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    What we're working on - Orbx 2021 Roadmap

    in Orbx Preview Announcements, Screenshots and Videos

    Posted · Edited by merlinux

    On 8/27/2021 at 10:11 PM, wolfko said:

     

    It is an absolute No Go to talk about other developer's products here in the Orbx forums.

    Thanking you for letting me know but it is a weird situation in not being able to ask about an Orbx product against a 3rd party about an airport who has been accepted by the community recently. You hear me all RTMM users...

    Anyway I love Orbx and I have spent a lot more than a grand on their products along the years. I am not complaining as I know I can always accomplish that in other forums. But I have always liked these forums ;)

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    What we're working on - Orbx 2021 Roadmap

    in Orbx Preview Announcements, Screenshots and Videos

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    On 8/26/2021 at 4:48 PM, manuelB said:

    I see some publishers just converting their P3D products, and it work well for them ! Now if some they are no longer with Orbx, yes, that's a problem !!!
    And I, while waiting for something better, I am also very happy with a simple conversion, even if obsolete, that nothing at all on my favorite airports ! Waiting for to  better (  maybe a long time ) ! 

    And speaking about PAKT Orbx just released it for MSFS today :D

    Not sure how it olds up against the NSS version; Anyone?

     

    What we're working on - Orbx 2021 Roadmap

    in Orbx Preview Announcements, Screenshots and Videos

    Posted · Edited by merlinux

    On 8/21/2021 at 1:38 PM, manuelB said:

    Me too !
    This year I am a little disappointed with Orbx choose, that it does not convert more existing airports ! The existing airports for P3D are always already very good, we do not ask for more ! I would also like to be able to use them again under MSFS !

    I agree that Orbx airports for p3d are good. But for most of them it isn't just a port and sell approach. Most of their bestsellers are outdated and proper work is required for MSFS to make them an accurate quality product worth selling in 2021. I think also a lot of the original developers are not in Orbx anymore....

    In the mean time they are still porting some of their oldies, and have partnered with heaps of studios lately to give us quite a nice list of new scenery for MSFS... And it costs half the price of a p3d scenery, really enjoying that bit about MSFS :)

    This is a new platform, Dont expect to see the same developers doing all the same again. Already there are some newcomers, some coming from other sims doing some great stuff even if it isnt sold on Orbxdirect. Some have even made a better scenery than what is available for p3d by Orbx. Ketchikan is an example. (Not bashing on Orbx PAKT at all, the time and technology were different for a complex airport design)

    Give me a "Bryce Canyon" anyday against a newly developped Ketchikan ;)

     

    Enjoy the fun times ahead!

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    Alaska mesh for MSFS and PAJN

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    30 minutes ago, SGunard said:

     

    Can't say the difference made me go 'Wow!' Might be worth it for an improved PAJN though?

    I think for the price it is worth for both an improved mesh and PAJN airport. I own all the other panhandle airports by other 3rd party, and they cost as much each.

    If you enjoy flying in Alaska it is a straight buy from me.

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    Alaska mesh for MSFS and PAJN

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    3 hours ago, Andrew Hunter-Graham said:

    @merlinux I was partially confused by the description of Juneau being included with the Mesh... So PAJN has in fact been converted over or rebuilt for MSFS and then been included as part of the Mesh release?

     

    And the answer is yes. I had just a quick look and it looks like a rebuild. At first glance it is similar that their FSX version with updated textures. Never been to Alaska and I aint familiar with the Juneau airport IRL so I cant say if it is an accurate representation of PAJN in 2021 or merely an updated port.

    Spotted an Alaskan airline 737 and an Air Canada CRJ at the gates. The water runway and pontoons with static sea planes is there. So are the red GA hangars ;)

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    Alaska mesh for MSFS and PAJN

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by merlinux

    @Andrew Hunter-Graham@daan_vb

    Agree with both of you guys. It is a mystery as to why it is not stated that PAJN is in fact part of the product in the store....

    Pretty bad marketing because for an airport + a mesh product the price is quite alright. And it isnt just a small dirt field either, it is the dang state capital airport(and a favourite of mine) :)

    The way it is announced in a locked and almost invisible announcement thread, make it sounds like Orbx wanted this to be an easter egg rather than a marketable asset....

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    What we're working on - Orbx 2021 Roadmap

    in Orbx Preview Announcements, Screenshots and Videos

    Posted

    40 minutes ago, rsmith6621a said:

    So you are abandoning further updates to  MSFS and P3dv5.1 with the current Orbx library,

     

    I would like to see KRDD updated to P3dv5.1/MSFS and Spokane finished.  

    I myself have been waiting for  KRDD v5. I assume it is not a straight forward port and I have no idea if it will ever comes...

    Probably would have been converted by now if it wasnt the case.

    Friendly Flusi review of Cityscape Sydney

    in Orbx Product Reviews

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    23 hours ago, John Dow said:

     

    The Victor One route will be attended to as soon as possible.  At the moment the MSFS coding doesn't allow the mesh to be overwritten satisfactorily but as soon as a solution is available the intention is to completely remodel the coastline where needed.

    Thanks for clarifying :) We are definitely missing a true representation of the cliffs and coves.

    Explore the National Parks: Introducing Bryce Canyon for MSFS!

    in Orbx Preview Announcements, Screenshots and Videos

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    @Ken HallAmazing! Will definitely buy :)

    3 hours ago, Ken Hall said:

    I can't commit to P3d at the moment, as much as I would like to release for all platforms the extra work is quite substancial, P3D requires different materials for PBR plus a lot ofother stuff. I know Elon Musk's internet will be out soon and the online situation will change. I don't fly P3D anymore myself and there is so much to do for MSFS.

    Thank you for asking but I doubt I'll have the passion to develop for P3D anymore.

    cheers

    Ken

    Does that mean we will never see Tapini for v5?

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    Pilatus PC-6 in P3Dv5 HF2

    in Community Screenshots

    Posted · Edited by merlinux

    On 7/17/2020 at 7:47 PM, wain71 said:

    superb shots of a plane that as much as I like it, it just looks wrong....big nose....weird rear.....but nice......they do look like proper workhorses though...

    Its funny because the more I look at it the more I love its look, to a point where I think she is a pretty bird. It did look like a weird one before I bought it. Maybe because it just provides me with so much flight sim joy every time I fly that plane.

     

    @musterpilot Loving your screenshots :)

     

     

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    Temporary workaround for installing Orbx scenery with FSX:SE

    in FSX Steam Edition Support Forum

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    I'm still stuck with the FTX installer just not being able to find my FSX-SE install, says I have no registry entries. I tried the registry tool from flight1 but i think that made it worse. First I tried just running the FTX installer after installing FSX-SE but it would only find my boxed version. Then I tried uninstalling the boxed version and running FTX installer again and now it can't find anything. I don't have any registry entry in my \wow6432Node\microsoft\microsoft games related to FSX. Pretty confused now. 

     If you do not have any entry create it and the installer will then work ;)

    Temporary workaround for installing Orbx scenery with FSX:SE

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    There is a safer way to make this registry change using the "FS registry Repair utility" available for free over at www.flight1.com. You just run it,  select the FSX option and select the Steam folder where FSXSE is installed. Install your FTX scenery, then run the utility again, pointing back to the original FSX location.

    A little late replying :)

    I was away from FSX for a month or so as Im building my new PC... the old one died...

    Now Im in the process of reinstalling everything and Ill go steam I think.

    Thanks for pointing that out to me. When I first found out about the missing stuff in registry and the fix, I found this software from flight1 but never tried it (and was unsure it was doing the same thing, im an FSX newbie).

    Temporary workaround for installing Orbx scenery with FSX:SE

    in FSX Steam Edition Support Forum

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    Merlinux

    I noted what John Venema said about the ObjectFlow.dlls problem but it is interesting that they don't even get put in the relevant scenery folders, in my case at least.

    I don't suppose you have any thoughts on my first query - why despite the changes to the xml files are being saved correctly, I'm persistently getting the "unable to find the scenery.cfg.." message whenever I change region with FTX Central or run configurator.exe? I have examined the autogen folder and have satisfied myself that FTX Central is changing the files over in there when I change region, so I have resumed flying around Norway after editing scenery.cfg manually (by copying the relevant entries from scenerylib_EU_NOR.cfg and scenerylib_FTXAA_ORBXLIBS.cfg (in FSX\Orbx\scripts), changing the Area and Layer values, then moving the entries to the correct position in the library but it's a pain. I guess putting the other FTX sceneries in the library in the same way would also work. This is assuming the changes in the Autogen folder when changing regions are the only changes FTX Central makes outside scenery.cfg.

    Mervyn 

    Hi Mervinh,

     

    I am sorry I have some troubles understanding your problem, might be due to the beers I recently drunk heh heh. AnywaysI suggest 2 things. Either start again following my instructions very carefully (use notepad when editing files), or decide to use only one version of FSX (if you use FSXSE solely you might also need to use the registry hack unless dovetail fixed this and yes you will not have the objectflow dlls, nothing you can do about that)

     

    On a personal basis, I have been without a flysim computer as my laptop has died (waiting to fix it). Ive started building a new desktop and I am just waiting for a graphic card before I start simming again...

    Also I am back to the box version until  ASN is released for FSXSE (which should be soon!). the HIFI team have stated huge problems of instability trying to get their code to work with the new binaries, they actually had to change a lot of code to get it to work. So I would just be patient and wait for orbx to get the objectflow DLLs to work, it seems it isnt an easy job.

     

    Take care

    Temporary workaround for installing Orbx scenery with FSX:SE

    in FSX Steam Edition Support Forum

    Posted

    I've seen various references to problems with ObjectFlow with FSX-SE but can anyone explain why the objectflow.dlls don't even install in this version? I have several Orbx region and airport sceneries installed now and in none of them are there any objectflow.dlls. The various objectflow xml files are present but not the dlls.  

     

    Mervyn

    Object flows are binaries that would just cause FSXSE exe to fail to start (or load your sceneries) I believe. 

    I just wanted to thank you for posting this workaround.

    It worked brilliantly for me and increased my windows knowledge in the process.

     

    I have been using FSX for some time now and I have so many additions I often wondered if a reinstall might be a good idea, but was a bit hesitant fearing any problems.

    I then came across FSX-SE  at a great price recently, which provided the possibility of having both on the one pc.

    I have a nice clean FSX-SE now installed on a different drive and am enjoying installing the addons I really like and seeing their effects on performance.

     

    Thanks again, Patrick

    ::)

    Hey no worries :)

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