Category: Add Ons
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It sure looks good, especially with a bit of Taburet base lighting underneath. It’s like a whole new sim at night.
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My hiatus continues. I’ll be back in the sim next week, and the first thing I will do is download the new North America land class from ORBX. I know it will be a fantastic addition to the sim, and here are a few of the screen caps they’ve issued just to whet the appetite.
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One of the best real world tools that I’ve used for my simulation work and my real world flight training has been ForeFlight, which is an electronic flight bag app that I run on my iPad. I use it to plan routes in PilotEdge, for VFR navigation and charts while flying the sim, and as a backup…
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I’ve been using and playing with the settings and combinations across the new HiFi ActiveSky16, Active Sky Cloud Art, and REX Texture Direct and Soft Clouds. To give a feel of how it all looks from an immersion standpoint, here’s a quick video. And to make it fast (and fun) we take a different ride…
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There’s been a lot of discussion in the sim forums about the new HiFi products, ActiveSky16 and Active Sky Cloud Art, and I noted this commentary earlier. Today I put commentary aside, though, and took some time to fly through convective real-time weather near KMSP and shoot screen shots along the way. (Given the need…
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The big news in the sim world yesterday was the release by HiFi SimTech of ActiveSky16 and Active Sky Cloud Art. The release met mixed reactions by the community, with some simmers thinking the weather engine (AS16) may not have been enough of an upgrade over ActiveSkyNext to be worth the cost, and others thinking…
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I took a night flight to try to compare the ORBX Global, UTX, and Taburet night lighting environments. Scenery layering can be a challenge with this, but I believe I successfully started with ORBX, then went to UTX, then went to UTX and Taburet together. Overall I think the best solution of these would be…
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The folks at HiFi Simulation Technologies have updated their website with pricing for the forthcoming ActiveSky 16 and Cloud Art packages, and have produced a new teaser video as well: With REX also producing new cloud texture and weather management systems, it’s looking to be a great year in the weather department for simulation enthusiasts. I’m…
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AirDailyX.net also links to a solid development status update on all things ORBX from John Venema. Items that caught my eye … Open land class North America appears right around the corner. I can’t wait for this, as it will bring the same quality of land class textures to the US as I currently enjoy when…
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D’Andre Newman at AirDailyX.net has posted a very well done interview with Orbx announcing a forthcoming Buildings HD package that will replace the default building textures in FSX and Prepar3d. This is a huge deal, as the current textures are probably circa 2002. This package follows in the tradition of the Orbx HD Trees package,…
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