Classic British Flight Sim

Apologies to those from the Principality for not starting a specific thread on this but... ORB-X Wales + EGFF will be up this week end....

http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/ ... ron-shots/

Ian, if you ever get this way again for a dirty week-end Let me know and we can meet up!!

Regards
Nigel.

Ahh ain't that lovely.Probably the first romance started through this forum!

OMG!!!! Should have proof read that before posting!!

Hi John, many thanks for the HU though will not be buying Wales as never ever fly there (even though I'm Welsh) Now if and when they do Scotland that is one other area I will buy for my flights to Glasgow Edinburgh and further north.

Regards
Nigel.

Tomliner wrote:Ahh ain't that lovely.Probably the first romance started through this forum! EricT

I'd been wondering who that Valentine's card was from. I thought it might have been from HMRC

Ian

Re Orbx England - I have this and am generally impressed (as I am with all of their stuff) but have a problem (may be my perception) in that I find there are far too many trees in towns and cities giving them a too-green look. Having had another look I think that the real problem is that the towns (in particular) lack a definate, and built-up, centre so that the overall look is of a whole slew of "garden cities". Anyone else with EU England find this or am I barking up completely the wrong tree(s) - sorry couldn't resist.

Did raise this on the FTX forum but got a very short (and not particularly sweet) response from John Venema. Not as open to constructive criticism as he might be perhaps?

Regards,
Chris

Hi Chris..

It didn't stay on my pc long enough for me to remember anything good about it There was a surfeit of trees though. I particularly noticed the ones on Fountain Lake jetty in Portsmouth harbour

As for your 'less than satisfactory' response.. I guess ORBX would have been more receptive had we ALL thrown our wallets at it and proclaimed our undying love

The good news is.. I think we've managed over a week here without hearing the CEO's name mentioned

ATB
DaveB

Hi Chris, Yup, have to agree, there are far too many trees within built up areas, unfortunately am unable to get to the Forum as it is blocked by IT so unable to input anything constructive especially concerning the trees!! I live locally to Lincoln and it is well known as being a Catheral City famous for its' landmark for returning bombers however and for some reason ORBX decided not to include it which is a shame as it stands predominantly overlooking the City on the hill and can be seen on a good day from miles away. Having said all that I did manage to navigate visually to Leicester Airport but noticed that even Leicester has grown quite a few trees there in ORBX!! Though have to say I am still enjoying it!!

Regards
Nigel.

ChrisHunt wrote:Did raise this on the FTX forum but got a very short (and not particularly sweet) response from John Venema. Not as open to constructive criticism as he might be perhaps?

That's a wee bit unfair. He was simply repeating the answer you'd already had from Paul Webster, a developer in the UK team, who had explained to you WHY they'd chosen that density of trees and stated that he had no plans to change it.

It was only after you came back and told him that he'd made an odd decision and were obviously going to continue your campaign that JV came to his support and said 'You've had your answer, Chris. We're not reducing tree density in inner urban areas.'

He was just supporting his team member - to be fair, I'd probably have given you a blunter answer at that stage!

BTW - did you try the suggested tweak for reducing the tree density in the config file? Any good?

Ian

Another cock-up by ORBX.

This is what Gary Summons says:

"There is bug in the FTX product that prevents any FSX animated Jetway appearing at Leeds.

FSX Jetways are different from all other objects in FSX, normally when you use an exclude file, only objects in a lower scenery layer is effected by that exclude. But Jetways are excluded regardless of layers. So to make FSX animated Jetways appear, there must not be any exclude in any layer for that Jetway location.

This problem is caused by Orbx making massive horizontal exclude file across England. There do have some holes in this exclude for big airports so those Jetway are kept, but they did not leave a hole for Leeds airport. "

Might this run and run...

Ian, if I may say so you're being a bit selective (as perhaps you thought I was )... Paul explained only that some people had said that there were not enough trees in built up areas and that as a consequence Orbx added more! This is the bit that I found odd as frankly there are more than enough trees (or flat ground that is green - sans autogen). As I explained shortly after I think that the problem is that there is not sufficient built space in towns and in particular town centres. Either way it's worth discussion and not a take it or leave it throw away comment. Frankly if I spoke to my customers that way then I would get extremely short shrift.

As I said on the forum - I'm a supporter of the Orbx software; but it ain't perfect and this is one area (among a few) that could be improved but at the same time I recognise that there are commercial pressures and tweeks/improvements can only go so far before real financial risk sets in.

Not had chance to try any tweeks yet unfortunately as too busy with real-world stuff (and BF3 and a wife who doesn't seem to understand the the need to disappear to the virtual shed once in a while )

Regards,
Chris

I've sent you a PM, Chris

Ian