TerrenceK

People that really need an i7 to run FSX, should not be given access to a p.c. in the first place, cause they clearly don't know how to use one. I've been running FSX for the past 2,5 years on a Q9300 without any problems whatsoever. Sliders are full open (except for AI and tree stuff and such, I don't care for those), 1900 wide, 26inch, REX, HD textures and what not and don't drop below the 30 fps. REX overcast or no REX overcast. The thing is, I don't use my computer to Skype, MSN, download tons of movies and music. I don't run 200 tasks in the background, I don't have a virus scanner, I don't run Teamspeak, I don't have a gazillion plugins to watch movies online. If I can't watch a movie because I don't have the silverlight plugin or quicktime, I simply don't watch it, instead of cramping my pc with yet another meaningless piece of software. I don't need Deamon, or alcohol or what not. I don't care for maximum compression, so I don't have 7zip or winrar or what not, but simply use the build in windows zip. So stop stuffing your pc full with crap and then complain it doesn't run smoothly.That's like buying a DB-9, hook a trailer to the back, and then complain it doesn't do 0-60 in 4 seconds anymore... You want speed and performance? Get rid of the excess load... You really don't need an i7 to run FSX. Not true. FSX looked better than FS9, from day one. Don't compare an Aerosoft pimped, Flight Environment tricked, Ultimate terrain boosted FS9, with a stock FSX. That is like saying the previous model M-tuned M3 is faster than the current version, strait from the factory BMW 320. Lame comparison. And let's not forget : FS9 wasn't all that 3 years into it's sales cycle either... Not true. Where do you get this wisdom from? First of all, FS9 was given 3 years to begin with, before FSX hit the market. Where as before FS2004 a new version would usually come out every 12 to 15 months in the beginning and later on up until 2004 once every almost two years. So FS2004 was simply given more time to build a fanbase, a deeper rooted fanbase.You can't compare FS2000 (being able to dominate it's predecessor) with FSX (failed to corner). Different times, different circumstances. The difference between FS2000 and 98 weren't that massive as the difference between FS2004 and FSX. You talk about FSX as it being a human being. I was and still am perfectly happy with FSX, and to be honest, most FSX users are. It are the FS9 users that do 'the splittin''. The FS9 user is the most vocal user I have come across. 'We should not ignore them', 'Many will buy our products' (they don't), 'We should not forget them' (how can we, they keep screaming), and let's not forget the 'My FS9 is better than your FSX', and the 'FSX sucks', 'FSX is a slideshow' and 'You need 2000 USD to buy a FSX capable computer rants'. FSX doesn't split communities, nor do FSX users, they go about quietely enjoying their sim. It's the FS9 user that splits....

Looking at all the goodies in your signature you seem to have the no money problem solved...:(

And while we are all debating, speculating and rampagin' about Microsoft Flight, nobody noticed that Ages of Empire is coming back!??! I know all ya'll think the world begins and end with whether or not we will be able to simulate flight, but what about gathering resources? Building armies? What about advancing technology? Building universities, barracks, marketplaces? Setting up trade routes, building towers, walls, harvesting food?Guys!!! AGE OF EMPIRE IS COMING BACK!!Now, all jokes aside (I wasn't kidding, Age of Empire/Empire Earth rocks), MS Flight : Best thing that could happen. A new, fresh breeze, a new start. Out with the old, in with the new. It's about damn time. Flight Simulator, as we know it has been around for decades. Same people, same nagging, same complaining, same developers, same users, same philosophy, same thoughts, ideas, same graphics. If it will be basic flying, arcadish, it will leave more room for 3rd party developers to bring us 'simulation'. Perhaps the fact that it will be marketed for the main stream GAMER, means new main stream developers, main stream ideas, main stream projects, but most of all : main stream money (invested)...And let's be honest, the main stream games industry has advanced faster, and more innovative than what we have done for the past 10 years. And we have achieved a lot with the small crews, little budget...I can't wait for this to lift of, see where it takes us..

Welcome to the real world kid... I bet you will look differently when it is your money, your time, your mortgage that has to be paid, your kids that have to be fed... That is because you are 'special', you are one of a kind. We are all 'dumb' people, with dumb thoughts and ideas... I applaud you, for thinking you are that special. Now, get of your high horse and come and play with us, down here... on planet earth. Again, what's with the attitude? Who taught you that things should be flawless, immaculate and perfect? Are YOU flawless? Are you immaculate? Are you perfect? Cause if you think you are : I just told you to get of your high horse, stop getting back on it!, or I will shoot the damn horse myself ;)Listen kid, I know you and your mascara wearing, tree hugging friends (a joke, a joke!) like to talk in lengths about 'The perfect world', the meaning of life and the purpose of being and I know you all think YOU yourself are perfect, special and 'the only ones who see IT', and yes : Wouldn't life be great, if it was not run by the mighty ol' Yankee Dollar? If we could all just live of loving eachother? But that is not the way it works. So either get used to it, or nuke the entire planet, and start a new civilization ..Know this though, if you choose the latter ; You only get one shot, no 'patches' and 'service packs'.....;)

Dillon,We're good to go! The FS9 liveries have been released. What I'd like you to do, is order it on our website, as you did with the FSX version, but when you hit the PayPal page, close your browser. The order will then be in the backend, and I will put it thru. Yes, this means you will have a copy of the FSX version as well. Call me a nice guy....I will see your order pass thru.Terrence

How did we 'get you' and how is it 'fine print'? The sentence stating it only works for FSX is partially in bold (to emphasise), in a different font colour (to emphasise) AND boxed (to emphasise), right in the MIDDLE of the page...(guess what? to emphasise)....You just hang it there, I am not going to let you buy the FS9 version again. In the mean time, while you wait, I can hit you up with a few conversions of your favourite 2, 3 liveries.But don't go and tell people, 'we got you', because you failed to read properly.:biggrin:Now, gimme 2....

And that is EXACTLY my point Thomas...I found your fill name, your address, and a picture of you all within 1 minute. Just by googlin' your nickname, finding your .com website, and slammin' that into whois.com. Imagine what someone could do with some real 'power', I'm just a guy that likes photoshoppin'. And that is exactly my point, and what I stated earlier : It doesn't matter how icognitio 007 you THINK you are, those who REALLY want to know who you are, already know... And if not, they have their means of finding out in a whiff, probably without too much effort. And they sure don't even need your first name for that. So you (people in general) might as well get off it (i.e. the whole I-want-to-be-anonymous-and-therefore-guard-my-privacy), cause there's no darn use anyway...That ship has sailed, came back into port and sailed out again....Besides, what is it that people want to hide anyways? You can google me, find a gazillion of hits, things I said, how I look, you can see where I am, where I go to (thanks Foursquare), how long I am there, I don't care, I have nothing to hide. People may read what I post, they may link it to a digital personality, they may make up their minds about me, as I say nothing stupid (or at least, I try not to :()Like I said in my previous post : It's my house, you live by my rules. So if I want you to use your 'real' FIRST name on our forums, that is what will happen. If not : You are not welcome in 'my house', you don't get support, or you don't get your pre-sales question answered. Money does not make me change my ethics about wanting to address people in a polite manner..By the way, support you can always get, if you don't want to use our forum because you don't want to use your first name, there's email, there's a chat functionality, there's private messages, you can tweet me, skype me, facebook me. Hell, if beepers and faxes weren't such a drag....:wink:So people, just sign your your posts with your name when being asked. Those who ask, probably don't care who you are or what you do, and those who don't ask, probably already know who you are and what you do...

Hey Waleed,Funny story : First thing I thought when we were composing the livery listing for the base package was : With the two Royal Jordanian liveries (175 and 195) in the base pack and not in one of the World Airliners boxes, we lost Waleed as a customer... Hahahaha.When you get it, enjoy!

Well, basically cause I like to know who I am dealing with. Call me old fashioned, but I'd like to open my reply with 'Hello <insert name here>' and not with Hello AirbusA320-FO-EFFAH-BlTcH3ZZ' or what ever your incognito name is. I don't ask for your social security number, your creditcard number or whatever, not even your full name ; simply your first name, so I can address you properly. I ask the same from the people that work for McPhat, so our users, customers can address US in a real, grown up manner. For all I care you say your name is John, there's no way of checking anyways but at least let me call you by a normal name, instead of some nickname...Call it courtesy and since you're coming to my 'house', I ask you to live by my 'rules' , as I will live by your 'rules' when I come to your 'house'.Don't worry about your privacy by the way, people may still like to believe they can be anonymous, but that ship has sailed long, long time ago...;) Those who really want to know who you are, already know or have simple ways of finding out. I don't care what you look like or what you do, or who you hang out with, what you buy, how much you earn, what shady things you might be up to, I just want to address you and communicate with you as two grown up people...

Wauw. Loads of ranting and upset people 'boycottin' and stuff...'What else can I say?We always fix everything, WITHIN our power, mostly RIGHT away meaning we can't fix things that are model bound OR 'fix' things that you think should be different. To those of you with problems, I have not seen you asking for help even once. We have a forum, we have a community page, you can pm all our TA's including me directly, you can tweet, facebook, hell even my SKYPE AND my email address are on my profile page.You exercise your right to speak volumes, yet you don't exercise your right to contact me via one of the above mentioned means but choose to complain, rant and boycot? That doesn't sound right to me.Act like a grown up, and ask me nicely and I'll fix.Also the FeelThere and previously Wilco/FeelThere models have probably the fewest 3rd party freeware quality painters when compared to the other devs. Until not to long ago, people still put out requests for certain liveries for certain models, without success. We 'gave' you (at the time) ALL (76!) liveries for the E-Jet, even the ones that were not delivered yet at the time (think KLM, Lufti Cityline etc), for a mere 8 bucks, little over 10 cents a pop, giving you -in my opinion- the best bang for your buck (http://www.avsim.com/pages/0808/Wilco/EJets.htm), since there are groups out there there that charge between 15 and 40 bucks PER livery.I will await your email, but know : support is done through OUR channels, and not AVSIM or any other place you expect me to visit daily merely to spot things like this.

The forum software is by IP Board. One of the better -if not best- forum software available. Many portals, devs and publishers use it.http://www.forum.aerosoft.com/ is one of em, but also Project Opensky and many others...

Perhaps he is not looking for remarks about the paintwork, but remarks about the paint itself (it being a BMI 777).

I don't think you will see any HD photo-cut-and-paste paints anytime soon. Unless people have access to planes, real up close, to make really large, extremely detailed photos. Good job on the 747!!!

Hi, We don't have exclusivity, but we did use 'our' kit for the the release liveries, which means that when Rui rips one the release liveries to make his own : his liveries look like our liveries. And once that starts happening, we might as well close up shop. Rui and every other freeware painter is more than welcome to make liveries, once the official paint kit is released by FeelThere.This should be any moment now by the way.Thanks

I am not too sure why you re-edit one of our paints, but I am very interested to hear your answer though!

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Which engines? I believe the Wilco 330/340 comes only with 2 engine variants. Although we painted a bunch a couple of years ago, I forgot which ones are NOT supplied. Out of the top of my head : No P&W, only GE and RR.

Our Texture Artists, including myself, all use an Intuos3 A4 (Wacom), one of them uses the new Intuos4. With 1024 (double that on the I4) pressure points there are of course things you can do with a pen you will never be able to do with a mouse (1PP). I've been using tablets (may it be tablet pc's or regular tablets) for over 5 years now, and yes : I could not go without anymore.But before you shell out a couple a 100 bucks on a tablet, I would throw out FSR, and switch to Photoshop (or if you want to go freeware : paint.net or the Gimp). FSR is not really for painting, although Abacus markets it like that. When it comes to aligning it is of course King Dingeling (literately saved me weeks in total so far), but other than that it is no good.As it is not really an editing program, I would indeed say control is not super. Try the Photoshop demo, see if that works out for you better.In case you do want to go for a tablet, make sure your screen size and the size of the tablet are more or less the same. No use in buying a small Bamboo when you have a 26 inch screen. I think I won't have to explain why that won't do your control any good...Good luck.

This I don't get. Nearly 2010 and still no DXT10 support? I gain a good 10-12-15 FPS when I select the DXT10 preview.That is like making a car, without powersteering.Nevertheless : Congrats to CLS.

Still going strong I see there Denis? Great job!

You could do that. It depends on your workflow, how you like to use the CS4 tools. One way to do it is to create a group, in which you make, place, and create all your layers, shapes for the left side, then copy that group and shift drag it into to place to the right side of the fuselage. Don't forget to horizontally flip your layers where needed.

Thanks for sharing the solution. With more and more W7 users, you are not the first, but most certainly won't be the last one bumping into this problem.

I'd say it's a lack of time. Eyecandy is certainly not a bad thing, but it has made the average time for a repaint rocket skyhigh. People are used to more detail, more eyecandy, which means the TA's and painters 'have' to put more time into a repaint.It does depend on the aircraft though. Denis is spewing out freeware high quality liveries for PA's A320 family like mad. Tom Collins does the same for Overland and more recently for Project Opensky's T7.On the HD textures, we spend somewhere between 30 and a 100 hours per livery. This includes the kit building process and research time. As it is FSX only, bump and specular maps are included in the building process. The more liveries we make with a kit, the lower the average hour per livery.Last but not least, 28 pages, not that many granted requests : Perhaps this is not the right place to do requests? I bet ya, you will be able to find a lot of those requests already made and available in the many file libraries on L'internet (starting with AVSIM's).

I just want to make sure as the titles mentions both McPhat and Ariane, but the tread went a little off-topic and perhaps not everybody read the first couple of posts : We have nothing to do with this ...ehm.... 'move' by Ariane.

I wouldn't say the CS757 (or any CS kit for that matter) kit is the best (read :easiest) kit to try your luck on. The 4 sided fold out structure makes it a bit more tedious (with better results tho) than a 'normal' 2 sided kit. That being said :I haven't come across a A to Z tutorial for the CS757 kit, but perhaps somebody else has. If not, I'd start by mentioning which FS, cause there is also a big difference between the FS9 and FSX way of texturing CS' 757.