Title: CL seen from a flight simulator
Post by: Jonathan_NL on August 10, 2004, 09:06:07 AM
Post by: Jonathan_NL on August 10, 2004, 09:06:07 AM
The box on the center means that I'm flying it with the mouse. The size is actually the limits.
The simulator, X-Plane, is very accurate. That's what it is built for, so the graphics are of lower priority (and everything seems to be kept in VRAM simultaneously...), but not bad. I strongly recommend you to look at it if you are interested in an accurate flight simulator, not just a game like MSFS.
CL: Is your office about there? And if so, can you guess where?
Title: CL seen from a flight simulator
Post by: Chronic Logic - Josiah on August 13, 2004, 05:58:50 PM
Post by: Chronic Logic - Josiah on August 13, 2004, 05:58:50 PM
Yes I can see almost exactly where it is 
Title: CL seen from a flight simulator
Post by: Jonathan_NL on August 13, 2004, 07:10:34 PM
Post by: Jonathan_NL on August 13, 2004, 07:10:34 PM
So I guessed right.
Is it somewhere above the box?
I took this one less than half an hour ago, with accurate weather and date&time:
I live near the hot air balloon.
P.S. The simulator is so good that I just want to put that text in.
Edit: And yes, I know what I'm doing with the layout.
Is it somewhere above the box?
I took this one less than half an hour ago, with accurate weather and date&time:
I live near the hot air balloon.
P.S. The simulator is so good that I just want to put that text in.
Edit: And yes, I know what I'm doing with the layout.
Title: CL seen from a flight simulator
Post by: Chronic Logic - Josiah on August 16, 2004, 12:18:07 AM
Post by: Chronic Logic - Josiah on August 16, 2004, 12:18:07 AM
We are a little up and left of the box.
Title: CL seen from a flight simulator
Post by: Jonathan_NL on August 16, 2004, 05:22:05 AM
Post by: Jonathan_NL on August 16, 2004, 05:22:05 AM
Funny that a screenshot of a flight simulator can tell you where you are.
Made another in the meantime. The cam is pointed to NWW (geographically; never trust a compass at the Californian coast, even in X-Plane):
Can you still find 501 Mission Street? (edit: may be just out of the view)
It was almost impossible to fly the thing:
• late evening (you can't see anything)
• land light off (even less)
• viewed from the side (I'm good at that though)
• hardest: mouse for pitch/roll, F5/F6 for collective and the simulator guessing anti-torque for you (no normal and complete control over a helicopter, and anti-torque goes crazy at low speed)
Made another in the meantime. The cam is pointed to NWW (geographically; never trust a compass at the Californian coast, even in X-Plane):
Can you still find 501 Mission Street? (edit: may be just out of the view)
It was almost impossible to fly the thing:
• late evening (you can't see anything)
• land light off (even less)
• viewed from the side (I'm good at that though)
• hardest: mouse for pitch/roll, F5/F6 for collective and the simulator guessing anti-torque for you (no normal and complete control over a helicopter, and anti-torque goes crazy at low speed)
Title: CL seen from a flight simulator
Post by: Jonathan_NL on January 06, 2005, 05:29:59 AM
Post by: Jonathan_NL on January 06, 2005, 05:29:59 AM
I cleaned up my 20 MB space on the web, but I put something else in place:
(the plane is the Anime from Science Fiction, the only one which allows you to do this. It can fly for only a few minutes at full thrust, but if you don't just fly straight up like I did you have plenty fuel to enter an orbit)
It's a new cool feature in v8. The demo (I only have the full v7 atm) doesn't come with the textures, but I have some high-res data and I know where to put them, so I built them myself. There's one (usually 1024x1024) for each 10x10 degrees region. X-Plane uses them for the nearest 3x3 regions.
Santa Cruz is in view...
(the plane is the Anime from Science Fiction, the only one which allows you to do this. It can fly for only a few minutes at full thrust, but if you don't just fly straight up like I did you have plenty fuel to enter an orbit)
It's a new cool feature in v8. The demo (I only have the full v7 atm) doesn't come with the textures, but I have some high-res data and I know where to put them, so I built them myself.
There's one (usually 1024x1024) for each 10x10 degrees region. X-Plane uses them for the nearest 3x3 regions.Santa Cruz is in view...