FSDreamTeam CYVR
01/11/2011
Hi Everyone-
Congrats to FSDT for choosing YVR as their next FSX airport project. If it is anything like their other sceneries, it will be a beautiful project to behold.
Personally my take on flight simulation is that there is no point in bothering if the whole thing is a slideshow. FSX is a ~5 year old piece of software which to this day will not run satisfactorily even on the most up to date hardware. FSDT choosing to build CYVR for FSX gives me even more reason to not bother converting my scenery to FSX!
So, to answer all the questions I’ve been recieving lately about whether FSDT’s announcement changes anything…the answer is effectively no! you can continue looking forward to the release of my scenery.
Also, I am empathetic of the frustration many of you are feeling because of the length of time my project has been under development. I feel your pain, and have spent many years watching major developers make promises about release dates and break them time and time again. For an avid FS’er it is one of the most frustrating things! However, I am not a major developer. I do not have a team of experts taking photos for me, modelling buildings, editing textures etc. Its just me, and this is a hobby! Don’t forget, most of my time is taken up flying the damn things for a living (tough life)!!
Now, here are some YVR screenshots.
Have a great week!
-Jonathan
HELL YEAH BABY!!!!!! AWESOME STANCE! Night textures looks great!
Hey Jon, glad to see your still around. I forget about you man when I dont hear from you and your project. How far are you Jon from release realy now tell me. I really respect guys like you when you do something like this I’d like to offer help but the only thing I really know about scenery is that a computer I build will run it. I can beta test for you though. But sure glad to see you still around dude.
Cheers
yep. the fs community, as i’ve discovered quite recently, can be quite viscous. lots of take take take and very little give give give. lots of stepping on, lots of pushing down “hmm kindof like the real world aviation industry? …” if we didn’t love flying, we wouldn’t be checking for updates on your YVR every 5 minutes would we
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nice pics btw lol!
ps, i got my PMDG BAW 744 loaded and ready to go, just let me know when to fire up the APU and i’ll be there within the next 10.5hrs.
PLEASE CONVERT THIS TO FSX. I’M POOR, I CAN’T AFFORD FSDT SCENERY. I LIVE IN RICHMOND BC. PLEASE HAVE MERCY.
Hi Jonathan,
Please give me a hint. I am not an native english speaker and this text confuses me a little bit.
As I have understood you won’t release your scenery for FSX? For FS9 only? Is this correct or have I missunderstood you?
Best regards from Austria!
Jonathan H.
Bjr
Bravo pour le travail que je suit depuis un certain temps, courage, J’ai connu ça aussi nous faisons ça pour le plaisir. Au départ il le faut pour Fs9 il sont encore nombreux à voler deçu et du vois après pour Fsx. Mais surtout ne lâche pas d’abord pour Fs9 tu verras les demandes LA PUB SUR FS9. Encore merci pour ton travail formidable .
Philippe FRANCE
looks great Jonatan, how about releasing a beta?
Still salivating……..Looks fantastic!
Looking good
Cant wait to fly into there but I just have a quick question is there gonna be any moving airside traffic such as baggage carts or even vehicle traffic along Grant McConachie Way and even skytrains along the Canada Line?
Jonathan that are nice words. Keep on going. Looking forward to your FS9 version of CYVR
tompie
I’ve been following the scenery a while and although I’ve helped work on other sceneries (e.g. MM’s Abu Dhabi – I made the coastal landclass), none has been close to the faithful detail here. Real life really gets in the way of airport projects, even a fairly “lite” scenery like AUH took the author (not me) 2 years on and off (with a six month break at one point), and the only thing that made it bearable for us was knowing that it was (almost) a secret project and people weren’t breathing down our necks. It did get me my grounding in Gmax (I’m now making AI planes for my own amusement). If its any comfort, I understand *exactly* how it has taken a while (like Sunskyjet’s KPHL) and how when an airport looks “finished” from screenshots, the author sees a to-do list that’s still 1000 items long. It’ll be good to have YVR when it comes, and it’ll be better for knowing that you, the author, is happy with it too and released it when it was “right”.
Echoing Rick Z’s comment, the AUH scenery has something between 30-40,000 downloads and we had two complaints and one note of thanks. The FS community has come to expect a lot for free and certainly has some notion that it is entitled to a few years work for nothing.
I also wondered what the FSDT announcement might do to the project, but frankly I couldn’t help wondering why FSDT bothered, since surely they’ve been this project and know how good it is likely to be.
Honestly, you really should sell the project. You could get Oliver to make an AES lite so there will be moving cars on and around the airport as well as the standard AES too… You do have the right to sell it, it’s YOUR work and earn a little money for your efforts…
Just wanted to add my name to the list of others who are glad you plan to see the project to fruition despite the Dreamteam announcement. I know that YVR is a mammoth project and I really can appreciate the hundreds of hours you have devoted to it so far. Thanks Jonathan for keeping the project alive. So, when can we expect you to finish work on Winnipeg?
Kidding of course.
Yay, thanks for the update!
I don’t know if you’ve been in to YVR lately, but they have recently added runway distance remaining signs on both the north and south runway. They are on the north side of the north runway, and the south side of the south runway.
Hello
you complete such a project in Vancouver or you drop the project?
John tells us in the blog post that it continues for FS9 and (probably) no port for FSX due to the FSDT version for that sim – that’s how I read it at least! It would be an “unusual” decision not to release the project after so much love, time, and work has so obviously gone into it. Personally, even if FSDT put something out first, I’d wait.
Yes, there is nothing else to be said, you said it all right. I don’t like FSX either! Keep on going with FS9 CYVR. The screenhots are amazing and it surely will be superb!
great news, and looks absolutely fantastic, however, isn’t the point of a new post to also advise of progress of the scenery? 6 months ago you let us all know it was close to beta stages and novembers update gave us no idea where the scenery stands. quite frankly i don’t care if it’s another 6 months but just give us an idea where the project stands at the moment. again, you are a 1 man show and i’m not being impatient here. just letting you know an update would be nice after 6 months of where you are at with the project.