August 1, 201213 yr These shots are from XP10 and are a mix of Payware, Freeware, OSM data and converted Aerosoft scenery I purchased for FSX, but now use in XP10. Im slowly trying to Populated my XP-10 cites with a little more "plausability" Rob Detroit Seattle NYC Paris France
August 1, 201213 yr Looks very "Plausable" :P Great shots Rob 100%75%50%d8a34be0e82d98b5a45ff4336cd0dddc Patrick
August 1, 201213 yr Very nice! Could you estimate the amount and difficult of work necessary on your part to obtain these results? If it 's reasonable or if much is freely available already I would consider Xplane now a much more viable option as a main sim, personally.
August 2, 201213 yr Author Very nice! Could you estimate the amount and difficult of work necessary on your part to obtain these results? If it 's reasonable or if much is freely available already I would consider Xplane now a much more viable option as a main sim, personally. Running existing scenery through a converter, takes just 5 mins to convert. Converting Open street map data, takes more time because you can only do small blocks of areas at a time. There is a lot of stuff appearing on X-plane.org every day, so Il usually use that first. As for your last question, That depends on your personal choice. X-plane has come a long way, but still has some ground to catch up in certain areas. Its maturing nicley at a steady pace, so who knows where it will be in say a year or two? I do enjoy it a lot and although I still use FSX from time to time, Ive been spending a lot more time with XP10, because its different and I guess I just needed a change after 6 + years with FSX. Having both, gives me the best of both worlds. They both co-exist together very nicley on my HD. Incedentally, my FSX install is about 200 GB, XP10 default is about 60 GB, After installing a lot of scenery and planes into X-plane X, it s now at 190GB. Time to start looking into an aditional Hard drive!
August 2, 201213 yr Thanks for the info! Would you venture a guess at how much of the plausible world has been transformed into real world scenery thus far? I mostly fly in the U.S. so even just a decent amount of U.S. coverage would be good enough for me.
August 2, 201213 yr Like the scenery, looks better than FSX, but I can't stand those clouds - they look far too 'sprayed on' for me. When you say ' Running existing scenery through a converter, takes just 5 mins to convert' what do you mean? Converting from FSX to XPX?
August 2, 201213 yr Author Like the scenery, looks better than FSX, but I can't stand those clouds - they look far too 'sprayed on' for me. When you say ' Running existing scenery through a converter, takes just 5 mins to convert' what do you mean? Converting from FSX to XPX? Yes, a converter program converts it from FSX format to a format XP uses. That process takes 2-3 mins. As for the clouds, I agree REX clouds look much better from a distance. However, when flying through them, and up close, I prefere the X-plane X clouds. The feeling of passing through them is much better. Ive tried some freeware clouds for XP, which look more Rex like, but they loose that 3d effect as you pass through them, so I reverted back to the default set. Maybe someone will improve on this in the future. Id also like it better if the clouds would go back to the horizon in XP10. Right now they do not. Rob
August 3, 201213 yr Awesome looking city scapes Rob, look more like a Bus sim due to that detail! Al Stiff
August 3, 201213 yr Yes, a converter program converts it from FSX format to a format XP uses. That process takes 2-3 mins. Does that work for airports/photoscenery as well? How about mesh?
August 3, 201213 yr Author I havent tried it with Airport scenery, so far, Ive only tried it with the city scenery, since that was the area I felt XP10 needed the most help. There is a fantastic freeware mesh already available for XP10 already from here: http://www.alpilotx.net/downloads/x-plane-10-hd-scenery-mesh/ so there is no need to convert mesh. Rob
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