Thanks to Aussiewannabe for the theme idea & pic!

Thunder crashes and lightning flashes as the shooters take up another round!

This week we are after the most realistic, nastiest looking thunderstorm you can produce!

The worse the weather, the better.

2nd Half Teams & Judges

Team X men

Firemonte007 - IN
Specter177 - IN
gtirob01 - IN
SubZer0 -
Mitch -   IN
jime59 - IN
AlexanderDZ -








Team Kiss My 9

Mictheslik -  IN
Ndude737 - IN
BigTruck - IN
ShaneG - IN
skoker - IN
RAFLeigh - IN
SeanTK - IN








Teh Judges

Aussiewannabe - IN 
RichardH -
B-Valvs -
Tcco94 -

Thanks for using my suggestion, Shane!

This is going to be fun

Interesting score, I wonder who is leading.

Mine for 9!





Good luck to all!

ShaneG wrote on Mar 31^st, 2009 at 4:52pm:

Wonderful shot! The scenery even still looks great through that thick fog and you got a great clear thunderstrike. Its almost like that doesent even look like the default thunder.

I use BAW's technique.

I get my plane into position with the slew, and then speed up time to 16x, and just keep hitting the pause key until I have a decent strike.

Then with the game in pause, you can mess with the weather, time of day, camera angle and plane type, and the lightning will still be there.

Just don't un-pause the game until you're done.

ShaneG wrote on Apr 1^st, 2009 at 11:55am:


My method is a bit different:
Slew the plane into position.
No speed up time whatsoever. Regular speed.
Keep the plane in slew. Putting it in pause will stop the navigation lights from flashing as well as the lightning strikes. You can still mess with the weather, time, camera angle and plane type while in slew mode.

If you use F1View, it can store up to 1000 shots (000 to 999). After I do what seems like a lot of pressing print scr, I'll minimize FS and take a look at what I have. I don't always catch that great lightning shot the first time around. I'll save some of them in a temp file, delete the rest, making sure I put the FSScreen shortcut button in another temp directory before deleting them and start over. If it's a morning or dusk shot, I'll back up the clock several minutes and go at it again.

Hope this helps.

One other thing: when in slew, you can watch the clouds move.

Ive been trying to catch a bolt for a long time now and heres the best i could get a good Sheet lightning

GO 9ers

A DC-3 banks hard to avoid a lightning bolt and to keep Team X's dreams aloft.

Go Go Go!!!!!                                         ..let's roll team 9!

Fine, here's one for Team X:



Cheers

tcco94 wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 2:43am:


That's what a plane looks like after it craps itself because of lightning striking so close!


Awesome shots here so far.

Another one for TeamX:

skoker wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 7:12pm:

Mictheslik wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2009 at 11:16am:
[img]http://www.squidgrid.com/images/misc/jawdrop.jpg

I swear that looks like a tornado next to your lightning strike!

What a lightning round this was.

One theme to go! The scores getting tighter, and the competition is top notch!

Who will win?

Make sure to get those shots in, every point counts more than ever now!

Great job to both teams, and thanks for making X vs 9 a fun & successful comp.

See you for the finale!

Its not hard, its creative!

Probably some cumulative thing that encompasses a lot of the previous themes.