Edit: I meant to say that it was "California Upper South".

 

So, I decided to try some Megascenery Earth. I already own MegaScenery X SoCal and have been very pleased with it. I like the framerates and the realism of the photos. The Megascenery Earth Upper South is not to the same quality. (I still like it but I have to admit some disappointment in the quality.) The resolution also seems to be about half of Megascenery X.

 

The 'Earth' collection seems to be from some dated satellite imagery and the colors are extremely saturated. The hills look blackish. By comparison, the SoCal images look very natural. I also took a cap from Google Earth which shows a comparison between a more natural look and the photos that Earth uses.

 

Sorry, the order of the pics I uploaded is a little out of order so let me take a moment and give a tour. The first few two pictures are from MegaSceneryX Socal...pretty good. Pic 3 is a Google pic of the Socal area that shows both KMRY (Monterey) and LAX...you can see that they're pretty close geographically. Pic 4 is the first pic in the set from Mega Earth...sitting on the ground at KMRY. The hill behind looks like it's covered in coal. Pic 5 and 6 are from a few miles north of the airport: 5 is the area as displayed by Google Earth, 6 is from Mega Earth...same area. 7 is another from Mega Earth at 3000 feet and the last is a high altitude of the area...probably 20,000 feet. You can see them at

 

http://imgur.com/OQO...P,ainwc,6btal#0

 

Again, sorry about the messed up order but it's enough for you to get an idea of how the area looks. I guess I was thinking that the quality would be roughly the same as MegaX Socal...especially since it's been a few years since they created that one. I *wish* they had chosen a different set of images or done some batch color correction before they packaged it. Like I said, it's still better than FSX scenery but I was certainly hoping for better.

 

Has anyone had any experience with any other photoreal software that has better images? I'll certainly replace this when I get the chance.

 

Gregg

yes, the Megascenery earth titles are not the best quality or resolution. You can try some of the BlueSky scenery titles, they have both FS9 and FSX.

 

http://www.blueskyscenery.com/download.html

 

With photoscenery anything less than 1 m per pixel (default FSX texture resolution) is unacceptable to me, yet you will see vendors giving all kinds of excuses why they went with a lower reolution instead of higher..

The one thing that Megascenery does have is an ability to let MS dynamic scenery display on top of their scenery. I don't think Blue Sky has that sorted out yet. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.