Today, flew southern in Indiana to the next town over Illinois border in short flight with Stereo 3d in Carendo C-172, and got about 25 fps. I used passive 3dtv Vizio 42in with tridef and amd hd7750 card with interfaced display. If you want to fly low and slow with photo real scenery its awesome in stereo 3d with mega earth 2.0. At 2000 agl you can get illusion the that overpass are on freeways like X-plane, and the trees pop-out. Photo scenery with right setup and tricks who needs autogen anyways. Get out or Nivida 3d or Amd hd3d out looks good.

I actually like the old MegaScenery which had night textures and autogen - to each his own I guess.

I noticed that Washington State (still old version) is selling for $120 while the new Illinois sells for $40. Big difference.

Photo scenery with right setup and tricks who needs autogen anyways

 

Agree. I have a 3D setup too but not enabled (and to enable it will probably take a few hours as I have to switch monitors, etc.). But I have already commented elsewhere on the Ilinois V2 scenery. Absolutely stunning from 1000 ft to 32,000! Autogen takes up a lot of memory resources so this saves on FPS for sure. I have since bought most of the East Coast and recently flown several flights from DC to Charlotte NC. I also made several Baren 58 flights from DC to Charlottesville, VA. Stunning scenery. I doubt though I will buy the whole US as that will be expensive. I hope to set up my 3d system again soon.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Some think photo ariels are flat that is true till you get about 1000ft to 2000 ft above ground. This one option for people that do not have super computers and want VFR realism. Its a good option for people that like to fly vfr and do not like the autogen at all. All buy Mega Scenery 2.0 for the rest of the upper midwest MN, WI, MI, IA and the Dakotas cant buy all, but places I fly all the time short trips.

Doesn't work for those of us with monocular vision, of course...

Some think photo ariels are flat that is true till you get about 1000ft to 2000 ft above ground.

 

Actually, that depends on the quality and resolution of the scenery and to some extent on the terrain, buildings and so forth. The best can look remarkably 3d above 1000 AGL in some circumstances, others still look flat at even higher altitudes.

 

On the ground and in the pattern - meh, without something to give it help like 3rd party payware airports, Aerosoft's Cities or what Megascenery X does in places like SoCal and Las Vegas.

 

I still really want to like photoscenery, but departures and landings are such immersion killers for me and those are exactly the wrong times in flight to lose that "suspension of disbelief".

 

Scott

Can always add buildings to airports and landmarks on cities in photoscenery done it myself. Figure landing and takeoff are only short part of the flight, but I like 3d buildings and landmarks that fsx has just not the autogen. The autogen in my view just makes things look worse to me all take better clouds over Autogen. Adding real buildings, planes, terminals I am all for that at airports. Las Vegas real good in photoreal to me with buildings, but all take 20 skyscapers manmade over 400,000 autogen buildings that make it look worse.

Too bad you can't show a screenshot from the 3D experience

Figure landing and takeoff are only short part of the flight,

 

If that works for ya, great - but I've never understood the argument. As a pilot, they're the key parts of the fllight and when they're so badly wrong it detracts from everything else. Of course, I also admit (as I have before) to being a bona-fide airport junky, in the sim and the real world.

 

Like you, I also think Las Vegas is excellent in photoscenery, but then I use Megascenery X and FSDT KLAS there and FSX Acceleration also populates the strip very nicely. All these together make it work, because the world doesn't go completly flat as you get close to the ground.

 

Getting back on topic a bit, I'm very tempted to pick up Earth V2 Illinois and see if I can get Chicago to be much like Las Vegas and LA as a major start point or destination, by adding Aerosoft's Cities Chicago and Midway and O'hare addons. Has anyone tried this with the new stuff as opposed to the old Earth Chicago area tiles which I know had a few issues?

 

Scott

Chicago looks pretty good, North side does but anything long I-80 is grimy looking, but that typical of the South Side of Chicagoland. Downloading Wisconsin at the moment and gonna add ole photoreal Minneapolis and St. Paul I have and fly all over Wisconsin on my day off. Minnesota cant wait to see that one