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Dec 4^th, 2009 at 1:19am

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Playing around with some new REX textures. Mostly cloud soaring though

Sorry about jaggies... still working on it. Undecided

PHNL Takeoff

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On the approach

winter wonderland.

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RB

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Reply #1 - Dec 4^th, 2009 at 1:58am

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Simply AWESOME! I love the clouds! just as advertised - REAL ENVIROMENT !!!!

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Reply #2 - Dec 4^th, 2009 at 2:24am

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second one is cool!

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Reply #3 - Dec 4^th, 2009 at 6:06am

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If I buy this, it's going to be based on something other than the cloud textures, becuase I can't see a major difference between REX & HDE.

Even doing side by sides in the Xv9 thread, it's hard to tell which is which sometimes.

So how is the water, airport textures, and all of the things that are not clouds?

One of the things I was most looking forward to with this release, was what the water textures & effects would look like.
The one shot you've got of the water, doesn't look much different from the GEP textures I use now. Undecided

Got any better shots of the REX water textures? Undecided

Nice shots.

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Reply #4 - Dec 4^th, 2009 at 12:42pm

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ShaneG wrote on Dec 4^th, 2009 at 6:06am:

If I buy this, it's going to be based on something other than the cloud textures, becuase I can't see a major difference between REX & HDE.

Even doing side by sides in the Xv9 thread, it's hard to tell which is which sometimes.

So how is the water, airport textures, and all of the things that are not clouds?

One of the things I was most looking forward to with this release, was what the water textures & effects would look like.
The one shot you've got of the water, doesn't look much different from the GEP textures I use now. Undecided

Got any better shots of the REX water textures? Undecided

Nice shots.

Thanks for the comments

To be honest, the cloud textures are nothing spectacular in terms of quality compared to HDE clouds, since they are both 1024x1024 HD clouds. With that said, however, there are more cloud types to choose from in REX and the ones in these shots are just one of them. I actually quite like the REX selection over just the one in HDE, as when HDE came out, I found the clouds looking a bit too artistic compared to what I actually see in my own sky, so back then, I stuck to using my standard 512x512 Active Sky clouds. Furthermore, REX2004 comes with its own weather engine, which seems to render weather a little better than the default weather engine and active sky, though I have yet to spend much time to make a more in-depth comparison.

As for water, well, the shot I took was actually looks worst than it really is, but then I only had a few hours last night to try one textures I threw in randomly. I will try to post some more shots later on to get a better view, and perhaps swap some textures to see how they look.

Everything else looks pretty good. I haven't really done much exploring yet, but stuff like the sun, the lighting, the lens-flare, look excellent. I threw in some custom airport textures as well, but have yet to really look at them. All in all, its not bad for a 36 dollar package. I know GEP is still like $50 dollars.

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RB

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