ojiito Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 So I've installed :SE and just started with the Orbx reinstallation, beginning with Global Base. It was cool to see again the difference compared to default, it's major. As I was testing different areas and checking them out, I noticed flocks of birds here and there. Did those come with Global, or were they in FSX the whole time? I don't remember seeing flying birds until I had some Orbx sceneries, and they're not advertised as a feature in the Global section of the Orbx website. So far that's the only addon I've installed so I don't know what else it could be from, apart from default. Just curious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominique Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I think that birds come with FSX when you have the thermals option on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Harris Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 There are animated birds annotated into the FTX Global base pack, and also the FTX regions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominique Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 So Tim, do we have to switch the thermals ON like for the default FSX birds ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Hamilton Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 You only switch thermals on if you're flying a glider, to know where they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawrence aldrich Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 You only switch thermals on if you're flying a glider, to know where they are. I have only flown gliders twice, and hated it. Mainly because both aircraft were supposed to have engines. In the sim,though, it's fun to take my F-80 to about 35,000 and shut it down. Actually, both the T-Bird and the F-80 will glide about 200 miles from that altitude. The fun is seeing what you can do with the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabble Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I have only flown gliders twice, and hated it. Mainly because both aircraft were supposed to have engines. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RHaas Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I have seen the birds only once when flying low on the coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula towards Ensenada but I never did turn anything on to see them and I was not flying a glider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petfy Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Best place to find Global birds is in the immediate vicinity of LOWS where there are several flocks of white birds. OzX also have eagles above some of their airfields, one of them being on fraser island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Harris Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 So Tim, do we have to switch the thermals ON like for the default FSX birds ? Thermals when switched on and in the right setting produce eagles in certain places The animated birds (normally parrots or magpie-things) within our regionpacks and Global are hand-placed (annotated) into the ground textures via the autogen system and rely on the autogen slider levels There are many flocks of parrots to be seen in the Owen Stanley ranges around our PNG bushstrips, these will be found mostly in the dense rainforest sections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominique Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 ok, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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