Does anyone know the name of the website that sells a hard drive filled with photo scenery of the United States?

 

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I think you're thinking of SimSavvy - was about $299. No water masking and i think no night textures; www.sim-savvy.com

 

... Unfortunately they recently stopped (about a month ago) doing what they had been doing and now are providing state by state product through megasceneryearth so you can be much more selective on what you want coverage of .... but the overall cost is going to significantly more if you want the whole continental coverage. Supposedly water masking and night textures will also come down the line when they've released the entire country - and it's now downloaded.

 

Cheers,

 

Danny

Hello

The Website was Simsavvy but they have now sold out to Megascenery so the HD deal is over

http://www.sim-savvy.com/

It used to be http://www.sim-savvy.com/

 

But they're now making scenery for http://www.megasceneryearth.com/store/

 

You can still download http://www.blueskyscenery.com/

 

Gregg

Damn, that sucks... I really don't mind not having night textures because I prefer to just use UTX's 3D night lighting. I've given TileProxy a shot but even though I have a very fast Fios connection (35/35), I still get lots of pauses and stutters when using a 30cm resolution. I wonder if anyone who purchased the HDD scenery drive in the past would be willing to sell it.

 

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The blueskyscenery option mentioned above might be a good starting point for some flights.

 

No night textures either, but like you said not an issue for you if you're using UTX. It's freeware so you can try it out without a problem. I just find the installation process a little on the tedious and painful side. Finally coverage is limited but it continues to grow at a good speed.

 

Can't hurt to try it out - I've been impressed and used it to fill in some gaps between the MSE products I already had and what they didn't cover.

The blueskyscenery option mentioned above might be a good starting point for some flights.

 

No night textures either, but like you said not an issue for you if you're using UTX. It's freeware so you can try it out without a problem. I just find the installation process a little on the tedious and painful side. Finally coverage is limited but it continues to grow at a good speed.

 

Can't hurt to try it out - I've been impressed and used it to fill in some gaps between the MSE products I already had and what they didn't cover.

 

Oh ok, I will check them out then. Thanks, bro.

 

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I've given TileProxy a shot but even though I have a very fast Fios connection (35/35), I still get lots of pauses and stutters when using a 30cm resolution.

 

Did you try dialing it back to a more reasonable resolution? Sim-Savvy was based on 50cm imagery, but distributed as 1m textures. If you dial back to 1m resolutions in TileProxy, you'll get a reasonable approximation of what SimSavvy could provide.

 

Alternatively, if you don't mind getting your hands a little dirty, you can always use FSEarthTiles to create your own regions of photoreal scenery local to your system, not dependent on TileProxy to always be running.

 

Of course, you could also go the route of payware options, too.

 

Just throwing out more ideas!

 

-Greg

 

Did you try dialing it back to a more reasonable resolution? Sim-Savvy was based on 50cm imagery, but distributed as 1m textures. If you dial back to 1m resolutions in TileProxy, you'll get a reasonable approximation of what SimSavvy could provide.

 

Alternatively, if you don't mind getting your hands a little dirty, you can always use FSEarthTiles to create your own regions of photoreal scenery local to your system, not dependent on TileProxy to always be running.

 

Of course, you could also go the route of payware options, too.

 

Just throwing out more ideas!

 

-Greg

 

Hmmmm That sounds interesting. How can I force TP to go to a max resolution of 1m textures? This whole level mapping thing is confusing even after RTFM.

 

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Hmmmm That sounds interesting. How can I force TP to go to a max resolution of 1m textures? This whole level mapping thing is confusing even after RTFM.

 

It's been ages since I last used TileProxy, but I believe in the .ini files there is a line item which can be adjusted to limit the resolution you are set to using..

 

It's "max_lod" - set it to "15", per the .ini file's guidance. You can go for even less resolution as well, which might still look great from a thousand feet up, only sacrificing image quality down low.

You can store the images locally, too. Yes?

You can store the images locally, too. Yes?

If I remember right, it will (*or can be told to) cache what it's grabbed as you fly for future flights with TileProxy.

Just to clarify, MegasceneryEarth 2.0 does include water masking, but no night textures.

Yes, no night textures except at the airports (which are still the default or addon). Here's what it looks like over Megascenery Earth Maryland....

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

Is there anyway to get night lighting over the tile proxy tiles? If so I would love to know so I can try it out

 

Thanks,

Chris