Simviation Forum - Spaceflight?

Reply #15 - Mar 28^th, 2006 at 11:43pm

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Yes I guess you are correct I am happy with FS2004 I find myself just getting lost for hours playing that thing.
I have bought the Just Flight A340 but it screwed up m FS I guess I need something so it will work.
Any tips

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Reply #16 - Mar 28^th, 2006 at 11:57pm

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HOLY COW!!!! if it is FSX that will be amasing. I know some of you are like "im happy at 2000 AGL" but for some of us who like to recreate things this will allow so much more. We can now have the space airlines sort of thing. The new buzz is the personal space flight stuff. Take off from one airport orbit and land on the other side of the earth in under 2 hours, as i said it opens up SO much more in flights. And we can also recreate some of the X flights now, or like the shuttle landing challenge it can now be the space shuttle approach/ landing challenge. not totally related to space flight and not totally related to flight. its a bit of both worlds, or rather a bit more of our world Grin

and the curviture looks real nice too Cheesy

now the big question, was it REALLY FSX?

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Reply #17 - Mar 29^th, 2006 at 12:31am

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If it is FSX, then it would seem that M$ is playing a game of "catch up" with Laminar Research's X-Plane. FSX seems to be sticking with the old motto "as real as it gets" [finally].

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Reply #18 - Mar 29^th, 2006 at 5:26am

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nice, no stars though

Stars on my download. It was even possible to see the Plough like formation (Big Dipper) in the background

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Reply #19 - Apr 2^nd, 2006 at 9:57am

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FSX will go upto earth orbit:
"up to orbital altitudes"
http://www.steve-lacey.com/blogarchives/2006/03/flight_simulato_7.shtml

Looking forward to flying an x15 then 8)

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Reply #20 - Apr 2^nd, 2006 at 4:07pm

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FSX will go upto earth orbit:
"up to orbital altitudes"
http://www.steve-lacey.com/blogarchives/2006/03/flight_simulato_7.shtml

Looking forward to flying an x15 then 8)

Or spaceship 1. Wink

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Reply #21 - Apr 2^nd, 2006 at 4:18pm

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Or spaceship 1. Wink

infact every space mission apart from the luner landings Cheesy

*I wonder if they will have proper rentry?

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Reply #22 - Apr 2^nd, 2006 at 5:43pm

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Let Orbiter Space Flight Simulator handle the reentries. 8)

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Reply #23 - Apr 4^th, 2006 at 7:14pm

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HOOAH!

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Reply #24 - Apr 5^th, 2006 at 1:18am

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Amazing!!!!

Now just curious to see how the physics will be at that height

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Reply #25 - Apr 5^th, 2006 at 4:11am

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Physics should be easy...after all it's purely ballistic above the atmosphere.

It is going to open a whole new avenue of exploration in FS...

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Reply #26 - Apr 5^th, 2006 at 2:04pm

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That sure does look like FSX (based on screenies) - got very similar textures.

And if that is FSX, then....woah. Shocked

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Reply #27 - Apr 5^th, 2006 at 5:57pm

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That sure does look like FSX (based on screenies) - got very similar textures.

And if that is FSX, then....woah. Shocked

8)

As I said, it's mmost likely that M$ is playing a game of "catch up" with Laminar Research's X-Plane.

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Reply #28 - Apr 5^th, 2006 at 7:03pm

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Guys, It is FSX! Look at their website for once! http://www.fsinsider.com/articles/Global_Terrain_Technology.htm

Look at the video!

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Reply #29 - Apr 6^th, 2006 at 12:24am

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Because Flight Simulator must do much more than just render the Earth, the terrain engine can’t monopolize the CPU resources of the host system. Adequate resources must be reserved for the other aspects of the game such as aircraft and vehicle simulation, artificial intelligence, multiplayer communication, and rendering of the aircraft, buildings, and other non-terrain entities in the scene.

I think I've been stuck in the virtual garage for too long because I noticed the word "vehicle" in that sentence. Roll Eyes

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