By Tim Stone on August 23rd, 2009 at 9:51 am.
Flight simulation needs more men like Michael ‘Lotus’ Johnson. The maker of Elyonim, the only sim film that ever made me cry, has spent the last fifteen months fashioning his first FS add-on. Going by the post-jump trailer, it was time exceedingly well spent.
“…movie not available in your country…”: d’oh.
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Elyonim movie can be downloaded here in highres: http://www.flightsimworld.com/downloads/viewfile/1550.html
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Link updated. Thanks RiptoR.
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Wow that was a cool vid, and I’ve never even played a flight sim! :o
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… WOW indeed. Beautiful video. No idea what a L-39C is.. but I suddenly *really* want to fly one.
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Not a flight sim fan but that plane is a beautiful looking piece of technology and that looks like a superb flight sim.
And I liked the music. Zoia Vitkovskaia, apparently.
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“The Aero L-39 Albatros is a high-performance jet trainer aircraft developed in Czechoslovakia…”
Very nice, the rain on cockpit effects were good.
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That’s the worst X-Wing I’ve ever seen.
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The first thing I noticed about that video is that the planes don’t cast shadows. It looks weird.
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Caer: That’s probably caused by the FSX settings of the guy who filmed the footage though, as FSX supports both ground shadows and self-shadowing for aircraft.
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Wow… beautifully made. Nothing asploded though :(
Incidentally there definitely were ground shadows on the desert racing sequence.
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@Zerotime:
That’s the worst X-Wing I’ve ever seen.
On the other hand, it’s a fairly passable Z-95.
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That last post should have included a link to this page:
http://www.starwars.com/databank/starship/z95headhunter/index.html
Oh well, I’m sure Edit will be back some day.
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Well, that was interesting. I never “got” the flight sim thing, but that was a thing of beauty.
And what’s that about shadows? I clearly saw shadows on the ground towards the end.
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I like how the Albatross doesn’t evens how up until halfway through the vid.
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Monkey the song is Gabriel, by Lamb.
Am I a cold hearted husk of a bastard man for finding this video more amusing than anything- a sort of po faced love story with planes? And an impressive engine?
Tell me, was the love all about the people in the planes or the planes themselves? Eh? Eh? Were the people flying, or the planes? Imagine the pilots, screaming and unwilling inside the cockpits, as their planes drag them round on an ill fated love affair like some flying metallic conjoined twin? Eh? No that’s ridiculous.
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Very good but ouch, 40 euros for one plane?
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No problem, mister Stone :)
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I think the last flight sim I played was Flight Unlimited, or maybe Janes ATF, but this vid made me really want to dig out my old flight stick.
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15 months? On a single plane? Really?
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Not to mention, that single plane costs nearly as much as the entire game…
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(i want that edit button) No, wait. It costs MORE than the entire game. http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Sim-X-Gold-Pc/dp/B001DPZE84/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1251058426&sr=8-1
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Probably the best payware aircraft I’ve ever flown. Fantastic stuff from Lotus. Can’t wait for more aircraft from them!
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Man.. sent a shiver down my leg sorta like the way Obama gave one to Chris Matthews from MSNBC….. wow…
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That is one cool video… and that isn’t Gorecki last time I checked.
What is the shroud/canopy to the trainee pilot? A way of making them fly by dials??
I love the air race bit at the end.
Still a non-combative flight sim would be a little boring for me.
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The video up there isn’t Lamb. The downloadable “Elyonim” machinima aeroplane romance short thing is though.
I was wondering about that shroud to. Maybe they have to use the force.
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I love FSX, but I hate how all of the good downloadable aircraft cost more than the entire game.
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The plane modeling looks spectacularly well done, but as a non-FSX owner I have to ask if that video is representative of the graphical quality of the game as a whole. Have ground textures in flight sims really advanced so little? Or have they just got them turned down, there?
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for people wondering about the hood its a “instrument flight training hood”
long list of features http://www.fspilotshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=2214
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It’s as pretty as it’s expensive…
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