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Andrew Herd (chief reviewer at Flightsim.com) awarded FScene in his latest Review

Quote from Andrew's Review:
" Last time I reviewed FScene, I couldn't help wondering why Microsoft didn't just go out and hire Ruud to do the FS2004 textures for them. Now I have the luxury of going back and taking a second look at them, I find I still think that way, so I guess these textures from the flying Dutchman deserve their Armchair Aviator Award. Unlike so many addons, Ruud's textures have made a permanent home on my hard disk."




FScene2004 gets PC-Pilot's 5 star "Classic Flightsimulation Product" Qualification

In the Nr.27 issue of PC Pilot, the world's best selling magazine dedicated to flight simulation, Tony Radmilovich gives the MAXIMUM review score of 5 (star)planes to the FScene2004 Winter Textures.
Tony's Conclusion: "A subtle and visually satisfying improvement to Europe's winter landscape.... and it won't slow down your system!" Read Tony's review on-line: here

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FScene Movie on the cover CD
of PC-Pilots issue Nr.28 July/Aug 2004. Get it in the shop or contact www.pcpilot.net
The editor writes in issue 28:
If you're not already a convert to Ruud Faber's excellent replacement seasonal texture sets for FS2004, take a look at this video (on the cover CD) showing off some replacement Spring textures. For the full range of reasonably priced packages, see www.microstores.eu

FScene Demo's on the cover CD
of PC-Pilots issue Nr.33 March/April 2005. Get it in the shop or contact www.pcpilot.net
The editor writes in issue 33:
Ruud Faber's seasonal replacement ground textures are true FS perennials. These two new demo's let you experience all four seasons in a limited area of both North America and Europe.

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Ian Scott revisited the FScene Textures, read his AVSIM review and new comments.
Some time ago I wrote a review for AVSIM of the replacement textures produced by FScene. The creator, an artistic Dutchman named Ruud Faber, is a long-standing and well respected member of the Flight Sim community. Now Ruud has begun releasing an even more ambitious series of textures for FS2004. And they just keep getting better and better. Most of us believe that FS2004 is a great improvement over the previous release; though I also thought FS2002 (unlike FS2000 which I hated) was wonderful. The improvements in these two versions of Microsoft's great Flight Simulator were enormous.

But if you are looking to take your FS2004 experience to an even higher level of realism and breath-taking scenery, you need to buy these latest textures from Ruud Faber.
Your entire landscape will be transformed. The default textures are very good – better than anything we've ever had from Microsoft. But the new FS Scene textures are simply spectacular.

With no impact on FPS, you will see a world that is more colorful, more three dimensional and more realistic than ever before. The stock landscape suddenly looks almost "photo-realistic" and is crisp and clear. Urban areas are simply spectacular. For the flight sim enthusiast who really does want it as real as it gets, this add-on is a must.
The USA and Europe are already covered. Now Australia and New Zealand, South America and Africa are on their way. There is something for everyone. You can buy one season at a time if you can't afford to buy them all at once. Sure, it is a bit expensive to replace all of the stock textures with these. Is it worth it? If "real as it gets" is your standard, then the answer is yes.
(Ian Scott AVSIM former Staff Reviewer and current Contributing Reviewer)

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Al Pelletier flew his Edelweiss Air Round Robin Adventure over FScene2004 Winter textures.
......Round Robin Adventures
"The scenario and tasking for today's exercise: We are flying for German based Edelweiss Air and we have been chartered to take contest winners to a ski trip to Innsbruck. We are departing Hamburg and making a stop in Frankfurt on the way to Innsbruck. A note here, that I also used the great upgrade of Europe Winter Textures from FScene....."
Be sure to get the Magazine (Volume 8 Issue 2) in the store or contact www.computerpilot.com

Or see part of the Round Robin Adventure Article here

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Al Pelletier wrote:
in every article that I write, the following appears:
Al's thank you box:
Without the people below and our payware/freeware designers, I couldn't write these articles. So my sincere thanks to all those and to flightsim.com and avsim.com
  1. Quotes and photos from Airways magazine are courtesy of and with permission of the Editor. Many thanks!
  2. To Chris Squire for test flying the route. Chris is a retired military pilot with over 12,000 hours of flying time.
  3. I use FSNavigator for all by flight planning, a courtesy of the FS Navigator team.
  4. To Justin Tyme (FSGENESIS) and to Ruud Faber (www.microstores.eu) for the great terrain textures, that make my writing so much more enjoyable.
  5. To Eric Marciano for his great A320 panel and to the IFDG team for the great freeware Airbus A320 Jetstar.

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Patches

Note for WorldPack owners: Please apply these patches too!
It is recommended to have a look at the actual date of publication.
  1. FScene General
  2. FScene USA & Canada
  3. FScene Europe
  4. FScene Australia&NwZealand
  5. FScene South-America
  6. FScene Africa
  7. FScene Asia

"Autogen Adjustment" Patches
Please visit the information Page








Patch for all users of FScene2004 - Patch release date 14-09-2005
It's a small update -on a rainy day you would not miss it , but these 84 revised textures give you just that little bit of extra "next to reality" feeling in many parts of the FS-world. Works in all 4 seasons. So why wait?!
Registered users get a free download, here: fscene2004-all-patch-02.zip.

Note: Since this Patch has influence on all FScene projects you have, the easiest install method is to copy all thes *.bmp textures into this folder: [FS9] \Scenery\World\Texture

Patch for all FScene2004 Spring and Summer seasons released. (also removes the annoying word "NEWS") - Patch release date 09-06-2005
Note: No need to use this patch for FScene2004 files bought after June 9th 2005.
This small patch will have a positive effect on the appearance of "dark woods" if you have original FScene2004 Files installed on your computer. It also removes the annoying word "NEWS" from one of the textures. Registered users of FScene2004 files can download the patch
fscene2004-all-patch-01.zip

Small but important Patch released for all users of FScene2004
In order to give the standard Autogen trees a better Color Match with the FScene2004 Ground Textures, a slightly adapted bitmap for use in Flight Simulator Fs2004 has been issued. The same goes for the revised Texture for the smaller streams. Both files, including instructions on how to use them are available for free download in one zip file fscene2004-trees-rivers.zip

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"Autogen Adjustment" Patch for FScene2004-Africa (November 11th 2005)
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"Autogen Adjustment" Patch for FScene2004-USA&Canada (October 26th 2005)
Please visit the information Page








Patch to Upgrade FScene2004-USA&Canada FALL to V2.05 (October 14th 2005)
Note: No need to use this patch for FScene2004 files bought on or after October 14th 2005.
As always keen to supply the best possible, I have revised 33 Textures where I thought it might increase your pleasure in using FScene. Download the Patch (1.5 Mb)
here and have Fun!



Patch to Upgrade FScene2004-USA&Canada SUMMER to V2.05 (August 24th 2005)
Note: No need to use this patch for FScene2004 files bought on or after August 24th 2005.
Always keen to supply the best possible, I have revised 30 Textures where I thought it might increase your pleasure in using FScene. Download the Patch (1.5 Mb)
here and have Fun!




Patch to Upgrade FScene2004-USA&Canada SPRING to V2.05 (June 9th 2005)
Note: No need to use this patch for FScene2004 files bought after June 9th 2005.
Always keen to supply the best possible, I have revised 30 Textures where I thought it might increase your pleasure in using FScene. Download the Patch (1.5 Mb)
here and have Fun!

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"Autogen Adjustment" Patch for FScene2004-Europe (November 4th 2005)
Please visit the information Page








Patch to Upgrade FScene2004-Europe SPRING to V2.05 (March 25th 2005)
Note: No need to use this patch for FScene2004 files bought after March 25th 2005.
Always keen to supply the best possible, I have revised 32 Textures where I thought it might increase your pleasure in using FScene. Download the Patch (1.5 Mb)
here and have Fun!

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Patch for FScene2004-Australia Winter season released (January 25th 2005)
Note: No need to use this patch for FScene2004-Australia&NwZealand Winter files bought after January 25th 2005.
Registered users of FScene2004 files can download the patch here

Patch for FScene2004-Australia Summer season released (January 27th)
Note: No need to use this patch for FScene2004-Australia&NwZealand Summer files bought after January 27th 2005.
Registered users of FScene2004 files can download the patch here

Patch for FScene2004-Australia Spring season released (January 27th 2005)
Note: No need to use this patch for FScene2004-Australia&NwZealand Spring files bought after January 27th 2005.
Registered users of FScene2004 files can download the patch here

Patch for FScene2004-Australia Fall season released (January 31st 2005)
Note: No need to use this patch for FScene2004-Australia&NwZealand Fall files bought after January 31st 2005.
Registered users of FScene2004 files can download the patch here
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Patch for FScene2004-South-America Summer season released (April 16th 2004)
Note: No need to use this patch for FScene2004 files bought after April 16th 2004.
This small patch will have a positive effect on the appearance of some villages and woods if you have original
FScene2004 Files installed on your computer.
Registered users of FScene2004 files can download the patch here

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Patch for FScene2004-Asia all seasons released (May 13th 2006)
Note: No need to use this patch if you're satisfied with the Rice Paddies textures.
This small patch will change the textures of the Rice Fields, showing almost no water in the paddies.
Registered users of FScene2004 files can download the patch here

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Building free Demo-Video Collection.  
By help of one of our fans some small demo-video's (each approx 10/15 MB) have been made. The video's are short but the quality is high and each video can be played full screen to get a fair impression of Fscene2004 working in MSFS2004. The Video's give general Season impressions.

The collection will grow by and by, so stay tuned. to the video page


Building free Panoramic Immersives Demo Collection.  
One big advantage of these files over the streaming video is they are smaller in size: abt. 3 MB. These are so called endless panorama-video-strips of high quality to get a fair impression of Fscene2004 working in MSFS2004.
The viewer can drag the panoramic view with the mouse-pointer to "look 360 degr. around" in the FScene World.

The collection will grow by and by, so stay tuned. to the panorama's page




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