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X-Plane 12: the best simulator to ... (parody)

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No, of course it's not a parody that XP 12 is the best simulator to - e.g. visit the Maldives 😉. The parody is aimed at something else. I'm bolding it here so that everyone really gets it and understands it 😄 . 

 

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Is this default Xp12 scenery? Looks great!

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No, of course not 😉. It is a mix of Ortho4XP, Simheaven X-World and some parts which I created and added myself (forests on some islands where no one was in X-World, the picturesque Maldivian houses on water, the piers for the seaplanes and some other nitty gritty details). 

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3 hours ago, flying_carpet said:

No, of course not 😉. It is a mix of Ortho4XP, Simheaven X-World and some parts which I created and added myself 

Aaaaand so it begins...

Seriously, it looks great, provided you do a million things to it. 

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Personally, I prefer the customization.  I don't like to be locked into a sim, where I don't have a say in what I can or can't add to it.

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2 hours ago, GoranM said:

Personally, I prefer the customization.  I don't like to be locked into a sim, where I don't have a say in what I can or can't add to it.

This! And it could have looked even better, if I hadn't activated accidentally the wrong of the 2 sets of textures which I have. Rethi Rah (where I landed the first time with the Twotter).

Wrong textures

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Correct (=better) textures

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2 hours ago, flying_carpet said:

Correct (=better) textures

...

Nice, any special O4XP settings required to make the sand bars draw?

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1 hour ago, Bjoern said:

Nice, any special O4XP settings required to make the sand bars draw?

Well ... yes 😉.

 

BTW, 2 other comparisons between "wrong" (taken from the video*) and "right".

Wrong:

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Right:
* During editing the video I was wondering why the houses "below" the plane are in "deep" water and not in the shallow water of an atoll. Here they are like they should.

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22 hours ago, flying_carpet said:

Well ... yes 😉.

Neat, but I had hoped for something more global that does not involve drawing masks manually.

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You don't have to draw them yourself, somebody (or many) did that already for you. You only have to download and copy the existing atoll boundaries with JOSM and paste them into your own 'project' instead of drawing them.

Copy from here ...

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... and paste them

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Not for exe-doubleclickers 😄, but also no rocket science.

 

One more tip - in case it's unknown. Since I had to work a lot with reverse throttle when parking the seaplane (very rewarding BTW): I knew that you can reverse toggle with a button, but that's very quirky. So I searched for a solution - it's much easier and more realistic with this. Miles ahead of ... censored 😄 (this only as a side note ...).

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On 3/19/2025 at 9:35 PM, Bjoern said:

I had hoped for something more global that does not involve drawing masks manually

you mean like in that other simulator? now that could make this the worlds best simulator (no parody)

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very nice.

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Oohh ... you mean this very ‘best flight simulator in the world’ that just blew up the settings and community folder of millions of users?
And now seriously - the default MSFS is nowhere near enough to achieve a result like the one shown above. You would also have to make additional efforts there. However,  without any additional effort you can get your settings and community folder ... Oh, we've been over this before 🤣. Not a parody.

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On 3/22/2025 at 7:03 PM, flying_carpet said:

best flight simulator in the world’ that just blew up the settings and community folder of millions of users?

It’s not the right forum I know but I wanted to launch that sim yesterday to make some comparisons and that mandatory update messed everything up and I was stucked. All my addons installed physically and my settings are all gone! The worst usability of any sim I have used so far (in 36 years…)

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