Flight1 FS Water; is anyone using this?

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Hi,

I'm *generally* happy with my current water, using a combination of
three different freeware water/reflection enhancements that was
mentioned by someone here a few weeks ago:

1) waterzone.zip for the texture files (env*.bmp)

2) morewatr.zip for the oceanheightfield.bmp

3) vater.zip for the reflection textures

I also have Misty Fjords and MegaScenery PNW, both of which come with
their own water files. The Misty Fjords water looks okay in general
(though still a bit funky at certain times of day especially), and
I'm not entirely convinced that I like what MegaScenery PNW has done
with the water.

Now I see that Flight1 is offering a product called "FS Water", and
I'm curious about it. The screen shots look okay, but I'd still like
to hear from someone who is actually using this water. Is it really
better than all the various freeware water enhancements?

Thanks!

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Flight 1 have recently replaced FSWater with 'Flight Environment', which
does sky, clouds and water. It has a randomiser which lets you change the
combination at the push of a button.

I use it although I have had to manually replace the three inland water
files everywhere I've found them in the package because I don't like the
colour of their inland textures. Being from the UK I need it to look a bit
muddy

FSWater and 'Flight Environment' have both developed from freeware products
produced by Peter Wilding. IMO they don't really give better results than
you can get from freeware, but they are easier to install and the randomiser
allows you to vary the look of the environment with little effort.

Cheers

Jon


"Lawn Dart" <willkayakforfoodREMOVE_THIS@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm *generally* happy with my current water, using a combination of
> three different freeware water/reflection enhancements that was
> mentioned by someone here a few weeks ago:
>
> 1) waterzone.zip for the texture files (env*.bmp)
>
> 2) morewatr.zip for the oceanheightfield.bmp
>
> 3) vater.zip for the reflection textures
>
> I also have Misty Fjords and MegaScenery PNW, both of which come with
> their own water files. The Misty Fjords water looks okay in general
> (though still a bit funky at certain times of day especially), and
> I'm not entirely convinced that I like what MegaScenery PNW has done
> with the water.
>
> Now I see that Flight1 is offering a product called "FS Water", and
> I'm curious about it. The screen shots look okay, but I'd still like
> to hear from someone who is actually using this water. Is it really
> better than all the various freeware water enhancements?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - --
> Melissa
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Hi Jon,

On Sun, 8 May 2005 10:49:39 +0100, you wrote:

> Flight 1 have recently replaced FSWater with 'Flight Environment',
> which does sky, clouds and water.

Thanks for your comments. Since Flight1 offers a 30 day money back
trial, I've installed FS Water to see what it's like. I didn't want
to install "Flight Environment", because I much prefer ActiveSky for
clouds (all the screen shots of "Flight Environment" clouds I've seen
don't look very realistic to me).

I've only taken a couple little flights so far since installing FS
Water, and while it's not perfect, it is interesting; enough so that
I may well consider keeping it. It is different than all the
freeware solutions I've seen so far. I'll spend some time playing
with its various options, and perhaps I'll write my own mini-review
with screen shots in a few days.

Thanks again!

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Melissa

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Melissa,

Flight Environment only changes the texture files for the clouds. So it
does a different thing from Activesky and in fact compliments it in the same
way that some of the freeware cloud textures do...

Anyway, I'm not on comission from Flight 1 so I'll leave it at that )

Jon

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> Hi Jon,
>
> On Sun, 8 May 2005 10:49:39 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> Flight 1 have recently replaced FSWater with 'Flight Environment',
>> which does sky, clouds and water.
>
> Thanks for your comments. Since Flight1 offers a 30 day money back
> trial, I've installed FS Water to see what it's like. I didn't want
> to install "Flight Environment", because I much prefer ActiveSky for
> clouds (all the screen shots of "Flight Environment" clouds I've seen
> don't look very realistic to me).
>
> I've only taken a couple little flights so far since installing FS
> Water, and while it's not perfect, it is interesting; enough so that
> I may well consider keeping it. It is different than all the
> freeware solutions I've seen so far. I'll spend some time playing
> with its various options, and perhaps I'll write my own mini-review
> with screen shots in a few days.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> - --
> Melissa
>
> PGP Public Keys: http://www.freewebs.com/kuviahunnihautik/
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Hi Jon,

On Sun, 8 May 2005 21:22:13 +0100, you wrote:

> Flight Environment only changes the texture files for the clouds. So
> it does a different thing from Activesky and in fact compliments it
> in the same way that some of the freeware cloud textures do...

That's interesting. I wonder if the screen shots on their site, and
several other screen shots I've seen from other Flight Environment
users were using with just the default clouds? Here are some
examples:

First, the screen shots from Flight1:

http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=fe2004

Here are some shots from a Flight Environment user (very similar to
Flight1 screen shots):

http://www.pcaviator.com/megascenery/forums/index.php?showtopic=792

And here are a few of my own screen shots, using ActiveSky, and cloud
textures from FSW "high performance" 32 bit textures:

http://tinyurl.com/b8t7p

http://tinyurl.com/8zsn3

http://tinyurl.com/cpfcg

http://tinyurl.com/b4nbv

http://tinyurl.com/75dda

I'll have to do more flying in various conditions/places/times to find
more directly comparable clouds, but there are already some striking
differences I can see with how the clouds themselves are formed.

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I think you are right that the sample shots of FE you've seen are default
without Activesky running.

When I have a decent screenshot with Activesky running I'll post it for you.
Most of my recent screenshots are looking more or less straight down so
cloud don't figure much

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> Hi Jon,
>
> On Sun, 8 May 2005 21:22:13 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> Flight Environment only changes the texture files for the clouds. So
>> it does a different thing from Activesky and in fact compliments it
>> in the same way that some of the freeware cloud textures do...
>
> That's interesting. I wonder if the screen shots on their site, and
> several other screen shots I've seen from other Flight Environment
> users were using with just the default clouds? Here are some
> examples:
>
> First, the screen shots from Flight1:
>
> http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=fe2004
>
> Here are some shots from a Flight Environment user (very similar to
> Flight1 screen shots):
>
> http://www.pcaviator.com/megascenery/forums/index.php?showtopic=792
>
> And here are a few of my own screen shots, using ActiveSky, and cloud
> textures from FSW "high performance" 32 bit textures:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/b8t7p
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8zsn3
>
> http://tinyurl.com/cpfcg
>
> http://tinyurl.com/b4nbv
>
> http://tinyurl.com/75dda
>
> I'll have to do more flying in various conditions/places/times to find
> more directly comparable clouds, but there are already some striking
> differences I can see with how the clouds themselves are formed.
>
> - --
> Melissa
>
> PGP Public Keys: http://www.freewebs.com/kuviahunnihautik/
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