I'm looking at improving the night time lighting of cities or small towns or roads. The cites and roads now are a little darker. I've been looking at some payware like Ultimate Night Enviroment, but would like some opinons on other alternatives.What does everyone think are their favorites?

I'm looking at improving the night time lighting of cities or small towns or roads. The cites and roads now are a little darker. I've been looking at some payware like Ultimate Night Enviroment, but would like some opinons on other alternatives.What does everyone think are their favorites?

I'm quite happy with Ultimate Terrain USA & Can/AK. Screenie, showing the lighting, is "DreamFleet Bonanza - Dusk, on final at KLAX".Alex Reid

at 2nd UT night textures. I do not use the residential lights but only the road lights. Along with those lights, their ground night textures are excellent.

nice picture. you have a very wide screen.^^ I think I might pickup UT's night textures then. :) Thanks

nice picture. you have a very wide screen.^^ I think I might pickup UT's night textures then. :) Thanks

niyoko- UT gives you much more than just night lighting- it corrects elevations, shorelines,rivers and adds bridges, railways & roads- including nightime car taillights! A huge improvement for FS9.(Thanks for the compliment, but the picture is not from a wide screen monitor : just three- 17" monitors using two video cards on a single very old CPU. But the views are integrated with simple setting adjustments in Panel Config- so your eyes see a single view. Can't afford a large monitor!)Alex Reid

Just to be clear, UT does not change elevation, you'd need mesh for that like FS Global of Genesis. Also, UT actually takes away bridges because they are out of place in default FS and instead puts a regular road down over the river, etc.

Just to be clear, UT does not change elevation, you'd need mesh for that like FS Global of Genesis. Also, UT actually takes away bridges because they are out of place in default FS and instead puts a regular road down over the river, etc.

Yes, correct- my reply was poorly phrased.From the Flight 1, UT product description- "This product also includes corrected Oceanic coastlines, plus islands, lakes and rivers ------" These corrections: land to water & vice versa, presumably imply an "elevation" correction but not in the normal "mesh" context.You can also choose to not relocate rivers/streams as this sometimes places them on hill/mountain sides due to errors in FS9 mesh.In the case of incorrect FS9 bridge placement, you can choose to retain/or not, the FS9 bridge art as well as showing the UT corrected location/roadway. (My preference.)Hope I didn't mislead. Hope I got it right this time.Alex Reid

Hi.Search for "Bright Highways"? Or for Avcomware in FSX, used to be FS9, for an easy road mods. Post here if you need help. TV

Yes, correct- my reply was poorly phrased.From the Flight 1, UT product description- "This product also includes corrected Oceanic coastlines, plus islands, lakes and rivers ------" These corrections: land to water & vice versa, presumably imply an "elevation" correction but not in the normal "mesh" context.You can also choose to not relocate rivers/streams as this sometimes places them on hill/mountain sides due to errors in FS9 mesh.In the case of incorrect FS9 bridge placement, you can choose to retain/or not, the FS9 bridge art as well as showing the UT corrected location/roadway. (My preference.)Hope I didn't mislead. Hope I got it right this time.Alex Reid

no problem, I understood what you meant. I have the UT USA and Europe for FSX, but looking to get some of the UT Night Env. for FS9.It sounds like you were talking about the UT land scenery packs though. The UT night enviroment doesn't require the secery packs...I hope...

no problem, I understood what you meant. I have the UT USA and Europe for FSX, but looking to get some of the UT Night Env. for FS9.It sounds like you were talking about the UT land scenery packs though. The UT night enviroment doesn't require the secery packs...I hope...

Not sure what you mean by "scenery packs". I have only Ultimate Terrain FS9: Can/AK and USA. Both on CD. Haven't heard of "scenery packs"?Alex Reid

I was not aware UT does a separate package just for night lightening??? Are we talking about the same product here?

There is a separate scenery pack that has just night time lighting called ULTIMATE NIGHT ENVIRONMENT 2007. It's just changing the night time textures. I'm not sure how extensive that it covers, but seems to look good. And it's not expensive.It does seem to have some integration with the Ultimate Terrain USA, Canada, and Europe scenery packs sold by Flight1. I don't know if there is a direct affiliation though, but that led me to think they were working together.I'm just calling them "packs" because I saw them as a collection of scenery files. Not a biggie.I do think there is a package deal of UT USA+Canada for download purchase off Flight1's website.

There is a separate scenery pack that has just night time lighting called ULTIMATE NIGHT ENVIRONMENT 2007. It's just changing the night time textures. I'm not sure how extensive that it covers, but seems to look good. And it's not expensive.It does seem to have some integration with the Ultimate Terrain USA, Canada, and Europe scenery packs sold by Flight1. I don't know if there is a direct affiliation though, but that led me to think they were working together.I'm just calling them "packs" because I saw them as a collection of scenery files. Not a biggie.I do think there is a package deal of UT USA+Canada for download purchase off Flight1's website.

UT USA is a separate product from UT Canada/Alaska. I have both on CDs. They seem to work flawlessly together.I'm not aware of any other product that works in tandem with these.Alex Reid

There was a great file in the avsim library "Generic night lights" It was an adaptation for fs9 of fs2002 night textures and in fs9 they look great. Streets are beautifully defined. Slightly more sodium lighting than i would wish but in my opinion much better than the fs9 default. Also there was a stars update giving more stars on the rare cloudless night.Vololiberista