FS2004:ACOF FAQ

re: FS2004:ACOF FAQ

Christian Stock — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:00:13 GMT

Thanks for the info - much appriciated.

Referring to the shader question - can we (or will we be able to) write our own shaders and use them as textures? - no offense taken if you cannot answer this :)

Christian

re: FS2004:ACOF FAQ

torgo3000 — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 01:27:36 GMT

I will get to that in the FSX FAQ. ;) You will have a lot of power. An incredible amount of power within our new shader pipeline. I can't promise that you will have that much power.

re: FS2004:ACOF FAQ

Omykron — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:33:47 GMT

There is some kind of documentation exclusive to the .air file decoding and editing without the FSEdit?
there are some tables that isn´t possible edit 'cuz there isn´t a logical description of as the change of parameters affects the performance of the aircraft.

I am hopeful that the FSX is friendlier to the flight dynamic engineers of flight simulator.

re: FS2004:ACOF FAQ

Christian Stock — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 01:43:22 GMT

Thanks again.

About the effects, I have a long time problem. I've done some volcano eruption effects, but it seems that the distance cut-off is fixed to 5nm or so. Is there any way to change this (changing the effects.cfg in FS2002 didn't help)?

Christian

re: FS2004:ACOF FAQ

Bjorn Harlin — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:38:39 GMT

Will there be continued support for FS2002 style BGL:s - e.g. scasm compiled BGL:s ?

Best,
Bjorn

Re:"Can I make multiple lclookup tables and have different scenery locations call different lclookups?"

Adrian Esdaile — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:07:52 GMT

Can I make multiple lclookup tables and have different scenery locations call different lclookups?

That sums up my single disapointment with FS2004 - that I cannot make my home country of Australia look much different to SW USA. They use the same LC! I can make Australia look right, but then USA looks wrong, due to the single lclookup table. I would *love* customisable lclookup tables, or at least the provision to write custom ones.

The same goes for Autogen - while possible to create custom autogen, AFAIK without custom lclookup it's not so useful. Also AFAIK the trees all come from one pallete that makes no allowance for eucalypts - which are extremely distinctive often unique to Australia.

To me it all seems simple; hopefully it is! I don't necessarily *need* to have Australia perfect our of the box - there are plenty of avid 3rd party simmers willing to create the content, just as long as the ability to create the content without having to rely on hokey copy-and-overwrite-all-your-textures and make the rest of the world look silly schemes. We used to have to do that in FS4 (remember the Grand Canyon addon - looked great at the time, but needed a TSR colour-mangler to get it to work...) and I am getting tired of doing it...

re: FS2004:ACOF FAQ

Christian Stock — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:12:30 GMT

Adrian:

>That sums up my single disapointment with FS2004 - that I cannot make my home country of Australia look much different to SW USA. They use the same LC!

No, they don't and you CAN make them look different. The world in FS9 is divided into 10 different regions, and Australia uses a different region (and landclass set) than the US. I believe the SDKs describe this very well - in case of doubt read my TMF manual (search the file library at avsim.com for Christian Stock).

re: FS2004:ACOF FAQ

C R Lane — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:15:16 GMT

Is it possible to capture all or most, of the instrumentation data values form an on-going flight. Simular to the flight recorder file *.FSR but which is devotesd to data values and not video playback. The 45 data elements in the FSR visle is insufficient.

Thank you for any information you can give me.

C R (Bud) Lane