> Renk, you should take a look at the default Cessna 172 in FG and it's > mate in FSX. The FSX version wipes the floor with the FG version with respect > to the cockpit model.
(I'd really appreciate if you guys would call me on first-name basis 'Thorsten'...) That's a question of what a fair comparison is. I'm going to assume that whoever put a demo version from FSX together has specifically chosen scenery and airplanes in the demo to impress users. So my standard of comparison is not 'How does the same airplane or the same scenery in FG look like' because I regard that as unfair - they got to chose, we didn't. My standard of comparison would be - if I were to put together a FG demo to impress users, how would that compare? You are certainly right with the c172, but the fair comparison is e.g. our DR-400 against the FSX C-172, and FG is going to win that one. It doesn't matter so much that many aircraft in FG can not measure up to that standard - I don't usually fly them. We have 20-30 really high quality aircraft, and I doubt FSX has that many out of the box. If you count addons, we can field all the non-GPL hangars in return, where I believe T4T is doing some really impressive warbirds... If you're going into comparing 'the same' (scenery, aircraft,...) than my next question would be - FG has beautiful scenery in central Iran with the Middle-East texturing definitions. I doubt FSX out of the box has any scenery there at all. So we're winning flat out in many cases by virtue of having scenery everywhere. It doesn't make too much sense to me to go into that direction. > One thing I'd really like to see put together is a "The Hidden Secrets of > FlightGear" page that illustrates all the little bits that people aren't > necessarily aware of. Things like the hard science behind a lot of the > things FG tries to get right that "other" simulation software completely > ignores or fakes poorly. We've sort of started this here http://wiki.flightgear.org/Unique_Features My problem is that I often know very well how X is implemented in FG, I may suspect that it's not in FSX or X-Plane, but since I'm not running X-Plane or FSX with all addons I don't really know for a fact if it is a genuinely unique feature or if there is a 3rd party addon to FSX/X-Plane which provides the same thing. And we would want to be factually correct here. > While we wait for the FSX screenshot, I'd like to see the FSX > equivalents of these as well: Honestly, I have no clue how to make a screenshot in FSX... and I don't want to fiddle around with it much longer, suffice to say it gave me some ideas how the GUI could be, but it doesn't draw me in in any way. And you'll not going to find me argue that the Vinson doesn't measure up. It's a spectacular model, and I do love doing carrier ops in FG. Cheers, * Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
