Simviation Forum - FS is nothing without Addons

Mar 5^th, 2004 at 1:58am

codered Offline
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Here are some shots of Carenado's Bonanza. I was doing a short test flight. Not of the aircraft but the terrain! Grin

I have loaded up some freeware terrain found at all the major FS sites. It is called WUSA1.zip, WUSA2.zip and WUSA3.zip. These cover the areas of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. If you don't mind the large file size, they are terrific. Grin

I then wanted to add to the beauty by increasing the range of my texture. I opened my FS9.cfg file and went to the terrain radius. It was set at 0 by default. So I increased it to 3 and 10. This seemed to make the terrain textures around me a bit more crisp. You might expect a bit of a frame rate drop by doing this, but if there was it wasn't much. Grin

The problem with JPEGs is the compression. Here we are climbing out of Arlington.

Coming up on Whidby Is. The San Juan Is. and Vancouver Is. in the background.

Shot looking out to the Olympica Mts. in the background. Whidby Is. in the foreground.

Turning final into Eastsound on Orcas Is.

Parked and ready to head into town and eat at one of the best Mexican resturaunts around. The margaritas are not half bad either. If you get the chance, visit Eastsound. Plenty to see and do. You can camp right on the airport, that is what I did. Grin

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Reply #1 - Mar 5^th, 2004 at 11:13am

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EXCELLENT PLANE ! Good shots!! Grin

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Reply #2 - Mar 5^th, 2004 at 8:38pm

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Great Shots

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #3 - Mar 6^th, 2004 at 10:34am

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I love those shots! perhaps someday I will get that addon..

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Reply #4 - Mar 6^th, 2004 at 3:49pm

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Nice pics, 8) the title for this thread made me think of another......

"CFS3 is nothing without payware" - Sad eh?

Hmm....

Paul.

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Reply #5 - Mar 8^th, 2004 at 10:06pm

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dontcha just love carenado textures..

nice shots mate.

dano 8)

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Reply #6 - Mar 9^th, 2004 at 7:28pm

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Codered, those are some amazing shots. That is a very realistic looking model. Especially in the last shot!
Eric

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Reply #7 - Mar 10^th, 2004 at 1:51pm

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Just noticed: Is that aircraft a "Debonair" ?

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Reply #8 - Mar 11^th, 2004 at 11:43am

codered Offline
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It is a Beech Bonanza F33. Grin

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Reply #9 - Apr 1^st, 2004 at 12:28am

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Awesome shots! I've been on Orcas Island but I don't think I've visited Eastsound. You know I live on Whidbey! Wink

I wonder if my house is there, lol Grin

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