John YYou know I don’t really agree with that. It’s the sort of advice that photographic shops give simply so that having sold an inferior camera they can sell you another one in the future.
Modern DSLR’s, like the less expensive Nikon D series are the easiest cameras in the world to use, especially with the excellent zoom lenses now available. Let’s face it, photography is really only about five things; available light, composition, focus, aperture & shutter speed.
With these cameras set to ‘program’ in the first instance and with self focussing lenses it’s almost impossible to take a bad picture and with SLRs there is no shutter delay, they have longer battery life and you take exactly what you see. Well not quite. Its always a little more. They give you that little bit more picture which can be cropped off if necessary.
And you’ve got a camera that’ll probably last you the rest of your life.
Best wishes with what you choose and learn as you go mate.:)
John Y
John YI’m taking no responsibility here but why not go to: Control Panel/Add & Remove Programs then find your Scenery Program and click ‘add/remove’ and the wizrd that comes up will do the rest for you.
Whatever you do, make sure its the program you want to remove AND NOTHING ELSE! or else:eek: 😡 😮 🙁
John Y
John YIf you want to take pictures while flying just press ‘V’ on your keyboard. You’ll find the pictures you’ve taken in your ‘My Pictures’ folder.
Hope it helps. Might save downloading a special program:cool:
John Y
John YYes, many of the airports are compatible I believe but strangely not all. There has been a lot of discussion about it in the Horizon forum. Might be worthwhile for you to go on there and have a look. Try the FSX support section. The threads in that may help you. You don’t need to be a scenery purchaser to brouse.
The web site you need is; http://www.horizonsimulation.com/shopuk/
Then go to ‘forums/support’
Hope you find what you’re looking for.
Best wishes.
John Y
John YHi notamuppet – what a name!!:D
Yes, the two you want to look at for England and Wales are Horizon Photographic Scenery (which I have) and Just Flight’s Real Scenery.
I believe there are also terrain sceneries for both Europe and America too.
Be warned. These sceneries are huge and can have a massive hit on frame rates unless you have a lot of RAM, a really good processor and large capacity, fast, and preferably two or three hard disks to put it all on. Dual core is preferable too.
A good way to judge if you have a big enough system is to look at what they recommend for system and at least double it!
Having said all that, I like my Horizon scenery and wouldn’t be without it. However, it does not yet include night lighting, whatever it says on the packet, and neither does it include airports or towns and cities where the default FSX scenery complexity takes over, leading to sometimes interesting effects.:eek: 🙁
Furthermore, the autogen is true aerial photography so there are no trees actually standing up, which is a false impression anyway except when you’re taxiing, taking off and landing, which come to think about it is what it’s all about really isn’t it?:D
My suggestion is that you have a look at both the forums run by these two firms and make up your mind from there. I can only speak for Horizon but you will find we are a really friendly bunch and there’s always someone there willing to help.
Best wishes. Let me know how you get on and if you need any further help, well I check this forum every few days, so I might be able to point you in the right direction.:)
JohnY
John YHi Dandpatta
:confused: Yes, well the real world weather I’m using from both FSX and, only occasionally now, FS9 gives me exactly that and is updated every 15 minutes, so what’s different?
I really can’t see the point of this one unless its been launched for use by people who haven’t got these two programs but frankly I don’t think Microsoft are that altruistic.:dev2:
I must say though that I like using RWW. Strangely, it seems to help frame rates a bit although why it should I have no idea unless it helps spread the load for the processor.
Anyway, I don’t think I’ll bother with this RWW. It caught my eye, that was all and I wondered what it might be used for.:cool:
Best wishes mate. Thanks for replying. For some time it looked as if no-one was interested and I wasn’t going to get a reaction at all.:D
John
John YThanks mate. I’ll try that but it’ll have to be a bit later.
I’ve been struggling with new Horizon VFR scenery and have only just got it working properly. Now I’ve got to sort all the scenery library out so it comes into some semblance of the order I started with and that’s going to take time!!
And please don’t ask why the files got into such a mess. It’s a really long and boring story. All I’ll say is, if you haven’t already got VFR Scenery and feel the need to have it, then for goodness sake put it on a different disk to the one with FSX and make sure you put it on the disk you’re definitely going to keep it on to start with!!;)
I’ll get back to you when I’ve got the ‘no disk’ FS9 job done.
Best wishes
John Y
John YHi Bex
Sorry I’ve taken so long to reply. Holiday.
Thanks for the information. I see, a ‘root’ file is a folder described by a computer expert and a ‘folder’ is the same thing but used by all us others!!!:confused: 😀 :rolleyes:
This is what I’ve got. I’ve my main Flight Sim installation on a separate 120GB ‘D’ disk but on recommendation from Horizon, I’ve the VFR Real Scenery included on a third 250 GB disk that I also use for back up. All three disks are internal, but I do have another 250GB Maxtor external drive which also backs up my records and my quite vast store of photographs.
You can see I believe in ‘safety first’ but does this answer your question?
Best wishes
John Y
John YNo disk operation for FS9
Hi guys
I wouldn’t mind having a go at this but I have a problem. I know nothing about the internal workings of a computer and wouldn’t know where to start to find a ‘root’ file whatever that is.
If you could explain please how I remove one I would be grateful or does that come with the download?
Oh, and since my FS9 is loaded in the same folder as FSX and all the files seem intermingled, would the downloading muck up the FSX or my Horizon VFR Generation X scenery etc?
Best wishes from a computer illiterate.
John Y
John Y😀 Hi Bex & co,
I apologise for butting in and I can’t help with getting a Lancaster off the ground or with bombing missions but I’ve found this thread so highly amusing that I’m writing to ask you both to continue.
John Y
John YHi Mark
Well it’s taken some months but here’s what I’ve done now and it seems to work ok.
I’ve pushed the Scenery complexity and autogen to dense which has given me a lot more buildings, ground traffic and aircraft. To compensate I have brought the distant scenery slider back to the far left instead of medium.
As I tend to keep visibility to 20, or max. 30 miles, that doesn’t seem to make a difference to what I can see as it gives the scene that nice misty appearance. With broken clouds and medium coverage it’s pretty good.
I’ve also brought the traffic sliders up to around the 50% mark and I must say the whole thing has improved the activity feel no end.
As for water, I’ve brought that back to ‘nil’
However, the pay back is that I must admit the ride isn’t quite so smooth even though I’ve pegged the frame rate back to 20. Depending somewhat on what I’m flying, the frames dodge between 19 & 20 most of the time but just occasionally get back to 15 or slightly less.
As it doesn’t affect the flying, take offs and landings too much I think I can live with it like that especially with the good old Beechcraft Baron 58 – what a lovely steady old aircraft that is! The only real jerks I get are when I taxi too fast round the bends so it’s all my fault!
Mind you, I must also admit that I’m still using FS9 a lot. With most of the sliders to the far right and customised weather it’s still really smooth. Probably a bit smoother than a real aeroplane is I seem to remember! But with those settings quite realistic. If it only had better roads with traffic on them I could be tempted not to bother with FSX at all.
Thanks for writing.
Best wishes
John Y
John YHi Mark
Just to answer your questions. Your Bristol Airport sounds full up compared with mine, but with settings on Normal for both complexity and autogen I get the fuel pump and tower together with two large buildings, about half a dozen smaller buildings around the perimeter,several airport vehicles, 3 trucks, the boundary fence, usually one or two moving aircraft, and if I’m lucky one or two parked aircraft, one or two moving aircraft and the occasional moving vehicle. I think it depends somewhat on how the program is cycling. Is that the right word?
As I said, with the ‘Real Scenery’ from Horizon, there was much less than this and from what I’ve seen in the demos, Just Flights airports are just a sparse.
The thing is I simply can’t move the sliders to the far right, well I can but the flying would be dreadful. I think you must have a much more powerful machine than mine, or maybe I’m just too sensitive to lower frame rates. I find if they’re hitting any number below 15 I’m really having a jerky flight. Mostly, with my settings, they hover between 19 and 25 (the locked figure) and only for seconds just occasionally fall below.
best wishes
John Y
John YHi Mark
Of course I don’t mind you replying. I’m glad you did.
The fact is, when I had the Horizon scenery downloaded I left those settings where they were and with Bristol, which I know well as I use it as my home airport, there was only one building and the tower and no aircraft or ground traffic at all.
So I tried Heathrow, but again, while there were one or two buildings and a lone aeroplane, as opposed to when I use FSX alone it seems full up.
Now it is true that I didn’t raise the settings higher because I wasn’t getting a satisfactory simulation as it was without potentially making it worse by moving the sliders further to the right.
Since starting this new thread and because I’ve received no reply at all from Just Flight to one or two queries I raised with them, and although Horizon were very willing to help, it seems to me that it is very early days with these sceneries, so I’ve more or less decided to give them a miss for the time being. I may well have another look at them next year when hopefully, some of the problems with them may have been sorted out.
All the best.
John Y
John YHi
Sorry to but in but I would recommend you also get him a joystick with a twist grip. They’re not too dear from someone like Maplin or Amazon (about £30 or even less but the twist grip is important) and you’ll find once you get used to it, it will make flying so much easier than using the keyboard…..For you too!! Try the Saitek Cyborg Evo.
I also agree FS9 is definitely the program to start with. It even has free flying lessons if you can stand the American twerp of an instructor!
Best wishes to you both and happy flying.
John Y
John YHorizon
Hi Mark
I accept all you say and Paul Chaney at Horizon did kindly offer to help me with the installation too but in the end I decided that frankly I didn’t want the bother, so this afternoon I’ve sent the whole lot back to them.
I do quite like the idea of real world scenery so I’ll keep my eyes open including on Horizon because I do agree with you that eventually maybe they’ll iron out all the niggles and we’ll get a product that works for virtually everyone. Then maybe I’ll try again.
Best wishes
John Y
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