It's about time! This should have been their 1st project.

 

TEXTURES, LANDCLASS, TREES, Coastlines, Roads, and the lights. It's what I've been waiting for.

 

Actually they said there is no landclass or coastlines included.

GEX and UT here, tks anyway!

Ha ha! The time something like that would take me is better spent in the office where those $190 should take me less than two hours overtime to earn . I'm just lazy, and I haven't made a batch file since I had MS-DOS 6 installed on my 486 sometime in the early 1990s .

 

Retired, half the salary I used to have...just got the news the my pension will increase in 2013 a whopping $50 per month...at that rate that's four months time I have available to cover the $200 cost....lol.

Actually they said there is no landclass or coastlines included.

I'm aware.

 

It's what they should have done years ago.

 

 

That's what I meant.

What I don't like is the free perpetual upgrades - sounds good but is a lousy financial model - ask Justin at FSG. However it does sound interesting!

Almost $200 for a set of TEXTURES only? That's insane. No thank you.

 

Let me make this clear because I'm sure many readers here aren't aware of the way the FSX terrain/scenery system works. This is a set of textures ONLY. There is no landclass or vector data, meaning all the roads, water bodies, coastlines/beaches, and so on will be default FSX, not the custom stuff you see in other Orbx products.

Figured we'd get this sooner or later, should benefit both users and orbx having worldwide coverage.

personally i find the ORBX textures to dark. i do lots of small photoreal airport addons for personal use and trying to match ORBX colors for my photoreal is a pain and degrades the original color quality.

 

Almost $200 for a set of TEXTURES only? That's insane. No thank you.

Not for the work they put into it. probably had to purchase source data for their work and the man hours, to each their own.

 

Also, thank of it this way, many here have wanted ORBX to cover the world, if you add up all the packs out right now and look at how little they cover, this is a deal.

Also, thank of it this way, many here have wanted ORBX to cover the world, if you add up all the packs out right now and look at how little they cover, this is a deal.

 

No, that's not right. As I said, as they are describing it right now, it is NOT the same quality of the other Orbx addons, not by a MILE. It's just **textures* nothing else. The existing Orbx products are textures, custom autogen, custom landclass, custom vector data, partial photo scenery and hand-placed scenery.

personally i find the ORBX textures to dark. i do lots of small photoreal airport addons for personal use and trying to match ORBX colors for my photoreal is a pain and degrades the original color quality.

 

LOL! That sums up the average AVSIM'er pretty well Michael. As a community there is always someone who finds something wrong with everything... ORBX textures might be too dark, but they are way better than almost all of the default textures, wouldn't you agree?

 

No, that's not right. As I said, as they are describing it right now, it is NOT the same quality of the other Orbx addons, not by a MILE. It's just **textures* nothing else. The existing Orbx products are textures, custom autogen, custom landclass, custom vector data, partial photo scenery and hand-placed scenery.

 

Someone from orbx said its textures, custom autogen, and 3d lights.

It's not "textures" only.

 

 

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This is not an FTX region. It is an hassle free make over of the default FSX graphics covering the entire planet in one go. No need to activate regions.

I know but it would be nice if they were able to fix the issue I had described.

Almost $200 for a set of TEXTURES only? That's insane. No thank you.

 

Let me make this clear because I'm sure many readers here aren't aware of the way the FSX terrain/scenery system works. This is a set of textures ONLY. There is no landclass or vector data, meaning all the roads, water bodies, coastlines/beaches, and so on will be default FSX, not the custom stuff you see in other Orbx products.

 

So 3d lights and autogen are "textures only" now?

No, that's not right. As I said, as they are describing it right now, it is NOT the same quality of the other Orbx addons, not by a MILE. It's just **textures* nothing else. The existing Orbx products are textures, custom autogen, custom landclass, custom vector data, partial photo scenery and hand-placed scenery.

 

While things can never be too cheap (ethical and environmental issues aside) I think you are underestimating the work replacing that amount of textures takes. That is probably why it hasn't been done until now.

 

The idea of a total ORBX makeover for the entire world is absurd. It would take ages, cost more than any simmer would be willing to spend and require huge amounts of data that simply isn't available.

 

I know but it would be nice if they were able to fix the issue I had described.

 

Indeed. Lucky me who just fly GA over short distances.

 

ORBX is far from perfect. I've been waiting for a proper software that makes downloading, installing and updating all their stuff manageable. From a usability standpoint ORBX have unresolved issues.

So are they going to finally work with the other landclass products? Otherwise what is the point? If there are no updated landclass, rivers, lakes, coastlines, etc. I don't see how they can charge this much? To me it's just competing with Ground Environment when their smaller regions compete with Ultimate Terrain. Without landclass and those other important aspects, it will look very bland. And for almost 200 dollars? Yikes. Count me out.