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Mr. Allensworth, What you've given us through Avsim is a place to gather, and learn about our favorite hobby. Thank you for that! Its where I come to everyday for the last 10 years or so. Please know that all possible good wishes from all of us here are coming your way in your fight. Tom

At times it may seem a little harsh, but when using the adjustable settings in MaxxFX , it can be tweaked to each person's personal preference. Tom

In the quest for micro stutter free smoothness, I was just randomly picking things in the settings menu to turn on and off. One of the unintended results was to notice the difference in how the overall dawn and dusk environment looks when "draw per pixel lighting" is unchecked. Until now, I had assumed that having more options checked meant a more realistic scene. And I had been very much enjoying what I've been seeing for the longest time with it checked. But today I unchecked it and was pleasantly surprised as to how much more realistic the reflections on the buildings looked. Buildings facing the sunrise or sunset are the first and last things to capture the sun's glow in reality and this setting "unchecked" really brings it out. In the 'Special" section up top I have the "show sky colors" set at "clean" and WOW!! Now I imagine that everyone's "clean" sky colors pallette is different (X-Plane 10, Resources, bitmaps, sky colors) but............experiment and hopefully you'll be as pleasantly surprised as to how much more natural it looks. No hit on frame rate either. Tom

Tried this out today following the excellent, short, read-me guide. It works beautifully! I was able to download Hi Resolution Ortho Photos of KMKE and install them into WED and improve what I had 100%. And I was using the Simheaven Orthos as a base already and it doubled the resolution and clarity of the ground textures. Tom

10.35 is out. Tom

Yes, you sacrifice that to see the vehicles on the ground instead of floating in midair.

Scotchegg, disable runway follows contours and re-start. Tom

Woah! This looks very promising. Thanks for the heads up. Tom

Thanks. Though without the underlaying photoscenery, it kind of looks like garbage. Way too much grass and not enough pavement. Since it is the Simheaven photoscenery that has since been removed from the website, would I have to include that in the upload, and is that even legal? Tom

Thanks Tony! Test upload of KMKE pics http://s23.postimg.org/bxkeiwamy/Car_B58_Baron_2.jpg http://s22.postimg.org/iav0tnnog/Car_B58_Baron_5.jpg http://s22.postimg.org/f6kcwv6w0/Car_B58_Baron_6.jpg http://s22.postimg.org/8rpxdxpk0/Car_B58_Baron_11.jpg Tom

I'm sure a dumb question, but how do I attach a few screenshots to a post? Tom

These last two posts are what I was wondering about myself. I've been working on KMKE for the past 6 months now through WED, and using the Chi. photoscenery (which goes all the way north to MKE) as the layer underneath. Not as clear as say, Google Earth, but enough to provide exact locations to place the proper sized buildings upon. And I've gone sometimes 2 miles in each direction from the airport to include much of the surrounding business parks and neighborhoods. This is my home airport, which I actually work at everyday in real life, so I pretty much am going overboard trying to include everything. So with that in mind, I guess its better to just offer it up outside of the Gateway since I'm using more than just the basic objects that is acceptable for inclusion in the Gateway airports....Correct??? And, when uploading a "finished" (its really never finished is it?) airport, is it customary to include all the object libraries used, provide links to them, or just say what libraries are needed and everyone gets them on their own? This is my first time even considering putting my stuff out there, but I have to say it looks awesome. Thanks for any input. Tom

337.88 seems to be the smoothest for me. Tom

Thanks Tony. A few more questions if you don't mind. I'm using the Simheaven photoscenery of the Midwest and using WED to accurately place everything on top of my home airport MKE. I cross check everything with GoogleEarth as that photoscenery is more detailed. Would using G2XPL enable me to get a more clear photoscenery of MKE to use, even if its just the airport and a little of the surrounding land? Or would the difference be not worth the bother and time? Thank you, Tom

Where is G2XPL available for download? Tom

Where does one get RTH 3.2? The latest I can find is 2.11 Thanks, Tom

It really kind of stinks that you can't use any third party library objects, cause I've got a killer KMKE. Tom

Yes, same microstutter every 3 sec or so but very smooth in between. Was hoping RC1 would've ended that. Tom

Maybe a dumb question, but how do you revert back to B7 from B8? Tom

Seems really nice! Tom

Sweet!

Do the DataRef tweaks work with the Skymaxx clouds or are you using default clouds? Thank you, Tom

Not to cause alarm, but just something to double check. I installed this the other day and was using it to fly to KMSN from KMKE. All was going well until I was on final approach and noticed I couldn't find the airport. I knew I was right on the ILS to minimums, but was looking at a grass field. The airport was gone. I then went into the Location/Select Global Airport section of the tool bar to find it (KMSN) was not even an option. I checked for several other random airports across the US, even large ones like KLAX, KBOS, etc. and they were gone too. It seemed to be a random wipeout since other airports were still there. I'm not saying this addon was the cause, but I since uninstalled it, and got my airports back with the X-plane updater. All is back to normal, but I'm afraid to try this cool addon again. Tom

Ahhh.... I see. That did it, thank you very much!!! I figured it was something simple I was overlooking. Tom