The Region-specific option for Terrain Textures colors the terrain and vegetation to match the region, for example, the Blue Ridge Mountains actually look blue instead of green. You can also choose the vegetation density, and decide whether or not trees and bushes should throw shadows. ![]() The dialog warns you about the memory consumption, which can climb to 8GB. In the Scenery Layers section you can decide whether FlightGear shows you Pylons and Power lines and objects such as barns ( Scenery Objects), based on a database, and also adds Random Scenery Objects to the landscape. That is the main reason why most FS guys try XP and just uninstall it and put it away is the 'learning factor' for the controls.Figure 2: The Rendering Options allow you to adapt FlightGear's resource consumption to an acceptable frame rate on your system. We could 'instantly' go into XP and fly, but instead have to learn their totally diff keyboard system. I would sure like to see a FS keyboard layout on it though. I am not on a Beta team on it, which is probably a good thing. He is really into having the sim run smoothly. I asked if it would be 4096 (it will not), as alot of 'FS' birds are now being released in that resolution. I learned that 2048 is the limit on texture sizes presently. He was saying that using multicore computers will enable AI planes, but maybe he is in the middle of a breakthrough on finding a smooth way to run AI. Austins platform seems to not do too well with it. The FS version works really nicely, low memory. He really wants to get that working and smoothly. I think the main thing they or Austin is working on is AI traffic. Then it was January, then March, then, then. If you have more than just default FSX you likely won't be too impressed with FlightGear. If you are using just default FSX you might want to give FlightGear a try, the price is certainly right and in certain areas it is superior. So I uninstalled it and have returned to FSX! Port Alberni is given a satellite image of a city that looks like it could contain a city with a population about 400% larger.Īs far a smoothness of the frame rates, it wasn't any better than what I can achieve using FSX with Orbx PNW and REX. Unfortunately although it was better than default FSX in some areas, such as including the Alberni Inlet and the Courtenay River, it fell flat on its face in other areas.Ĭourtenay Airpark is shown on an island, too bad it wasn't Vancouver Island but its own little island the size of the airstrip! The airports have no hangars, no control towers, no aircraft or anything but a runway or runways as the case may be. I installed the latest FlightGear and its scenery for Vancouver Island and gave it a bit of a workout.
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