Skipper
2887
Some extreme detail above Colorado …
And a nice quiet landing in Safford, AZ:
Pedro
2888
Excellent, thanks for this. I grabbed the TBM and Savage Cub liveries early, and haven’t bothered with it since they added (?) the Discord requirement. Hoping to spend some time in the C152 so this is nice.
Skipper
2889
No worries. Trying to save you guys the time of connecting via Discord, getting approval and grabbing it there.
Love that Colorado shot’s lush valley. I’m guessing that used to be a river? I don’t see any water flowing through that valley now though.
@Skipper Thanks for the liveries! Still on my list to sit down and really play this game. Too much to do.
There’s definitely a river bed there, hard to tell if any water’s flowing from this height.
Skipper
2893
I thought the same thing but I truly don’t know exactly where it is. It was a good contrast between those mountains and the valley though. I’ve taken to doing longer flights again and you get some really cool scenes that just pop up out of nowhere.
Like, why is the Arizona State University campus literally beside a small mountain?
Why does the Pittsburgh airport terminal look so strange?
Why are the rolling hills of West Virginia so gorgeous in the morning?
I really love the Carbon Savage mod. It’s totally made the Savage into a plane that just grabs you and says “Let’s go for an adventure!”
So I took it for a flight from Kelowna to Kamloops yesterday in rather patchy weather.
These are the sort of conditions where the weather engine in the sim just excels. I could actually see, and avoid (or not, if I chose to) individual areas of isolated rain. Like ahead of me here.
Even saw a freaking rainbow along the way. (A little hard to spot, I didn’t catch it for a while… valley in the center of the frame.)
Did some short field landings on a couple of private strips I downloaded.
This particular approach is amazing. Low over the river and trying to keep a gentle crosswind from blowing me into the trees.
And then headed on to Kamloops, but not before trying something really stupid. Because it’s just a game, after all.
Skipper
2895
Which reminds me I need to load that up!
Gorgeous screenshots, that sounds like a nice and fun trip, even with the tip up. Can I ask how/where you save those? I should do the same. The forum cuts the resolution down so much that a huge chunk of detail is lost.
Thanks!
I screenshot using Shadowplay, then go through them afterwards and use ShareX to automate uploading the ones I want to share to ImgBB, which I find more pleasant to use than Imgur. I have ShareX set up as a context menu item, so I can right click on any image in explorer and “Upload with ShareX”, and it’ll be sent to my ImgBB account with the URL put into my clipboard for ready pasting.
Skipper
2897
I’m totally going to steal this method, thank you for the explanation.
Pedro
2898
I was checking out the Zion NP scenery mod…
…and thought I’d do a @kaosfere and test out landing on this butte…
…but whatever way it’s done, the textures are overlaid on the existing topography and you clip straight through into the original scenery. Oops.
The parts of Zion that are there are amazing looking, but designed to be come at from the south, I think. I was approaching from the northwest and it’s a little dodgy from that end. Lots of loading deformations.
A lot of stuttering at Zion with the scenery mod. The same fella’s Bryce Canyon is very well done, though a few small stutters at the start.
Editer
2899
A lot of those scenery mods are Google Earth rips that don’t properly incorporate LODs to keep frame rate up, unfortunately.
Pedro
2900
Ah, I see! The Zion one is 2.6 GB unzipped, so I can sympathise.
Yep, some of these look nice but will kill your machine.
The Yosemite Valley scenery is heavy, but the guy has put a lot of work into trying to optimize it as much as possible. He has work left to do, but it’s not just a naive Google rip, it’s pretty decent. He’s also, in the latest versions, actually added teraformed terrain just under the scenery models so you can (sort of) land on it.
One of my passtimes with the Carbon Savage recently has been to just take it out over towns and land on soccer pitches and small parks and such. A particular favorite of mine is in Inverness; there’s one particular patch of grass behind a large building and beside some houses that I’ve probably done scores of passes over.
I’m putting together a little video of some STOL and aerobatic antics there in the Savage. Its STOL performance really is insane. Here’s a freeze from the the video just after a touchdown. Look at the highlighted values in the Gees panel on the top left. Yes, that’s a 16kt ground speed at touchdown. (With a 10kt headwind, but still!)
Bonkers. I just wish Gees showed landing roll. It would be all of about 5 feet. :)
Matt_W
2903
So you’re saying you can just tie a string to it and run really fast to get it airborne
Pretty much, yeah. This is a take off run at a version of EGPR that’s set up for STOL contests. Each hash mark is about 2.5 meters, so with no wind and half tanks of fuel it took off in about 25 meters.
(And that’s without any of the standard distance-reducing tricks like dropping flaps on the run. It’s really hard to take off and land smoothly when you’re only watching from the side, as it is. Not that there’s much distance to chop off anyway.)
That mountain is called “A” Mountain by ASU students, because it has a 60 ft tall letter “A” on it.
I think the mountain was there first.
