"Well, if you can't make your settings any better than his, you better stay away from MSEv.2."

 

 

LOL You high your talking about someone who has mastered the best look you can obtain in fsx

I installed it and am still getting the messy textures

The setups all installed stuff into only one folder, the scenery folder in Megascenery subfolder Mass

Then I saw that it activated that folder in my library as it was

Is that correct?

 

Doesn't sound like you have MSEv2. All of the scenery I have purchased so far requires a manual installation. You install each file you download into a Mass folder. Then you go to the scenery library and manually add it to the Scenery Library. Look in your Scenery Library and see if the State is located there.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Doesn't sound like you have MSEv2. All of the scenery I have purchased so far requires a manual installation. You install each file you download into a Mass folder. Then you go to the scenery library and manually add it to the Scenery Library. Look in your Scenery Library and see if the State is located there.

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

I did buy a V2 and it made the scenery entries for me, which I checked.

Size is correct at about 5G

 

They wil not get more of my money if this is what MASS is supposed to look like

 

 

But heck aint anyone out there using MASS? Must have done something wrong?

I got the Mass state from MegaScenery

 

I must be doing something wrong? If not I regret buying it

 

 

 

ADDENDUM

 

 

I did not get all the files #5 was not finished we had a power interruption yesterday

 

 

So I will try again'

 

Have you followed the MSE Graphics Tweaking guide? Looking at the aircraft in your shot in particular, it looks like you dont have anti-aliasing set... not that you must have that set, but if not, you might not also have some other important graphics options turned on or set for the best MSE experience... Try this guide:

 

Getting the BEST out of MegaSceneryEarth Visuals

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To ensure you are seeing the best photoreal texture quality with your new MegaSceneryEarth 2.0 package, it may be necessary to make some adjustments to your FSX display settings, as well as to your video card settings to ensure these elements are not the cause of "degradation" of the MSE 2.0 textures.

use this information below as a GUIDE ONLY. We do not claim it will work for all video cards, or for all users. But if you are not seeing the same level of detail and clarity in MSE 2.0 states that you see with our screenshots, then you will likely need to tinker with your settings to achieve best results.

It might be worth trying out several adjustments primarily to potentially make the scenery render in full resolution. We found this REALLY helped produce the best views...

 

1. In your FSX.cfg file, change LOD_RADIUS from 4.5 to at least 7.0 or 8.0. (make a backup of your fsx.cfg file before adjusting of course in case you want to revert later). This will result in slightly longer initial load times, but the scenery will render much sharper further into the distance... It makes a big difference. The radius number you use will depend on your PC and video card specs somewhat, but try not to exceed 9.0 at the very maximum. 7.5 seems a good option for those with GTX560+ or GTX660+ cards.

 

2. If you have an Nvidia card, go into the nVidia control panel and set your Anisotropic Filtering to 8x. We found at 16x or above that this setting tends to smooth off the textures a little more, whereas 8x retains the full clarity. Might differ for your card but just tinker and see what works best.

 

3. Naturally, the higher your FSX screen resolution is, the better. Ideally you would run at 1920x1080x32 or higher if you card supports it. If not, choose the highest resolution available. Because MegaSceneryEarth doesn't use resource-consuming autogen, your video card should have no problems being set to its highest resolution level and running MSE scenery smoothly in any of the MSE states/regions.

 

4. The best zoom factor to use in the cockpit view is 0.40. Any higher tends to cause slight blurring of the textures.. The higher the zoom, the worse the blurring gets. 0.40 is the best compromise.

 

And lastly, here are our nvidia graphics cards settings, for your reference only. We dont guarantee these will give you the best results, but feel listing them might give you an option to see MegaSceneryEarth 2.0 sceneries how they are made to be best seen.

 

Ambient Occlusion: Performance

Anisotropic Filtering: 8x

Antialiasing - FXAA: Off

Antialiasing - Gamma Correction: On

Antialiasing - Mode: Override any application setting

Antialiasing - Setting: 16x CSAA

Antialiasing - Transparency: Off

CUDA - GPUs: All

Maximum pre-rendered frames: 3

Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration: Compatibility performance mode

Power management mode: Adaptive

Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization: Off

Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: Clamp

Texture filtering - Quality: Quality

Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization: Off

Threaded optimization: Auto

Triple buffering: Off

Vertical sync: Use the 3D application setting

 

See how you go!

 

Doesn't sound like you have MSEv2. All of the scenery I have purchased so far requires a manual installation. You install each file you download into a Mass folder. Then you go to the scenery library and manually add it to the Scenery Library. Look in your Scenery Library and see if the State is located there.

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

Jim,

 

We have updated many of the states recently so they now add the area to your scenery library automatically. If you downloaded the state more than a week or two ago, you probably have the old files which required manual installation to the scenery library. The actual scenery files are unchanged however, so need to re-download at the moment

 

wait a minute cause it was brought to my attention that I must have erred

 

and yeah, file 5 was not installed yet

 

will get back about this

 

 

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I installed it and am still getting the messy textures

The setups all installed stuff into only one folder, the scenery folder in Megascenery subfolder Mass

Then I saw that it activated that folder in my library as it was

Is that correct?

 

If you are missing one file, this does not have any effect on how the scenery renders. That comes down to your graphics card, and more importantly, its settings... see my other reply above on that. All you will see if you are missing any scenery files is either a blank square area or region, or that missing area will be showing default scenery instead.

A re-install wont fix your graphics issues... you will need to spend some time tinkering with the graphics settings.... That's where the real difference is made/found Hope that helps!

 

 

They wil not get more of my money if this is what MASS is supposed to look like

 

 

But heck aint anyone out there using MASS? Must have done something wrong?

 

I'll happily admit also that Massachusetts is not one of the best examples of MSE 2.0. It uses a fair amount of 1m/pixel source imagery, whereas most other states have 50cm/pixel. There is a big difference in quality in that source imagery, so please do not take Massachusetts as a benchmark for what ALL other MSE 2.0 states are like quality-wise... It is more an exception than the rule

If and when better imagery becomes available for Massachusetts, we will update the scenery and all existing owners will be able to update free of charge to the higher resolution version.

"I'll happily admit also that Massachusetts is not one of the best examples"

 

​ That's for sure not the most exciting state to show off Megascenery unfortunately its my state which is a bumber lol

"I'll happily admit also that Massachusetts is not one of the best examples"

 

​ That's for sure not the most exciting state to show off Megascenery unfortunately its my state which is a bumber lol

 

Richard,

Make those graphics tweaks changes as suggested... You will find they make a BIG difference to the outcome, and you might find your experience is much different once you have it all set up optimally. Fingers crossed that better aerial imagery becomes available soon too for Mass.

Hi Aviator I know it will look pretty nice on my rig not turned off from purchase have quite a bit of your products and always have been really happy with them just find mass a boring state compared to the other parts of the country no fault of yours. Also I would need R.I. - New York - at least to get to some of my payware airports oh and then there is also my new Montreal airport and all the states on the way up there from KBOS

Hi Aviator I know it will look pretty nice on my rig not turned off from purchase have quite a bit of your products and always have been really happy with them just find mass a boring state compared to the other parts of the country no fault of yours. Also I would need R.I. - New York - at least to get to some of my payware airports oh and then there is also my new Montreal airport and all the states on the way up there from KBOS

 

Richard, No problem

Rhode Island is similar to Mass in many ways... With New York, you get a good combination of mountains, flats, cities, country and rivers... Quite a nice state to fly around. The Lake Placid area is particularly nice in MSE 2.0.

Vermont and New Hampshire are full 50cm/pixel states and look awesome in FSX with MSE 2.0. Again, as soon as we can get better imagery for Massachusetts and Rhode Island, we will provide those updates... We are simply limited by what is available currently for those areas.

Thanks Buddy appreciate it I have seen all of the screenshots from your site you are spot on with your review :smile:

Rhode Island is similar to Mass in many ways... With New York, you get a good combination of mountains, flats, cities, country and rivers... Quite a nice state to fly around. The Lake Placid area is particularly nice in MSE 2.0.

 

What might be cool is for those who live in (or know well) certain states (or even better- have flown over them in VFR at low enough altitude to see stuff), to contribute some cool VFR flights that have some contrast and/or scenic beauty- and maybe with a challenging landing at the end I am happy to start with CO (which is not yet released), and maybe we should make it a separate thread.... just an idea....

 

Good thread, Bruce.

What might be cool is for those who live in (or know well) certain states (or even better- have flown over them in VFR at low enough altitude to see stuff), to contribute some cool VFR flights that have some contrast and/or scenic beauty- and maybe with a challenging landing at the end I am happy to start with CO (which is not yet released), and maybe we should make it a separate thread.... just an idea....

 

Good thread, Bruce.

 

Good idea Bruce... I might grab some shots when I can from various states and start a new thread in the screenshots sections, one for each state and anyone who wishes to add their own from that state scenery are welcome to... See what unique and interesting features we can find in each state and document them in screenshots.

"I might grab some shots when I can from various states"

 

Please do that would be great

Collecting the Gt Lakes & Eastern Seaboard at the moment...Love it. Money well spent.

I'll happily admit also that Massachusetts is not one of the best examples of MSE 2.0. It uses a fair amount of 1m/pixel source imagery, whereas most other states have 50cm/pixel. There is a big difference in quality in that source imagery, so please do not take Massachusetts as a benchmark for what ALL other MSE 2.0 states are like quality-wise... It is more an exception than the rule

If and when better imagery becomes available for Massachusetts, we will update the scenery and all existing owners will be able to update free of charge to the higher resolution version.

 

Happily admitting that the source is twice as bad as other one's (it was not mentioned on the product page? maybe it was?) is not making me happy.

 

I followed all the instructions but am still getting less than expected texture quality.

 

There are also artifacts (GEX?) in the pic here, so maybe there is something else I did wrong? Or can someone tell me they are getting the same/better?

 

This here is MASS v2: no weather

 

 

 

I got MASS because I found the approach to KBOS lacking, even with UTX/GEX. I find the later better now though

This pic is with UTX/GEX(+ recent updates). Looks crispy clear witht the same settings....

 

Comparing these 2 pics it comes obvious there is interference from something.... GEX? UTX? (lower in library)

 

It seems that the GEX is showing through the MegaScenery, which is not a fault of MegaScenery. I updated to the new GEX NA before installing MASSv2. UTX is way below Mv2 in the scenery library so I dont think thats it

Just a friendly reminder to everyone that we do have a Screenshot Forum here at AVSIM and that might be a better place for showing off your images of MSE V2. Excerpt from Image Posting Rules: "Images used in all forums EXCEPT the SCREEN SHOT forum, must be used for clarification or visualization of a problem." "Artistic" or demonstration images must only be placed in the SCREENSHOT forum." I know some of us have already been in violation of this policy, including me, in this post. If you provide a link here in this post or in a new post to a photo on a personal website (or even a link to the Screenshot forum), to bring it to everyones attention, this should be okay. Helen_P, who posted a link to the AVSIM video forum earlier in this post, did the right and proper thing by linking the video she made to the video forum. Just wanted to post this reminder before things started to get out of hand..... Thanks for your cooperation.

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

 

EDIT:

 

 

 

For Peppy197: "There are also artifacts in the pic here, so maybe there is something else I did wrong? Or can someone tell me they are getting the same/better?"

 

Make sure UTX is moved down in your Scenery Library. It looks like UTX has trumped some of MSE's images. Photoscenery should not have UTX artifacts in the scenery.

 

Best regards,

Jim