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Megadyptes posted:x-plane. it's pretty good at night lighting No extra plug-ins? I have X-Plane and don't recall it looking that good.
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# ? Jan 25, 2016 03:49 |
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I assume he has some paid Vegas scenery that actually puts all those lights there. Default XP airports have some lights but are pretty bare in general.
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# ? Jan 25, 2016 13:51 |
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I am a little bit lazy if I'm honest.
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# ? Jan 25, 2016 14:19 |
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Haven't sketched my home cockpit idea yet, but I found some things I want to avoid. Controls at chin height: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScb_qisuZs Sitting wayyyyy too low to see over the glareshield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBgSZIGSjGQ Display set too high and throttle set aft of the pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6CiQ1XHEuM How do I avoid these ergonomic pitfalls?
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# ? Jan 25, 2016 21:48 |
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I bet 5 bucks that 2nd one with the glareshield at eye level is because the guy who built that simpit's only experience in a 'cockpit' is flight sims and he doesn't realize that the whole 'granny barely able to see over the dash' default view that's common in sims is only common because they need to set it that way for people without TrackIR who can't easily look down. As for my solution, I disassembled an old boardroom style desk with drawers on each side and turned the drawers into little hutches on wheels. EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Jan 25, 2016 |
# ? Jan 25, 2016 22:59 |
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I have that same Brother laser printer.
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# ? Jan 25, 2016 23:06 |
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The Ferret King posted:Haven't sketched my home cockpit idea yet, but I found some things I want to avoid. Pick your desk first. Measure the desk height, and plan your chair around that. Once you have the chair to desk distances set, put the rudder pedals in a comfortable location, and make sure you have room for that. Then (and only then,) plan the HOTAS locations. They should be where your hands fall naturally, but you should also keep in mind that both units need to clear the desk by at least an inch or so through the entire range of motion. I set my throttle to be where my hand falls when it's at ~75% power.
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# ? Jan 26, 2016 00:42 |
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I like what this guy has going on I'd want the arm consoles to be the same width, and I don't need his racing sim specific stuff. But, I like the rotating design for the stick (I do have two throttles afterall) and the seat on sliding rails concept.
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# ? Jan 26, 2016 01:04 |
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Any plans for another newbie night any time. They look like fun from the outside.
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 00:49 |
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Has anyone messed around with fspassenger? I know FSE is all the rage and passenger looks like an offline version of it, but I'm wondering if it's any good for both GA planes and heavies.
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 13:38 |
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TheMirage posted:Has anyone messed around with fspassenger? I know FSE is all the rage and passenger looks like an offline version of it, but I'm wondering if it's any good for both GA planes and heavies. It's fun as hell and I don't regret buying it at all. The voices makes it seem like you aren't flying some empty ghost plane of the damned, plus there are some unadvertised bonuses like keyboard commands to get your copilot to change autopilot settings. There are some bugs though, e.g. tires blow really easily and then you get penalized. I started with the FSX Mooney and worked up to a Cessna 340 and then Saab 340 so yes, it supports GA and commercial. Have you tried the free demo? e: The simulated failures are also pretty exciting. You can set the probability that they'll happen so you can turn them off, but compared to stock FSX failures where you know ahead of time what's going to break because you told it to fail a particular system, having stuff go bad at random is more fun. It also models the 'career' part around the random failures it sends you so if you abort a take-off because your engine RPMs weren't good it doesn't ding you for failing to make the flight, it rewards you for paying attention and doing the safe thing. hogmartin fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Jan 27, 2016 |
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That sounds awesome but is there a way to make it multiplayer and also a way for it to still let me to fly in a way that would make Jeb cry while still making money?
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 18:33 |
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I'd like to be able to play as a passenger, turn the air condition blower and call the cabin crew for some more red wine.
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 19:36 |
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Press F to order another tiny vodka please.
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 20:15 |
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There's a button for showing in-flight movies
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 20:18 |
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Considering an LCD TV for my main display for flight sims only. 1080p gonna work well enough with virtual cockpits? I worry about being able to run a 4k at acceptable frame rates. Thinking around 55." Maybe a little less. The Ferret King fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Jan 27, 2016 |
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My GTX760 4gb runs p3dv2 at 4k with no issues DCS similarly gives good performance. I think VRAM is the key - I wouldn't go lower.
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 21:56 |
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If anyone's interested check out the Carenado Baron 58TC conversion I did. It's in my dropbox in the plane upgrade packs folder. I linked it in the FSE thread. Switches out the NA engines for the Continental TSIO-520 Turbocharged. They were detuned to 301HP and a max RPM of 2600 due to noise abatement poo poo introduced in 1980 but it still flies way better than the stock version. It also comes with my little carbheatauto thing that corrects the fact that FSX is dumb and ices fuel injected engines even when they shouldn't be able to ice and there's no way to deal with it. (no loss of engine performance with this) and also a better .air file by Milton Shupe, that guy that seems to be able to give anything he touches an awesome flight model. His FM tweaks don't do a ton but they make the stall behavior a lot less dumb.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 02:12 |
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The Ferret King posted:Considering an LCD TV for my main display for flight sims only. 1080p gonna work well enough with virtual cockpits? I have 1080p now and I've used 1440p before. There is a noticeable increase in cockpit label readability with 1440p. I'm not sure how many TV's there are with 1440 resolution, but if there are I would recommend that. Increased readability without too much performance hit.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 13:16 |
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One of the best things about fspassenger is that unlike every other stupid spergy flightsim addon there's an option for "Give me all the money I just wanna screw around with my PMDG plane". That and flying around the congo or whatever and getting shot at is funny. edit: the writing gets a bit stale with the flight attendant but I thought it was pretty funny.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 13:22 |
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lobsterminator posted:I have 1080p now and I've used 1440p before. There is a noticeable increase in cockpit label readability with 1440p. How bad are we talking, at 1080p? Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but 1440 is monitor - only territory and they're just not big enough The Ferret King fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Jan 28, 2016 |
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The Ferret King posted:How bad are we talking, at 1080p? Like I said, I currently use 1080p and it's quite alright. I'm sure you'll manage just fine with it. The readability is mostly ever an issue when you're studying a new plane and don't remember the cockpit yet. With a plane you know you don't need to read knob labels too much. 4K would probably feel like heaven, but it would be good to be able to try it out first and see how the performance is.
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# ? Jan 28, 2016 17:47 |
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Prepar3d has the "mute on lost focus" setting that when disabled keeps sound playing when you're in another window. However, when planes use custom sound engines (not sure what they should be called) they always mute when alt-tabbing. Like the Aerosoft A320 mutes completely and some planes mute partially. Is there a way to keep all sounds playing in the background? I like to have my planes humming even if I'm watching a movie etc.
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 19:29 |
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I wish regular FSX had an option to keep the sound on when tabbed out. there's sound stream but gently caress am I paying 10 quid just for that.
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 20:45 |
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One of the guys I'm still actually talking to in FSE mentioned that Air Hauler 2 is coming out and it looks interesting, and rumor has it there's going to be multiplayer. One thing that baffles me though is the stock market addon. Why does a flight sim addon need a stock market?
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 21:58 |
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EvilJoven posted:One of the guys I'm still actually talking to in FSE mentioned that Air Hauler 2 is coming out and it looks interesting, and rumor has it there's going to be multiplayer. Live commodity prices? Same reason they include live weather updates is my guess, unless it's an isolated in-game stock market in which case maybe it's the apocalyptic convergence of every game becoming EVE Online.
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 22:03 |
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EvilJoven posted:One of the guys I'm still actually talking to in FSE mentioned that Air Hauler 2 is coming out and it looks interesting, and rumor has it there's going to be multiplayer. That's a day one purchase for me but its been "coming out" since 2013 so don't get excited yet. He was talking about crafting at one point so maybe you can sell poo poo.
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 22:12 |
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Gonna stram a KBOS to KDCA and back trip tonight over here http://twitch.tv/kilonum2 starting in about 10 minutes
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# ? Jan 30, 2016 01:17 |
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Daimo posted:That's a day one purchase for me but its been "coming out" since 2013 so don't get excited yet. He was talking about crafting at one point so maybe you can sell poo poo. Came here to post this.. ah2 has been coming soon since I bought ah1 about 2 years ago.
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# ? Jan 31, 2016 04:07 |
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The urge struck me for the first time in something like three years. Dug out an RJ-70 I bought ways back, installed FSX:SE for the first time, threw in demo Warsaw and Gdansk sceneries and flew back and forth. I honestly do not understand why I find this fun and it's iritating and confounding, also since now I want an X52, P3D v3, ActiveSky, VoxAtc, MyTrafficX, trackIR, a bunch of sceneries, maybe an A320 and hey an E170 while I'm at it, a beastly PC to run this and another one for the map apps and a gently caress off huge screen, please send help.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 22:51 |
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There's a sale on some flight games on Steam, what should I buy if all I have is FSX and X-Plane 10?
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# ? Feb 9, 2016 04:52 |
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Honestly, you shouldn't buy any FSX addons from Steam unless you're 100% sure you wont want to use them in Prepar3D. Wait until the next sale on addons outside of steam, with a few rare exceptions they all work with the steam edition.
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# ? Feb 9, 2016 06:05 |
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Shouldn't ActiveSky be able to hook into either? edit: P3D and FSX I mean. SoapyTarantula fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Feb 9, 2016 |
# ? Feb 9, 2016 07:18 |
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SoapyTarantula posted:Shouldn't ActiveSky be able to hook into either?
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# ? Feb 9, 2016 14:13 |
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SoapyTarantula posted:Shouldn't ActiveSky be able to hook into either? ASN has two separate clients because P3D handles weather a bit differently than FSX.
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# ? Feb 9, 2016 14:23 |
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EvilJoven posted:ASN has two separate clients because P3D handles weather a bit differently than FSX. But you only have to pay for it once.
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# ? Feb 9, 2016 15:01 |
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Megadyptes posted:he means buying addons as steam DLC ie this poo poo http://store.steampowered.com/dlc/314160/ instead of buying them outside of steam where you can use them wherever you want and not be tied into just the steam version. EvilJoven posted:ASN has two separate clients because P3D handles weather a bit differently than FSX. Also kind of strange that ASN isn't on Steam anymore, seeing as that's where I got it.
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# ? Feb 9, 2016 16:12 |
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I see it here http://store.steampowered.com/app/364340/ doesn't appear to be in the actual fsx store page dlc list though, seen that with a few dlcs on other games recently.
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# ? Feb 9, 2016 18:46 |
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Sequel to Flight, and FSX coming in 2016 from Dovetail. http://www.dovetailgames.com/news/2016/feb/11/dovetail-games-presents-the-flight-simulators-of-the-future Must confess to not holding my breath. (Bringing FSX to 64bit will be glorious)
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 00:06 |
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yeah it's been rumoured for a while. I don't trust dovetail with anything.
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