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Posts posted by Steve Dra
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6 hours ago, mspencer said:
Nah CS were quite clear about making it impossible to do real repaints for some of the 767s. They tried to pass it off as not wanting the sheer horror of poor quality repaints from FS.TO, so you should buy their 8k liveries instead.
LOL...yeah. Funny thing is that if everyone knew about the "8K" texture craze, they'd re-think their desire for them.
I'll not get into the minor details, as when I start talking Flightsim livery design and painting, I tend to go overboard, LOL. Call it an occupational hazard (I like to paint, sue me, hehe)
8k textures are not twice the size of 4k...they are 16 times larger! However, when 8k is used logically and only in areas it really matters on the model, you can have a great outcome of both quality and performance.
When it comes to CS 8k textures though...they are more concerned about showing you stunning still photos for their sales and marketing stuff than they are for the performance in MSFS. For example....do you really need 8k textures for the APU and main engine interiors? CS seems to think so, and make no mistake...they look lovely. But for some textures you're going to see ONLY on the ground during a walk around and when you get tired of them after the first few times marveling at them...they are stealing your FPS in the sky...who wants that?
The iniBuilds A300 is a good example of how to do 8k properly...only used in areas where you'll see it a lot. But it can still be a performance hit on modest systems set to higher settings. A 4090 is not going to care though...so if you have one you'll be saying "They run just fine for me". Hehe, with 24gb of DDR6x memory...they darn well better!
Anyway....CS is a horrible Dev however you look at it, and you'll never convince me otherwise. If you must buy from them...do it on the 24hr $9.99 sale they seem to have yearly around Christmas. Don't expect the plane to fly like the real one (without help from some great 3rd party guys out there that mod it), and forget about support...esp after they release the next exterior shell to peddle to the masses.
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3 minutes ago, dragonflightdesign said:
PP - look up Peter Tisma aka Papa Tango. As I said, it didn't end well.
Remember him and Ariane well....The only commercial member that I recall that ever got kicked off Avsim. Tom HATED him with a passion.
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On 1/16/2024 at 2:18 AM, guenseli said:
Paint her right! LH Cargo!
😋 Thx
You know LH is always on my list. 😉 And not just because you request it.... rather its in the top 5 of my favorite liveries. 🙂
But expect LH Old colors from me on any airframe that flies it.....not a fan (yet) of the new livery. I miss the yellow. 😞
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1 hour ago, virtualstuff said:
Steve already floating in that A300?
Haven't really had a chance to get familiar with her...completely focused on a larger, non-Airbus aircraft at the moment. 😉
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Hehe....I know how easy this can turn into a "we need XXXX airport" thread....which shows we're hungry to get ALL major international airports in the sim. Heck...in reality, a case could be made for all airports, from a grass strip to KATL (or DFW as I'm not hating the bespoke KTAL in the sim).
US Airports seem to always get the linelight, but @F737MAX lists some dingers in there too. EHAM was sure a delight to get as the last major...but we know there are so many more.
Let's hope all the great scenery devs at least compare notes so we don't get 3 CYULs at the same time, again, hehe.
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I recently started a broccoli garden.....Discuss. 🙂
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21 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:
Addons Linker supports that, yes.
Thanks Bert. Did a lot of cleanup and got all my sceneries out of community and official folders...all working well. 🙂
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One of the best-looking jets in existence! Classic delta shape...the proverbial lawn dart, hehe.
Get shots and paint J !!
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To add another question to this thread....
I have addon linker and have my community folder setup with links within the app.
I also have many Marketplace purchases that show in either the official or official\one store folders. Can I also safely link those in addon linker, then turn them off/on at will as I do with stuff in the community folder?
For example, I have the FSDT Chicago O'Hare airport and drzewieckidesign-narita there...could I link them and turn them off in addonlinker?
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7 minutes ago, threegreen said:
you can even fly with a winglet missing on one side.
And some pilot's like to test that theory "on the fly" 🙂
Not belittling an aircraft incident...but nobody was harmed, except for maybe the pilot's ego. 🙂
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6 minutes ago, Lord Farringdon said:
("Rattle your dags" is a New Zealand expression that means "hurry up". The phrase comes from the sound that sheep make when they run, as their dags (dried clumps of feces around their rear ends) bang together.)
I have to say in my 20 or so years here, that is the funniest visual I ever got from reading an interesting local phrase from a country I've never been to! 🤣 I actually laughed out loud with that one!
Regarding the 727...I know Raul @simbol will create a masterpiece as in a recent interview has stated that the 727 is his all-time favorite airliner...and if you know Raul, his passion in any project is evident...imagine how ramped up that passion will be for a favorite of his? 🙂
I painted the 727 20 years ago on a freeware model, on 1 k maps. Imagine the detail we can produce with 8k maps today!
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If you haven't already checked...make sure your sim has not spontaneously set itself to the Legacy flight model. I've had the sim do that (when it was new and many SUs were flying at us), and had a heck of a time with the default Bonanza until I stumbled on to this.
Now its the 1st thing I check whenever a plane is not flying right, and everyone else says its working fine for them.
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37 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:
It came as an unpleasant surprise to read in a topic there on Saturday that attention has switched from fixing bugs in the P3Dv5 version to MSFS.
No announcement. It just came out of the blue after someone asked why there hadn’t been any updates for a couple of months.
The alluring specter of dropping into the MSFS market is much too overwhelming, even for FSL who's been P3d focused despite the fact its not the market of choice for the majority of simmers.
I can almost guarantee that in those months of silence, not one minute on developer time was put to P3d bug fixing, rather trying to get the Concorde into MSFS. They are probably now just seeing how far behind they are, even with the full steam efforts to grasp the completely different coding they have to deal with now.
This is similar to what Captain Sim did...working on a rather good P3d 767, promising to keep developing and refining, in addition to releasing a highly anticipated freighter...making not one peep over many months on the progress of fixes or the freighter. Then one day just announcing their 1st MSFS product. Since then, they released the freighter as a pax model with a painted-on main cargo door, and not one version-update to the base 767 since. Don't even ask about their comical attempt to bring the 737 model past a late beta stage, despite all their promises.
They still won't admit that P3d work for them is dead, but then again they never were good at communicating things like that.
Ray, you're going to have to move to MSFS if you want to see a truly revolutionary Concorde in a flightsim, as FSL has sadly just announced . Don't worry, you have a lot of simmers here willing to help you through the transition. 🙂 Unless they address the P3d bugs as an afterthought...You have the final, complete, and "finished" version of the P3d Concorde on your PC. 😞
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Good read on the topic here:
Bottom line...the "Transition" property is what should control this...as of September 2023...it is still not working properly in MSFS.
I too have tried both options (0 and 1)...and neither snaps the camera between views. We can only hope its addressed one day.
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I talked to Rob about this Anti-Ice issue, and since he's determined to model the MAX as close to real life as possible, he's going to add this issue in the plane.
However, since some inexperienced simmers may misuse the anti-ice feature in the sim, and may severely damage their engine inlet on the virtual MAX they purchased from PMDG, he has decided to cancel the MAX project for fear of liability from all the angry simmers who now have a damaged MAX.
Thanks a lot for pointing out this glaring issue...now we'll never get a PMDG MAX! 🤨
/sarcasm mode off.
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Outstanding pics, plane and paint :)
Have not picked it up yet....too busy painting a slightly bigger plane :)
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2 hours ago, keithb77 said:
So the Bluebird 757 is maybe a year away and the CS767-300 was only $9.99...how bad can it be...
Pretty bad, but in truth the VC is really nice and a pleasant place to be in VR, so it's worth trying to fix the worst problems.
Free liveries seem to have been deliberately broken by CS, to make you buy the official ones - either a black collar behind the cockpit or the middle fuselage being black.
However you CAN overwrite the House livery in the Captain sim folder (texture.CS) to get one livery at a time (two counting 4door and 6 door variants).
As a VR flyer I'm not much cocerned with liveries.
May also need to change the Model file and you may need to regenerate the layout.json file if you've added more files. Don't try this if you aren't sure you can do it.The aircraft is hugely overweight, overpowered and overfueled as they have simply taken the Boeing 747 config ... all can be easily improved by updating the the engines.cfg and flight_model.cfg files. Best way to do this is to create a mod folder. Again don't try this if you aren't sure you can do it.
There is already an improvement mod for the 767-400 (didn't buy this one as I wanted the hybrid steam and glass cockpit, already got the all glass PMDG), which could potentially be partially applied to the -300. I've done this with mixed results - extreme stuttering.
It's not for anyone who wants the full Systems experience, but its been an interesting experiment and I've now got a 767 that looks great, flies reasonably well, encourages me to use the FMC and was worth $10.
Along the way I found a really good Youtube channel by an ex-AA 767 Captain, now retired - FatherTime, a real pleasure to find a relaxed and quietly knowledgeable Youtuber 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCnU2ecX8k0&t=60sWould be interested in any constructive comments (but no pointless knee-jerk anti-CS responses please).
Hehe....I've been officially crowned as the king knee-jerk anti-CS responder here. However......
The 767 is probably my favorite airliner of all time, and I too picked up the 767-300 when it was on sale...and it came with the UPS livery so I was fine with that. I did buy their P3D 767-300 (also on sale) back before MSFS...i was a good release from them and I always gave them the benefit of the doubt before I commented on their business practices.
Won't even get into how they strung along customers that the freighter was coming...and it did...a few years after announced, and just a painted on cargo door to the pax model and dropped P3d like a hot rock when they saw how big and unsuspecting the new MSFS market was . Anyway, that alone should give anyone who's never heard of CS and their antics should need to get an idea of what kind of company they are.
That behind us...there is no doubt their modeler and texture guy can make a pretty plane, and it looks great sitting on the ramp...but that is far as I got with it. Tried a flight...took a few screens, put it back in the hangar.
I can't offer any constructive comments other that for $10 it's not bad as a screenshot tool, but for that is about it for me. At this point, even if someone made some mods that made her fly better and less like a 747, I still can't see myself flying her, knowing that Sherv and Bluebird are making one that will bring back the glory days of LDS and even further back if you've been around the hobby that long.
I'm glad you're enjoying it and it was money well spent.
I just want to know if there were any CS customers who had a chance to buy the CS TIE Fighter before Disney/Lucas slapped a C&D on them. They completely wiped any existence of it....closing the forum and insta-zapping any posts that asked anything about it. Serious want to know how they got those customers to "return" their purchases. It was only available a few days (if even that)...so a lot of folks here don't even know about it.
But....once you post to the internet...its there for forever....somewhere, so for those who never heard of this brilliant move by CS, here you go:- 1
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1 minute ago, Krakin said:
Oh well they'll need to get that sorted out
minor thing IMO...the flash is there and if they get to it and fix it that would be cool, but it doesn't detract from the experience, its a great plane!
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2 hours ago, DaveS said:
Also the strobes and beacon lights are missing. You can see them reflecting off the ground but the actual lights are missing
Oh the strobes are there. If fact...it has dual LED strobes that flash independently...very nice touch.
As for the beacon...its there too, but sadly the physical bulb inside does not flash.
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1 hour ago, DD_Arthur said:
Looks magnificent! Hopefully that big chunk in the middle that the wings are bolted to will enter beta testing soon as well.👍
You should try testing just the front and rear of the aircraft! Rob is being so secretive about the model that he not even letting the beta testers know. I have to say it looks odd sitting on the ramp with the middle missing...and the CG and weights are totally messed up, but the parts we've been given to test are looking really good so far. 🙂
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A Merry Christmas Everyone
She is going to be a stunner...and as one of my favorite aircraft, a very welcome edition to my hangar. The beta test team is still grumbling about the contract negotiations about having today off...but the increase in salary has been nice! 🤣
I think everyone will agree that 2024 is shaping up to be the biggest release-fest in all of Flight Simulation history! From near-zero long haul options to just about every one in the skies....
Wishing everyone a safe and enjoyable Holiday Season. We fight like brothers and sisters here at times, but in the end we should remember we're all just passionate about our hobby and we should harbor no ill-will towards anyone in our extended family. Peace and Prosperity to all.
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10 hours ago, B777ER said:
Which was spawned by the great work of the late Eric Ernst who was a AAL pilot.
To me, he's the father of the hi fidelity airliners we see today. I painted this AA back in the 2004 days on the LDS 767...actually re-mastered the textures to the LDS model from the POSKY model who Mr. Cox created the original photo-textures.
Even in this age...I think she still looks pretty good!Then I painted this one, and laterally flew the paint off her as I love cargo ops. 🙂
Can't tell you how excited I am to get a proper 767 in MSFS...and Bluebird will deliver that! 🙂
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3 hours ago, Paul K said:
So the thing I hate most is people starting a sentence with a conjunction.
Conjunction Junction, what's your function? (One of us old geezers had to say it!) 🙂
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Great shot!
(I don't need to see high res shots of her....I have plenty) 😄
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MSFS will have two decent fidelity A380s soon. Crazy, right?
in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
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Actually, all flights in MSFS or any flightsim are unrealistic. If you can hear a leaf blower outside your bedroom window when you're at 35,000 over the middle of the Atlantic....Unrealistic. If your Mom comes into your room when you're on final to Kia Tak (oh wait...you wouldn't be on final to Kia Tak as that airport is closed...my bad), and tells you to get off that computer and clean your room, again...unrealistic.
If you wish to only fly realistic routes and such, that is your choice. The "realistic" component of any simmer's experience is relative to the level of real-life suspension they are willing to accept. For you...if its not the real weather, time, airframe, registration, route, ATC, etc...its unrealistic. You of course have a limited range of flights to fly by that preference, but that's your choice.
Others have other preferences.
BTW....if you are flying your commercial flights in an airliner by yourself...that is completely unrealistic. As is flying one without 1500 hrs min and a license and type-rating to fly said aircraft. So you can take the whole realistic thing as far as you want, as long as remember its your level of realistic, not necessarily all simmer's experience. 😉