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Originally Posted by phillip.ed
I have known about this FSX addon for a while now, and apparently it's awesome ( I can't comment first hand though )
It's called Real-Environment-Xtreme (REX) and it looks quite amazing. Just look at those clouds
I mean, with SoW's particle physics, working in collaboration with a company like this could produce great results (although maybe not free results...)
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REX is wonderful, but within the confines of the FS-X engine it's akin to putting lipstick on a pig.
FS-X is a wonderful tool for generating
screenshots, but you have to bear in mind that these are largely 2D images which do a crazy dance if you try and get in among them - FS-X just isn't build for properly volumetric clouds and whilst you can generate some stunning flat images with burnt-in shadows on the ground and REX clouds behind you, they don't look nearly as good in close-up motion as they do in a still.
I'd take less detail in properly rendered 3D clouds any day!
(although, having said that, whilst the lighting looks great in the screenshots we've seen so far from SoW, the clouds are an area that worry me.... hoping for some more exciting atmospherics to be revealed in future updates)
Cheers, Spinner
09-20-2010, 08:45 PM
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