FSBreak 43: John Venema and Holger Sandmann talk about FTX NA Blue, Repaint Contest Winners, and More!

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DATE : Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:24:50 +0000
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Hosted byEric McClintock,Danton Berube, Brendan Farmer,Mark Stewart, and special guestsJohn Venema,Holger Sandmann, andBill Womack.Listen Here:Download HereWe talk with John, Holger, and Bill about FTX and the Pacific NorthwestThe A2A Simulations Piper Cub and Orbx's FTX NA Blue make the ultimate companions!Listen to the first part of the show for an entire interview with John Venema and Holger Sandmann ofOrbx Simulation Systems, creators of FTX AU and the much awaitedPacific Northwest (PNW) scenery. We also talk withBill Womackabout the Pacific Northwest region too!If you're following this project at all, you're not going to want to miss this episode. Listen to this week's show for several surprises!Also, Eric wanted to share just a few of his screen shots from thePNW region using FTX NA Blue, check our gallery here. Of course a huge thanks to Orbx for letting us bring this content for you. "Around The World" Repaint Contest WinnersOver the past few weeksAerosoftwas nice enough to lend us their user base and offer a free download to anyone who did a repaint of theCarenado Mooney M-20Jfor the upcoming "Around The World" flight. (Check out ourPBY CatalinaorDiscus Glider XReviews if you need some ideas for your free download!). The grand winner got an additional two downloads (Three Total) and three runner ups got one additional download (Two total). And here are the results!!First Place (3 Downloads) - KuroclEric's Pick (2 Downloads) - RedEyeBrendan's Pick (2 Downloads) - FourtyFreakMark's Pick (2 Downloads) - GuenseliAll winners should be contacted shortly.Here is the original thread!And here are all of the entries, good work everyone!First Place:RedEye (Runner Up):FourtyFreak (Runner Up):Guenter (Runner Up):Other Entries:Want More AU Burger Flying?Well, we are extending the usual $100 Hamburger updates since it took longer than usual to getthe last one up. But Steve has also published a second flightwhich you can download here to hold you over!Thanks Steve!RecommendationsDanton: FSXMark07& Fraps 2.9.Set Up of FSBreaks's FSXMark07 Challenge!Download:Fraps 2.9Download:FSXMark071) Download and install FRAPS 2.9.2) Configure FRAPS FPS options as follows:A) Disable Overlay Display HotkeyB) Set Benchmarking Hotkey to PC) Leave "Only Update Once a Second" offD) Set benchmark to automatically stop after 300 secondsE) Check box to save "MinMaxAvg" statistics3) Download FSXMark07.zip and unzip the contents into your "Documents/Flight Simulator X Files" folder4) Under Settings in FSX, customize the Graphics settings to:A) Target Frame Rate: Unlimited (far right)B) Full Screen Resolution: to 1280 x (800 or 768 or 720, depending on your screen proportions) x 32C) Advanced Animations: OND) Light Bloom: OFFE) Preview DirectX 10: OFFF) Lens Flare: ONG) Global texture resolution: HighI) Anti-Aliasing: ONJ) Filtering: Anisotropic5) Click OK and at main Settings window, set Aircraft, Scenery, Weather, and Traffic all to Medium High6) Load FSX and select Free Flight7) Click "Load", select FSXMark07 in the saved flights, and click "Fly Now"8) When the game is ready, it will be paused. Hit "P" which will unpause the autopilot flight and start the benchmarking at the same time. Let the autopilot fly the plane!9) After 5 minutes, the yellow FRAPS frame counter will reappear to show benchmarking is complete10) Right click the FRAPS icon in your system tray to see your benchmarks11) Post a screenshot of the results!Brendan: http://www.protu-154.com/index_e.html Project Tupolev Tu-154MEric: Two PicksFirst: FSX.cfg modification to make autogen easier to handle (Credit: John from Orbx):This simple tweak will limit the number of autogen trees being displayed whilst still allowing you to have a high autogen slider setting.Add the following two lines to your [TERRAIN] section in your fsx.cfg file:[TERRAIN]TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_TREES_PER_CELL=1000TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_BUILDINGS_PER_CELL=1000Second Pick: http://ninite.com - Eaisly Load Programs to Your new or Rebuilt computerE-Mails& Voice MailsVoice Mail about "Yugo" GPU's from Ben SupnikThanks for the voice mail -Check out that page here!Microsoft ESPAre you aware the Microsoft is selling an advanced flightsimulator called Microsoft ESP? See: http://www.microsoft.com/esp/default.htmThere is also an article about it in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue of "Airliners." I will scan and forward you this article for your review.Perhaps this is something that FS Break listeners may be interested in?All the best and keep up the great work!Russ Tillman Thanks for the tip Russ - We did know about ESP, however ESP was also canned with ACES. From theirwebsite:Microsoft has ceased further development of Microsoft® ESP™, but ESP remains available to customers and partners.  Microsoft is currently exploring 3rd party licensing options for the future of ESP and will announce details at the appropriate time.Also, does anyone know how ESP was different from FSX other than the name change?

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