John Heaton
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2 hours ago, Patrick Cox said:
OZx has a great rendition of Longreach. This includes the QANTAS hangar, the B-747, DC-3 and other QANTAS stuff.
Thanks Patrick for that
I have Orbx since 2008 - when they made their first coloured scenery - and I use
only Orbx - by choice - for my scenery on P3D and I used XP11- because of their TE scenery
IT's not a question of my having a Longreach airport - I used to live there - but a large Australian scenery developer
not developing an Aussie Icon - well in my book - at sucks - and leave that garbage Longreach scenery on AV2 is as Bad!
I'm sure Qantas would kick in a few Bucks to sponsor the development - and that's how we got the museum up and running in the first place !!
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9 hours ago, Stillwater said:
Amazing photos Wolfgang, and even though this airport is not sold under Orbx brand, it is a great blend and enhancement to the Oz scenery. Maybe Frank Spencer is right...
Whoops - time change made me tooo late for this one - however - good to see the pics especially the Avro made by the Qantas Apprentices
As a person very much involved in the birth of the Qantas museum - I have already complained at Orbx's attitude to
the airfield that is the birth of Qantas - and what they show in Australia V2. I made a comment way back about this - and I note
you commented in that diatribe of mine. Here's the reminder.
https://orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/185125-Orbx-and-qantas/
I haven't changed my mind - and have not bothered with the Ant version - because all I have is Orbx on P3D and enough problems
without adding to them by using other addons - except a/c of course. As for their "Policy of not repeating other developers airfields"
that has been proven to be cods-wallop. That might have been the case way back in the late last decade - but to an Australian company
its about time Longreach was as important as Caboolture/ Bundaberg etc
and this time without a huge and small Yankee fighters and bombers
I mean this is supposed to be the famous Qantas hangar
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12 hours ago, Stillwater said:
That would be incredible, @John Heaton - you really flew up there? Way off the beaten track...
I was about to resign, finding no more busy QLD airports with a 32 https://www.queensland-australia.com/queensland-airports-map.html#:~:text=International airports in Queensland include,%2C Gladstone%2C Bundaberg and Maroochy.
"Way off the beaten Track ?? - No way is it !! - anything but !!.
Take a look at Skyvector Planning - and note the parcity of any where else to get a fill up
after some long over water trips.
Outside of the Wet Season - the "Top End' is a "bin there - dunn that !! " objective for all seriously minded
4 Wheel drivers - and fishermen
I went there twice in the 70s in my PA 32 with 3 mates - to Weipa and the islands on fishing trips - some of best spots in OZ
Way up to the NE of Horn - is Murray Island - a freeware Orbx A/P - now that would have baffled you even more
The screen shot is the absolute North of the top of the Aussie mainland - hence "the Top End"
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Here's Google's view that it does exist
- and is a popular airport - much busier than Bundy
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5 hours ago, wolfko said:
These ground textures don't look like belonging to an Orbx Airport to me. Neither payeare nor freeware. Maybe an enhanced airport?
Not Bundaberg - but the State is right
I can assure you - I Have nothing but Orbx on my computer - except for Instrument and aircraft addons
I stopped there O/N - on a "keep Australia on the left"
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13 hours ago, boetie said:
Yep Gold Cost John. However that's Johhn Flynne private hospital on the hill at Tugun
The reflections are of the downlights in the the lounge area in Air Goast Flying school GA. We treated my son to an hour scenic flight down to Byron Bay. He's now doing a double degree Batchelor of IT and Aviation. Very proud Dad.
Cheers
Graeme
The ball's in your court John
Never could recognise a private hospital - since I have never been in one
Joy flight to Byron Bay !! - I hope that was earlier than March or he would have been up for 2 weeks quarantine
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.
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1 hour ago, boetie said:
The loclals will know the building on the hill depicted in Orbx land.
Cheers
Graeme
Gold Coast Airport - clues are The hospital at Robina and Mount Warning just peeping on the horizon
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We can't land there yet anyway -- Perth and west Oz has it's border closed
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1 hour ago, wolfko said:
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?
I thought we had to use "Orbx" airport scenery for the scene ??
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Woops - I just read the first line In Stillwater's Original Post
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If that's freeware - it's very good - but not much of a clue - since all my airports are Orbx
Yes there are many FDS bases - but this looks so posh - it might be Charleville - but then again
it might be Cloncurry ??
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11 hours ago, Stillwater said:
Though I do not get the clue, I would think of YMMB Moorabbin?
You are correct of course - the tiny clue was to zoom in on the blue sign over the
Royal Victoria Flying Club Office - my Alma Marta - for my PPL 50 years ago
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Yeah why not ? Gerold -- there is a tiny clue
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Too easy to Cheat - just read the poster - " A port like Alice" with apologies to Neville Shute"
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16 minutes ago, Stillwater said:
Mates, I fear this post is on hold - too early. We still have some Orbx airfields left, like this one:
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Took a flight yesterday from Singapore to Penang via KL
It looked almost Identical to a flight across P3D France with
Global installed.
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3 hours ago, Fizzelle said:
How on earth did you know that there is a braille version? I have been beta-testing it for the last 2 months. It's really good. However the main problem is the full stop, or period, button. If one were to hit it during flight, the aircraft just halts immediately and falls out of the sky with no way of a restart.
At the moment it's not a viable alternative to the established aims but, as I say, it is in beta.
Well---- tha 'd better go t't specsavers - theyl ava "beta" - --- at 2 purrs fer wonn
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2 hours ago, Gypsy Pilot said:
I was told by my doctor when I turned 80 that those were the two main factors in deciding weather or not I would be treated if I came down with a serious illness.
Oh well, I guess it's all part of entering our last decade.
Whoah old fruit
I am 85 and sure am hoping its not my last decade and looking forward to the 90s
although I'm not sure I'll make MS2030
That is - unless they come out with a brail version
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I don't know how I missed this section of the forum but at 85 - I think I qualify
and I have been given my Seniors discount card for Orbx
Reading back through the threads - I came across a few contributions from "Macca"
Just in case some of you old coots missed it - the question was raised
and the answer
He probably reads this old coots page as well
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On 11/26/2019 at 3:20 AM, Stillwater said:
I am kind of confused by the parallel session of @medx421 and @Kilstorm . Has there been a correct answer, or some more guessing?
However, I´d like to continue this thread, ...
... and as I was fortunate to have identified Lady Elliot Island (even without turtles!), I just merge to one fresh open question. And I am sure you´ll get is at fast as you got all my previous ones:
If it's not Parra para umu on the Kiwi North Island - Its very much like it - especially the gliders
Heres another for the Aussies - a learning experience
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6 minutes ago, craigeaglefire said:
Crikey, & then there is ‘colour space’...
that definitely is another discussion!
RGB or Not to Be - that is the question!!
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1 hour ago, craigeaglefire said:
@renault, Pete
one must be very careful with 'sharpening'...
also, it must be said that 4K (say 3840 x 2160) is 8,294,400 actual discrete pixels...
classic HD is 1920 x 1080 - 2,073,600 actual discrete pixels...
how on earth can you shove 8,294,400 actual discrete pixels into 2,073,600 actual discrete pixels? - cannot be done with full 1 to 1 resolution - simple physics - you will get a 'facsimile' (& you are basically dumbing down the equation)!
Craig - You said what I said - but ever so synctly -
and in reverse - how can you turn 2.073.600 pixels of one quality - into 8.294.400 pixel - 4 times better quality (HDR) in a simple upscale - to get Full Screen - as used by XP
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1 hour ago, renault said:
Hi John
Thanks for the comments. I understand what you are saying , but that's not how you set XPlane up. If you are connected to a 4K system , you select 4K in XPlane and it renders directly at that resolution - XPlane is not upscaling as connected to a 4K monitor - that is the native resolution you're rendering at. Connected to a 1080p monitor it's native resolution would be 1K and it would render at that resolution.
In my case, because I don't have a 4K monitor yet (Christmas
) I am using DSR at 4K which works extremely well. When doing this , in XPlane you set the output resolution to 3840x2160 and XPlane renders at that resolution. I originally started rendering with DSR at 4K to check if my gpu would be able to render at 4K directly once I bought a new monitor (the workload is identical with either approach). I was so pleased with the results (image quality and gpu workload) that I have left it on that setting.
The screenshot below shows what the setting in XPlane looks like i.e. XPlane is rendering at 4K natively and the DSR algorithm is taking that 4K input and downsampling to my native 1080p resolution as the final step. I'm a bit of a "stickler" for image quality and this is the only way I have found that I can get AA without artifacts. The Turing RTX series of gpu's handle this approach with ease in my experience.
So in essence, XPlane is behaving exactly the same as it would if it were connected directly to a 4K monitor i.e. the rendering "chain" is completely at 4K . If you were to download any of my screenshots in the above note , you would see that they are 3840x2160 (4K) and the sharpening was applied at that native resolution. The only difference in my case is the last step, which is a downsampling to my native monitor resolution.
I agree with you though. If one were mixing resolutions as you describe it would be a horrible mess
Hope this helps
Cheers
Pete
Thanks for replying Renault - good luck today in Abu Dhabi
Just a few points that I am still baffled with - because in your case of making your screen shots - are you sure that XP was actually 4K?? -
Ever since I moved from my 29" HD 1980x 1080 monitor to this 43" TV via NVIDIA with a number of softwares eg ROF - wings of prey etc
I end up with a small picture (native 1080??) in the centre of the screen - and when in options/graphics one states 3840/2160 - the picture then appears in Full screen
However all the lettering associated with the "Game" is still at the 1080 size - very tiny on my screen.
The following screen is the one shown before the one in your SS - ie note the small white screen and its wording which seems intimate that XP needs to be upscaled
from ???? (1080) by 200% - and to get a full screen @ 3840x 2160 called 4K-
When that choice is made - I get a full screen - which is 4K of pixels- 4x the original - and I play the sim - but at what resolution ? - hence my original question to you on upscaling
The next question raised in the second SS - a picture of my cockpit - which is what I get - if I don't change the resolution - or accept the 200% - Note the size of the print in the top left ie the performance figs.
After accepting the 200% and @ my 4K res request - I get the full screen - but the letters stay the same small size - and any extra assists in the a/c addons - get the same tiny treatment
which means I think that the upscale cannot cope with lettering - (the base font slider has nothing to do with this lettering) - because if it is upscaled - the fonts would all be staircased
You antialiasing problem
Until Developers get the message that today's resolution is 4K HDR or UHD as some call it - this will occur - although MS 2020 is stressed to be 4K - some developers are proudly proclaiming 4K PBR - and U tube reviewers - are stating that that they film in 4K - but downscale to match most peoples HD monitors.
I wonder if they have already noticed that 8K is already available in the TV field - I'll bet MS have - (Enter X Box Three X)
I have had an X box One X for some time and I am quite used to genuine 4K HDR - especially in F1 and Forza racing sims -@ many FPS - and that is where I will head with 2020.
Finally I feel that the HDR in XP is a fudge to compensate for the low value of Brightness and contrast in XP. I was taking HDR (High Dynamic Resolution) photos 8 years ago
and XP is not true
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I understand all that you say and as an avid digital photo/video "manipulator" for many years - I foresee one problem.??? -
and because of what I consider to be one of XP's biggest faults - I must admit - I haven't tried this our before
Whilst XP 11 allows a version of HDR - (High Dynamic resolution) - which is still usable in 1K - it cannot cope with 4K - and when the monitor resolution in NVidia Control panel
- is set to 4K - how does it cope with the XP upscaling needed to use a 4K monitor when using XP. - would the effect then be the usual one with over sharpening-
a huge jump in pixel sizing
E.G. - a similar effect - to a sharpening effect - on a .BMP (4K) taken photo - saving to .JPG (1K) - and then trying to get back to .BMP (4K)- which is upscaling x 4
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I was a real VFR pilot mainly due my colour blindness which stopped me getting a night time License
For the time being - my first/only choice for G.A. VFR simming - will always be Orbx and PDR 4.5 - especially since GB TE South came to us -
and I have flown over every inch of it - comparing it - and navigating with Google Earth. Brilliant!!!
Eagerly awaiting the Central and North TE's - and Australia V2 will do me for all my VFR. plodding.
I am able to night fly anywhere and thanks to Orbx - I can catch up on what I missed in real life
My next choice for "Reality" simming - is in fact - the reality of real flight in a war bird - in contrast to low and slow GA.
I remember the Battle of Britain - and the Blitz - quite vividly - having lived between Manchester and Liverpool during that time.
Over the years - B of B has been done to death mainly by arcade sims but the NEW "IL2 - Cliffs of Dover - BLITZ " - has a mix of the very best WW2
warbirds. These take a hell of a lot of flying skills because of the accuracy of the aircraft - typical Russian use of detail in appearance and mechanical accuracy
- and the choice of all major types of warbirds during WW2. The scenery in this sim is just about enough to find your way back to the airfield -
but the water in the channel -is quite real - especially when your opponent flames into it. very cold when one bails out into it.
However - the subject matter is Orbx and DCS. - and I have to admit that I am not impressed by the scenery in DCS - esp. the Normandy which is all I paid for -
and the Caucases (?) for free - I have no knowledge of - but to comment on the original question - but does it really matter if Orbx was the scenery in DCS
- with most of the warbird flying at 1000s of altitude feet. I find that the flying of these Modern warbirds is very reliant on skill and knowledge of the
instruments and weaponry @ Mach 1-2 DCS is a warbird pilot's Sim - a meaningful step up from the arcade "Navy Fighters" in the previous decade.
A multi button stick being more essential than the scenery on the ground - 30K feet below
Since The high flying modern warbirds can't only be compared physically to the WW2 birds in "COD Blitz" - and true to the objects of DCS is to give us accurate
representations to fly around in. Unfortunately I cannot compare the Spitfires - or ME 109s - in both COD and DC2 due to the vintage models of each
Sooh - I cant see Orbx getting into DCS - but my Australian hope is - that we will find our Orbx TE scenery in MS2020 - is that IS a different matter!
@ 85 next Bd - I hope I will live that long
- and is a popular airport - much busier than Bundy
Poll: An OpenLC solution for Asia
in General Discussion
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Summarises distinctly - what we in Australia see and expect those spots to be - by definition - South East Asia - or what people in the Americas and Europe
call "The Far East"
In Market Research terms - What percentage was the total of contributors / general Orbx forum contributors ??
------------------------------------------- What percentage of the Orbx Customers - past and present - live in the area defined as S.E Asia - including Australia/NZ ?
Orbx - if you did do think more of - what seems to be the "want" - I would be the first to give you the money now - on trust
as I once did in May 2009 - when you wanted to join the Aussie Regional colours into 1 programme - i.e. FTX Australia SP3 - pre order.
- or maybe Orbx are just waiting to see the impact MS might bring later this year - since we haven't yet seen any screenshots of the S.E Asia scenery !!