Mark Cherry wrote:
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Kevin Reilly wrote:

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 Neil E. Baird wrote:

I don't know whats going on. I must have covered every inch of that
island and still cant find those statues. I cranked up all the
settings as high as they go.

That may be part of the problem. With all settings full I couldn't
have found those heads if they'd been jumping up and down and waving
at me. They blend in too well with the terrain textures and
especially the autogen trees.

Trees? On Easter Island? ROFL The curse of auto-gen!

To quote the back of the box :-
"As you fly above cities, towns and phot-realistic airports, you'll
see dramatic landscapes and vegetation taking shape that are *true to
the native terrain*" {my emphasis}. Somebody hasn't done their
research.

And there's trees in Antartica, I've seen them in FS. Autogen at it's
best...NOT!

As any documentary addict (me, for instance) will tell you, there
ain't no trees left on Easter Island. The indigenous people cut them
all down, probably to roll statues from place to place on, until
there were no trees left. (Statue building had become an inter-tribal
competitive sport, the experts reckon). By the time Captain Cook got
there, most of them had starved to death. The remainder were
basically at war and/or eating each other because they couldn't make
boats, or even simple dugout canoes to go fish from.

I wonder what happens with auto-gen as you fly through the Brazilian
rain forest?

Icebergs and Glaciers??

I apologize for this post being of no technical assistance whatsoever
but I couldn't help myself.

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Paul S