But orbx just set up a uk team based in the uk? Check the official orbx forums, they will be hiring up to 20 people.

 

Any ORBx version of the UK will not be totally photorealistic. It will be small areas of photoscenery (based around accurate renditions of airfields that they create), but the rest will be generic (admittedly very nice looking, but still generic) scenery that will be designed to look like the British landscape. Like Mad Dog has stated, many of us who live in the UK like to be able to see a representation of the real UK landscape as we fly over it, and photoscenery is the only option in that case.

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Hello again....

 

Take your pick http://www.freewares...com/fsx/uk.html

 

Take your pick http://www.freewares...com/fsx/uk.html

 

 

 

Sorry 1st officer sunshine, couldnt resist......woof, woof.

Can you guys define photorealistic? I've flown across the orbx australia scenery with google satellite imaging opened at the same time and it matches up pretty well. Are you talking about the buildings itself?

 

Any ORBx version of the UK will not be totally photorealistic. It will be small areas of photoscenery (based around accurate renditions of airfields that they create), but the rest will be generic (admittedly very nice looking, but still generic) scenery that will be designed to look like the British landscape. Like Mad Dog has stated, many of us who live in the UK like to be able to see a representation of the real UK landscape as we fly over it, and photoscenery is the only option in that case.

Are you talking about the buildings itself?

 

Hello

Yes we are talking about seeing what is actually there in the real world.

Not an artistic rendition that looks somewhat like the UK

Orbx while looking nice to anyone not from the UK will not be accurate, just an artists impression rather than a photo.

If you are not from the UK then it may be close enough for you just like Orbx PNW looks fine to me, I have never been there and probably never will so how would I know the accuracy?

But you get what you pay for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D9f084oOP4

I'am from the UK and that looks amazing.

many of us who live in the UK like to be able to see a representation of the real UK landscape as we fly over it, and photoscenery is the only option in that case.

 

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the photographic scenery is also excellent on framerates unlike Orbx.

I own ALL Horizon GenX volumes released to date, with ALL the UK2000 Airfields and Complex Airports, with ALL the Earth Simulations products. With just Volume 1 of Generation X I can fly over my own house and see my car [back then] sitting on my drive. I also own ALL ORBX stuff and, whilst it is sooooo much better than default FSX, there is no way it can be compared to Photo Scenery. A couple of ORBX airports weigh in at over 1GB and are extremely "heavy" on my I7 at 4.6 GHz. I know which I prefer by a very long chalk and will look out for the first volume of ORBX UK, but I seriously doubt it will even come close to GenX.

 

M.

 

EDIT: I also have just Volume 1 of the competing UK Photoscenery which went on and immediately off my PC.

 

Nuff said.

I also live in the UK and much prefer photographic scenery over landclass-based scenery, for the reasons already suggested - it's the real deal, not just an interpretation of the sort of land that's there. Even Orbx FTX, as fantastic the resolution and the 3D autogen is, looks very generic in some places, and if you study it hard enough you will eventually come across tiles which don't fit together properly or have roads going through buildings. I think the best combination is photographic terrain with an accurate autogen layer on top, like Earth Simulations have done with the Channel Islands and the Isles of Scilly. However this is just as CPU-intensive as Orbx FTX!

 

Like Paladin, I used to use 3 volumes of VFR Real Scenery before I switched to VFR Gen X. I much prefer the colour quality and overall image sharpness of the latter. The former seemed to have a washed-out hue to it.

Unfortunately, VFR Scotland South seems to suffer from a brighter, and more "washed out" look than England and Wales (particularly around Glasgow, and also to the south west). It's a bit disappointing, but I assume that they couldn't do much about it.