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On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:34:19 +0100, 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. Yes, I guess I should have been more specific about this. The real "Isla de Pascua" (a quite literal translation of "Easter Island") apparently does not have many trees, as I learned here, just like you do now.. ;-) Try turning autogen off, leave other scenery settings on high, then drop terrain specs (mesh detail, texture size etc.) to minimum. Now fly SLOWLY around the coast. Once you spot a head you can crank the details back up. Alternatively, go to the coordinates in the screen shot: http://www.denali.org.uk/fs2004/easter.jpg Indeed, from the runway, you could even taxi to some statues, following the 'roads'. If you go northeast from the tower, starting a clockwise tour around the island, you'll find groups of statues every mile or so. -- Groeten, Boudewijn. |
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Hi Boudewijn,
Or d/l the Jaguar XK120 car and drive around? Regards, John "Boudewijn van Ingen" wrote in message ... On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:34:19 +0100, 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. Yes, I guess I should have been more specific about this. The real "Isla de Pascua" (a quite literal translation of "Easter Island") apparently does not have many trees, as I learned here, just like you do now.. ;-) Try turning autogen off, leave other scenery settings on high, then drop terrain specs (mesh detail, texture size etc.) to minimum. Now fly SLOWLY around the coast. Once you spot a head you can crank the details back up. Alternatively, go to the coordinates in the screen shot: http://www.denali.org.uk/fs2004/easter.jpg Indeed, from the runway, you could even taxi to some statues, following the 'roads'. If you go northeast from the tower, starting a clockwise tour around the island, you'll find groups of statues every mile or so. -- Groeten, Boudewijn. |
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 09:41:55 +1000, "John Ward"
wrote: Hi Boudewijn, Or d/l the Jaguar XK120 car and drive around? It "skids" around, rather than driving, in my experience. ;-) But yes, that is an option. ;-) [snip] -- Groeten, Boudewijn. |
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I think its readme files say something about having AutoRudder on, or is it
off - anyway. :-)) Regards, John "Boudewijn van Ingen" wrote in message ... On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 09:41:55 +1000, "John Ward" wrote: Hi Boudewijn, Or d/l the Jaguar XK120 car and drive around? It "skids" around, rather than driving, in my experience. ;-) But yes, that is an option. ;-) [snip] -- Groeten, Boudewijn. |
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In article , Boudewijn van
Ingen said: Yes, I guess I should have been more specific about this. The real "Isla de Pascua" (a quite literal translation of "Easter Island") apparently does not have many trees, as I learned here, just like you do now.. ;-) Does anyone here know *why* there are so few trees? And since at least one person in this thread has found a statue (upturned), I wonder if should be called Easter Egg Island? Sometimes I crack myself up. -- Neil Trotter, Canewdon, UK |
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Neil Trotter wrote in
: In article , Boudewijn van Ingen said: Yes, I guess I should have been more specific about this. The real "Isla de Pascua" (a quite literal translation of "Easter Island") apparently does not have many trees, as I learned here, just like you do now.. ;-) Does anyone here know *why* there are so few trees? The consensus at this point seems to be "because they were all cut down". If you dig around at http://jcolavito.tripod.com/lostcivilizations/id12.html, you can find some mention of the tree issue. Best to ignore everyting related to the nutcase von Daniken (repeatedly misspelled on this page). With trees on the island, moving and erecting the statues becomes less of a mystery. - Al. -- To reply, insert dash in address to separate G and I in the domain |
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In . ca,
Bill Irvine wrote: Rapanui: http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~ito-nori/e11.htm Easter Island is one of the most isolated places on Earth. The island is over 3,000Km far from nearest lands, Tahiti and Chile. Sorry to quibble about the definition of 'nearest land' but Sala-y-Gomez island is less than 5° away (~300nm), to the east; Ducie Island is about 15° to the west. Then you've got Pitcairn Island, Totegegie (which has an NDB on it) and the islands of the Tuamoto ridge between there and Tahiti. For literal remoteness, maybe Ascension Island (which has an airbase), or Bouvetoya (Antarctic Ocean, approx S55 E003:30) could give it a run for its money? In as far as Easter Island's neighbouring isles being inaccessable by air, to all but helicopters and only then if they've got the range, then you've got a point. fs9: SCIP Mataveria, 11000' runway Isla de Pascua; S27*09 W109*26 Landed there not so long ago on a RTW flight, in FS98. Quite a long drag, from Santiago, even in a 757. FWIW, the stone heads have been present in the default scenery since FS98, AFAIK. -- regards, Mark |
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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. 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? I apologize for this post being of no technical assistance whatsoever but I couldn't help myself. -- regards, Mark |
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Mark Cherry wrote:
In , 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. -- Paul S |
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 Mark Cherry wrote:
Trees? On Easter Island? ROFL The curse of auto-gen! Well to be fair there are one or two scattered around. Probably planted quite recently by resort owners and well-meaning environmentalists but they are there. Some good photos at http://www.islandheritage.org/ But granted it's nothing like the virtual forest that FS renders. Maybe there's a wishful-thinking tree-hugger on the FS scenery team? -- Kev __________________________________________________ ________________________ "Because elderly people find it difficult to climb the hill at Castle Green, Kenilworth, a seat is to be provided at the top by the District Council." Local newspaper |
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