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No birds visible when soaring

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I purchased Flight Simulator X,Deluxe Edition.
I studied the settings and read that when Thermal visualization is set to normal ( see Weather ) I should see flying birds
in the the thermals.This is not the case on my computer
and I wonder why ?
My Graphic card is Nvidia 8800 , Memory 4 GB , CPU 6500 MHz,
AMD dual core.

Can anyone help ?

Tks
 
Mine's the same. I see birds when I add them with the SDK ObjectPlacement tool, but never when I'm soaring with the natural thermal visualisations either. I also never see any whales when doing the (Hawaii?) checkride either, though I wondered whetehr I was just looking in the wrong place. (They also work when I add them with the SDK tools.)

I do see the lost baby elephant in the microlight mission so I know that at least some of the "living world" stuff works in the sim.

My PC's a P4 3GHz (2Gb RAM) with 7800GT 512Mb graphics card.

Si
 
You need to set thermal visualization to "natural" in order to see the birds. They're not easy to spot but if you're within a thermal you should find some of them. ;)

The whales are also difficult to spot, but they're there, trust me. :)
 
The only place I ever saw birds in thermals was near Mount Cook (MZMC). Uphill from the airport they are very visible there.

Bert
 
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Horst,
Are you saying that the birds are visible in free flight when thermal visualisation is set to natural, or only in missions, (where they would have been hand placed)?

Perhaps it is my error in that I was assuming they would be visible as an alternative to the schematic visualisation, and as such be visible in free flight also.

Si
 
I say wherever you see those semitransparent spirals if you select - what's it called? - schematical visualization? Anyway, wherever you see those spirals you will definitely see the eagles when selecting natural visualization. At least that is what I experience in my FSX. :)
 
Horst18519 said:
I say wherever you see those semitransparent spirals if you select - what's it called? - schematical visualization? Anyway, wherever you see those spirals you will definitely see the eagles when selecting natural visualization. At least that is what I experience in my FSX. :)
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they're called cloud suspension systems! :o:):D:rotfl::laughing::rotfl:
 
:D Now that is the ultimate question why clouds flow in the sky and don't fall to the earth. :D
 
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