SurClaro Flight Simulator Resources

Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject: race tracks?

Hey\ ive played flight sim for ever it seems lol, yet i havent been able to find, Daytona superspeedway, Infineon raceway, spa-francorchamps, and of those tracks does anyone know if microsoft put them in? or did they have problem with the track owners?

Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

Im pretty sure they didn't put them in. It's not a really important detail. You don't buy the game to look at race tracks.

Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject: Well, neither actually.

Well, neither actually. If you will study Gmax modeling or even scenery design, you will see that it simply wouldnt be economically feasible to put "everything" into FS. Beyond the fact that it would take a small army of programmers and probably several years to complete, there would be the cost of the final product to consider and after all, Microsoft is a business and business is about making money. So, they have to tread a fine line between a "complete" product and costs of production/promotion in order to gain a profit. As for your racing tracks, I know there is an addon for Indianapolis, I am not sure about the other tracks. You can use your search engine to see if such scenery addons exist and if they dont, maybe you can learn 3d modeling and scenery design and make them a "reality" for everybody Very Happy

Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject:

well the reason why i ask is becasue i have a racing league for a game and i would just like to be able to fly to the tracks.

Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject: Okay,

Okay, I understand. While you may not be able to tie the two together you can still fly the route. Just set up for the nearest airport, I am pretty sure you cant land at the track in the real world, so that part of the sim should still serve your purposes. All you need after that is to create or wait on somebody to create the scenery you desire, then a limousine model to drive from the airport to the track or switch to your favorite helicopter and fly right in like the big boys Very Happy

Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 11:21 pm Post subject:

yeah, for example at infineon which is in sonoma valley, they have helipads right on the top of the hills where the pilots take the drivers which is cool becasue yo ucan see them when they come in.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:41 am Post subject:

landing a cessna or something seems fun to land on a race way
i think
but who cares my ideas are stupid

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 3:01 am Post subject:

btw ya know how you can see base ball fields

like the one at chicago
is there any football fields?????

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject:

i don't know if it is possible to see baseball fields(because i have not seen any), but i can tell you that i have seen some football (if you mean american football, not soccer) fields out there. don't remember when and how and where but i can tell you it's possible by default.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:21 pm Post subject:

There are MLB fields for most of the teams. I know there is a football stadium in the game at Seattle. I'm not sure anywhere else though. Most likely. . . .

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject:

The old RFK stadium, home of the Redskins is visible.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject:

BC Place in Vancouver BC and Skydome in Toronto is visible. I've seen quite a few for the major cities. Just gotta fly around I guess.

Exx

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:31 pm Post subject:

if ur looking for a race tract to land at or near try dover race way great race track plus there is the hotel

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:50 am Post subject:

The skydome model isn't bad but that open dome must get a wee bit *beep* in February. I didn't expect it to close up when I selected "winter" but I did chuckle the first time I flew over the wide open dome in winter. (Ahem, err.. it's supposed to be called "Roger's Centre" now. D'oh!) Toronto taxpayers will pay for years for this big few hundred million dollar building and then Ted Rogers picks it up for 60 million and renames the freakin' thing! Sorry for rambling, folks, I have seen different quite good looking racetracks for free download here and there, get good at searching and they're all yours. BTW, does anyone know what that red and white thing is at the base of Catalina Island? (Avalon Airport KAVX, fs2002) An oversize toilet for a lurking Microsoft sea monster? A building of some sort? Something they forgot to texture? Whatever it is , it's awful ugly!
Ha ha, the "beeped" word is 'chilly' the software must have read the 'ch' from 'chilly and figured I was being bad.

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:03 am Post subject:

There are alot of MLB stadiums and NFL stadiums that I know of. Shea stadium is right next to La Guardia in New York, and Yankees stadium is close by, north of manhattan. Ericsson stadium (Panthers) near downtown Charlotte... WOO! GO PANTHERS! Dancing