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Quantum Amiga

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  1. Hi Gumby, Yes the lines of separtion is to be expected given Terra Colour is a single season photoreal snapshot in time and Orbx is multi-season landclass. I don't experience the lines issue as much given I have TAS, VIC, NSW and NT as Terra Colour, meaning I have almost all of SA's borders covered. There is no perfect solution, but with this style scenery you'll have photoreal at height and Orbx when low. It's a compromise of large area affordable photoreal imagery suitable for inroute altitudes and Orbx for the lower level flights. Cheers
  2. Isn't there already a March sale in progress ?
  3. The Terra Colour scenery goes above Orbx. I also have the author's TAS, VIC, NSW and NT equivlents, as well as his China series. There is a blend between the bottom level scenery and Terra Colour's, e.g. there is a circle of Orbx Aust v2 with a secondary blend layer between both to help smooth the transition, where the intent is Orbx is what you see at lower Alts and Terra Colour is what you see at higher Alts, like the pics below which were taken during beta testing the scenery and it's layering. Higher altitude where Terra colour is the main visible scenery. Here the blending is easily seen when outside of the cockpit, when inside the cockpit the angle of view means you see Terra colour At low altitudes it's Orbx majority visible with Terra colour in the background. Cheers 🙂
  4. A quantity of pics showing scenery blending between Orbx and TerraColor (Gibson) scenery. At low altitude Orbx is the primary visible scenery blending into photoreal towards the distance. Higher altitude Orbx is still as visible with the photoreal more prominently visible given the higher altitude perspective. These are all NSW Australia. Cheers Low Altitude, Orbx displaying. Higher altitude showing Orbx blending out to the Terracolor photoreal.
  5. Ta, it's great to be able to use maximum settings and then some. Cheers Hey Sam thanks, this flight was more to work through the C310R and decide on the GPS units to install, the pic shows the default in test but I later opted for the GTN 750 and GTN 650. Before the internet got good I used to fly all around the outback areas to install and maintain software, mostly for local Councils and places like Cabbone, Shepparton, Cootamundra, Cooma, Boonah, Goondiwindi, GeorgeTown, BurkeTown, Norminton and RioTinto at Gove and many more locations in the outback. Once the internet got good we started doing it all remotely, and now everything is going cloud based, which introduces its own issues given local I.T. departments are mostly gone and outsourced nowdays. But enough of what I did for work, Wangaratta is your chosen base ? is it your actual local airport ? Cheers
  6. Flying the C310R, fast, fun and easy to fly. Over Victoria on the way to NSW. VIC border is the river, NSW is on the other side. @ Albury NSW Off again and on the way to Broken Hill. Cheers
  7. Thanks, so may planes and planes and places to fly. Cheers
  8. Personally - that's one ugly plane... heh
  9. A bit of a mix and match set. Some Australian flying in the Commanche, the DA62 and the Tecnam Sierra, followed by a couple of Beachcraft B60 Duke shots in England. Cheers
  10. Been away from these forums for a while... Basically since the marking of the support forums as read only and with the Community Help forums not publicly exposed, means there is no opportunity for a quick glance to see if anything is of interest and then logging in... By hey that's management for you 😉 I anycase I spent a few $$ during the recent Orbx sales and below are some pics highlighting BIKF Kevflavik and the surrounding area, it's a pretty nice airport by MKStudios. Cheers First in the Blackbird DHC3 Then the Porter PC6. Also the C421C Golden Eagle. This one would have been at BIRK. And where I eventually put down, because why not park your plane outside your house 🙂 On the ground @ BIKF in the Chevy Suburban. And finally a couple of my Lear.
  11. Well... here is some news. What does the future hold... ? Time will tell. Cheers https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/ne ... ining.html https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/spot ... lation-r-d https://blackshark.ai/blackshark-ai-lau ... to-anyone/
  12. I've been working through adding liveries to the PC12 and came across this quite interesting one. https://edrm-repaints.com/aircraft.php?id=pc12 Also been tuning cloud shadows. Cheers
  13. A collection of recent flights. A 737 MAX taxiing out. Flying the Cessna C441 Conquest II Gippsland way in Aust. Catalina in the Goose. just the Goose Don't remember the airport, but it's the A2A cub with the chatty passenger The Ant Tiger Moth, at the same airport Either flying to or out of the airport above. This one is flying out of 11S, one of my fav small PNW APs Heading to Hamilton Victoria. The Grampians Victoria. Pula ? Area around Pula ? Florida for sure :-) American Samoa, blew an engine and forced landing. Testing a newly added Oxygen supply to the A2A C182, if only I had remembered to fill the bottle prior to takeoff. This flight ended badly, I took it up till I passed out, and by the time I awoke, the plane was in a spinning nose dive I could not recover from. Over Gisborne NZ Heading to Melbourne Aust. That's all folks Cheers
  14. Ta, P3D has all my fav planes, live and historical weather, saved senarios and it just works, plus I like the level of control it gives me. Cheers
  15. Testing my modded B350i (new engines (Blackhawk PT-6-67A), flight model, GTN 750 and various other changes / fixes), with a flight along the South Eastern side of Africa (also with Orbx's openLC Africa). Here's the GTN Also tweeking the cloud shader as I go, I want those shadows to be just right. The African lc is pretty reasonable overall. There were a few thunderstorms along the way, quite a lot of turbulance and the plane was rocken and rollen all over the place. Further cloud tweeking, this time the shading of the far distance clouds, making them just a tad redder. Where I am. And that's all folks :-) Good flight, corrected a few niggling issues with the B350i and adjusted the cloud shader, and will probably make further changes once I better understand what does what in the shader code. Cheers
  16. Thanks folks, the new GFX card is certainly getting a workout. Cheers
  17. Five years have passed since I last bought a GFX card and in that time a lot has changed. I keep an eye open for what's on the market and have been saving for a while awaiting a time to buy. Well that time recently came into being with a $200.00 price drop on the card I was after (an ASUS TUF 3080Ti). And just a few pics while testing and tuning the new card which has allowed me to ramp up GFX settings to levels I could never previously run. Cheers Modded PBR C208 Florida. Somewhere in Europe. LOWI
  18. Just a couple of shots in the Outback, lots of nothing in outback Australia, still... makes for some nice pics. This one is the Pacific NorthWest USA. Not sure where this one is, but looks like a nice spot to be. Cheers
  19. Hmmm, not seeing it myself, (I'm on 4.5), although I do have Buildings HD, Global Base, Vector, OpenLC NA. I used to see a lot of black buildings till I set the value below (default is 1000.000000) which I believe does apply to v5 as well. [GRAPHICS] MAX_TEXTURE_REQUEST_DISTANCE=320000.000000 Perhaps they have not loaded due to the small default sizing ? and the proximity of other gfx items ? Or that yes there are issues with the textures in the installer, which wouldn't be a first time... This is what I see. And the area is as per the map.
  20. Hi Graeme, Seems I have trouble with engines and keeping them running... Will I make it to an emergency landing area hint... nope. Ran out of time and height, but I'm not so hardcore that I'd repurchase the addin just because I crashed and burned :-) Cheers
  21. As the title says "A Collection of shots from my last couple of flights". After years of FSX and FSX-SE and the earlier versions of P3D I've finally come together with a nice enough level of hardware and tuned system for smooth vsync'd flying, and totally enjoying it. Yeah I've only a 1070ti and would like a 3080ti but I'd also like a new Corvette and like a 3080ti, that is not going to happen anytime soon :-( A2A B35V in retro polished finish. Turbo Commander 690B, parked at Boulder airport USA. Same Turbo Commander 690B, differnt livery. I like to park outside of my stately manor (McMansion ??) :-) P51 after blowing the engine. Lancair Legacy @ 2B2 Plumb Island Airport Same Lancair Legacy on flight from 2B2 The A2A Commanche climbing between cloud layers. The migrated Beaver. Autogen density. A closer look at some of those Orbx HD buildings. Cheers
  22. Hi, @Greg Jones Is there any update regarding my problem at this point in time? Cheers
  23. Hi Folks, Thanks for the comments of support. And yes I'm finding the clouds are really great being dynamically lit by the sun, that said the shader uses ~20% additional GPU resources and my lowly 1070ti is overloaded when it comes to over about 50% coverage, still it's great for partly cloudy days. Cheers
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