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7 hours ago, John Heaton said:
When I was a European of North of England/UK domesticity - 50 years - the Far East was a derogatory term for all the above - because it was a description of "shoddy goods"
stemming mainly from Hong Kong - Taiwan (you missed off) - Japan(cars) and the Philippines. Mainly plastic toys and cotton goods Very little came from Communist China.
The current name as far as we - in the modern day Far East - are concerned is the description "The Asean Nations" of which all of the above are members
- and the 3 others you might have forgotten --- Australia - New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
However - my point was where the largest spots on the chart were - and should be the starting point for a much easier starting point for Orbx
as a marketing research in terms of SQ Kms - whatever it can be politically called
John, you are correct, of course I have forgotten Taiwan.
Austalia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, together with Irian Jaya (the western, Indonesian part of the Island of New Guinea) we count among Oceania though.
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For us Europeans South East Asia and Far East is not the same.
Far East is China (at least parts of it), Japan, the Koreas.
South East Asia is Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, The Philippines, East Timor, Brunei. I hope I haven't forgotten one.
Edit: I have forgotten one in South East Asia, namely Singapore.
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1 hour ago, Stillwater said:
I would think the 747 above waits in Wollongong, but I am sure Martyn @VH-KDK will present us with another quest as well, due to his quick identification:
Exactly Gerold, it is @VH-KDK turn now, the pics have been taken at Longreach. It was an unforgetable trip through Outback Queensland back then, from Winton, where we flew in from Brisbane, travelling on the Matilda Highway via Longreach, Barcaldine, Blackall to Charleville, from where we flew back to Brissie. Did lots of sightseeing on the way. One cannot imagine how much there can be seen in such a remote area.
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2 hours ago, Stillwater said:
As you are the current "winner", can you post a new quest, Wolfgang?
I would have literally hundreds of appropriate airport pics but unfortunately all of them on oldfashioned slides. So I have only the following few left in digital format. They are obviously of an Australian airport again, which is neither Orbx payware nor freeware but is included as enhanced airport in the Australia 2 full fat region. So I hope this is okay. BTW this one will be an easy one for @John Heaton
Pics are from December 2005.
First one me (on the right) and a buddy on the wing of a 747. AFAIK this is the only airport in the world where you can do such a "wing climb". An unpaved runway can be seen in the background.
Us on the wing again
In the cockpit of the 747
Adjacent to the airport is a quite famous aviation museum. Another frind of mine in front of an Avro 504K.
I hope I don't make it too easy, when I point out that this Airport has its place in the history of Australian aviation.
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Okay thanks to @boetie, I found it. It is Horn Island. But is this one really busier than Bundy?
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1 hour ago, boetie said:
I'm thinking FNQ (Far North Queensland). John says it's "just" in Australia. The textures are dry tropical?
C'mon Gerold
I haven't found any FNQ airport which is, according to John, much busier than Bundy and looks like in John's pics.
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On both pics a Qantas Link Q400 can be seen. We have to check their route plans.
Edit: at least I assume it is a QFLink also on the 2nd pc.
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On 5/31/2020 at 6:00 AM, John Heaton said:
Here's my contribution to the puzzlers - and the only clue I will give is it is also in Australia - just - and I flew there again recently.
These ground textures don't look like belonging to an Orbx Airport to me. Neither payeare nor freeware. Maybe an enhanced airport?
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6 hours ago, dave302 said:
Sorry to say, but I don't think Orbx is going to develop openLC any more. I believe that by now JV would have at least hinted that it's in the works.
Dave
Could be that they are waiting to see what MSFS 2020 will bring along, before confirming or cancelling any major project.
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4 hours ago, Sniper31 said:
So "they" have got to you too, I see. 'Oh, that mysterious light in the sky....it's just a reflection, or a weather anomaly. Nothing to see here....move along. Oh, and look into this device please.'
Hm, I think I have to make use of my neuralyzer.
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Well done guys, you are absolutely right, it is Brissie.
And yes, the cranes in the background are the clue I was referring to. I think it is obvious, that it is an Australian airport (Jetstar, Qantas) and YBBN is AFAIK the only Australian Orbx airport with harbour cranes in the vicinity.
Regarding the trees, maybe they have been cut down in the meanwhile?
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Naja, "schön" ist es nicht wirklich, Gerold, aber vielleicht ein bisschen was zum Knobeln. Obwohl, schwierig ist es eigentlich auch nicht.
I think this one is not too difficult, although no airport building can be seen in this shot. But there is a clue in the pic which IMO makes it clear which airport it is.
When posting the answer, please tell us, why you have figured it out So no guessing please.
BTW, the pic was taken on July 22, 2013. Have fun!
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That's YMML. Easy, because of the two distinctive towers.
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Is it now Gerold's turn again or may I throw one in?
Great thread BTW.
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2 hours ago, Psionmark said:
Hehe, yeah, that’s fun too, but I was kinda hoping for a list when I don’t have the time to explore.
Yeah, I fully understand what you mean.
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You have to see those POIs as kinda easter eggs. Go and find them.
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On 5/2/2020 at 4:47 PM, flavik said:
As xVision shader tweaks are history with XP11.50+, so is @renault's glowing tree fix. Hopefully Laminar corrects the issue with upcoming Vulkan betas.
11.50 is still only beta. I'm confident that XVision will eventually work with the final 11.50 release.
Since I get more than plenty of FPS with 11.41 I have no reason to switch to 11.50 before it works perfectly.
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I think it is not
8 hours ago, dave302 said:I think we could get away with simply making LC for Siberia, as the textures for Northern Canada would likely suffice.
Dave
I think it is not so much about the textures, it is about the correct placement of the landclasses.
And AFAIK the large parts of the Sibirian consist of larches which are changing their colour into a bright yellow in autumn and then leave their needles in winter. You won't find many larches in Canada.
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Hallo Lars, hervorragend!
ich würde noch das Wort "Poll' in den Titel dieses Beiteags stellen, falls du ihn noch editieren kannst.
PS: ich kann ja leider nicht mitmachen, weil ich nur mehr X-Plane verwende.
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On 4/2/2020 at 6:33 AM, Dmitriy Kozyrev said:
Wish someone with XVision could spend five minutes of their time to check which shader file is modified by this tweak, so we could apply it manually.
I would rather spend these $20 on another Orbx airport than on the software I don't need.
On 4/2/2020 at 9:13 AM, OPAC said:
Agree!Apparetnly, you need XVision though. Otherwise you wouldn't have asked for help.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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On 8/8/2019 at 3:12 PM, John Dow said:
Yes I've applied that and it's great! However the ridiculously dark walls on the shadow side of buildings, making villages look like a collection of black boxes when looking into the sun, is still really poor rendering of the scenery (IMHO)
That's funny John, because applying Renault's radioactive tree fix also let those dreaded dark walls disappear at my end.
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Already one year since Neil has left us.
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It would be nice to learn the names of the team members on the pics of Ed's posts #23 and #32.
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On 6/11/2019 at 10:04 AM, Aussieflyer38 said:
From what I have read and understand by comments, you can have it in your PC and use your normal flight controls. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You are correct. It even will initially be released for Win10 on PC. As I understand it X-Box-Games or so is just the new name for MS Games for any platform.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
A fix for backlit objects in XPlane - the "Radioactive Glowing Tree Problem"
in X-Plane 11
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No, I haven't realized any.