Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-03-01 Thread Olivier
Hi geneb, all, De : geneb ge...@deltasoft.com Envoyé le : Jeudi 28 février 2013 15h41 It's a best foot forward kind of thing.  The quintessential default airplane in MSFS has been the 172.  The default set of airplanes in FG should be the absolute best of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-03-01 Thread Renk Thorsten
Hi Vivian, That's really good to hear - but if we are falling behind in some respect then we will make an effort to improve. I am reminded that the flag and wake shaders are inoperative when Atmospheric Light Scattering is activated. With the departure of Emilian, I see no prospect

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-28 Thread Vivian Meazza
Thorsten aka Renk wrote: -Original Message- From: [mailto:thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi] Sent: 28 February 2013 07:57 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo Renk, you should take a look at the default Cessna 172 in FG and it's mate in FSX

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-28 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi Thorsten, :) On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Renk Thorsten wrote: My problem is that I often know very well how X is implemented in FG, I may suspect that it's not in FSX or X-Plane, but since I'm not running X-Plane or FSX with all addons I don't really know for a fact if it is a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-28 Thread geneb
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Renk Thorsten wrote: Renk, you should take a look at the default Cessna 172 in FG and it's mate in FSX. The FSX version wipes the floor with the FG version with respect to the cockpit model. (I'd really appreciate if you guys would call me on first-name basis

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-27 Thread Vivian Meazza
Stefan Seifert wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2013 07:42:19 Renk Thorsten wrote: * A big plus about the FSX terrain is that it doesn't have landclass seams. That makes it quite a bit nicer to look at from above. It's not so impressive from close-up, and all in all, I would conclude that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-27 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday 27 February 2013 09:10:01 Vivian Meazza wrote: Linear features for the scenery (roads, railways, rivers) are already under development for FG: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57645542/fgfs-screen-129.png That is a small area of Kent, UK. It is very possible to use the accurately

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-27 Thread Kleo G .
Cool review Renk! Regarding FDMs: I was at a friend's this christmas and since he had just bought X-Plane 10, I had the chance to test it with C172 to see how it handles... FG clearly wins here since on X-plane there was not even a slight 'adverse yaw' (aileron-breaking) attitude when turning

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-27 Thread Renk Thorsten
A small addition: what has always bothered me about terrain in FG is that roads and rivers are all the same size. Good point. That wasn't really apparent from the FSX demo (not so many roads of different size in the Caribbean). I think rivers are less of an issue in CORINE based custom

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-27 Thread Vivian Meazza
Renk Thorsten wrote: ... snip * Models of trees and of the aircraft carrier in the vicinity where largely on par. Probably FSX has more graphical artists and the quality of for instance tree textures seems to be a bit better, but the technique is otherwise pretty similar. I liked seeing a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-27 Thread geneb
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Renk Thorsten wrote: Following a forum discussion, I finally became curious and tested the FSX demo version yesterday. I've spent about two hours flight with it, testing 3 different planes (the ultralight, the Baron and the Learjet) and had a look at different weather

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-27 Thread geneb
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Stefan Seifert wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2013 07:42:19 Renk Thorsten wrote: * A big plus about the FSX terrain is that it doesn't have landclass seams. Is this why there's such a hard edge on the coastlines? g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-27 Thread Vivian Meazza
I wrote: Renk Thorsten wrote: ... snip * Models of trees and of the aircraft carrier in the vicinity where largely on par. Probably FSX has more graphical artists and the quality of for instance tree textures seems to be a bit better, but the technique is otherwise pretty

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-27 Thread Renk Thorsten
Renk, you should take a look at the default Cessna 172 in FG and it's mate in FSX. The FSX version wipes the floor with the FG version with respect to the cockpit model. (I'd really appreciate if you guys would call me on first-name basis 'Thorsten'...) That's a question of what a fair

[Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-26 Thread Renk Thorsten
Following a forum discussion, I finally became curious and tested the FSX demo version yesterday. I've spent about two hours flight with it, testing 3 different planes (the ultralight, the Baron and the Learjet) and had a look at different weather conditions and daytimes around TNCM. The