has anyone got some good tips for improving the detail in photographic scenery for FSX at the lower levels.

At what altitude would you say I should be able to fly at and still have sharp pictures.

 

regards Stan

It depends greatly on the resolution and what you might consider as being sharp. Personally I flight mostly airliners so it doesnt matter that much. What you can do is get some of these payware scenery with the highest resolution available. I recently saw one with 2cm/pixel I think.

4.8 cm = 1500 ft, 2.4 cm = 1000, 1.2 cm and finer = 500 ft.....rough guide.

if you have bluesky scenery , simsavvy or megascenery x (or earth), it is still sharp as low as a few hundreds feet

This is my freeware DH Hornet Moth over the river Thames near Windsor, the view is eastward. That's Windsor Castle in middle distance, and Heathrow Airport is on the horizon behind it.

The photoscenery is VFR GenX Southern England, PLUS i've added the separate 'Treescape' prog to it to populate the landscape with trees which really brings it alive. Roads and houses etc are blurry below about 1500 feet, i think that also applies to most brands of photoscenery.

 

PS- hey mods have i posted this pic correctly, it's smaller than the original, is there a size limit here or what?

 

Roads and houses etc are blurry below about 1500 feet, i think that also applies to most brands of photoscenery.

 

To be honest, 1500' is about where you start losing believability from the scenery due to the scenery being 2d and lack of depth to everything, anyway. So being a bit blurry lower than that really isn't a problem - a perfectly sharp house that looks like a chalk painting on a pavement isn't much use :)

An older video card can impact how it looks as well. It can take some of them quite a loooong time to render the image up to the full resolution. I had a two year old Nvidea GS530 (think that was it) and I just upgraded to a GTX 560 Ti (overclocked). They rendered far faster. For me, seems like the sweet spot on Megascenery is between 2500-3000...rough guess.

4.8 cm = 1500 ft, 2.4 cm = 1000, 1.2 cm and finer = 500 ft.....rough guide.

 

You only get that kind of resolution in small, high density areas. Large regional photoscenery is generally 0.6 or 1.2 metres per pixel.

ooops, sorry my mistake. For CM= read M=