The battle is back on!

We'll hold the door open a little while longer for another FS9 player to join up.

I really have no idea how to do this.... oh boy..

wow.. this is a tough one. glad that i dropped out. I have never used the recoerder. good luck to both teams. if i was still in this would be stressing me. lol

Is FS Recorder hard to learn?

This theme is going to be great! I cant wait!

wow this is going to be a tough one....i will see what i can do...gonna try to get my trafficexplorer to work.

wow, that is a tough one. So... it needs to be bombers AND fighters? not just a bunch of bombers, or a bunch of fighters?

I hope you guys don't mind me giving you a few pointers on the recorder and setting up shots:
of course, first you need to have an idea of the shot that you are trying to set up, like this shot:



or any other idea that involves more than one aircraft.
First, fly one of the aircraft that you want to use to the location where you want to take the shot.
This is important if you want to use a certain scenery, if you don't care about scenery, like the pic you want to make, just pick anywhere high.
It is usually best to start with the aircraft that you want in the back of the shot.



A/C in place? Press Y for slew mode. Make sure you don't move (by touching the joystick or anything like that). Start the recorder module and use "record flight" (stay in slew!!!). Your stationary aircraft is now being recorded. You can speed things up by setting "simulation rate" to max. I usually record 1000 seconds like that, gives me enough time to play around with later (though this does not work with the A2A P-47, it will overheat and start burning). Go back to normal speed, stop the recording and save it to your HD, giving it a name so you know which a/c this is.
Still in slew mode, change the aircraft to the next aircraft you want to record. It will be in the same position as the previous one. Now, in the recorder menu, click "play back as traffic", and play your previous recording (still in slew!!). Both aircraft will be in the same place. With the slew functions, move the second a/c to the spot where you want it, relative to the first one. Stop the play back, and record the second a/c same as the first and save.
Repeat everything for the 3rd & 4th aircraft, until you are satisfied with your setup.



Adjust the time and weather to your liking, push the "pause" button, and finally you can come out slew mode and make your shot. Quite often, I will use a last a/c to make a cockpit shot, like in the one below.
Anyway, this way it will look just as if your the best formation flyer in the world, even though you're not. I've also tried it with real formation flying in FS, and failed miserably.

Good luck experimenting, once you get the hang of it, it's real easy.



Jan Kees

p.s. just to make sure, none of the shots should qualify, I'm not on any team, it's either fighters or bombers, or it doesn't show a coastline, and they are a mix of FSX and FS9 shots...

AMDDDA wrote on Mar 9^th, 2009 at 7:37pm:

I dought it but if they do good idea

Yours is excellent as well! 

Mictheslik wrote on Mar 10^th, 2009 at 2:22pm:



If that was the case then I would of stayed in the comp.

Thanks Shane. I still feel very bad about not getting the last shot for the comp. I really did let team 9 down. 4 days is better but i have no idea of how to get some pics for this theme. I think is way above my level . pretty scary.

Rich H wrote on Mar 10^th, 2009 at 4:35pm:



Most definitely!


Another suggestion for those not wanting to use FSR or the TE, you could always fly with someone online for the shot.

I believe that's Sean's first shot with FSR, so come on! Try it.

firemonte007 wrote on Mar 10^th, 2009 at 5:49pm:



When you select your video for playback, you need to select all videos that you want at once, so if you have four planes, you'll have 3 replays going while you're in the fourth plane taking the shot, you can also buy yourself some free time by pausing.

I wouldn't consider any of them 'hard', just progressively more creative in what you're going for.

Recorder wouldn't let me do more than one other aircraft for some reason

ShaneG wrote on Mar 10^th, 2009 at 8:15pm:

Thats what I did but Fs crashed

One for Team X.

Drop one in for Team X:



Two F-15's prepare to formate with a gaggle of B-52's over the Golden Gate bridge.

Great shot Mitch!

I gotta nominate that one.

Lancaster crews relax as they head home across the channel....luckily their spit escort has noticed the oncoming threat....



.mic

ShaneG wrote on Mar 10^th, 2009 at 8:22pm:


Then a sacrifice is in order...

Well that was fun. An hour well spent

Pack of bombers doing a dry run over the mountains west of Seattle.



12 planes in total. Not bad for a first time user of recorder

So the deadline is Friday now? What time?

I've followed the tutorial to a tee and I can't for the life of me get more than the original plane to show. I'm running out of time here so any advice would be extremely helpful.
Am I suppose to have the "play as traffic" box checked when recording ?
After switching to a different plane it's just a continuation of the original flight and it's like nothing is recorded from the previous plane.

      Say's it all.

How do I get involved in all of this?   

Shane,followed your instructions and again,no plane, only the one I chose.

I'll keep at it and see if I can do it.
Thanks for the help though.

specter177 wrote on Mar 12^th, 2009 at 5:04pm:



LMAO!!

Ok, finally. Had trouble doing this one. For some reason, 2 of my aircraft are not what I had chosen. Recorder seemed to make its own decision what aircraft they would be. Then, as I was on my last aircraft... my sim crashed. UGH! But here is my shot for Team X!

I really tried guys,to no avail. Everytime I tried a third plane something would mess up,like screen going white then having no planes. I really gotta hand it to all who accomplished this.
I have a shot to at least show I tried.    



Sorry for the red letters of death.

jime59 wrote on Mar 13^th, 2009 at 12:35am:



Way to give 100% Jime!!!  Dedication!!!!

No problem Truck! When duty calls, you gotta answer.


Thanks, and great job to all who stepped up to this challenging theme.

You'll be happy to know, that there won't be any more with FSR  , unless you want to use it. .

It's in the judges hands now, good luck to all!

ShaneG wrote on Mar 13^th, 2009 at 6:07am:

hell ya!!!

Team X

As confusing as it was, I did it! Thanks Shane for the short but VERY useful tutorial

A USMC F-18 tries to steal the show over South Beach.... of course

Nothing special, but I spent a good amount of time trying to learn this thing and get this shot

Good luck to both teams

I don't think it should be incorporated again because it's a hassle for people to learn it and many of us (including me) don't have time to do so. As a matter of fact jime, that shot was accidental. I was having problems getting a 3rd aircraft in there and shot like 7 different videos... That shot was actually accidental

so will we at least get to know who won? or will that be hidden until the end as well?

from what i understand the scores will be hidden. but what i want to know is if we will see who is first (the 9er's of course )