spiffy

Yep, as well as civilian and combat flight simulation, I make little animations to keep me busy. I thought I'd share the latest with you, it scratches an itch I've had for over 25 years, so please enjoy! Besides, you know you've always wanted to see a matchup of StarWars fighters (that use WW2 physics) and the 'real' thing

Hi guys, I hope this kind of post is ok in this forum... Just yesterday I received an email from AVSIM saying I hadn't been active for over a year, and that maybe I'd like to check in again! Well, I've been really busy working away on a personal project, a graphic novel, and it completely ate up the spare time I usually spend flight simming. But as coincidence would have it, it does involve flight simulation. I'm not sure it will be for everyone here, being combat oriented, but one chapter involves ww2 fighter engagements, and presents a story that is heavily based in my experiences flight simming in IL2, BoB2:WoV and War Thunder, but also draws on general knowledge picked up from many of the other sims I have played, like FSX of course. The other chapters vary in setting, from deep space to ancient times, but they all reflect an appreciation of tactics, technology, and detail, and are written in a thoughtful tone that I think this community would appreciate. It is digital only... a tablet is a fantastic comic reader, but any phone or PC screen will do! You can look up the book, "A Wary Distance", and where to get it at http://www.spiffy-comics.com/ I will leave you with a full page for you to look at; there are more at the site. I hope that some of you will find something to like in my project! And now that it's done, I'll follow AVSIM's advice and see you back in the virtual skies

Read up on it here. http://flightsimavia...x-or-9-how.html http://www.simforums.com/forums/enb-bloom-mod-nicks-cOnfig-settings_topic32482.html It used to work in Flight for me, although you had to 'refresh' the game by toggling some graphics options in-game before it would activate using shift-f12. But now I can't even get it to run on startup. But, if you are still using FSX, it is an amazing little graphics upgrade for no performance hit, as long as you are using a decent FSX profile and are turning off the unecessary fields. Works like a charm there.

Hi, I was using ENBseries to add HDR to the game. But ever since I've downloaded the latest Flight patches and Alaska, it doesn't seem to work? I don't even see the little green letters that usually pop up in the upper left corner on game startup when the files are present. Has anyone been using the ENBseries after the latest patches? I really like HDR, it really helps punch the whites to feel like sun glare, and the sky feels much more like real sunlight.

I have the same stick.. I think I got around the issue by mapping the keyboard key to my joystick using the Joy2Key utility so it works as well as the keyboard does.

HDR lighting effects/post process effects.. almost all modern games these days use it quite nicely. ENBseries mod kind of works in Flight, but it would be nice to have one that is properly dialed in to the engine to really make the sky look nice and bright, and make for better contrast with the ground colors.

I really don't think it's a big deal to get TrackIR working in-game. All the required elements are in the game already, and if little one-person developer games can integrate it without breaking a sweat, so can MS. Personally, I think it's a bit of Microsoft politics, and seeing what they can get away with, along the same line as cockpit-less planes... the market is driving their decision making. I think they've weighed the responses and determined they will retain a broader user base implementing TrackIR. A smart move, because I was already perusing Orbx's stuff and thinking of switching back to FSX, as the lack of TrackIR was bothering me that much. Now, I will be sure to keep buying Flight's updates. I'm sure there are quite a few like me out there.

Biggest lesson here is: vote with your dollars, people. It' s the *only* real way to steer the game development. I'd love to have a nimble and fast plane to play with, but a cockpit is a must for me.And if you haven't, buy the maule. I'm a little guilty here as I haven't yet, seeing as I prefer the challenges to cargo runs, but the more maule sales, the more it pushes them to develop the either way.

To be honest, with the extremely limited autogen assets within the vanilla game, Fsx wasn't exactly riveting either, until Tileproxy appeared. All of a sudden I did want to fly everywhere in the world when there were red world features to enjoy. To me, Flight will work as long as they keep releasing distinct regions to fly. It is normal that interest will wane between releases,but that's why I have Rise of Flight (and hopefully World of Planes soon) to alternate between.

Axel Pm'ed me the solution.. you just need to jog Flight's graphics settings, ie, set your settings to a medium or high preset, whatever is different from your current settings, and then pressing shift-f12 will activate the ENBseries. You can then switch back to your preferred settings and it will stick.Here's a comparison screenshot. Might be a bit hard to get the subtleties, but it does a good job making the sun and sky feel brighter to the eye, and plays the contrast of ground colors stronger. Meaning fields will have a higher contrast to forests, and the autogen will blend better into the forest ground texture to make for a more natural feeling scene, rather than a more obviously cut-out and flat computer image. Note that when you point away from the sun, the ground textures lighten up because the sun isn't in your face anymore, allowing the eyes to settle on more midrange values.http://www.flickr.co...N00/6867462980/I'm using a ENBseries profile someone posted for FSX, I'm sure you can find a couple if you look around. Mine barely touches my fps at all.I might take a better picture for ground detail color differences if there's interest.

It might impact your FPS very minimally, but I use it for many games and have never had an issue. Note that there are many parameters including reflection, ambient inclusion, motion blur, etc. that are much more impactfull than ONLY using the HDR and color adjustment, which I barely notice at all in performance loss. (1-2 fps, and my machine is old.)

Really, this worked for you? For some reason I can't get it to work. I dropped the files in the main folder, but prssing shift-f12 doesn't do anything, even though I do see the ENBseries signature when booting up. Maybe I missed something obvious...?I do agree, this little program adds an incredible bit of graphical punch to dx9 games like FSX, RBR, etc. I'm amazed MS didn't add an HDR graphical option to Flight, every game in the last 3 years uses it.

For me, it's lack of TrackIR.... and HDR lighting and color contrast effects. The game looks so 2008 right now, despite the higher autogen and nicer textures.

This method uses Glovepie.. seems like their site was hacked? You can also setup trackIR with Joy2Key as well, I've outlined it here. Works for me!http://forum.avsim.net/topic/364256-i-can-use-trackir/

I think for me it's more a matter of voting with my dollars... while I'm not militant about having no-cockpit planes, I'd prefer it not to become a trend, therefore the best way to influence that design decision is to abstain from purchase, regardless of the fact I know I'd like to have it.