Oahu HD beta

[TX-EcoDragon]

I'm finally gonna try it!!!!
I've been wanting to fly Condor for ages, and I finally have a little time!!

Great work Steve, the screenies look sweet - it's downloading now!

[GOZR]

A link to download? possible?

[TX-EcoDragon]

Wow Steve - I just flew around the Island for an hour or so - it's stunning! Really wonderful work, it's a bit like taking a vacation on Oahu!

I'd love it if you could send me the tasks you like on the island, I'll put some up maybe on the TX server again! This sim is still so much fun - I bet we could get Kingsnake in the air again too and generate some server vitality again. I keep thinking how Gunny would probably really enjoy the art of sailplane flight. . .but he's a Gunslinger afterall. . .and what use are guns in a sailplane??? What about the other TX'ers? Any takers?

:-D

I have some screenshots but I just need to figure out why my trees look like shit, they are fugly mustard brown. . .I think it's something on my end as I see this on other maps too. . .but yours is so pretty that it's really a shame to have these fugly trees on it.

Oh and GOZR, the link is posted on page one of this thread. . .

[TX-Gunslinger]

Post some pretty pictures please?

I been to Oahu....

S!

Gunny

[GOZR]

Nope one says..
I stopped my downloadservice due to the fact that Condor Club has not enough donators.

The other
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

[TX-EcoDragon]

Nope one says..
I stopped my downloadservice due to the fact that Condor Club has not enough donators.

The other
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

This doesn't work?

 http://www.gliderracing.com/pub/

[TX-EcoDragon]

Here are some tasks for Steve's awesome scenery!

http://www.condor-club.eu/search/9/;jsessionid=37C5E62DB8DC59AADC350E9CF2F121ED?action=search&name=&scenery=78&tp=-1&pz=-1&window=-1&wind=-2&soaringType=-1&environ=-1&difficult=-1&planeClass=-1&length=-1&timetofinish=-1&clouds=-1&season=-1&time=-1&startType=-1&knuckles=-1&team=-1&taskType=-1&challengeType=-1&orderBy=0

[GOZR]

I can see the Oahu HD v1.0 by Flying Islander ..  is it that one ..?

[TX-ScubaSteve]

Hi guys,

Obviously I've been AWOL way too long.

Thanks Eco for the comments.  Too bad about the shade the trees are rendered as... that's rather odd.

I see you've found the tasks on condor-club.eu for Oahu.  I think the one I uploaded there was one I had based on actual weather conditions back in the summer of 2009.

As for Gunny needing something to shoot at... there is a competition mode where you use "knuckles"--a virtual tail on each player that is rendered to look something like a knotted kite tail.  The idea is to slice off each other's "tails"... The more you cut off [with your wings?] the more points you get.  Kingsnake and I tried it out a couple years ago actually.  Was pretty interesting--talk about energy management in a sailplane dogfight!

Gozr: gliderracing.com is a free place to download scenery.  One advantage too, is that you can download some of the sceneries by bittorrent if you like. We've recently decided on MNS to only host scenery that is realistic and has at least some decent quality, and fits other standards that haven't been completely well defined yet... In any case, it's not a complete list of scenery that's available like you'll find on condor-club.eu.

Yes, that's the scenery Gozr: Oahu HD V1.0 by flying.islander.  I wasn't thinking when when I first signed up to read the forums on condorsoaring.com's site, and selected "flying.islander" as my username.  I've kept my 'heritage' though, by using my callsign for racing online, Competition ID (TXS), and the by line on the scenery's flash screen.    Just the guy who manages the files on his server refers to me by my forum username, and the email address I use for the condor forums.

Just be aware that Condor uses DirectX7--which is unfortunate for a few reasons--one being that Nvidia doesn't fully support backwards compatibility with DX7 graphics in their Vista and Windows 7 drivers.  This means that if you're flying this scenery (the HD version), the sim will eventually crash--usually in 30 minutes or less.  If you fly very low, the sim takes longer to crash--and so chances are you'll crash the glider first.  Fly high, and you'll have only a few minutes....  Options: 1) download the Oahu V1.0 (MNS Version) instead (textures are half the resolution than the original--which of course makes things much grainier--but that's what I'm stuck with since 'upgrading' to windows 7 from XP); or 2)fly on a Windows XP machine; or 3)use an ATI card.

Gunny, here's some screenshots that I have on facebook--mostly just my flash screens... so, not exactly the best--might need to take some more screenshots when I get home.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=633489&l=e68316905f&id=1652433676
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=633490&l=18f04bcdd7&id=1652433676
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=633491&l=2c276d2a19&id=1652433676
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=633492&l=583e52ff65&id=1652433676
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=591526&l=e4dde6d845&id=1652433676
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=591527&l=af4e69c3e6&id=1652433676
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=7910&l=6368745866&id=1652433676
The last picture shows where I was partially done with laying out the area around Pearl Harbor, and before color correcting the photos.

[TX-EcoDragon]

TX server going up shortly with Oahu task as I posted earlier. Kingsnake is on, I hear Steve is coming. . .

ScubaSteve, we're on TS3 now, IP: 69.56.198.2:9987

[TX-Kingsnake]

Knuckles would have been a great idea. Lets try that. Best add-on scenery I've seen. Beats FSX Hawaii add-on. Beats IL2 Pearl Harbor too.

[TX-ScubaSteve]

Thanks Kingsnake.