Vincent Air Charter over Marlborough

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Postby ardypilot » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:16 pm

Its been quite a while since I posted any screenshots here, so this evening I decided to take a flight from Nelson to Wellington, cruising low at 4000 feet over the Marlborough Sounds in the spirit of Jon and Brock's recent screenshots, taking the Vincent Air Dash Q100, in the spirit of one of our members, Victor Alpha Charlie, and a repaint bought to my attention by Charl.

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Postby ZK-Brock » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:11 am

Trolly my old son, how did you get your scenery looking so good? Especially the distance fog effect over the hills. Tell me your scenery set-up.

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Postby hinch » Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:59 am

great scenery! Nice coastlines and mesh - any details?
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Postby ardypilot » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:38 am

Cheers guys :D

Monkey, that is real world weather there, about 30nm vis with cold fronts coming in from the north west and major turbulance. I've also edited my fs9.cfg to make the textures load further in the distance to advoid blurrys and stuff.

Hinch, that scenery you see is the amazing Red Baron Entertainment 20m mesh and topo NZ combo package (which I did a promo tour of recently- Long White Cloud tour which you painted that C206 for). The Marlborough Sounds is an area that really benifits from this high res data- great for both VFR and IFR flights around the centre of the country!

EDIT- I just fixed the multiple IMG tags so now pics 11. and 12. are different :ph43r:
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Postby JonARNZ » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:55 pm

Wow, they are awesome Andrew :clap:
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Postby Ian Warren » Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:39 pm

Super pics Andrew :)
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Postby victor_alpha_charlie » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:04 pm

In the words of waynes world, Schwing! :D

and on a more serious note, OMG WHERE DO I GET IT OMGOMGOMG :clap: :drool:
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Postby ardypilot » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:16 pm

Search AVsim for -> vincent_aviation_dash8__q100_zk-vac.zip
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Postby victor_alpha_charlie » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:32 pm

thanks :D
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Postby Charl » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:24 pm

Andrew, setting your texture radius a bit larger has made a real difference.
I like...well, just about all those shots!
You might search for a slightly more grainy reflective sea texture I reckon, to compliment the land.
But, very nice shots.
And the VA paintscheme does cut sort of a, Dashing, figure, dunnit?
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Postby ZK-Brock » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:28 pm

And the VA paintscheme does cut sort of a, Dashing, figure, dunnit?


Oh charl, what a pun.
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Postby ardypilot » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:30 pm

You might search for a slightly more grainy reflective sea texture I reckon, to compliment the land.
But, very nice shots.

Thanks Charl- yes my water looks a little unrealistic I guess, but I have learnt to live with it. In the past I have tried the VOZ water, the horrible Real Enviroment Pro textures (although very nice at sunrise and sunset) and the 'Perfect Water' textures although they look too 'liney'. What do you suggest?

And the VA paintscheme does cut sort of a, Dashing, figure, dunnit?

Oh charl, what a pun.

Well done for stating the obvious Monkey :lol:
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Postby Charl » Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:06 am

Don't know about freeware, but I know you're into screenshots so it might be worth looking at Flight Environment.
There are approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000 combinations of water colour, reflectivity, and cloud possible with it, and if you're lucky you may hit on a set that matches the mood of what you want for the SS.

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Postby ardypilot » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:34 pm

Daym that looks neat Charl- have you noticed any FPS drop with that addon?

BTW, I like to take my flights from about 7am to 10am and 4pm to 6pm to make sure I have low light. It makes all the houses on the ground glow from one side and creates loverly rolling shadows in the hillside vallys. :)
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Postby Charl » Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:34 pm

Trolly wrote: Daym that looks neat Charl- have you noticed any FPS drop with that addon?

BTW, I like to take my flights from about 7am to 10am and 4pm to 6pm to make sure I have low light. It makes all the houses on the ground glow from one side and creates loverly rolling shadows in the hillside vallys. :)

Yeah 2 hours either side of dawn or dusk is good.
My sim is a hugely unreliable indicator as it's loaded with extra stuff, one day to the next.
The reports I've read reckon minimal performance impact.
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Postby victor_alpha_charlie » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:47 pm

the one thing thats annoying about that dash repaint is the green stripe. i'm 98% sure ive never seen any green on that dash. i might try edit it in ps :D
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Postby cirrusnature » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:56 pm

Nice pics trolly. That's one of my favourite route. Never fail to amaze me how breathtaking it is from up there and of course there's always that landing at Wellington to look forward too.
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