Living in the Denver area where trees don't grow much natively (unless they are evergreens or aspens in the mountains) since it is so dry, I always love flying (RW as a pax) eastwards and seeing somewhere short of west of the Mississippi Valley where a massive native tree forest starts, and continues in various forms of tree types all the way up and down the east coast. Being fascinated by geography, I have over time done some casual research into "US vegetation" and found some sites such as the one linked to here:http://www.fs.fed.us/land/ecosysmgmt/colorimagemap/ecoreg1_divisions.htmlthat show many zones of flora throughout the continent. Does anyone have a recommendation as to what US land-class, if any, would be best to use to get the most true replication of this vegetation distribution?Thanks, Bruce.

There are many LC options, Scenery Tech, FSGenesis, UT, come to mind, as well as the great textures from GEX

If you try GEX you won't go wrong, VERY good my opinion.Bob

There are many LC options, Scenery Tech, FSGenesis, UT, come to mind, as well as the great textures from GEX

I think that only the highlighted products actually offer landclass files while the rest does something different. Could be wrong though. FSGenesis is mesh and GEX are textures only. You can combine those different things of course.I couldn't compare UTX USA to the real thing in the complete spectrum so far, but I think that they offer some good representation of the landscape there, getting maintained and bug fixed regularly. Mainly talking about the general vegetation style, density, the correct river and street lines (including night lighting) and so on. They also react on user inputs, so even if you for example experienced that an area looks dry while the real thing is a green oasis, they would change that thing in the next SP.I'm very happy with all those UTX titles so far, so expect me to be a bit biased there. Can't get better coverage for the money in my eyes and, since this product is different from a pure texture exchange, it's compatible to e. g. REX and the Ground Environment X titles and worth the combination of all of those.

I use SceneryTech USA, UTX USA, and GEX USA together nicely to really improve everything about the terrain in North America.

I use SceneryTech USA, UTX USA, and GEX USA together nicely to really improve everything about the terrain in North America.

This. Though I use the FSGenesis mesh too.Throw in REX for sky, clouds, and airport textures, and you've got a very nice looking FSX.

If you try GEX you won't go wrong, VERY good my opinion.<br /><br />Bob<br />

That isn't landclass, that's just texture replacement. landclass tells where to place textures.

In most areas of the U.S. I prefer Cloud9's landclass, except in the SW area of the Country when I use SceneryTech most often. I typically layer UT's urban landclass above either/both. To be honest I don't use FS Genesis's landclass at all in FSX, but do have it.There is a freeware landclass for New York State by 'Boyz Toyz' which is outstanding, and I have it layered above all my others so it is utilized when traveling across/within NY ; Which can be found here:http://www.eboyztoyz.net/article.php?ncat=00100

Thanks everyone, for the useful replies.I do have GEX and REX, and like them both.I used to have UTX (USA) installed, until in my prior install of FSX I had an issue with the demo version of ORBX PNW, where I had the effect of all of the water up the west coast of the US being replaced by land. I managed to fix this by un-installing UTX, just how either or both of those 2 products make water into land I can't understand. I now have a new install of FSX, and the full version of ORBX PNW installed, but have been reluctant to re-install UTX since that very weird incident (above). Then I read where UTX was hard on frames, I'm not sure if that's correct. And I also read where I should install UTX first prior to other scenery/texture packages, and I guess I'm too late for that now, although I assume I could play with the scenery library order if needed.Looking at the posts it seems as though I need either UTX or Scenery Tach to produce an enhancement in landclass, the rest appear to textures that just alter what those landclass areas look like, is hat correct? Maybe it's time I re-tried UTX, or tried Scenery Tech........Thanks again, this has been very useful. Bruce.

Never even heard of SceneryTech. looks marvelous! Bought the EU, NA and SA packages. Definetely an improvement!

Never even heard of SceneryTech. looks marvelous! Bought the EU, NA and SA packages. Definetely an improvement!

I agree!!I used SceneryTech landclass sandwiched between the UT USA landclass and it looks pretty good imho. When combined with the GEX NA textures it looks good. Although I have never tried any other FSX landclass data aside from what UT2 provides and SceneryTech so I cant compare Cloud9's or any landclass that FSGenesis makes, although I did use the FSGenesis freeware US landclass in FS9 and it was not bad.