edgarone
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Well, I find this quote sligthly misleading: It seem to me, when you downloaded, you can play offline on the single island and the single plane - as long as you wish.As soon as you logged in for the first time, you cannot longer play offline, but must login and stay online - otherwise you bounce back to the login screen.Until now, I did not find any other way - I am not able to play offline and without login - exactly as described by George.
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Are there any clandestine missions on the main island only (no Hawaii adventure pack) ?
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I find it slightly annoying, that I get a loading screen, when I switch back from the map to the cockpit... I think, this could be improved.
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Each simple scenery is basically a parent-folder with the sub-folders "scenery" and "textures".To use that scenery the parent-folder must be added via the Scenery Manager. Physical location of the parent-folder can be anywhere. 1) The (default) parent-folder "Addon Scenery" already contains both sub-folders and is already added via the Sceenry Manager. Each single scenery and texture file you put into the sub-folder will be recognized and used after an restart of the FS. 2) If you put a "complete" scenery with parentfolder/subfolder _under_ the "Addon Scenery" folder, you have to add the "new" parentfolder with the Scenery Manager.
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Hello Cativo,scenery and excludes were working before you upgraded from XP to W7/64 ?It should not matter, which OS you use to run FSX. FSX is interpreting and displaying the scenery files, not the OS.Is FSX and scenery new installed after the OS upgrade?I would check, if all scenery and exclude files of your scenery are still there and included in FSX and I would possibly check the order of scenery layers.
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Hello,I read this latest review on Avsim with interest and enjoyed the pictures showing this model in the environment of FSX.Especially those close-up shots showed the care, which was given to the details of this model.There is a saying, that one picture is worth more than 1.000 words.Well, in that case we got more than 7.000 words about the installer. And for an installation, which is described as "extremely simple" this is a little bit too much in my personal opinion. I believe, it is not necessary to depict in a product review of a helicopter model the installer with a number of pictures, which show us EULA pages and even a installation progress-bar, when the only variable in the whole installation process is the path of the FSX installation directory.Sorry for bean-counting, but I personally would have enjoyed it more to see additional pictures of the product itself.But anyway, it was nice to be introduced to a new interesting helicopter model by this review.Thanks and keep up the good work!Regards,Edgar
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Hello,I read with interest the recent review of the C-130 Hercules by Jason McKee.I completely agree, that this is a quite impressive model, which is fun to fly and to hear (the sounds - great!).Unfortunately I am not completely happy with the review itself. Although it is always nice to have pictures showing details of the product, I personally do not like to see all screens of the installer. If it is a very "Very Simple Installation Process", it does not make sense to me, to see the installer pictured in detail. What is the point of having 9 desktop screens with different install windows in a plane review? I can see, that the installer has an EULA page, but cannot read them anyway, because it is too small...The same applies to other reviews like "VFR London X" or "Bellanca Viking Collection".In my personal opinion this is not necessary.However, I have some other remarks concerning the boxed FSX C-130 version of Just Flight:The Aircraft Configuration Editor seems to have problems with permissions and accounts (at least in Vista).I installed the addon as an Admin user und use it as an user (2) with limited rights. The user (2) is not able to read some registry entries of the addon - resulting in several error messages, when starting the ACE and finally empty pathes for the FSX install dir and for the FLT flight files ("tools" page). It is also not possible to enter and store the correct values here. Probably the ACE program is not fully compatible with the Vista permission system. But thats only my personal assumption.However, the plane is usable out of the box in FSX, even as user with limited permissions.Just another remark concerning the modules and instruments: After a crash it is not possible to start a new flight and use radar or autopilot. It was not possible to turn them on and use them. I had to restart FSX completely.Well, thanks for providing us with interesting reviews - keep up the good work.Kind regards,Edgar
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Hi Chris,please check, that you have the latest TDFHeaders.inc and TDFMacros.inc Header files in the Ground2k directory (available here at Avsim)! My copy is from 12/17/2003.I was able to compile your file without problems (see attachment).ASM Macros like VTPChildPoint are defined in these INC files. BGLC is basically the MS assembler, which compiles the source code text into the binary BGL files.Best regards,Edgar
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Hello Chris,btw. you should check the FS2004 SDK for informations, if you want to create sceneries for FS9.I assume you use Ground2k4 with the latest patches (available here on Avsim).Ground2k4 produces a temporary file in a ./Temp/ folder under the ground2k4 installation folder (or in the Ground2k folder itself) . It is called "Ground2K$_Lines.ASM". It is overwritten and new created everytime you press "compile" in Ground2k... This is the actual sourefile, which gets compiled into a BGL files for road lines.Can you compress it and attached it to your answer?However, be aware, it would contain the data for all the roads you created in your project.Kind regards,Edgar
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Hello,in former versions of FS (I think until FS 2000) you could see the Berlin wall, if you turned back time before 1989.Regards,Edgar
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Sorry Tawni,I didn't saw, that you created a new own folder under /addon/...So it is indeed suggestion 2.Regards,Edgar
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Hi Tawni,when you put the exclude file in the same folder like the original scenery, which creates the buildings, you must take care of the execution order: first create the scenery, then exclude the buildings.Inside a folder the execution is alphabetically ordered. So you must use an exclude filename like ZZ_exclude.bgl to put it at the end of the queue.Or use an additional scenery folder and give it a higher priority then the default scenery folder in the scenery manager.Or you might just use the addon scenery folder, which is usually on top of all default scenery folders.Best regards,Edgar
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Hi cbuchner1,although it sounds interesting, at least as a kind of online service, where you don't have to store everything on the harddisk, it seems a little bit difficult.I think, there is no ordinary database used. At least FSX do not come with ODBC drivers, right. And no db engine is started before FSX.I don't think, it is needed for your goal, to change or hack the library files itself. Rather have a look at this file in the parent folder of the /scenery folder, which gets updated at startup ("rebuild scenery database") , when you change the data (the library Bgls) in the scenery folder.I could imagine (pure speculation!), that this cache file contains basic information, what data to expect in the scenery-folder (100 points of road-vector-data for an area around coordinates x,y etc.).I think, these (summary) files are loaded during startup and stay there in memory.You might create dummy files, which describe data, which is not actually in the scenery subfolder, but must be downloaded.But then you must deal with the startup task, which scans the disk and rebuilds these cache files during startup. And which tries to open the files in the scenery folder.You might have another look, if the old scenery caching mechanism still works, where you didn't copy all disks at installation time, but rather copy the data during the startup, store it in a cache folder and delete the caches, when stopping the sim. Regards,Edgar