purchases considering there are plenty of freebie versions. ( I personally use the combination of several free textures). To me that means this payware version is holding up their own. Couple of questions:1. - For those who have it were you already using a modiefied "freeware" version out there or were you using the default textures... thus the "WoW" effect?2. - In the pictures, the waters look a tad green to me. Living next to the Pacific Ocean I prefer darker blues. Think I would be dissapointed?3. - Howz 'bout some screenies?

FS water comes with a pretty handy config tool with preview window. You can change several textures... including a "bluer" texture. I like that.I'm quite happy with my purchase and it is quite beautiful. But, still... $15!

A tad green, a tad blue, a tad grey,water is different all over the world, changes color depending on time of day, colour of sky and so on.There is a fault in the default FS9 sky textures which means at cetain times it puts a magenta cast on the water when it should not.FS water is under development, like all good add-ons, and as such it is contantly achieving higher goals. Feed back from groups like this is very important to the creation of better products.$15 is $10 here in the UK and that buys a ticket to the cinema and a drink of coke or about 1.6 gallons of gas. Not much for what it is and how much developent time has been spent on it. Over 1,000 hours in fact. I could have done it in half that time but then it would not be as good.As for colour casts the blue tropical regions are very blue, not green at all, though in certain cloudy conditions it can be greener, just like in real life, as the water takes on the colour of the sky. That is just what happens in FS Water.Grey overcast sky in the excellent screen shots and guess what, grey water!Screen shots do not do it justic at all as there are animations and active moving reflections and feel.The forth coming patch will provide at least one other base bit map set and 3 or 4 radically different animation wave sets and alternative reflection sets to go with it all.The people using water are going through a leaning curve. I often read in forums, "go get this new water set" which probably took less than 50 or so hours to develop an intire set and then find once I install it it looks nothing like real water with rediculess colours and so on. But nealy always there is an element of genius about these freeware sets though nobody seems to manage to put it all together as a balanced set which works for all regions, all times of the day and for all times of the year. Most of these freeware sets are mixed and matched and though they may work well in Seattle or Hong Kong it is not the same for everywhere.One or two screen shots dose not show it off at all. A video would work better but only if it was a full screen video with sound etc.They only real way to make the most of FS water is to use it. Even I am leaning about what it does and how it relates to different regions, times of day to the sky and so on.Even I get a wow factor nearly every time I use the simulator now. So many areas of natural beauty are lost unless you have the right texture sets to make the most of it.I know it is hard to believe that what you think is just another "water set" can do so much. But then by your own admission you have tried really hard to make the ultimate water set.Now maybe you don't have to try so hard anymore? Someone out there spent a long time making sense of water and first gave you an award wining texture set for free. PWover15 is nothing compared to FS water and just for a comparision I have the FS Water intstaller configured to make easy installing of every water set out there.I think you will find FS water is as good as water gets and I promise you it will continue to get better and if you really don't like it then you will get a full refund.It's 1.6 gallons of gas, that's all.Peter

>2. - In the pictures, the waters look a tad green to me. >Living next to the Pacific Ocean I prefer darker blues. In the San Francisco Bay Area where I live water is green, and I mean green/brown even pink in places. No shades of blue. Michael J.http://www.reality-xp.com/community/nr/rsc/rxp-higher.jpg