FSX discussion

[Codz]

I was wondering, should I get FSX? Is it worth 30 dollars?

 

[Ark]

For the Gold edition, sure.

 

[Codz]

Any freeware airliner mods you'd recommend?

 

[Eli13]

Any freeware airliner mods you'd recommend?

There's none of the top of my head, but I get all my mods from http://www.simviation.com/. I think it's a pretty good site to get freeware for FSX and it's actually where I discovered Orbiter.

Have fun!

 

[Codz]

There's none of the top of my head, but I get all my mods from http://www.simviation.com/. I think it's a pretty good site to get freeware for FSX and it's actually where I discovered Orbiter.

Have fun!

Yeah I used that site for FS9 back when I had a disk drive.:lol:

 

[ky]

AI hasn't been working at all in FS2002 lately, all after installing ProjectAI and TTools. I've tried just about every solution there is, still, nothing works, even uninstalling and reinstalling it. Any tips?

 

[Tandem]

Referring to freeware commercial airliner addons:

I've used some by Thomas Ruth such as the A330-200 and A330-300. They are quite good and there are a lot of various user made liveries for them too. You can get them from AVSim. There are plenty of good ones from other makers as well.

 

[Cras]

Any freeware airliner mods you'd recommend?

Project Open Sky. All freeware over there. It appears they have dissolved, which is just as well. Not friendly people, at all. Like not at all ever. And it is no surprise to me that they finally hit critical mass and imploded on each other.

But they have pretty much all the Boeing jetliners and varients, some have VCs, some good liveries. For freeware, it is probably the best you can get.

The download section appears to be still up so you can still get their stuff, but no support. Which is no loss. They really offered no support at all when they were still around, other than call you an idiot for not knowing how FS works, how the directory structure is. Really, if all they did was yell RTFM, that would have been an improvement.

http://www.projectopensky.com/index.php?app=downloads

 

[mojoey]

I have a B-52 addon that uses the 747 2D panel in FS9...its great

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Project Open Sky. All freeware over there. It appears they have dissolved, which is just as well. Not friendly people, at all. Like not at all ever. And it is no surprise to me that they finally hit critical mass and imploded on each other.

But they have pretty much all the Boeing jetliners and varients, some have VCs, some good liveries. For freeware, it is probably the best you can get.

The download section appears to be still up so you can still get their stuff, but no support. Which is no loss. They really offered no support at all when they were still around, other than call you an idiot for not knowing how FS works, how the directory structure is. Really, if all they did was yell RTFM, that would have been an imrpovement.

http://www.projectopensky.com/index.php?app=downloads

I remember those idiots... i asked where to put a scenery file and i was called this and that. They were NEVER nice people

 

[Cras]

I remember those idiots... i asked where to put a scenery file and i was called this and that. They were NEVER nice people

Yup, sounds like them.

 

[Codz]

Has ayone tried the freeware A340-300? It's quite amazing. http://www.flightsim.com/file.php?cm=SEARCH1&fsec=0&fname=TOMA343B.ZIP

 

[Mojave]

Here area a few FSX pictures I took and editted from FSX. Enjoy!

and:

Lufthansa!!


These pictures are a lower quality as they needed to be shrunk from there original size. If you wish to have the original(s), PM me your E-mail address, or other contact messenger that supports pictures. I don't spam, or give other's E-mail addresses away.

 

[Eli13]

Well, this is my first Photoshop edit of a FSX photo, so here goes nothing.

An Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia in House Livery flying over the Rocky Mountains somewhere between Denver and Salt Lake City.

Tell me what you guys think!

 

[ky]

Well, this is my first Photoshop edit of a FSX photo, so here goes nothing.

An Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia in House Livery flying over the Rocky Mountains somewhere between Denver and Salt Lake City.

Tell me what you guys think!

Awesome! :thumbup:

 

[Hielor]

Well, this is my first Photoshop edit of a FSX photo, so here goes nothing.

An Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia in House Livery flying over the Rocky Mountains somewhere between Denver and Salt Lake City.


Tell me what you guys think!

It seems awfully...uh...blurry...

 

[Eli13]

It seems awfully...uh...blurry...

The blur effect didn't turn out as well as I had wanted.
I asked a few people pre-posting and they liked it, and it looked better than the non-blurred version, but hey, whatever.

 

[Pablo49]

Just keep in mind when using blur effects that your image still needs a focal point. At first glance my eyes shift directly to the sun as out of all the blurry things in the image, it's the most distinctive by it's brightness. A clearer focal will keep the sun from being so dominating. After the sun it's hard for the eyes to naturally follow anything since it's all so blurred. The sense of depth is really lost by it, too. So if you want to blur, either don't do the entire image or keep some parts only slightly blured.

Also lens flares are typically cheesy, so I'd turn it off if you are going to go for image quality. And if you really feel the need for a lens flare (Such feelings are highly immoral, btw.) keep that for post-processing where you are in control.

I also don't really like borders, but that's just me, not a stylistic error.

 

[Eli13]

Just keep in mind when using blur effects that your image still needs a focal point. At first glance my eyes shift directly to the sun as out of all the blurry things in the image, it's the most distinctive by it's brightness. A clearer focal will keep the sun from being so dominating. After the sun it's hard for the eyes to naturally follow anything since it's all so blurred. The sense of depth is really lost by it, too. So if you want to blur, either don't do the entire image or keep some parts only slightly blured.

Also lens flares are typically cheesy, so I'd turn it off if you are going to go for image quality. And if you really feel the need for a lens flare (Such feelings are highly immoral, btw.) keep that for post-processing where you are in control.

I also don't really like borders, but that's just me, not a stylistic error.

Thanks for the advice! :thumbup: The whole thing was just a test to see what I could do, and good advice came. Trial and error, only makes it better for next time. A retiring pilot once said he went his career without a [major] accident because of good decisions which, when asked, he said got from experience. Naturally, he was asked where he got his experience from, he said from bad decisions. I'll be sure to keep this in mind as I endeavor to improve on this.

As far as that border, it was just the result of screencapping FSX and I didn't think twice to rid of it.

 

[Codz]

So, I decided to try out the Project Tupolev Tu-154, and I'm extremely impressed. The whole thing turns itself off when you start a scenario, and you have manually turn it on to get it flight worthy. The flight manual itself is around 150 pages long! It's also got one of the best fully functional virtual cockpits I've ever seen. This has to be one of the most impressive pieces of freeware that I've tried thus far.

 

[garyw]

I do love a 757.......