Neither ORBX nor IPACS appear to be treating the display issues as trivial.
Good show, and I'm looking forward to the fix.
Neither ORBX nor IPACS appear to be treating the display issues as trivial.
Good show, and I'm looking forward to the fix.
Good news... I was about to go ask that question in the ORBX Forum.
It's a gamebreaker in VR.
I still have the bottle of Champagne scheduled for Sunday breakfast victory celebrations when Team NZ led 8-1 in San Francisco four years ago.
The resulting 9-8 loss still rates as one of the biggest upsets in sport.
This 7-1 victory goes some way to redressing that, James Spithill was magnanimous in defeat.
Auckland will again buzz when the Cup Challengers come to town for the 2021 regattas!
- starting a flight from one freely adjustable location for making a video for example or start an approach. This might already be possible to some extend using the location dialog, so what are the things that would hold you back from using the location dialog for, say, putting yourself at the beginning of the approach?
Jan you've pretty much nailed it...
Regarding the above, it often happens you just want to move the aircraft a little, say to a different parking spot. Input by joystick movement (gross movement) and keys (fine adjustment) makes this so much easier than entering spatial data or finding existing positions.
Quote from drhotwingFor those of you who are unaware that there is a forum over at IPACS that gets a lot of attention. I encourage you to join that forum and participate in the discussions over there as they relate much to the internal functionality of Aerofly FS2, and its gaining much ground..
If you look at it this way; consider this Steam Aerofly FS2 forum as the lobby to a nice hotel where you could check in to get you going with the product, then you go into the hotel itself where you could take a dip in the pool, go to the sauna, or gym.
I'm not discouraging you to post over here, but I would like to welcome you to join the expanding community over on the (newly renovated) IPACS Aerofly FS2 official forum as well.
I voted, and I see I am not alone...
But it would be interesting (if forum software allows) to also rank those choices.
Well migrated! Wish you well, and hope the spammers are defeated...
Just in case anyone missed this on the other forums
You know how we always find comments about "Wish we had xyz scenery" or "hope devs start producing for our sim" ?
Well here's a chance to promote just that for AFS2.
New Zealand is a great VFR experience. Like Switzerland, it is quite compact but offers a bigger range of scenery. It would make a fantastic place to use AFS2.
Here's a guy who can make this happen, with a little encouragement.
Take a look here:
It's a great way to while away a Sunday afternoon... but the constant stress of locking on to a possible landing site all the time makes me prefer doing this in the sim!
I had a great glide down the Inn valley yesterday.
I haven't figured out how authentic the thermal generation might be, but the vario kept up its song long enough to go there... and back.
Enough to keep me quiet for a while
LOve the links, I am refreshing my Swiss geography.
Yes especially for latecomers it would be nice to have a central summary point to go to.
...Avsim.com review of Aerofly FS 2...
I'd be interested in this, Ray, you have a link for us?
Thank you for posting that, Rodeo!
I am wondering if there is a worldwide listing?
Someone at IPACS must have such a thing... they built the airports after all.
You can change the mapping of the various views in the sim settings - mine works fine with the hat switch, and you can click and drag with the mouse also.
The preset views don't do much for me:
https://www.ipacs.de/forum/showthre…40823#post40823
Yes the zoom is of limited value I find, in spot view, as it zooms the entire visible area.
You need to be able to set the viewing distance as well.
Setting the viewpoint closer or further from the aircraft, allows one for example, to use a more "normal" 1x zoom, move back, and view the whole aircraft without distortion.
Let me illustrate this with a shot from FS2004:
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Or, you can come up close, zoom to a wide angle, and frame the picture the way you want it.
Like this:
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If you have this capability, the "camera presets" presently used, become superfluous.
Photographers will understand the necessity.
I find it frustrating in a sim which is mostly visual, not to be able to compose a screenshot the way I'd like.
OK thank you, didn't know if I had overlooked something obvious.
That thread is 134 pages long now and still growing.
Wasn't aware of that forum, not being a Steamer myself!
My apologies, as a latecomer I didn't mean to reinvent the wheel.
It would be nice to have this feature right now, while we wait for the bigger developments like ATC.
Perhaps a 3rd party will rise to the occasion, the way DBS did with Walk + Follow.
Yes I didn't phrase that very well...
I don't know if there is the ability in spotview to change the viewpoint distance from the aircraft?
It's such an important function when framing a screenshot.
There are various posts about what users would like the sim to do, eventually.
I couldn't find a Wishlist for the sim in its current state, so thought I'd start a thread which lists things which would be nice to see in the short term.
Here's one:
Flying in spotview, can one move the viewpoint around easily? (i.e. Not by zooming)
An insightful read, thanks for that!
I did think weather might be the biggest potential issue - in my legacy sim flying out of Tolmachevo (despite being very far from anything else) with Real Russian Weather could cripple my computer.
The AFS2 engine does sound good, I hope it can stay "clean".