Done right with autogen hand placed (Orbx) it can work but to hand design the entire world like that would never happen.

As far as I am aware, Orbx terrain isn't photo scenery.

As far as I am aware, Orbx terrain isn't photo scenery.

Correct. They create their own landclasses with lots of realism. They then place them according to the real world and create scenery that looks somewhat photoreal, but with great detail.

But note that Orbx PNW used large photoreal coverage areas; including photoreal Seattle CBD, the ports of Tacoma and Olympia, KPAE and Bonneville Dam. Regards, Mike Mann

But note that Orbx PNW used large photoreal coverage areas; including photoreal Seattle CBD, the ports of Tacoma and Olympia, KPAE and Bonneville Dam. Regards, Mike Mann

I was reading on their website yesterday, and they also use photo scenery in the mountains above the treeline.

All Orbx airports ship with photoreal ground imagery, which is fully annotated down to the last house and tree, and in many cases with custom models for POIs like shopping centers, high-rises etc. We use digitally sourced aerial imagery, not satellite photos, so it is much clearer. I am not sure how much of this style of scenery we have produced, but it would be well over a thousand square miles. It is laborious, painstaking and expensive work. The same developer who made that scenery shown above (in Italy) is now working with us to annotate an entire city (Canberra). Two developers been working on it for two years and are still only 75% done.It is technically impossible nor practical with today's technology to cover large areas or entire countries with hand-annotated photoreal imagery. However, I predict that the technology will be around inside twenty years to automatically generate 3D models of buildings, structures and trees based on aerial imagery, and this will filter into flight simulators. As global broadband Internet bandwidth increases and becomes ubiquitous then we will eventually have the entire globe streamed from the cloud in photoreal, with 3D models, real volumetric clouds and realtime weather. But that's in 2025 and I will be retired and let other brilliant minds provide that for my enjoyment :)

However, I predict that the technology will be around inside twenty years to automatically generate 3D models of buildings, structures and trees based on aerial imagery, and this will filter into flight simulators. As global broadband Internet bandwidth increases and becomes ubiquitous then we will eventually have the entire globe streamed from the cloud in photoreal, with 3D models, real volumetric clouds and realtime weather.

Yes, I have exactly the same vision... :-) By the way, I thought today's computer should be powerful enough to automatically identify buildings spots on aerial imagery? At least I thought the computer may be able to do a decent enough job so at least FSX auotgene can place those generic buildings on the right spots. Anyway, I'm no expert in this regard and I'm just curious why this kind of auto-processing is so hard since apparently no add-on companies have done that? Also, I saw on Google maps that for many cities around the world Google already has completed 3D buildings on the map. Coupled with their street view photos many some day computer will automatically generate photo-real 3D buildings for cities in FSX ...

But that's in 2025 and I will be retired and let other brilliant minds provide that for my enjoyment :)

And hopefully I will be alive to enjoy such Eye Candy.

As far as I am aware, Orbx terrain isn't photo scenery.

Fly over Downtown Seattle and you'll see plenty of photoscenery in Orbx PNW. It all has custom autogen though and it looks great.

Precisely bonchie. My old workplace on Western Ave in Seattle is there in photo-real glory.

Whether default MSFS, Megascenery-X or Orbx; I think what you will find in urban areas will always be a mixture of custom autogen and photoscenery, with maybe some regular autogen thrown in. The only urban add-on I can think of that modeled every single building was LAGO's Venice scenery for FS2004. -James

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