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Jan 23^rd, 2004 at 6:31pm

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Reply #1 - Jan 23^rd, 2004 at 6:51pm

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great pic

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Reply #2 - Jan 23^rd, 2004 at 8:47pm

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great shot! Grin

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Reply #3 - Jan 23^rd, 2004 at 9:59pm

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That shot is soooo crisp, I can hear the crunch from here! Grin

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Reply #4 - Jan 24^th, 2004 at 12:19am

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nice shot!

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Reply #5 - Jan 24^th, 2004 at 9:53am

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give us more cos we want more! Wink

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Reply #6 - Jan 24^th, 2004 at 10:39am

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I still can't get ultra smooth looking pics like that! But then again when the sky is clear I do get some smooth looking pics!

What are your settings? Can you show me a screenshot of all your settings?

Aircraft, Weather, and Hardware.

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Reply #7 - Jan 24^th, 2004 at 11:19am

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EXCELLENT!!!!!! Grin

Looking forward to more!

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Reply #8 - Jan 24^th, 2004 at 12:07pm

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Thank you all!
Mav, my computer specs are as follows:
Dell 8200, P4, 768 Mb RAM, 2 GHz, 120 Gigs (2 drives), inVidia GeForce4 Ti4600.
I spent quite some time tweaking the program to achieve optimal results, I download high-quality add-ons and make sure I compose the shot carefully. For example, I stay away from close-to-the-ground shots where the terrain looks poor. I keep the background as clean as possible and I try to take advantage of good "lighting" conditions. FS9 gives you a lot more options in that regard. Other than that, I guess it's just dumb luck. Cheesy

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Reply #9 - Jan 24^th, 2004 at 1:51pm

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Sounds like my carrier landings! I get em with dumb luck that I don't hit the back of the carrier as low as I fly in depending solely on the altimeter and not my own eyes!

I think I understand what you are saying. Because I see some nice shots I could take but I can't find the damn printscreen button fast enough to capture it! Anyhow I will try to take some more dramatic shots at carrier landing!

Its only in your mind, strong mind, strong soul and nobody can take that from you!

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Reply #10 - Jan 26^th, 2004 at 11:30am

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Added some shots ...

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Reply #11 - Jan 26^th, 2004 at 12:10pm

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Us people with newer ATI cards, we'll never be able to compete when it comes to crispness like it or not. Simply put the nVIDIA cards have better picture quality, especially when you crank up that Anisotropic filtering.

The best "screenies" comes from Ysteinbuch and Fly2e IMO, it's not a coincidence they have Geforce cards, however, I doubt they'll be able to fly smoothly with the AA at max setting, talk about FPS killer Wink

I least I couldn't do that with my ti4600

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Reply #12 - Jan 26^th, 2004 at 12:38pm

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its really amazing that people give us freeware that looks this good isnt it?

Great shots!

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Reply #13 - Jan 26^th, 2004 at 12:39pm

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Posted by: Nexus82 Posted on: Today at 12:10pm
The best "screenies" comes from Ysteinbuch and Fly2e IMO

Why Thank You very much Nexus, and I'll give a bit "recognition " to you for your knowledge on flying the big heavies!!!

Ysreinbuch, very impressive shots! Great work!

Dave 8)

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Reply #14 - Jan 26^th, 2004 at 12:41pm

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Us people with newer ATI cards, we'll never be able to compete when it comes to crispness like it or not. Simply put the nVIDIA cards have better picture quality, especially when you crank up that Anisotropic filtering.

The best "screenies" comes from Ysteinbuch and Fly2e IMO, it's not a coincidence they have Geforce cards, however, I doubt they'll be able to fly smoothly with the AA at max setting, talk about FPS killer Wink

I least I couldn't do that with my ti4600

Image quality is more down to drivers I think. I get good FPS with AA and AF enabled.

Also, alot of sharpness can be had from the way you deal with the shot afterwards.

Try taking a shot at 1280x1024, resizing it to 800x600, and applying "adaptive unsharp" or "unsharp mask" in a good graphics editor.

Look:

1st example, taken at 1280x1024 with 4xAA and 8xAF plus texture sharpening applied, resised to 800x600.

2nd example, taken at 1280x1024 with 4xAA and 8xAF plus texture sharpening applied, resised to 800x600, then I applied an unsharp mask.

It's pretty much an industry standard (in photography at least) that if you resample an image (re-size it) you should sharpen it again, as the sharpness is really lost when you resample it. This is especially true of .jpg's, as they are "blurry" anyway.

Ric B.

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