Yeah, it is certainly hard to understand the 'geographical' element to this product (outside of profiteering).  I mean, are they suggesting Belgian night environments are different to Dutch and German lights?   Will each country really be bespoke?   Are are they just "applying these lights to each country"    - at EUR 14 per pop ?

 

I think it has to do with the fact AS NE's lights consist of two parts. Part one are the floating lights above the scenery, Part two are the bitmaps placed on top of the scenery replicating the light reflection on the roads. 

These bitmaps might be custom made for the roads where they're used and I can image this takes some manual labor and could not be done automatically.

This is just a guess, but from the little information available on the Aerosoft forum it seems plausible.

I think it has to do with the fact AS NE's lights consist of two parts. Part one are the floating lights above the scenery, Part two are the bitmaps placed on top of the scenery replicating the light reflection on the roads. 

These bitmaps might be custom made for the roads where they're used and I can image this takes some manual labor and could not be done automatically.

This is just a guess, but from the little information available on the Aerosoft forum it seems plausible.

 

Ah ok, I see.   So from their persepective there is in fact a manual process required to 'apply' their NE effect to different areas of the FS world; different roads, urban centres, etc.  

 

That makes more sense as to why it's being sold in such fragmented packages.

 

Cheers.

I did a little bit of testing for Chris (he did a big chunk of the Los Angeles area which he made available for download and feedback). I don't fully understand his technique, but it consisted of two layers - a 'base' layer which provided lighted road surfaces similar to say UTX vector lighting and a 3D lighting layer which was similar in appearance to FTX Global. However, I think it was based on some sort of transparent photoscenery-type layer with 3D light objects anchored to that, as opposed to a general Vector based road lighting or 'scenery with autogen lights' based approach. So, while I understood his process to be somewhat automated, it is still location specific - like a photo scenery product - thus his country by country release and pricing strategy (Belgium is too steep for me, but that's a separate issue).

 

I can say, based on my exposure to his trial stuff, it worked quite well and very nicely on top of photoscenery (Blue Sky for Los Angeles in my case) or UTX/FTX Global. It even enhanced the FTX Global night lighting.

those los angeles pics are jaw dropping, is this what you tested?

 

 

someone asked to see NE with photoreal
here is Night Environment 3D lights, with MegaSceneryX SoCal Photoreal and their included night texture (my hometown L.A. area shown)




 
 
 
this set of pics are with NE 3D lights, NE night textures, over MegaSceneryX SoCal Photoreal (with MegaSceneryX night textures disabled)
 
 
Dusk                                                   Day                                         Dawn                                     Night                                      Night with Objects

 

NE Netherlands has just been released, too.

 

And so has been a NE Berlin demo:

http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/79065-night-environment-berlin-demo-free-released/

Edited February 21, 201412 yr by olli4740

found this on youtube

Aerosoft Night Environment Belgium for FSX : Test Landings at EBBR

 

Edited February 23, 201412 yr by kninja

Screenshots before and after to see difference might sell product better. Still seems pricy though.

Screenshots before and after to see difference might sell product better. Still seems pricy though.

Assuming you're using this with photo-scenery (which I believe is it's intended user market) then the before is just darkness.

AeroSoft Night Environment change of plan

 

http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/79177-night-environment-change-of-plan/

Plus, the Berlin demo has been updated (like in "improved"). Just re-download from the link provided above.

Use Belgium 2012 photoscenery icw NE Belgium and you"ll have a great looking scenery.

 

Chris has done a magnificent job on the nightlighting.

 

Also his NE Netherlands adds a lot to realism and can also be used with NL2000.

Don't forget to download the switchtool to switch the default NL2000 nightlighting offerte.

Use Belgium 2012 photoscenery icw NE Belgium and you"ll have a great looking scenery.

 

Chris has done a magnificent job on the nightlighting.

 

Also his NE Netherlands adds a lot to realism and can also be used with NL2000.

Don't forget to download the switchtool to switch the default NL2000 nightlighting offerte.

Gerard,

Where can I download this switch tool?

Look for the Aerosoft NE NL forum topic.

Look for the Aerosoft NE NL forum topic.

 

Found it! Thanks!