[jhb] Re: FAO Gerry - FSX Farmstrips
- From: "Paul" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:40:48 -0000
Your answer is not straight forward.
When updating the farms Gerry incorporated within them some of the trees
from Earthsims Treescapes as well as some specially created third party
static objects for which permission was given to distribute to JHB members.
They were made available to JHB members via a direct download from his site
at the time. I also added a few of my own:
Abergavenny
Bentley Farm (Coal Aston)
East Leys Farm (Bridlington),
Hollym (near Hornsea on the east coast),
Kemeys Commander,
North Reston,
Thorne
Stanton
Again, these were circulated to JHB members only mainly because I didn't
want the hassle of customer support were anyone to have issues using them,
an issue Gerry had encountered with users of his strips when the FSX serial
patches were released because of the transparency issue.
A few years ago I helped Mick Stacey (another JHB member but not on the
e-mail list) set up FSX, Gen-X scenery and Treescapes while screensharing on
Skype but installing the farmstrips would have required several hours. To
simplify matters I created two self installers one each of my Farmstrips and
Static Objects folders. I then uploaded them to a now lapsed web server I
kept and sent him the links which he then used.
As the installers are automated versions of Gerry and my own farms together
with additional Static Objects I had they contain some copyrighted material
which cannot be made generally available. I know Gerry had permission to
distribute the specially created static objects to JHB members but there is
also the use of the Earthsim trees which anyone with Treescapes already has
a licence to use (through their purchase of Treescapes). As such both
installers contain copyrighted material which cannot be made generally
available. Hence when asked by Phil I restricted the distribution to
individual requests from JHB members.
Paul
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From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Peter Dodds
Sent: 29 December 2014 08:59
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: FAO Gerry - FSX Farmstrips
As you may or may not remember, CIX VFR Club carry the farmstrips as a
publicly available download, done with Gerry's permission about 6years ago
when the Club did a tour of all 98 farms (2008). The FS9 version and the
FSX version are on the site. However, it has never been updated, so the FSX
version still has the Gerrish Grey Trees.
What do I need to update the FSX version to match Treescapes then , Gerry or
Paul?
Frank (Fisher) has just completed a mammoth task compiling all the farms for
X-Plane, although we haven't uploaded it to our site yet.
Peter
Gerry Winskill <mailto:gwinsk@xxxxxxx>
27 December 2014 14:05
My memory isn't what it was but I have a sneaky feeling I removed quite a
few trees, to reduce impact on fps, when Treescapes came on the scene.
Treescapes trees also looked more realistic.
Gerry Winskill
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Phil <mailto:phil.reynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reynolds
27 December 2014 13:17
Paul,
You just beat me to it...was just about to ask about the trees with the lack
of transparency!
I also resorted to a quick(ish) reinstall of FS9 to get the 54 texture
files. However I only found 5 files starting with "tree"?
I'll hold off doing any more and wait for the impending link.
Many thanks
Phil
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Paul <mailto:paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
27 December 2014 12:33
Having uploaded the files and sent Phil the link something was nagging me
that this wasn't as straight forward as it might seem. Then the penny
dropped, the Gerrys original FSX farmstrips included Gerrish Grey trees and
there is a transparency issue with these once you install FSX SP1/2.
Instead Gerry replaced them with AGN files tailored to fit with Earthsims
Treescapes.
Some time ago Mick Stacey asked me about installing the farms for FSX when
he got hold of Treescapes and I recalled I created two auto installers for
him to simplify the process, one of just the farms and associated agn files,
the second with a Static Objects Library. The former file is only 4,917kb,
the second a whopping 246,591kb.
I'm uploading to dropbox as I write and I'll PM the links to Phil when
complete. If anyone else requires them let me know.
Paul
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