FTX Global Who is Gonna Buy!

[PDX Flyer 111]

I likely won't be getting it as the price is a bit high for what they are actually doing.

If the product is as good as their screenshots indicates, then I don't think it is priced too high. I think the main thing will be how many new textures they have created and can those textures somewhat reasonably represent the different looks of flying over the complete world. For me, if they can realistically represent the United States and Europe with their textures, then I am onboard and will gladly shell out the cash.

[Kaboki 437]

 

 

They mentioned a price of around $100 for the initial release on their forum a while back. I'm not sure if it has since changed, though. I likely won't be getting it as the price is a bit high for what they are actually doing.

 

Let me put it this way and you'll see that the price is far from bad. If you want to cover the whole world with GEX texture you would have to get 9 GEX addons each costing around 34$ multiply that with 9 and your upto 300$  + the Orbx textures looks way better. So you'll save  200 bucks choosing FTX Global and get a better product(atleast I think they look better), now is the price really that bad?? :rolleyes: They are after all offering the whole world with textures for around 100 bucks....

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

I'm buying it as soon as it's out, as I have been following its progress, since the initial product announcement.

 

One minor point. My minimum requirement for buying new software these days is that they are designed for both FSX (the past) and P3D (the future). There is no other company that has made as strong a commitment to that road map as ORBX Systems has.

[Kaboki 437]

 

 

One minor point. My minimum requirement for buying new software these days is that they are designed for both FSX (the past) and P3D (the future). There is no other company that has made as strong a commitment to that road map as ORBX Systems has.

 

Yes, I just pray that PMDG, A2A, Real air, Majestic, Aerosoft follow their footsteps and add support for Prepar3dV2. Without any good aircraft addons all that nice scenery and good sim platform would just be useless no matter how good it looks...

[HughesMDflyer4 470]

Let me put it this way and you'll see that the price is far from bad. If you want to cover the whole world with GEX texture you would have to get 9 GEX addons each costing around 34$ multiply that with 9 and your upto 300$  + the Orbx textures looks way better. So you'll save  200 bucks choosing FTX Global and get a better product(atleast I think they look better), now is the price really that bad?? :rolleyes: They are after all offering the whole world with textures for around 100 bucks....

 

Again, knowing what is actually involved for a project like this, the price is high in my opinion. My understanding of it is that they are replacing the set of global landclass, tree, and building textures (along with some autogen buildings). In reality, everything is generic...utilized world wide. It's like an FTX region, but a much larger area and lacking hand-placement. I can imagine them wanting to charge such a price for the unlimited future updates and improvements, but not $100 for a replacement of generic textures and buildings. REX is a global texture replacement, and it isn't as expensive. Orbx has quite a lot of the textures, autogen, etc already in their virtual library, I'm sure. It was just a matter of improving some things and coming up with a way to back up and install these textures to the FSX directory. Orbx is a large enough company that they don't need to charge $100 to make an insane amount of money off of it. If they even charged 70 for it, that would likely be more reasonable for a lot of people and perhaps make them more money in the end if more people bought it at the lower price.

 

That's just my 2 cents.

[B777ER 2,492]

JV had already stated if running planes like the NGX, you will need to run autogen at dense which is two notches down.

 

My problem is going to be extracting all the GEX textures and getting UTX to place nice with it until OpenLC comes out.

 

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[Kaboki 437]

REX is a global texture replacement, and it isn't as expensive.

 

REX is a weather addon but im sure you mean GEX?   Where do they offer Global textures with GEX, as far as I can see on their product page is that it's split up in regions(9 regions total), and each region cost around 34$(some of them 44) so to get world GEX coverage you will have to get all the 9 regions and that will cost you around 300 bucks wich is an estimate, if I fine calculate it it will even get more expensive. 

I do not now to much on how much work that goes into this(but it's been almost 6 months sinse they announced it and having people working for six months costs money), and they also working on new textures that has never been seen before in any of their regions. But to add up, to have world coverage the alternative is GEX, and Orbx offer just the same, just far less expensive. And you say they have all the textures in their library and that customers that already bought FTX regions actually already have them(would be nice if they could give a discount to people that have all the regions, but I understand that it's after all a bisniz and they need to get food on the table just like the rest of us) But what about the people that don't have any FTX regions. Should they just be the nice santa claus and give all the work they done all these years away for free(people that don't have the regions even gets more value as it's packed with years of hard work to make all those textures).  

 

But if there is a global product that offer the same as this and costs less, please give me a link and i'll look into it.

My problem is going to be extracting all the GEX textures and getting UTX to place nice with it until OpenLC comes out.

 

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 Eh, what? First of all you wouldn't need GEX as FTX Global do the same , adding textures, and second you wouldn't need to do much other than installing FTX Global and UTX will know where to put the textures...although you may have to turn of the UTX night lightning because FTX Global has their own night lightning..

[ajpongress 467]

REX is primarily a texture replacement program, and it includes a wx generator.

[Kaboki 437]

REX is primarily a texture replacement program, and it includes a wx generator.

 

I thougt it was primeraly  a weather engine wich has lots of cloud texture replacements and also improving on the runway textures and maybe some more(roads?). Cant remember that when I used REX that it did anything similar to what GEX and FTXGlobal do. Didn't see any ground texture replacement.

 

So are you saying that REX do the same as FTX global and GEX, by adding replacement for the default terrain textures. :huh:

It sure is more known for adding nice cloud textures and provide a weather engine....It's certainly not famous for being a replacement for GEX....

 

So when HughesMDFlyer suggesting REX as a better alternative to FTXGlobal no wonders I tought he meant GEX....

 

So maybe you could provide a comparison shoot beetwen REX and FTXglobal textures??

 

"On top of the already 14,000+ textures included within REX Essential Plus, enjoy an additional 256 cirrus and 192 3D cumulus and stratus cloud formations, 2 sets of asphalt runways, 1 set concrete runways, 9 sets asphalt taxiways, 9 sets of concrete taxiways, 1 set of a snowy runway, 6 sets of dawn sky colors, 19 sets of day sky colors, 8 sets of dusk sky colors, 2 sets of tropical water and reef textures, and 11 sets of wave animations"

 

I cant say I see anything in that text that suggest its a texture replacement for the ground texture such as mountains, fields, city textures etc for the whole world. And not anything about different textures depending on where in the world you fly....Heck I have REX Essential OD but haven't even bothered installing it, I do not consider it as an alternative to GEX or FTXGlobal...I consider it only as a weather engine I not even use anymore because I find other wx's to be a lot better  and even like FEX better for clouds and water..

[jetsmell 45]

Like many others I'll wait for the reviews.

[MindYerBeak 73]

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[spilok 1,139]

I'll wait 1....yes 1 day until I hear the first reviews.  But I can assure you that I'M ON BOARD with this program.

 

Stan

[Phillip Gallagher 101]

Pass.

 

1) Too expensive

 

2) I'm into the aircraft simulation much more than scenery and don't want to compromise performance.

 

3) Compatibility issues with other scenery.

 

4) No email support/ forum hard to get into.

 

 

 

[odourboy 1,290]

It looks pretty attractive, but until I understand how the transition fro day to dusk and night lighting is going to work, my purchase will remain on hold. Also, the dusk lighting screenshots I've seen look okay, but not quite up to UTX lighting.

[Kaboki 437]

3) Compatibility issues with other scenery.

 

What compitability issues??? Yes FTX regions have some compitability issues because of the design of those regions. FTX Global isn't an Orbx region it's just replacement for the default textures around the world and does just the same as GEX, I can't see how that is gonna be a problem with other scenerys, Infact JV stated that this product will even make Orbx more compitable with other scenerys...

 

 

4) No email support/ forum hard to get into.

 

What's hard about register to the forum and add one of your order numbers into the signature(set and forget) and get all the support you want? You managed to register on avsim so I can't see why the Orbx forum would be any different :huh:

It looks pretty attractive, but until I understand how the transition fro day to dusk and night lighting is going to work, my purchase will remain on hold. Also, the dusk lighting screenshots I've seen look okay, but not quite up to UTX lighting.

 

LOL, how hard can it be to understand what this product does, the transition from dusk to night and vice versa will be no different than how it is to day with whatever type of FSX install and scenerys you have. Time passes in the sim and it gets darker, more time passés and there will be light ^_^

I may think you are confused how the Day/night switching in Orbx FTX regions work? If so, the option too turn of the night lightning is there if you struggle with performance, so you'll have an option to turn it off if you want when flying in daytime.