I just gave some Massive scenery demos a go and was very impressed so I went ahead and ordered it! I realize it doesn't have water masks or night lighting but it does cover the western US and that is where I prefer to fly, I live in Colorado. I also have MSE-Colorado and aside from some misaligned airports I'm enjoying it as well plus it has night lighting! Now I've been looking around at other VFR packages and realized I could mix and match higher res stuff, so I go to thinking if I wanted to cover this area using Massive scenery as a base what other stuff would work? As an example Would adding MSX Las Vegas and Reno look good? Does MegaScenery Earth look better then Massive, should I go with their tiles or even complete states instead? What other companies do this area or even better if one had say a $1000 budget! What would you do?

You might be interested in Gottfried Razek's freeware high-res areas: http://www.blueskyscenery.com/index.htmlJohn

I haven't bought any of the Massive stuff just because of the lack of night textures, but I do own some of the MegaSceneryEarth stuff.What I do I place the MegaSceneryEarth stuff on a lower layer than the regular MegaScenery stuff since it usually looks better. For example, in Arizona I have a lot of MegaSceneryEarth and I also own MegaScenery Phoenix. I put the MegaScenery Phoenix on a higher layer then the MegaSceneryEarth so that I dont have the lesser looking stuff covering it.I suppose that you could use the Massive stuff on a lower level than MegaSceneryEarth for city areas, but then at night if you dont disable the Massive stuff you will get the day textures at night.For me day only stuff is too much hassel. If you fly mostly or only day time, then BlueSky and Massive is great, but I fly all times of the day with flights overlapping from day to night and I can't bother with day only stuff. I would rather just see GEX stuff in that case.

I haven't bought any of the Massive stuff just because of the lack of night textures, but I do own some of the MegaSceneryEarth stuff.What I do I place the MegaSceneryEarth stuff on a lower layer than the regular MegaScenery stuff since it usually looks better. For example, in Arizona I have a lot of MegaSceneryEarth and I also own MegaScenery Phoenix. I put the MegaScenery Phoenix on a higher layer then the MegaSceneryEarth so that I dont have the lesser looking stuff covering it.I suppose that you could use the Massive stuff on a lower level than MegaSceneryEarth for city areas, but then at night if you dont disable the Massive stuff you will get the day textures at night.For me day only stuff is too much hassel. If you fly mostly or only day time, then BlueSky and Massive is great, but I fly all times of the day with flights overlapping from day to night and I can't bother with day only stuff. I would rather just see GEX stuff in that case.

I agree-when I fly at night or near night I turn the Massive scenery off. But for during the day-wow imho-except in a very few areas it doesn't look so good. I posted some new screen shots in the screen shot forum of the kind of stuff you can only see with type of scenery-and one of the reasons I fly..

I do occasionally fly at night and I do love dusk and dawn flights, would having Ultimate terrain USA help with night lighting? I've now seen some of the Blue Sky stuff and its really nice, but again no night. Anyone try Newport's Albuquerque or Boise? How about something like this, in layer order:Massive Scenery: baseMSE: CA (w/SoCalX), WA, AZ, UT & COBlue sky: Glacier park, Glenwood springs, Telluride, KSBA, Pagosa Springs, Mineral County, Durango & Utah CanyonlandsMSX: Vegas, Reno & PhoenixNewPort: Albuquerque & Boise*Geofa, saw the screens, now thats what I'm talking about!

Yeah I got Newports Albuquerque and for the $15 bucks it's pretty good, dont have anymore from him thought.UT USA won't help at night unless you want to use the street lights, which can be a drain on performance. I have UT USA and dont use their street lights.I usually layer my photo sceneriers and airports from west to east and all above the UT USA stuff if you get it. What I mean is that I start my scenery layers from airports/sceneries in California and layer the next scenery that comes next if traveling east with Eurpean sceneries being at the top of the scenery layer. You dont necessarly need to do it like that, but I do it to help keep in organized and makes it easier for me to check layers for a state or area that have multiple sceneries installed.

I do something similar with my scenery config, plus I have 4 different ones FTX-AU, US-Domestic, European & International. I wrote a small batch file and run it for the area I'm going to fly. I will most likely add a fifth for this addition if I go with it.Let me ask this, with BlueSky he recommends placing all the scenery into one folder which keeps it manageable, can this work with MSE?

I do occasionally fly at night and I do love dusk and dawn flights, would having Ultimate terrain USA help with night lighting? I've now seen some of the Blue Sky stuff and its really nice, but again no night. Anyone try Newport's Albuquerque or Boise? How about something like this, in layer order:Massive Scenery: baseMSE: CA (w/SoCalX), WA, AZ, UT & COBlue sky: Glacier park, Glenwood springs, Telluride, KSBA, Pagosa Springs, Mineral County, Durango & Utah CanyonlandsMSX: Vegas, Reno & PhoenixNewPort: Albuquerque & Boise*Geofa, saw the screens, now thats what I'm talking about!

I assume you wrote that in reverse layer order? In FSX, the lower the number the higher the layer (i.e. 1 is higher than 2).

I assume you wrote that in reverse layer order? In FSX, the lower the number the higher the layer (i.e. 1 is higher than 2).

Kinda sort of :( I manually edit the Scenery.cfg so thats how I would edit the list. In FSX it would read in reverse.