I've been doing some VFR flights across Europe lately, and I've noticed that the city autogen scenery is very sparse. There will be large tracts of urban areas with very few buildings--generally in areas comprised of the autogen buildings with courtyards in the middle. I don't have this problem anywhere else--I get a nice high amount of autogen in North America, Asia, Australia, etc... it's just Europe that is very flat.

 

As you can see, "standard" buildings appear fine--these are the same buildings used in a lot of US cities, hence why my autogen is fine there.

 

But when I get into urban areas of the same cities (in this case Paris), the ground is almost entirely flat:

 

Has anyone else noticed this?

 

Thanks,

boeing247

Would GEX or UTX fill it in some?

I have no clue... but I think it should work. I also think I know why European scenery is so sparse. When they made FSX, they took a big picture of the scenery using Google Earth, then used tools and other things to make it 3-Dimensional. Creating a truly realistic Flight Simulator requires travelling around the world a lot, or finding a lot of pictures of just one thing. Since Microsoft is a mainly North American based company, and Aces was the studio in the United States that created the sim. They obviously couldn't get enough or good enough pictures to help them fill in the question marks, or they just ran out of time.

 

Did you check the United Kingdom or any other place other than the US, Canada, and Europe to see whether or not it's the same thing?

It seems like a Landclass issue here.

I would recommend a Scenery Tech Europe Landclass here: http://www.scenerytech.com/products/landclass/europe.htm

I'm using all their packages.

Can also recommend new textures from this website: https://sites.google.com/site/aimecreations/freeware-fsx/winter-textures.

Did you check the United Kingdom or any other place other than the US, Canada, and Europe to see whether or not it's the same thing?

 

It's not so much all of Europe, it's just in regions with that one particular kind of building (as shown in my second picture), and that kind of building is only used in Europe (and occasionally the Middle East).

 

Can also recommend new textures from this website: https://sites.google...inter-textures.

 

Those look pretty good for rural textures. How are they in urban areas?

 

 

Also I've been looking a lot at GEX and UTX, and based on the screenshots, it looks like GEX provides a lot more autogen. Would GEX be better to get for that? And which is better for VFR flying? I eventually want to get the North America version of one of them so I can fly VFR around where I live.

As far as I know GEX provides updated textures, has nothing to do with autogen, but the land class provides information like where should be a rural area, city center, forest and so on including autogen. UTX also has Land class layers.

 

Some place near Paris:

 

and towards the city center:

 

Hope the don't look to ugly but I like it. ^_^

I've had installed UTX but although my computer has 8 GB RAM I had memory issues.

Unfortunly I had to remove UTX

Maybe somebody has a suggestion to resolve this memory problem

boeing247,

You were right about autogen layout in GEX.

My mistake.

I've had installed UTX but although my computer has 8 GB RAM I had memory issues.

Unfortunly I had to remove UTX

Maybe somebody has a suggestion to resolve this memory problem

 

Is this a common problem? Because I was thinking about getting UTX in addition to GEX (I've heard that both together work pretty nicely).