Wow. Take my money. If this is compatible with DCS they’ll fly off the shelves. Well done. Put my name down please. Any idea of rough cost?
I have not tried DCS, but there is a plug in for it, so there should be no problem. I will give it a try this week, and make sure it works.
Shoot me a PM if interested and we can discuss price and options.
Andrew
Hey all,
I have not been on the board much, as I have been busy with work, and a new project. I have been working on a G-seat similar to that built by Spit40. All during this process I have been rolling it around in my mind if I wanted to try and market these as a side for my main business. The first prototype has been through 3 revisions, and I believe it is now in it's final configuration. If all goes well, I will continue tooling up for production with release around April 1st.
I have tested the seat with FS2, as well as some other flight sims, and a number of racing sims. The effect when using in conjunction with VR, is truly awesome.
I would like to get some feedback and thoughts on this. Would this be something some of you would be interested in? Any other feedback welcome as well.
For now, here is a video of the seat functioning. This video was done when the parts were made of wood. I have since converted it all over to plasma cut and welded steel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUuJhWlxNco&t=1s
Andrew
I have to add: Aero-Tow PLEASE. 
Andrew
You can change the tags in JOSM to: key = landuse & Value = forest
Also it's very easy to manually add forests, roads, suburban trees and houses using JOSM.
I might consider creating a tutorial if I get enough interest.
In the image below I created the forest and houses and it took about 45 min.
Another vote for a tutorial on this. OSM data here in the US is spotty at best. If this is better for adding buildings easily, I am all for it!
Not yet. Cultivation for vegetation seems to be pretty spot on for the areas I have done. What interested me more was a comment in one of the posts arno did, about using the same technique to identify buildings in images, and create the vector data for those. Sounds like he is working on it, which would be great for those of us in the US with little to no OSM data.
If you try it, let us know how it all works out.
Andrew
Pretty cool, but it looks like about 2m at best. If it were higher, it might make some good scenery.
Truly amazing how far animation has come. Just a short time ago it would have cost Disney millions to do something like this, now amateurs can do it.
Great story, and CGI!
I was wondering the same thing. The color of the very low detail level used by default for my area in FS2 is kind of a light tan, like burnt grass. The high res is a bright green, so it makes for a stark dividing line that can be seen in the distance. If it was the same color, it would not be as noticeable. Interesting idea. Can we do lower than level 9 and replace the stock textures?
Andrew
What about Leap Motion? I hate to take my hands off the stick to grab a touch controller, and get it positioned right, every time I want to flip a switch.
Andrew
Has anyone found an alternative for OSM for the US? Just not a lot of areas done outside of the larger cities. I have added some into OSM just so I could use it in FS2, but it is so time consuming.
Andrew
How about a zeppelin, a blimp or some kind of derigible in the future? I want to fly from LAX to Catalina and have it take 17 hours due to a 15 kph headwind.
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Here is my contribution. Flying over Elmira NY area with scenery that I did.
Andrew
I just made about 8 airports in the course of 20 minutes. Works fantastic!
Andrew
Thank you for pointing that out.
Thank you for looking into it! We appreciate it.
I have made the TMC files both ways. Same effect both ways.
Would it have anything to do with video memory? I have a 1060 6GB card.
Andrew
There is nothing worse in the simulation world than a problem some people get and others do not. It leads to real frustration for everyone. At least IPACS believes us about our problem, even though they don't seem to see it themselves. I have been in situations where the developer refuses to believe problems exist when only part of the user base is reporting them.
It is interesting for sure. I am still not sure if it is a problem, or something I am missing. You are right though, IPACS has been great about addressing our issues.
Well, I just did an area of about 40x40nm. Followed the directions to the letter, with the exception of doing level 10, which I did despite the wiki saying not to. All masks set to off. Levels 9,10,11,12,13 and 14.
I am still getting pop up about 10-15nm out.
So, what should I try next?
Andrew
Years ago I did the Silent Wings thing. Unfortunately they have not updated much over the years. The weather and thermal modeling need some work in FS2, but for now are usable. What is really lacking is tow plane and or winch.
Right now I am doing about 60/40. 60% soaring, 40% in the 172. Big airliners are not my thing.
Andrew
I am going to start over with my scenery. I just did a large area, but to save time I did it at 2m per pixel. Looks bad. I did all levels though, and did not see any pop ups. So back to the start with all new 1m per pixel. Might take me a couple of days to get a large area. I will keep you all updated.
Andrew
