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I checked out Honolulu and thought the ortho looked good, but the city buildings looked bad. Most are a dark greenish color as if covered in algae, but the hand made “landmark” buildings are all brightly colored and have some overdone parallax windows. Nothing blends at all. The water texture around the Arizona memorial is messed up as well.

Still missing 757? 737 Max?

I had an update this evening that appears to have changed out the jetways on the north side to ones without a SWA logo. This is good, but now the jetways that do still have the SWA logo have an issue. When the jetway moves to connect to the airplane, the logo doesn’t move with it. It winds up inside the jetway. Is it just me? Maybe it was always that way and I just didn’t notice.

I’m probably going to pick up the BMWorld version since it looks pretty good, and waaay better than default. I will use it as a stopgap until Flightbeam’s version is released...assuming it will be much better. I figure I’ll get my moneys worth out of it until then since since it could be awhile. It’s an important airport and I just can’t fly into the default one. I’ve replaced airports I’ve purchased with better ones before!

Very cool mod, but does anyone know how to get rid of the default ships placed around certain scenery areas? I don’t think they are AI but just static scenery objects…many around San Francisco for example. They look out of place compared to the new ship traffic.

Hi, I discovered a couple of quirks with my limited use of the DX10 preview in Acceleration. I don't know if it's just my setup or if others have the same problem.First, I've noticed missing buildings/bridges at nightime when in DX10 mode. Maybe others can see if they have the same issue. The Lake Washington bridges east of Seattle are there during the day, but gone at night. Also, I noticed the large hangar west of rwy 13R at KBFI is missing at night. What gives? With DX9, the buildings/bridges are there both day and night. I haven't ventured much beyond this area, so I don't know how widespread it is. I know it's nighttime, so they can't be seen very easily anyway, but still.Also, graphically, all my perimeter fences are a solid gray with DX10, I haven't heard of anyone else mentioning this.I am using the nvidea 8800 GTX, if that makes a difference.Thanks,Kevin

Previews had mentioned that there would be ship traffic moving from port to port across the oceans. Has anyone seen this in the released version? In the beta it seemed that ships were just static scenery objects.Not that important, but it was something I thought would be kinda cool.Keith

Here is the same area in FS9 with Ground Environment Pro...this is closer to reality. Even without GE Pro, the default was fairly close, hopefully the retail version of FSX will look better.Keith

Hi, I was looking at Kodiak Island in FSX and noticed the landclass data shows nearly the entire island (and much of the rest of Alaska) as this brown scrub/desert looking texture...what's with that? Is it just my setup? I hope it's just the beta and will be tweaked in the final release. The first pic is of the Kodiak airport area in FSX and the second is a pic of this part of Alaska the way it should look. Previous versions of flight simulator had it correct.Keith

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Adding the visibility layers to the overcast layers works until you get to a higher altitude. The visibility layer seems to only extend so far around the position of your plane. Beyond that you can still see through the "overcast"...see pic which is at FL250. Not as big of a deal as when you're on top of it though.Keith

:-) Ha, well I surely wouldn't compare FS to NFS or any other "game" as far as scope or it's intended audience. It just seems that this version of FS is primarily focused on visual improvements and I seriously wonder why the lighting is not also updated. It would surely add to the immersion factor at night. I don't have a clue about programming, but I would think that the same technique that could be done 11 years ago in other programs could be used within FS today. How is lighting the area around a plane different than around a car? Surely the size of the FS world shouldn't make much difference. Framerates maybe? There must be a reason...help me understand!! :-) At least there are replacement textures that look much better, so not a big deal...just puzzling.Keith

Understood about night objects looking much more vivid in a remote area like the Carribean. I just hope that it doesn't show up in populated areas. I guess the Milkyway in the sim just seems too "drawn" on the sky...like it's in front of the stars. I'll try the toned down texture mentioned above.Keith