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Bruce Hamilton:
--- Quote from: cmpbllsjc on May 04, 2011, 05:46:54 pm ---Plus their ego turns me off a bit, especially after Mr. Kok made that post a while back showing how big their offices are with all the pics showing the facilities.
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I remember that thread well... then there was the sudden appearence of Winfried, the company CEO. No idea what prompted him to post, when he hadn't in all the previous years. About all I buy from Aerosoft lately is any of the German airport series and AES credits, and I'll probably buy less of those once GSX is released.
As for what TextureFlow is, just ask them. JV has always been very forthcoming with information. ;)
cmpbllsjc:
--- Quote from: meshman on May 05, 2011, 04:25:22 pm ---Sean, that's got to be one of THE best lines I've read in a long time! Nice to chuckle over an early morning cup of coffee.
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Haha, I admit, when I wrote that I didn't think it was that funny, but after reading it again, it is kind of funny, but true!!
--- Quote from: meshman on May 05, 2011, 04:25:22 pm ---I'll refrain from other comments, other than to say I don't have any products, nor will I ever have any products from a particular developer. ???
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Well, if you refering to one of the ones I mentioned I dont blame you, unless of course they make one airport/scenery you just have to have, but proceed with caution since there are no trials or refunds if your not pleased.
I'll be frank regarding Aerosoft and ORBX, I have put them into the "show me" category. Meaning, come up with something that is truely ground breaking (not PeopleFlow or ObjectFlow), looks good and performs well, and maybe I will give it a shot. Until then, I think I will stay away since neither offer sceneries/airports that are in locations that I fly often anyway.
cmpbllsjc:
--- Quote from: Bruce Hamilton on May 05, 2011, 05:14:47 pm ---I remember that thread well... then there was the sudden appearence of Winfried, the company CEO. No idea what prompted him to post, when he hadn't in all the previous years.
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I know what prompted them to post it, their egos. For what other reason would an FS developer do that? They just want to show off a little and reiterate how much stuff they sell and how much money they are making.
--- Quote from: Bruce Hamilton on May 05, 2011, 05:14:47 pm ---About all I buy from Aerosoft lately is any of the German airport series and AES credits, and I'll probably buy less of those once GSX is released.
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I have come so close to pulling the trigger on the AES a few times, but Umberto saved me what could have been a ton of money on AES credit by comming up with GSX :-)
--- Quote from: Bruce Hamilton on May 05, 2011, 05:14:47 pm ---As for what TextureFlow is, just ask them. JV has always been very forthcoming with information. ;)
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LOL, I remember someone did ask them once not long ago and they danced around the issue without ever saying exactly what it was. Basically I have come to the conclusion from doing my own investigation prior to and after "TextureFlow" updates that its just a matter of cleanging up textures as far as more efficient compressions and/or textures size reductions. In addition, adding the ability to turn off the resource hungry ground polys that some of the large airports have and just using the underlying photoreal ground, which imho looks horrible when you land. There's really no mystery when it comes to texturing a model. You can do in with efficient sized textures and compressions or you can do it without those. Since a lot of their original releases where done with less efficient methods, it gave them a new tag line or marketing tool to say that they have now included "TextureFlow".
In a way, I have been adding my own version of "TextureFlow" for years now to my addon sceneries, user a/c and AI, haha.
I guess you could say that FSDT has also come with their own and better version of "TextureFlow" the way they did KDFW and the upcomming KLAX using all the fancy shader techniques :-)
I would bet my bottom dollar as they say, that if ORBX did their own version of KDFW or KLAX the way they did YMML and YBBN, we would all be complaining about how poor the FPS are!
masondom:
Hello guys.
Respectfully just one world to tell you that obviously i didn't ask anythink from Aerosoft.
I put every designer/ editor on the same level and i respect them.
Aerosoft won the first place last week because they kept sending previews.
I love FSDT and OrbX but apart Cushman Meadows, Orbx Road Map didn'move quite a lot since a few months.
ok then i know, i need to make a lot of progress, to improve mysyelf transparency about rules of this barometer. Its a start.
About my post on Amateurs, that has been misinterpreted, it is just that it is a heartbreak to see a new designer sending us news and news and hop, he disappears just like that. No message.
And oh, yes, a lot of mistakes in spelling and grammar but for a few people who didn't understant that, i founded my blog to try improving myself. It has been 5 months.
Hello to my friends
Dom Mason
masondom:
:D oh yes Umberto ;) free from commercial pressure, rest assured !
And you are first for overall quality product (but you already know that for shure !)
best to America
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