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HDR10 is ON in options but greyed out
mrmertz replied to neil0311's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Right click your mouse on your desktop. On the menu, click on “Display”. Within that menu you’ll see to the left about playing game with HDR on or off. If it’s off, the little circle will be to the left and black. Click within it to turn on. It should go blue and the circle will slide to the right. Restart rig and enjoy (I always restart to clear cache but really don’t have to). Upon launching FS 2020 you’ll see HDR10 is now no longer greyed out. Ive got a 4K HDR monitor (Samsung 42” TV actually being used as a monitor). -
Google Maps 3D Objects injected!!!
mrmertz replied to tangerine's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
The quote from them you have within your post (copied below) is interesting, as the three mentioned does NOT include Google Maps, which is where I’ve seen everything being derived from thus far in so much as scenery add-ons. Prohibited Conduct Note that you may not use output from Google Earth, Google Earth Pro and Earth Studio to reconstruct 3D models or create similar content, or to create other content, product(s) or service(s) that may violate our Terms of Service. To further add to the confusion, listed here https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/ I picked up on this further down in the read that caught my attention; “(e) No Use With Non-Google Maps. To avoid quality issues and/or brand confusion, Customer will not use the Google Maps Core Services with or near a non-Google Map in a Customer Application. For example, Customer will not (i) display or use Places content on a non-Google map, (ii) display Street View imagery and non-Google maps on the same screen, or (iii) link a Google Map to non-Google Maps content or a non-Google map.“ Sigh...this stuff was obviously written by an entire team of lawyers. It seems to understand the full validity in what they are referencing to you have to keep going back and forth content as to what they are trying to say. Like the above quote in which they mention “...display or use Places content...” and lines such as “Customer will not use the Google Maps Core Services with or near a non-Google Map in a Customer Application.” Okay, so now one has to go and find Google Map Core Services as defined by Google in order to understand what they are referencing to. Too bad Bing falls short when it comes to high definition 3D modeling compared to Google as this would all be unnecessary to begin with. -
Google Maps 3D Objects injected!!!
mrmertz replied to tangerine's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
I’m beginning to think it’s fine. There are posts all over the place (meaning various different websites) that have it right below in the scenery description that it was derived from Google maps and they’ve been there for a while, with none being taken down. There are articles written exclusively about Google being used in FS2020 to enhance it. Now yeah, if I was pulling polygons and adding texture for my own personal use (as in going no further than my own PC and not uploading to a public access server, then even if there were TOTAL copyright restrictions no one would be the wiser) but I’m reading under their fair use act and disclaimers and credits from various scenery authors who have uploaded sceneries for FS2020 that it does not violate their fair use act. In contrast if I pulled data from them and then went any multitude of ways such as charging for use of my final scenery to the end user, represented myself as using my own resources and receiving monetary gain or using their data in such a way to profit directly from its use in another form, then your asking to be royally, you know... Thanks for the input! -
Google Maps 3D Objects injected!!!
mrmertz replied to tangerine's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
I would gladly step in and add hi-res scenery add-ons to FS2020 and of course do it as freeware, but with the current Google maps satellite imagery being watermarked with their copyright at all zoom levels it’s unfortunately a no-go. -
No prob, yes...Battle of Stalingrad. Developed by 1C in conjunction with 777 coming onboard to help out after the success of Rise of Flight. It's a total re-do of the old IL-2. But what I like is that it isn't something just re-vamped - totally new engine which takes advantage of todays rigs, something I wish a GA flightsim would come and do - and be stable while doing it! I have never had one crash or glitch with ROF even with everything maxed out, full-on weather and max aircraft dogfighting, so I know it can be done. Due out this September. For a taste of visuals, iL2sturmovik.com. Sorry OP, wasn't meant to hijack thread! Enjoy, and remember, these are just MY opinions in which the OP was asking for, so if you disagree that's fine by me too. Your entitled to them just as much as I am! At least we can ALL AGREE on one thing - we all stand on common ground which is constantly striving to push for the best that simming has to offer and enjoying in it's content.
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Back to the OP's question...I vote for neither. FSX I had spent more time fiddling with things than I did way more than flying in order to try to figure out the latest CTD, or why this isn't acting right or that isn't acting right. It has been taken off my HD completely. P3D from what I can tell, is the quite old FSX engine still running under 32 bit. True, P3D has LM behind it which to me personally means its on life support and to top it off not licensed for casual sim user which ironically seems to be what most people here are actually using it for. Now if LM had come out with a totally new much more stable engine with 64bit technology and was meant for simming in all realms and the coding took advantage of all the eye candy and gizmos todays machine are capable of offering, then I'd be flying right now instead of posting this. Until then, it's more advanced engines like ROF and soon to be released BOS for me as far as flying goes. As for a GA sim, I'll just sit back and wait for one based on a newer flight engine and which takes advantage of 64bit technology.
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...LOL! I knew that response was coming at some point. That was too easy. Once the bugs are mostly ironed out and more major third party players come onboard I'd think about it. However, since I'm not currently enrolled as a student though I'd have to fork out the $200. for the Pro Version, which is a chunk of change just for a desktop flight simulator but hey, cheaper than the real deal. So to actually answer the OP's question again, switch to P3D? Probably - once the bugs are ironed out since FSX is just too high maintenance for me to keep running smoothly and stable. MSFS A Century of Flight (FS2004) was to date the flight sim I have had the best luck with in regards to headaches.
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FSX, since I would be violating ML's EULA if I used it like FSX all of these years, so no choice but to stay with it.
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Let's hope that L/M doesn't decide a year from now that it's loosing contracts and cuts the dev team from P3D in order to reign in budgets. Here we go again...
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Just saying that if given the same product but at a reduced savings of 250%, most people will take the 250% savings and pocket the difference, honor system or not - though I do see that simulation is not included with the academic license and is within the pro license. .
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Thanks! Good stuff. I know "realistic" is subjective. Not knocking anyone but the night lighting within UTX regarding the street lights just seemed out of scale to me, otherwise fine.
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Question 1: How is L/M going to ensure/enforce verification on who is eligible to purchase which license? They must have a means otherwise I don't understand the point of all of this. If they are going to rely on the method of the honor system, refer to Question 1. It's 2013.
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Getting slightly off my OP, but just watched a video as someone was flying a C172 in P3D and showed the differences between stock, FTX Global, FTX OpenLC, FTX Vector and FS Global mesh. The differences is what I got flying FSX stock and FSX with GEX and UTX - in other words no comparison. It's on YouTube: Orbx FTX Global Base+OpenLC+Vector+Mesh (P3D) Like mentioned above, if they both pull off the same thing and do it well, why wait? Never having used them before, how is Orbx on updates and all? What about realistic night lighting? I see they have a special running with 10% off Vector if FTX Global is purchased before December 31st.
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Hmmm...thanks! Going to check out this FTX Vector right now. Sounds like FTX Vector and Global work harmoniously like GEX and UTX do.
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So really, for $140. more for the pro license they remove the little watermark in the upper right corner, and for $2,100. above that you get to play with a destructible environment.