his best video so far!

 

http://youtu.be/ljt9AuHE2zo

 

 

 

:yahoo:  :clapping:  :drinks:  :Party:

Great video !

his best video so far!

 

http://youtu.be/ljt9AuHE2zo

 

 

 

:yahoo:  :clapping:  :drinks:  :Party:

Agreed!

Is the cloud always dark in X-plane (even in a sunny day)? The rest (especially lighting effect) is AWESOME .

What's up with the diagonals in the evening sky at 2:23?

What's up with the diagonals in the evening sky at 2:23?

 

Video compression artifacts. The scourge of streaming video, unfortunately. Could also be from his video rendering settings from the editing software.

Nice video but some things I can't stand are the clouds and the overall gloomy look in X-Plane. It looks drab and not vibrant at all. The water horizon is another annoying thing, it blends in with the sky and you can't distinguish where it ends.

Nice video but some things I can't stand are the clouds and the overall gloomy look in X-Plane. It looks drab and not vibrant at all.

 

That's your opinion. In my opinion, an other (very well known ) simulator has cartoonish and gaudy colours. Real life is most of the time more drab, because of all the haze in the air (humidity, dust particles, environmental pollution, ...). This other sim is really good in showing us what we want to see, even if it is not realistic (one more example is e.g. the "carribean blue" water all over the world).

 

The water horizon is another annoying thing, it blends in with the sky and you can't distinguish where it ends.

 

This depends on weather. When you have bad weather/hazy days, it can be hard to see the horizon even when being over land - let alone above water. Some examples: here , here or here.

Well when I'm flying on a perfectly clear day, I still hardly see any horizon. Let alone hazy or foggy days. Plus the water looks compelely flat as there's no texture at all. So in the end, the water looks like the sky.

X-Plane always looks dull and gloomy, even on bright sunny days in the sim, until Austin fixes this problem, and adds better looking aircraft and airports, X-Plane will never get my money

Well when I'm flying on a perfectly clear day, I still hardly see any horizon. Let alone hazy or foggy days. Plus the water looks compelely flat as there's no texture at all. So in the end, the water looks like the sky.

 

Could you post a screenshot to support your statement?

Sure, I'll do that when I'm home.

I am genuinely looking forward to the day I move over to x-plane, its just not going to be today or tomorrow.

 

Great video for default aircraft and scenery :good: 

Great video. Very well done!

 

I dont agree on X-plane being dull. It sure dosen't look dull to me.

I find the water colors much more life like like than on FSX, where it tends to be too vibrant and tropical. Yes, I have tweaked the water in FSX, but I could never get it to look right.

 

Since I live in NYC, where the water is fairly poluted (lol), the darker water in X-plane looks a lot closer to the caribiean type water I get in FSX. I wish the water looked like that here, but it just doesn't. If Im flying around Hawaii or a tropical envirnment, Id agree FSX water looks better, but for the rest of the world, Ill take X-planes water.

 

Rob 

Yep, X-Plane looks fine for me too. Could be people's gamma settings (X-Plane's Gamma settings is what I mean, but your monitor's gamma settings might also be contributing to the overall effect you're experiencing) ... too little and it'll look washed out, too much it'll look dark. Experiment to get a result that suits your tastes. Regarding airports, there's tons on the Internet that are free. If a particular airport isn't there its actually pretty easy to fire up WED and an Earth shot from Google Maps to verify building placement, plus an ounce of imagination to create your own airports. I fly mainly regional routes in X-Plane and have either created or downloaded all the airports I fly to. Clouds vary depending on real weather (if you have real weather enabled) and are often amazingly real IMO. I also run REX Essential on P3D and I have to agree that REX looks quite amazing ... however I understand that the atmospherics simulation is closer in X-Plane (that's what I've understood jcomm as saying). Cheers!