What exactly is the difference between UTX and GEX? I know they are two separate add-ons, but do they work well together or would I need both? Thanks.

GEX replaces texture sets, so it is more so a texture package that significantly upgrades all textures for a given region (North America, etc). UTX adds and alters physical features such as lakes, roads, coastlines and significantly changes the land classes of all areas of a given region. Combined, these products supplement each other, but they are not required to be purchased together.

Hi Paul,They work together great, just need to be layered in Scenery.cfg properly.http://www.sim-outho...ll=1#post441071

Edited February 2, 201214 yr by BAW435

They work together great, just need to be layered in Scenery.cfg properly.

Out of curiousty, would you know where to find a tutorial on how to properly layer the Scenery.cfg file? Cause this actually sounds pretty interesting as I am using REX, FEX, GTX, and UTX as well as ASE for my weather.

Scenery layers should be organized as follows:Airports.Roads/Objects.Landclass (forest, desert, city etc).Mesh (elevation data).

Edited February 2, 201214 yr by simmerhead

Scenery layers should be organized as follows:Airports.Roads/Objects.Landclass (forest, desert, city etc).Mesh (elevation data).

I understand that, but should you go into your scenery.cfg file and change things around? I guess in that aspect I'm not following.

You could, but it's far easier to do it from the World -> Scenery Library, or right at the opening screen - Settings -> Scenery Library, moving each item up or down respective of the suggested priority.

What exactly is the difference between UTX and GEX?

Hi Paul,They work together great, just need to be layered in Scenery.cfg properly.

Only UTX is layered in the Scenery Library. GEX replaces all your default scenery textures as they were modified by NickN and his crew so that they were rendered faster and are more realistic to what the ground really looks like than the default. UTX is a landclass program that tells GEX what textures to render in FSX (like golf courses, cities, deserts, water, rivers, etc.). It also locates and enhances roads and the terrain around water. For instance, you won't see much of a beach along the Pacific Ocean with the default scenery. With UTX, you'll have nice looking beaches with sand and stuff. All of the UTX entries in the Scenery Library should be located just above Propeller Objects so that any addon scenery, such as FSDT's airports, or PNW/Orbx scenery will not be compromised by UTX. If UTX was located above those sceneries in the Scenery Library, you may see many anomalies as UTX does not realize that there was some nice looking airports/scenery installed below it. Hope this helps.Best regards,Jim

Thanks gentlemen for the responses. Oddly enough, I don't like spending money on payware airports (not enough time spent at them) so luckily I don't have to worry about UTX/GEX fighting with other addons. I only download and install the occasional update to airports (always freeware, and generally just the ones that add a runway or adjust a localizer, etc to match R/W).

GEX does not add any scenery.cfg entries so no need to mess with it at all.

GEX does not add any scenery.cfg entries so no need to mess with it at all.

Yes. True. I was hoping I made that clear in my lengthy post above but evidently I didn't. Sorry! Hopefully your comment will make it clear to the OP.Best regards,Jim

Yes. True. I was hoping I made that clear in my lengthy post above but evidently I didn't. Sorry! Hopefully your comment will make it clear to the OP.Best regards,Jim

short = good ... lengthy = not as good :(

Ok, I bought UTX and GEX for NA and Europe (awesome products as stated before). My next question becomes: when I get around to buying UTX for Alaska, I know you should install UTX before installing GEX, yet GEX for NA covers Alaska already. So, before installing UTX for Alaska, should I uninstall GEX, then reinstall it afterwards? If this is the case, since I would be doing it consecutively (i.e. no flying of FSX between), I shouldn't have to worry about reinstalling the default FSX files that GEX replaces, correct? Any other advice (besides running defrag afterwards)?

Hmm. I installed GEX before I bought and installed UTX, and I have not had any issues AFAIK.

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when I bought UTX /gex usa/alaska I remember there was a t weaker for alaska?? I cant seem to find it again. where should I look?

you always could go to the simforums.com where flight1 can give the right comments

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