Why arent there Daylight pics????

**rsmith6621** · 03-17-2002, 01:53 PM

How come X-Plane in all their advertising never show their wares in the braod daylight like my sig. below.

Must be really crummy graphics.

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...19119c90ea.jpg
Thanks Dreamfleet for this Awesome Jet

wooday · 03-18-2002, 03:16 AM

http://www.s3k.co.uk/screenies/xplane/0001.jpg

And I have FS2002 Pro .... X-Plane is far superior, who cares if you can see the 5th notch along on the aircraft... all good and all, but er.. does it fly properly?

P.S. That shot was taken on a Celeron 500MHz with 128Mb RAM and a 16Mb onboard graphics card (My secondary machine). I'd like to see FS2002 do that (P.S. it can't). I'm getting about 35fps on that screenshot too, and passing 600kts.

:D

**rsmith6621** · 03-18-2002, 06:58 PM

What shot it did'nt turn out better repost.

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...19119c90ea.jpg
Thanks Dreamfleet for this Awesome Jet

wooday · 03-19-2002, 06:10 PM

aaw dammit, I cleared my FTP server, I'll try to find the shot again and upload it again lol, hopefully the pic will be visible soon

**rsmith6621** · 03-20-2002, 01:54 AM

Us MS Flightsimmers don't have problems when it come's to multi-tasking remember you have to take the screenshot first...or maybe Im right and your stalling waiting for X-plane to patch the patch...ooops I meant prog. so the planes can fly in the daylight and not look shameful.

Well Im still waiting for a daylight SShot of your bargin basement clearence basket FlightSim.My parent use to say you get what you pay for.

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...19119c90ea.jpg
Thanks Dreamfleet for this Awesome Jet

wooday · 03-20-2002, 10:01 AM

Mmm no, I just had to wait til I got to work as thats where I kept my backup...

That shot is on the specification I mentioned earlier.. funny, FS2002 Pro never looked as good on the same system.

Oh, and the plane handles properly too.

rollinco · 03-20-2002, 10:37 AM

Have you ever tried X-plane?? What is it that makes MSFS so much better than X-plane?? What is it that makes MSFS users so much smarter than X-plane users?? I have used X-plane for some time and I do own MSFS2k2 and totally replaced it with X-plane to the point of removing MSFS from my computer. X-plane works great in the daytime as well as at night!! It may not have the cutting edge scenery where you can see all the cars in the parking lot, but it runs fine on old machines and is super smooth with real weather enabled and doesn't require a bunch of addons to make it that way. The user is able to edit the scenery as well as the aircraft easily without any additional programs required. The bottom line is, If you don't like it don't use it!! If you choose not to use it, keep you mouth shut and let others enjoy it!!:-mad:-mad:-mad

**rsmith6621** · 03-20-2002, 02:20 PM

Why would most people want a flight to mars taking up HD space can you go to Mars in XPlane in real time...I sure hope not that would certianly be a new low in regaurds to wasting time.

I have tried Xplane before and no matter what time of the day I chose to fly in it was always dark. Ya the frame rates are better but who can really tell the difference between 30 or 35 fps...once you get above thirty FPS it doesnt matter much.

Still its been two days since my original post and you havent come up with a spot plane SShot of XPlane in the broad daylight and neither has anyone else who reads these post and uses XPlane.

Why do we never see XPlane SShots in the SShot Forum here on flightsimnetwork.com?????

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...19119c90ea.jpg
Thanks Dreamfleet for this Awesome Jet

wooday · 03-20-2002, 03:15 PM

Um.. I HAVE posted a shot, try refreshing your browser the file was restored from backup and uploaded again to my FTP as I promised it would be (not that you'd care)...

Have you ever considered the issue of DRIVER problems being the reason why everything was black? Hmm, perhaps not... your head seems wedged somewhere particularly unpleasant.

Regardless of whether you want to fly to Mars or not.. you can; X-Plane is based on what is called Blade Element Theory (probably forgotten the exact name), whereby everything about the way the aircraft flies is based on the dimensions of the aircraft itself... not a nasty configuration file like FS.

That is how A) You can have nifty weather features like turbulence, wind shear, wet-runway-braking-effects B) The aircraft actually feels as if it is flying through the air rather than the ground passing under the aircraft (FS) and C) You can fly on MARS because the environmental parametsr are changed, but the equatinos which work out the dynamics ofthe aircraft are unchanged, and so the whole handling of the aircraft handles exactly (or very very very near) to what it would do in real life..

Open your eyes, there's a whole new world than Microsoft Flight (read: ground moves, airraft stays still) Simulator.

Oh and FYI, I have FS98, FS2000 Pro, FS2002 Pro, CFS 1, and Flight Unlimited 2 as well as other combat sims like EAW and Janes.

X-Plane kicks the rest out of the way in terms of flight modelling.

But then, you're a "ooh my knickers are flapping on the clothes line outside my house" flight sim kinda guy aren't you.

:D

Morten · 03-22-2002, 11:47 AM

Here's some more:) I think you'll like them according to your signature... .

http://www.x-plane.org/cgi-bin/ikonb...um=4&topic=413

To bad you are missing the accurate performance on your FS 737;-) This plane will
be released any day together with the -800

Morten