BrentBeale 0 Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Nice! I've been looking forward to this all summer since you announced last spring that you would be working on this for FSX!! Brent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockitglider 0 Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 Hello, Lookin good, Here here on the Florida location! Rockitglider 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrentBeale 0 Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Mathijs Any update on when this will be available? The Aerosoft newsletter I received a few weeks ago indicated 'last week'! Thanks Brent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars Peter Hammer 0 Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 I'm also a bit currious. There isn't that many helicopters for FSX - so I'm looking forward to this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted October 2, 2007 Author Aerosoft Share Posted October 2, 2007 Mathijs Any update on when this will be available? The Aerosoft newsletter I received a few weeks ago indicated 'last week'! Thanks Brent Yes, and right after that was taken to hospital to get my gall bladder removed (gall stones bad, morphine good!). So we lost a solid week there. At this moment the choppers are done, manual is done, we are just trying to complete the ships and the ship placement module (it uses Google Earth, real cool). The problem is that one of the main people will be on holiday next Monday so we are scrambling to get files to him in time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrentBeale 0 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Yes, and right after that was taken to hospital to get my gall bladder removed (gall stones bad, morphine good!). So we lost a solid week there. At this moment the choppers are done, manual is done, we are just trying to complete the ships and the ship placement module (it uses Google Earth, real cool). The problem is that one of the main people will be on holiday next Monday so we are scrambling to get files to him in time. Sorry to hear of your illness and I'm amazed that you have recovered so quickly. I'm anxious to get this and the screenshots you've been posting have only stoked that interest! Cheers, B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars Peter Hammer 0 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 I'm Sorry to hear of your illness as well Mathjis. I hope that you have recovered fully. Thanks for the headsup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB 11 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Hey Mathijs, get well soon. Health first. Health second. ...and health last! Take care - we need to see you in Paderborn in a couple of weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinFlyer 8 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Yes, and right after that was taken to hospital to get my gall bladder removed (gall stones bad, morphine good!). So we lost a solid week there. At this moment the choppers are done, manual is done, we are just trying to complete the ships and the ship placement module (it uses Google Earth, real cool). The problem is that one of the main people will be on holiday next Monday so we are scrambling to get files to him in time. When Shaun talked about you taking a short but necessary break I was thinking about a nice short holiday. Didn't know it was that serious :| . Hope all goes well now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intrepid 2 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I ..WE All Hope everything has gone well with your adventure , Lars ,Chris and Vinflyer are right Health first .. all the best Randy,, ps I think most of us would be lost without your assistance and guidance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slipstream 0 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Get well soon Mathij, can't wait for the release by the way, keep up the good work. BTW whats happening in Paderborn? I was posted their in the 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT 0 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Mathjis, A family member just had that same surgery so I understand how it would mess you up for a while. Good to see you are back on your feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted October 5, 2007 Author Aerosoft Share Posted October 5, 2007 Mathjis, A family member just had that same surgery so I understand how it would mess you up for a while. Good to see you are back on your feet. Guys, I am up and about, working 12 hour days on the Seahawk, stop wishing me well. Spend the day completing the manual and testing the hover mode. For the first time ever I managed to hover fully manual (!) without ANY (!) external view. So just on instruments, for 30 seconds and when I landed I was at most 20 feet from my starting location. Proud as a dog with two willies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrentBeale 0 Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Guys, I am up and about, working 12 hour days on the Seahawk, stop wishing me well. Spend the day completing the manual and testing the hover mode. For the first time ever I managed to hover fully manual (!) without ANY (!) external view. So just on instruments, for 30 seconds and when I landed I was at most 20 feet from my starting location. Proud as a dog with two willies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris B. 120 Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Proud as a dog with two willies. I thought My Opa was the only person that said that!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolb 0 Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 So how is this on frame rates. See alot of indication this may take big hit on FPS. Good indication would be to compare to the FPS for default plane. Example: if you get XX fps with default plan, what is the FPS with this product. Thanks. Only reason Iam asking, is that I have an older CPU, but new 8800gts card. Thanks! BTW: this looks amazing, hope I can run it okay, would love to add this to my addon colection. Even with the new helicopter that is coming with Acceleration. Downloaded the manual, and this does look amazing, great job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted October 11, 2007 Author Aerosoft Share Posted October 11, 2007 So how is this on frame rates. See alot of indication this may take big hit on FPS. Good indication would be to compare to the FPS for default plane. Example: if you get XX fps with default plan, what is the FPS with this product. Thanks. Only reason Iam asking, is that I have an older CPU, but new 8800gts card. Thanks! BTW: this looks amazing, hope I can run it okay, would love to add this to my addon colection. Even with the new helicopter that is coming with Acceleration. Downloaded the manual, and this does look amazing, great job! The chopper itself is heavy on frames, no doubt about that. It is very well optimized, but you are just paying for the amount of polygons that are drawn. In the same location I get around 35 fps in the SH and 55 to 60 in the default Bell 206. About what I would expect. Keep in mind that in there are about double the objects to draw and a lot more code for the gauges. A nice figure, to get this chopper back into FS9 (no plans for that of course) would mean dropping 50% of the textures and almost 35% of the modeling. In FS2004 we simply maxed out the options, the compiler would not allow any more complexity so we did not have a crew member behind the sonar console, we could not even add a co pilot. For the FSX version we could all add that (and the DX10 version will be even faster and better looking). But to answer you... yes, it's heavy on frames, but as you fly it probably a lot over water and some of the ships are really light on frames, you'll be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolb 0 Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Thanks for the quick reply, thats not to bad of a drop off in FPS, nice job. I have a DX10 card (Nvidia 8800GTS) and with SP2, should see a nice improvement in FPS, so this should be very usable for my system. Think I might have to get this now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted October 11, 2007 Author Aerosoft Share Posted October 11, 2007 Thanks for the quick reply, thats not to bad of a drop off in FPS, nice job. I have a DX10 card (Nvidia 8800GTS) and with SP2, should see a nice improvement in FPS, so this should be very usable for my system. Think I might have to get this now! Got the same card... you will love it in a few months when FSX fully starts to use DX10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolb 0 Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Yea, I have been looking at alot of the post with pics of Acceleration(SP2) and it look amazing. And the over 20% improvement with DX10 and the shadows look great, cant wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolb 0 Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Just downloaded this last nighy, WOW great job. This thing is amazing. Your info about the FPS was very accurate. I went to normal airport I goto, and default Bell was about 25fps, and Seahawk was about 19fps, this is better than I was thinking it would be. Great job. I have flow over large airports and landing on boats with all scenery turned on, and still get about 17 fps. This is with haveing almost all of the other settings at High Medium settings. Love this bird, cant wait to figure it out, but giving it time, only have about 2 hours sofar, but I know what I will be doing all weekend now though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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