First UK screenshots available at the FTX forums.

 

http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/49116-eghr-goodwood-airport-for-ftx-england-first-shots/

 

Goodwood which will be an airfield add-on initially and more of the "England" area to come in the following weeks.

 

It looks excellent IMO, but I still want to see how they handle London and particularly the Suburbs and fields within the M25. It may not be your area, but if that looks convincing then they ought to be able to crack any region?

 

Geoff

And for those who have Earth simulatons Channel Islands and Isles Of Scilly

 

 

John Venema said this:

 

qoute:

"Also had a great meeting with Darren and Vicki Vincent from EarthSimulations and we will be making a joint announcement with them soon."

"Darren has written a simple tool called ESMerge which we'll be using to allow both FTX England and ES sceneries to be active concurrently, so there won't be an issue."

Looks OK, doesn't make me jump up and down especially.

Hi Guys. As the owner of Flightstore.co.uk, a big supporter and stockist of ORBX titles I am looking forward to offering FTX England on our website and stores..

However as some of you know, I also own the publishing company Playsims Publishing which publishers Horizons's VFR Photographic scenery , Treescaoes from Earth Simulations and UK2000 Airports.

 

I wanted to make this clear from the outset as obvioulsy some people may think i am taking advantage of a conflict of interests when reading my post below.

I assure you that as my primary business is Flightstore Pilto shop, i will sell anything to the best of our ability that is in demand, regardless of other interests.

 

But being the publishers of this well known software does allow me to give a more detailed perspective as to what the future of this title might hold, as we know quite a lot about making scenery.

 

Without doubt FTX Englnad as a replacement landclass for the default FSX scenery is a no brainer. It looks far better. I cannot comment on performance as we have not seen it run yet, but i know Orbx and this will have been at the forefront of their minds.

 

The question is , what happens to those FSX scenery libraries that have other 3rd party software on them.

 

1.) Certainly it will overwrite and effectively hide any VFR Photographic scenery for England whether that is Horizons or Just Flights VFR Scenery

2.) Blending: There are no blends between say the Welsh or Scottish border in FTX and VFR Scenery as they use different images, so you will see the border and colour changes.

3.) You may have to remove Aerosofts VFR London scenery, If you keep it and moveit above FTX England, the chances of 2 x LONDONS RUNNING is I think too much to expect and Orbx will probably argue why would you want to.

4.) Earth simulations Treescapes products will be hidden unless these are movedabove but i can say with much certainty that if you do that it will look rubbish.

There will be trees everywhere, certainly conlficting with FTX landclass buildings

5.) UK2000 , Gary's airports remain the biggest question as ORBX will launch the inital airfield Goodwood that has been designed to blend with FTX, but none of Garys work will blend with FTX. At this stage we dont even know if it will cause conflicts.

6.) REX and REX Essential. No idea.

 

 

We are hoping to test this software as soon as John Venna at Orbx gets a copy to us

we intend to do 3 tests

1.) Clean install over FSX generic with no artisitic embelishments

2.) Install over VFR Scenery and treescapes but leaving UK 2000 airports above it

3. ) Install over VFR Scenery, but moving treescapes and UK 2000 above it

 

We wll post our results as soon as we have them.

 

Hope you have fould this post useful as we dont normally do this sort of thing as it might look like punting for business, but in this case i think we have a good reason to get involved.

There are 43,000 VFR scenery users out there each with an average value on their PCs of around £100 each, So this will be a big ask to remove all these if that is what is required. And as the front line for customer support and complaints we need to know, just as you do, what exactly will happen here.

 

Keep an eye on our website for a pre-order launch. You can sign up to your newsletter if you want which will let you know immediately when we have the details online.

www.flightstore.co.uk

 

if anyone wants to contact me directly my email is [email protected] , but please dont spam it around or i will to change it again!!!

Thanks

Andrew Holdsworth

Hi Guys. As the owner of Flightstore.co.uk, a big supporter and stockist of ORBX titles I am looking forward to offering FTX England on our website and stores..

However as some of you know, I also own the publishing company Playsims Publishing which publishers Horizons's VFR Photographic scenery , Treescaoes from Earth Simulations and UK2000 Airports.

 

Hi Andrew

Just on side note and im not trying to de-rail this conversation. But I would like to congratulate you on a fantastic store, I bought playsims vfr volume 9 and 10 a few months back.

Your service was exceptional, if I do choose to purchase Orbx UK it will be through flightstore.co.uk

Best of luck in the future