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by **toprob** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:52 pm

(All FS2004)
Time to post some progress shots, I think.

Looking towards Picton...
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Havelock

Waikawa Bay
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Inset is a photo I took when my son and I took a scenic flight up the Sounds
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Anakiwa -- anyone else done Outward Bound?
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Unfortunately the photoreal doesn't cover the whole Sounds, but a bit more than this...
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by **ZK-Brock** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:57 pm

Amazing...this is a must-buy for me.

by **ardypilot** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:47 pm

Dang! That looks sooooooo much better than default landclass (which up till now really impressed me).

I must ask what water textures you are using there that reflect the clouds so well???

by **Charl** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:36 am

That's progress alright.
Already I am not flying the Sounds so the experience will be fresh when it finally happens :lol:

What's this?
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by **Bandit** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:42 am

Salmon farm?

by **toprob** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:48 am

Bandit wrote: Salmon farm?

Yes,the NZ King Salmon Co farm at Ruakaka Bay.

by **Christian** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:29 am

Or some secret Alien base owned by Elvis Presley?!?

Thanks for asking Charl - I was wondering the same thing...

by **toprob** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:37 am

Trolly wrote:
I must ask what water textures you are using there that reflect the clouds so well???

That's Real Environment Pro, I only use the water textures.

by **AlisterC** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:53 pm

Wow wow wow

by **Ex ANZ Eng** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:20 pm

Wow Robin.....yet again you have set a high standard for all the other developers out there, awesome.

by **Charl** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:02 pm

Can't recall if you've announced it...which actual airports will this release be covering?
We'd have to make sure there is some traffic there, in advance!

by **scon** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:26 pm

Sorry if this has been mentioned before but will it work with FSX

by **toprob** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:35 pm

Includes Omaka, Woodbourne and Picton.
There will be two versions for the FS2004 and FSX.

by **Ian Warren** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:11 pm

Friggen HECK! I missed this post ...... BUEATYFULL :thumbup:

Looks Fantasic Robin :clap:

AGN being an arduous task , the job off that coastline .... ummmm whowe! Whicked! :clap:

by **Alex** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:10 pm

That looks really awesome Robin, are those shots from FS9 or FSX? :clap:

Alex

by **JonARNZ** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:23 pm

All FS9, X's water is quite different. The X photoreal will also be higher res I believe.

by **Jimmy** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:18 pm

mmmmmm impresive robin, very impresive..

Will there be seperate fs10/9 version or will it be possible to buy just one product and use it with both sims?

What is the perforamce going to be like with this? I remember you once saying about the fps issues with the airfeilds being so close together. Will it be better performing than nztg? (the only real nz I have brought as yet) As I prefer nto to fly to tg anymore due to the perforamce problems...

Anyway looking awsome!

by **toprob** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:42 pm

There will be only one 'product', but there will be two versions included. This is necessary to take advantage of the new features of FSX.
Performance will always be a major consideration when I'm designing a scenery. With Tauranga the performance needs to be tuned using the scenery density setting. (Although actually removing the boats has helped with some people.)
Marlborough may be the same -- running it with full display settings may only work well on higher specced machines.
However lowering the settings TO MATCH YOUR SPECIFICATIONS should give good results. This is normal, and the way it's meant to work.
There's a fine line between scenery complexity and system performance. Whenever I add an object to a scenery it will affect performance slightly. However it does add a lot to the 'value' of the scenery. We already have high-performance, low detail scenery, it comes with the sim. I can work towards making the scenery perform well, but a scenery with hundreds of custom objects is never going to perform as well as one with a couple of default objects.
At the moment I'm benchmarking the scenery on my own system. This is three years old, so represents low specifications quite well:
Athlon 2600XP
1GB RAM
Nvidia 5900 128MB video card
Provided your machine can comfortably run the sim normally, you should get usable performance from my addon scenery provided you adjust the display settings accurately.

by **ardypilot** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:47 pm

Performance will always be a major consideration when I'm designing a scenery.

Thats what I love about your scenery Robin :clap:

by **Jimmy** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:45 am

thanks Robin, although i don't like having to turn all the 3d object sliders to minimal when flying over a area then back on for scenerys witch aren't as detailed. but I suppose it doesn't really matter, once your in the air the photoreal just looks so good anyway with out autogen/scenery complexity..

I will prepare to pull the display sliders back and preorder marlbourgh as soon as I can, or perhaps buy nzwn first

James

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