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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? Journey to the Center of the Earth?

I had no idea our generations overlapped as far as movies were concerned. I just watched (my mom and I) "2010:The Year We Make Contact" which is a reasonably good sequel to 2001:A Space Odyssey (one of my all time favorites). We were on a Star Wars kick before that. Is "Close Encounters of a Third Kind" on your list? That was good...need to see that again.

This is not a 'teaching' resource but one can learn from this guy anyway. He's a private corporate jet pilot with really good quality videos showing how a real world pilot interacts with his aircraft AND real world ATC. Books and guides may lead you to believe things are a certain way - like driving instruction that says keep your hands at ten and two...The real goal is safe operation of you vehicle in a real world environment and it has helped me as a non pilot to watch this guys videos. Plus its great sightseeing. Premier 1 Driver on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4IsPelLNPJZrL7sqZmBPQ

I picked up OpusFSI yesterday after having using OpusFSX for years. I had been using static weather that had been caught in saved flights but it was time for something new. and Ill say plainly - GOOD JOB! I honestly don't see much difference in the two products (for what I know how to use) but I have always preferred Opus because you guys just know how to lay clouds out so they look realistic. Don't ever change. You're the best. I intend to attempt to learn how to make use of the other features (like camera positioning and control) but its good to have the dynamic head movement back. I'd been so long without it that I forgot what a nice touch it was. anyway...I'm pleased.

yes, Bill. but I personally wouldn't want a 737 with steam gauges. I know others might. but Im not them so...

I echo what most here have said: It depends on the plane and both should be included. I voted Steam because GA is mostly what I fly but I wouldn't want a 737 with steam gauges. GA should be steam and jets should be glass.

I tried to make a better sky but what Ive encountered has made me just stop. The lighting pixels have some control but the daytime texture can be solid black and you still get a blue sky. I had to delete the shader cache to make sure I was seeing correctly. The colors are coming from somewhere else. What I noticed though is that the brightness of the first three pixels can be reduced to eliminate the bloom but this also darkens everything else. Something to try: create an all black texture or something like RGB 0 35 51 set the first two pixels to R189 G190 B191. third pixel can be black (or 0 1 2). fourth pixel can be RGB 0 2 3 (or 0 1 2) and the fifth pixel RGB 32 128 217 set the bottom two rows of the texture to RGB 207 218 229 -- it may help - Im not sure. you can brighten pixel5 to make the clouds more overall bright and you can add color to pixel2 (for example yellow RGB 199 198 195)) to lessen the brightness of the clouds. I think its the best I can do. nothing gets rid of the brownish haze that Ive discovered. In P3D, changing cirrus overcast3 can affect haze. maybe that works here too?? or maybe its part of an environment .dds. or maybe its shader code or other code. whatever...FWIW...my .02

This is first a question - Does the SDK contain any tools for creating your own clouds and skies? Does it contain any information at all on that subject? I've read what I've seen written on the SDK and there was no mention of clouds or skies so I haven't downloaded it. If you did DL it, an answer to my question would be appreciated. second - if the current SDK contains nothing about clouds or skies - this is a request that I hope IPACs will see...because I really don't want to create another forum account right now. Skies and clouds are my hobby and I could use a diversion from my current P3d stuff.

part of the problem for me is that I've never seen anything in Noel's writings that were that offensive. he's like a funny newspaper column that shows up in your flightsim forum. I have the feeling that he and I are on opposite ends of the political spectrum but his words are nothing compared to things I've read from others. Maybe I just don't understand. wouldn't be the first time. Even Noel agrees that he should have been banned a few times. I just remember all those times I "did wrong" and never could figure it out. Its frustrating. We are emotional beings and that clouds the issue.

edit: written before Noels most recent post: I always tend to walk on eggshells over there but I do that pretty much everywhere because Ive always been the type to get banned, beaten or put in solitary just for having a personality I tend to get very matter of fact when asking for assistance. its easier not to. The problem with things like the Gadsden flag is that we can't even discuss it without getting political and that breaks forum rules in many cases. I think banning someone just for using it is too much. A warning would have been better. As for popularity points - I once lost several hundred over the course of a few days and I wasn't even posting anything. I figure that maybe forum cleanup turned me into a less popular person -- like I needed help in that department. and after Noels post: Noel - don't know. Im not in charge. but I know you weren't talking to me so...

I tried Win10 on one of my systems for about three months. It was a bit to get used to and I was almost OK with it but one day I had a problem with menus that seemed to have just disappeared. The entire 'settings' menu simply didn't exist anymore. All of the links to bring it up did nothing. I finally decided to search my system and I typed a few things into the search bar and found a menu that allowed to me to at least get online but then there was no evidence of Windows Update and no way to update. I shut down for the day and the next day my menus were back but I decided that if Win10 can just lose its menus then I'd rather go back to Win7. At least it works.

Cool. I love Terry Crews. I never pictured him as the build your own PC type though. guess it goes to show that you cant judge by appearances or what you think you see.

I think its more of a job for Lockheed Martin. Clouds will contact the ground but theres something about the DX11 shaders that makes these things worse than they used to be. Clouds just used to be softer by design somehow. and they had much more color at sunset back in version 2.2. I wish LM would go back a bit and rethink what they've done to the lighting and clouds.

The REX Soft Clouds would probably be your best bet for minimizing this problem because its caused by the level of alpha in the cloud textures. Brighter alphas create denser clouds with more defined shadows while lesser alphas create misty clouds that wont cause such hard lines that you describe. If you have FEX, you might try creating a cloud set with 'cloud density' (I think it was - in the designer) set on minimum. That will create softer, mistier clouds.