Mark Abdey

A very happy birthday to you John

Another super cap from you ydelta

An impressively realistic telephoto shot ydelter.

Great work John. No.2 is a corker.

These are very impressive Iain, showing some superb detail.

Great work Adam, and Cairns is such a stunning place.

Fab, moody, atmospheric caps... and a Spitfire too

Thank very much John, glad you like them Very pleasant flying weather for sure Martyn... cheers. Nice of you to say Jack... I'm pleased with how how looks on the whole. Thank you Adam Thanks Ken. I'd be happy to use it more if the performance was better... perhaps not so much of a problem on a better PC. I need to find some snow and give that feature a try. Thank you kindly Iain. Thanks Capt.... I hope you enjoyed your flight

Thanks Capt :) Yes indeed! I totally agree... no matter how good the LC you can't possibly get the infinite variety of nature [and man] There is always something new to see in TE. Absolutely OND... A great place to explore with floats. Cheers Martyn... Impressive country is most certainly is.

I've certainly found recent iterations of XP11 to be very well optimised, and I hope you find similar results when you go back to it. Thank you very much Mike. I truly think LR and Orbx are a perfect match, bringing us very close to absolute realism..... and it can only get better Hi and thanks Taph... I'm sure you'll be as delighted as I am in what you see. Of course it would be nice to have better hardware, but you don't lose much despite the age of our core hardware. Glad you like them Karoly Thank you Tony... coming from you that means a lot Thank you John, it really is my pleasure.

And it's pretty fair today... although it should be as it's (flaming) June. We had thunder storms yesterday in Devon, and in general it's been rather unseasonal these past days. Anyway, just trying xEnviro 1.10 which has finally added it's true 3D volumetric clouds to X-Plane in their real-time weather app. It can look very good at times, but the clouds are grainy when viewed close up. It also takes over all post processing, taking away any changes made by xVision, and therefore losing control as to how the sim looks... that being said, it does a good job with lighting for the most part. Frame rates are cut in half for me when using it, which is a shame.... I'd say it's an interesting development, that needs more time to mature, and certainly worth a look if you already own it... The clouds are quite pleasing to the eye, and remind me of FSW's trueSKY implementation. Lovely glare effect from the sun. You can see the granular make-up of the clouds towards the top left. Overall lighting is very nicely handled. Thanks for looking.

I shouldn't have mentioned them, as I have a fancy for some too and it's way passed breakfast and lunch... I'll have to settle for a lovely Ceylon curry later... the chef does very tasty coconut filled pancakes

Hi and thank you GolfGuy72.... My experience with XP11.34 and True Earth on my PC is very positive in terms of performance, despite the age of my current setup. Over urban areas I can achieve around 25 to 30+fps and over rural area 50 to 60+fps, which I feel is perfectly acceptable given the above. More current hardware will have no problems running this with both higher settings and screen resolutions... I'm limited to 1080p. I think having 8GB of system RAM is the biggest hindrance, as the sim takes time to settle once the flight is loaded as scenery is still streamed in the background, and I will get some page file swapping at times during a flight.... 16GB should probably be considered the min. My XP settings in the spoiler tab... I will sometimes increase AA and add higher reflections if I feel the need, with AA adding a minimal hit. Three shots, one rural, two urban over Seattle, with data on showing frame rates and frame times... Click to enlarge. Thanks Mark.... Lets hope you don't end up on a desert island... although it sometimes has it's appeal Thanks Jack... The work input, of which I've seen some demonstrated to me, is mind boggling. These guys are doing something very special indeed. Cheers Tim, glad you like the scenery and my caps of it.

Knockout shots

Great work Jack!... As for Little Chefs, their cherry pancakes with ice cream were nice, but otherwise it was all a bit greasy for me, so no great loss.