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by **Kelburn** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:12 am

Hi,
Does anyone have any screenshots of New Zealand from FSX?
(mainly pics of NZAA & NZWN)

Also does anyone have any pics of the 747 vc?

Thanks

(Plus - How can i add a banner/signature?)

by **ZK-MAT** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:20 am

Here are some shots posted in the NZ PC World forums by Bruce Buckman. I'll paste the whole post with the links.

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Here's Wellington in FS X, with the 20m mesh added but default topographical features:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/ ... gton-1.jpg

And by comparison here's a similar view from FS2004, with the 20m mesh, Christian Stock's NZ Topo and landclass files:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/dmw_nz/718.jpg

Back to FSX, here's the Hutt Valley:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/ ... valley.jpg

and another of Wellington - this is with the water effects turned down to medium:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/ ... gton-2.jpg

Here's Auckland with Robin Corn's Real Auckland scenery - woks fine but there are default FSX buildings and objects that need to be removed. (there's two Sky Towers when you've got Real Auckland lodaed, for example)
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/ ... land-1.jpg

Here's Great Barrier. You can see that the default textures for NZ in FS X are once again, not very NZ-like, and that the landclass needs work:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/ ... arrier.jpg

And just for comparison, here's shot takne in Japan. The sim varies quite a bit in terms of mesh detail and topographocal detail around the world - it all depends on what data MS could get. NZ is (with some irritating flaws) pretty good in this respect, due to readuly available data, and Japn looks pretty good too. Note that my FPS dropped because of this. This is something some people seem to be overlooking when tlaking about frame rates in FS X -- the greater complexity of mesh data in many parts of the sim.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/ ... apan-1.jpg

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If anyone's interested the post link is here

by **Kelburn** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:26 am

Thanks for the links,
But it seems that most of the pics have been removed

by **ZK-MAT** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:27 am

Try again mate. I pasted the urls link directly from the forum, then when I checked the post they had been mangled. Should be ok now...

by **toprob** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:07 pm

I've started to explore NZ on my site here.
I should get to Auckland shortly, but my system doesn't really cope well with Auckland, so I don't know whether I'll get some screenshots.

by **toprob** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:06 pm

I didn't make it to Auckland tonight, but hopefully that'll be next. So far 3 legs of my journey completed.
New Zealand in FSX

by **ZK-Brock** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:41 pm

Looks cool, how far away is FSX from NZ stores?

by **ZÃƒÂ¶ltuger** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:23 pm

still scheduled for the 26th of October

by **Ian Warren** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:04 pm

by **ZK-MAT** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:07 pm

Nice pics Rob and Ian

It all looks a bit brown though, something I recall from FS9 in default mode, does it change to a bit greener by changing the season?

by **Ian Warren** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:18 pm

mm global warming .. maybe .. will do a seasonal screenie in morrow , maybe MS did the landclass back during the 1998 drought.. AUCKLAND Tho is pretty .. NZREAL with default Airport !

by **Charl** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:23 am

Good browse Robin, best impression yet of what FSX is about.
It certainly is texturally strong - with proper landclass and mesh it's going to be very convincing.
I was wondering about the water effects - while in the screenshots they look good, does it give an immersive (No pun intended) sim experience?
Waves didn't seem to scale correctly at altitude in some shots?

by **FlyingKiwi** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:19 am

I like how the small airfields that are basically just a runway blend into the scenery better now, instead of having a big grass grass expanse on all sides.

by **toprob** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:11 am

Charl wrote: I was wondering about the water effects - while in the screenshots they look good, does it give an immersive (No pun intended) sim experience?
Waves didn't seem to scale correctly at altitude in some shots?

I was planning with my next installment to talk about my settings. Some are intentionally low, including the water, to keep things flyable. I will say though that I was a bit aprehensive about the water colour from the betas, but the final version is fine.
I've never liked FS waves, and FSX hasn't changed my mind any.

by **squirrel350** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:36 pm

Thanks for all that robin it was a truly great read.

by **bigdogshark62** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:04 am

Is NZAA really "all that" with gates and everything? As good as Shayne's scenery?

If so, then I may have to break down and get me some FSX (was going to hold off until January).

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