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....ahhhhhhhh never noticed! ...weird..I guess I'm too concentrated on what's in front of me to notice my ground shadow...especially on approach. Thanks, Chas

garrett_frank, on 20 Sept 2016 - 03:33 AM, said: I may be wrong here but it looks like LM finally programmed the ground shadow to show the external vehicle from cockpit view! I'm not sure I understand what "...programmed the ground shadow to show the external vehicle from cockpit view!"means... can somebody provide me visual examples?...- a screenshot would do nicely...video even better. Cheers Chas

whoooadooooood!

JK... looking forward to the release notes… and Yes, I know it's not April 1st. Chas

DL'd unininstalled 3.3.5 ...installed 3.4 core MSIs...restarted...Default flight now out of KLAX in A Homer Simpson arms for wings, donuts for wheels and constant WhooHooing from base to falsetto on engine run up...then the tower turns into Sponge Bob Square pants...anyone else getting this??? Chas

Yeah, but I've noticed that if I exclude any Orbix /FTX scenery, that Long scenery load hang at six seconds... doesn't occur… Am I crazy? Thanks, Chas

But....is it also not correct that if you do not have any of your scenery unchecked, that your load time is going to be significantly longer? Thanks, Chas

I believe that LM, in the version 3 series, came up with an algorithm that either took a look at your flight plan or the likelihood of your traveling to far away sceneries and somehow deactivated them, or even unloaded all but the most Relevent scenery from memory. I have to admit to still deactivating the scenery I don't need for any particular flight...purely out of habit and...probably needlessly. Chas

radically wrong performance...what aircraft are we talking about? Chas

researched Festival...seems their hey-day has passed...the partipating PhDs may have moved on...I think...I emailed them all...we shall see...or not...Sapi yes Only Linux...obviously not I'll keep you posted in the Festival thing. Yeah...Maybe the his stork goal is not quite as accurate as we would hope.. , .I broke my TM HOTAS Warthog joystick trying to get out of REALTime AS16 weather... Thanks, Chas

beg to differ...I quote "Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most advanced. Other groups release new languages for the system. And full tools and documentation for build new voices are available through Carnegie Mellon's FestVox project (http://festvox.org) The system is written in C++ and uses the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library for low level architecture and has a Scheme (SIOD) based command interpreter for control. Documentation is given in the FSF texinfo format which can generate, a printed manual, info files and HTML. Festival is free software. Festival and the speech tools are distributed under an X11-type licence allowing unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use alike. Online demo There are two online demonstrations of Festival, where you can synthesise your own sentences: Online demo Technical online demo with more voices Current version Version 2.4 is available for download. This is the most recent version available for free and unrestricted use.". http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ Chas

Above is the YouTube vid that I created with Pilot2ATC and AS16. Dave, I don't see any correspondence to your voices cited above with the ones I found. In Win10, I went to Settings,Time & Language, Region & Language,United States,Languages,Add a Language...all the choices I showed you in the above pix produced ONLY mobile voeces once installed... What procedure did you use to get the desktop voices? Also, I think you agree the more voices, the better, and with that thought in mind if you checked on the VoxATC site, they mention the following which appear to be public domain... I quote " Voices Any SAPI voice available on your system can be used as a controller or pilot voice. The volume and speed of each can be set individually. VoxATC can also use the open source VoxPop Voices. As many voices as the resources of the system can support may be used with VoxATC. More Info" Voices for VoxATC Any SAPI TTS voice installed on your system can be used with VoxATC. These voices are available from several sources. AT&T Natural Voices come packaged on the VoxATC Deluxe DVD available from RC Simulations. Cepstral also produce quality TTS voices. VoxPop Voices The VoxPop voices are five open source text to speech voices that VoxATC can use. They are developed versions of voices available for the Festival system. Each voice comes in four flavours: The base voice itself Clipped by a low pass filter to make it more radio like Mixed with background static Both clipped and mixed with background static While the voices sound great as RT voices, there are a couple issues that potential users should be aware of; the voices consume a lot of memory and take a while to load initially. More Info N.B. If you have problems with my mentioning a competitor, I will be happy to have the Board Moderators delete or I will move it elsewhere. Chas

Yeah that's what I did but I don't see any of those voices on the list that I downloaded and yet each one of them play when I go to test… yeah, I know there is a compatibility problem between desktop and mobile TTS voices; I will look at your list tonight and work on that Thanks for the great heads up! By the way, I will have a video of me reproducing Keith Smith's turbulent IMC flight in his Lancair from Manchester, NH to Caldwell, New Jersey. https://youtu.be/GauEr0ENbXM I did it to see if AS16 reproduced historical weather better than AS Next. I decided to throw P2A into the mix, since this is the first time I will have used it post massive hardware and software upgrade on my flying machine. Mine will be up on YouTube by tomorrow … it's still uploading on my sucky van with out bound. It was my first successful flight with Pilot2ATC although there were some glitches... Sorry, but it's 1:22:00 long . Thanks again for your research! Chas

But...but...but Win 10 allows me to use any I showed you in the screenshot as my default voice ... Chas

Any Idea why P2A only sees a limited...apparently limited to "Desktop voices" Please advise. Chas

That's what I did...but While I was eventually able to get my FO running, he did not turn on the radio's as he was supposed to ...same problem as before I reinstalled windows, reinstalled P 3-D, I reinstalled all my aircraft, reinstalled on my scenery, reinstalled my ATC reinstalled my EFB, ...reinstalled my brain... I'm flying my Lancair V2 from RealAir sporting a GTN 750 ...5hit!!! I'll be dead before version seven comes out. Moving on… Regards to all, Chas

I got the latest versions of EMT(though EMT SAID it was up to date i Dl'd the version we discussed above) and VoxATC v6.52 . The indexer halts at i:\p3dv33517625\scenery\world\scenery\traffic_Ships_Med_East_70315.bgl....any ideas? Thanks, Chas

Sorry, I didn't realize that you were talking about a boot drive rather an ancillary drive upon which you have P 3-D… I have seven HDD/SSD storage devices with close to 20 partitions… I guess I was coming from that... That revelation changes things entirely ...although a good cloner should be able to create a bootable image. Chas

I assume y'all are using Downloads Migration Tool installer (13.3 MB) Version 3.2.0.1011. Last updated 2016-03-16. Yes? Thanks, Chas

Sorry Poppet, I'll stick by my guns until proven otherwise ...I fail to see the virtue of that lengthy "big deal" process but...as every pilot is always learning, I am happy to be shown the error of my thinking. Regards to all Chas

Bob, I successfully and painlessly transferred my entire drive contents (I:\Prepar3d) ~>260GB from HDD to SSD by; 1. simply copying (or cloning) entire P3d HDD drive contents to the new SSD drive let's call it Y: 2. relabeling the old HDD volume from I: to something unused..,Say Z: 3. Reassigning SSD Y:\ to the newly available drive letter I: 4. That's it...Your PC Thanks you and thinks it's talking to the old I: drive… It is...just a super fast I: drive this time. Go fly....FASSSSSSSSSSSST! CAVEAT: Anytime that you do something this radical it gives you an opportunity to think about it before you actually carry the process out. I.Are your drives and your volumes logically laid out and; II. could you have done better by thinking about how you previously stored things? III what you previously did with your scenery ? IV. Where you put your add-on support software?... A.SSDs are still significantly more expensive than the Cost of HDDs. B.With that in mind, some of our content just doesn't need to be on 'spensive lickity-split SSD media. V. You have the opportunity now to start from scratch and put things where they really belong... … Just saying.. Hope this helps Chas

Stream What You Hear (SWYH) Chas

Update....While I wait for the arrival of my decapitated Joystick handle from Thrustmaster...replacement...Promised for today, I Have been trying an alternate controller for the last two weeks... I finally got wireless and roll/pitch sensors working...hours ago. A PS3 Dual Shock 3...emulating either itself with Assignable buttons/Switches/Axes OR; Emulating an X-Box Controller https://youtu.be/9cCmrVamMBI Hardware: I7-6700K/GTX 1080, TrackIR V5 Prepar3d V3.3.5 .17625 Orbx North American land class AS16.ASCA/Rex Soft Clouds -The clouds you see coming in from the west are real we're due for a storm so I took a dip in the pool just before editing this…https://imgur.com/znKf9EP... I can hear the thunder getting closer as the as I write this… Grin Are we having fun yet? ... Real Air Lancair V2 for P3d K69 Carnes Farm AirPort and FBO Courtesy of ScruffyDuck's ADE PhotoReal Scenery of Carnes Farm and all visible buildings done in Gmax, textures updated for P3dv3 by Chas using Arno Gerretsen's wonderfully designed and supported ModelConverterX. ViewGroups as Drawn from My and Beau Hollis' interpretation of Mark Hargrove's wonderful ViewGroups Tutorial https://db.tt/88Dtkwu1 PS3 Dual Shock Wireless Controller: 1.Set-up through FSUIPC Direct Axes / Motion Joy - See Roll, Elevators Axes set Buttons: Throttle Up/Down Left/Right Shoulder Buttons ,Gear-Right Dpad SpeedBrakes(Spoilers Toggle ) Left Dpad Trim up/Down(Aigned to DPad up/Down Note: Both Left and Right Triggers are actually Axes Enjoy Chas

Found this : How do I place SpeedTree Models? - Open SimDirector - Choose Scenery category - Choose vegetation_st subcategory - Drag and drop items from the list into the scene - (Optional) chose File->Export Scenery to save your placement out as bgl Can SpeedTree models be placed as autogen vegetation? Not at this time. We chose to add library object support first as it allows users to place trees in SimDirector without using the SDK. Some additional SpeedTree integration will be required to support autogen vegetation. Can I make my own tree models? This would require special licensing with IDV. See http://www.speedtree.com/ for more details. LM/P3d seem to be playing this pretty close tight their chests... Chas Are there any licensing restrictions? See licenses\SpeedTree (IDV).txt and the Prepar3D EULA for licensing details.

Also check to see if your default scenario is causing it...check the Prepar3d.cfg and delete the default scenario= "Whatever your default scenario is.XXX" entry, leaving just "Default scenario=" Chas