godzone takitimu

[kcgb]

is there any other place to get godzone takitimu because avsim cant find the files

[toprob]

QUOTE (kcgb @ Sep 12 2009, 08:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

is there any other place to get godzone takitimu because avsim cant find the files

I'll figure something out and get back to you.

[toprob]

Ok, I've now uploaded this to my site.
Please get in quick, as this is temporary only -- it will be available until the end of September only! By then, however, I hope to have it hosted elsewhere.
Visit my file download page.

This goes for Real NZ Paraparaumu as well -- next month I'll need the disc space to release Supercity: Auckland for FSX.

[kcgb]

thank you

[husker]

QUOTE (toprob @ Sep 12 2009, 01:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

This goes for Real NZ Paraparaumu as well -- next month I'll need the disc space to release Supercity: Auckland for FSX.

! Next Month Supercity - wahoooo!!!!

edit: just checked out the screenshots here: http://www.windowlight.co.nz/index.php?opt...t&Itemid=54

That Piha shot is amazing

[toprob]

I was planning to re-upload Takitimu to Avsim when they opened their new library with a larger file size limit. However after uploading it, Avsim took their new library down, and reverted to the 250MB limit, which Takitimu just exceeds.

However I've reuploaded to my own site for the time being. Take a look at the Takitimu 'freeware' page here.

Although Takitimu is a summer photo only, and you'll need to decide whether to leave it activated through the winter, it is a great fit with Vector Land Class during the summer.

[Olderndirt]

QUOTE (toprob @ Mar 12 2011,4:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Takitimu is a great fit with Vector Land Class during the summer.

Yes it is - just posted a few under 'scenery'. Think it's finally dawning that VLC is meant to combine with 'Real New Zealand'. If so, does RNZ sit on top of VLC? In comparing VLC Godzone Ashburrton with VLC Godzone Kaikura, they appeared to be completely different scenery types - Ashburton with much more eye appeal than Kaikura.

[toprob]

QUOTE (Olderndirt @ Apr 1 2011,10:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes it is - just posted a few under 'scenery'. Think it's finally dawning that VLC is meant to combine with 'Real New Zealand'. If so, does RNZ sit on top of VLC? In comparing VLC Godzone Ashburrton with VLC Godzone Kaikura, they appeared to be completely different scenery types - Ashburton with much more eye appeal than Kaikura.

I'll try and give a quick and dirty view of this, although I'm I'm not too sure how succinct it'll be. Luckily the computer is currently resampling a huge photoscenery, so I've got an hour...

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VLC is meant to combine with 'Real New Zealand'[/quote]
Yes and no. I've been producing Godzone freeware and Real NZ payware for a long time, it started out in 2003 as a way to convert the NZ Crown aerial images into photo scenery, but the Crown stopped releasing these images some time ago. The Kaikoura scenery was produced about 7 years ago, but updated for use with VLC. Ashburton is a completely new project, developed specifically for VLC, so a lot can change in 7 years -- there was no FSX back then, and technical requirements -- as well as user expectations -- were different. For example, FS2004 used a low resolution of 4.8 metres per pixel for photo scenery, so the Crown images were ideal for that, at 2.5m/px. But although 2.5m/px would have been great in FS2004, if it could handle it, it's very low resolution for FSX.
VLC was developed completely separately from my stuff -- it is all Tim's work, and I had nothing to do with the early development. Tim produced a top-notch landclass upgrade, and it was only when he released it to testers like me that we started to see it as the basis of a completely realistic NZ upgrade. I tend to promote VLC as a complete scenery 'system', as that's the way I see it, but in reality it is a landclass scenery -- but growing all the time.

These days, as I said, user's expectations change, so development directions have to change. The current Real NZ project I'm working on now will be different again -- a high resolution city, with a very high resolution airport. That's the direction now, rather than huge areas of low-resolution aerials.

But that doesn't make the old Crown image-based sceneries obsolete -- some people love the photo scenery, some don't. I won't be producing any more of the old 2.5m scenery, but I still sell a good number of Supercity/Wellington/Marlborough etc.

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If so, does RNZ sit on top of VLC?[/quote]
Yes, in FSX photoscenery will always sit on top of landclass, which solves a lot of problems. Scenery priority is not a big issue in FSX, it manages this very well itself -- the only issues are when you have two of the same types of scenery, such as two different landclasses, that requires some organisation, but generally any airport of photoscenery dropped into VLC will display properly. The VLC installer will also prioritise itself.

At the moment I have an idea of where all this is heading, but it'll take a while to get there. I do have an image of what today's scenery should be like -- mainly airports I'm talking about. These can have more detail simply because today's systems can cope with more detail -- if I'd produced Kaikoura to the same detail as Ashburton, I wouldn't have been able to run it on my old system back then. FSX airports at 15 centimetre resolution are becoming the standard, so that's what I'm aiming for. Unfortunately these images are not given away like the old Crown images, but they make all the difference to FSX. These sort of resources are the tricky bit, they can be priced outside the budget for a flightsim scenery.

But with very high resolution images you tend to notice the shortcomings of the default autogen, so that will need an overhaul. It's times like this I could do with 30 staff, but Godzone is just me.

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As a long time real life pilot, Flight Simulation has surprised and delighted me with its overall proximity to reality. Default scenery, especially in earlier years, was disappointing but recently there seems to have been a breakthrough and what's emerging, in the add-on world, is just plain good. By and large, I find VLC a vast improvement and will add your stuff as it comes on line.