April 21, 201412 yr maybe... anyone a good explanation of it? Would be interestening :-) Sorry for the OT though.... There is a good article at the XP devs blog about the correlation between CPU, GPU, bus bandwith and the various XP elements. My sceneries (excerpt): LPMA Madeira (XPFR), LGSR Santorini, LRBV Brasov, the city of Fürth (Germany), several libraries, ...
April 21, 201412 yr Moderator There is a good article at the XP devs blog about the correlation between CPU, GPU, bus bandwith and the various XP elements. Great Article, thanks for the links. I guess that the bus bandwidth limit is the problem, and reducing the complexity of all of our objects is a good goal to work towards. The less triangles to push down the more that can be rendered.
April 22, 201412 yr I wish we could lay this "my preferred sim vs your preferred sim" thing aside for a moment and remember, that we all belong to the relatively small bunch of flightsim enthusiasts. And as such, one simply has to admit, that these pictures show the most realistic scenery ever to be seen on any platform. At least that's what I think and feel when I see these screenshots! No, I definitely agree, this IS the best I've ever seen scenery wise, but I'm trying to say that more can be done. It looks fantastic, please don't misunderstand! Regards, Regards, Jeremy Chesney
April 22, 201412 yr Moderator No, I definitely agree, this IS the best I've ever seen scenery wise, but I'm trying to say that more can be done. It looks fantastic, please don't misunderstand! Lots more can be done. The building library definitely does need work. I'm slowly working on replacing the R2 buildings with our own, as well as programming W2XP (I need to grow another set of hands ), which means we can texture them, and fix the alignment problems). Blacky75 is working on a huge generic house library for Europe (See his >>blog<< for info), however we badly need regional buildings for places like Spain, France, US and the UK. Even if you don't know how to create models in Sketchup/Blender, providing royalty free photos of buildings in your area will hugely help us make buildings more realistic and less plastic looking. All of Europe currently looks like the Czech Republic/Poland :-)
April 22, 201412 yr Commercial Member Exactly my reaction while looking at the shots! Wow! Current system: ASUS PRIME Z690-P D4, Intel 12900k, 32GB RAM @ 3600mhz, Zotac RTX 3090 Trinity, M2 SSD, Oculus Quest 2.
April 22, 201412 yr What a wonderful set of super great and most fantastic screenshots! All of them perfectly portrait the potential of X-Plane and superb tools such as World2X-Plane, which help a real lot to enhance it! Amazing! Enjoy flying and happy landings.
April 22, 201412 yr Love the shots! Wish I could make Australia look like that... I fully second that! This would be super amazing indeed! Enjoy flying and happy landings.
April 22, 201412 yr Moderator Love the shots! Wish I could make Australia look like that... You could, it would take some work and maybe getting others to help out, but creating photos or buildings for the building library would be a good start :smile:
April 22, 201412 yr Love the shots! Wish I could make Australia look like that... https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRrCI_I7dsoPXPaxxC8zftDgscWTD-zO1TA1gEdIhI_0uROXtWEmg You all can.... ;-) OSM, just easy !!! And 3D... will follow, if you don't But not by tomorrw :-) PC Specs: i7 4820K (WC), AsusP9X79, 64GbRam 1866, GTX Titan 6Gb Black Edition, trhustmaster warthog, trackIR5, ... Find the latest status to 3D 4 World2Xplane Page --> http://blacky75b.wordpress.com/3d-4-world2xplane/
April 23, 201412 yr Love the shots! Wish I could make Australia look like that... How detailed is your city in OpenStreetMap ? http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/-26.942/133.901 Georges - OpenStreetMap - Ubuntu GNU/Linux -
April 23, 201412 yr How detailed is your city in OpenStreetMap ? http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/-26.942/133.901 Brisbane is fairly detailed around the inner city areas as are most other Australian cities but don't think a lot of the buildings are accurate. Last time I used OSM2XP to export just the CBD area of Brisbane I noticed that all the buildings seem to have some sort of limit in height, in the sim the skyscrapers look a lot lower than they should be. Brisbane city centre, much like Sydney and Melbourne has towering skyscrapers that are visible from a long distance even from the international airport and the OSM data doesn't seem to reflect this. Michael R
April 24, 201412 yr Then you'll have to contribute to the OpenStreetMap project. It's very easy to create an account and start adding objects or tags. OSM2XP and World2XPlane are able to use the height tag for buildings. Id editor on Vimeo: http://goo.gl/Dwjl1v Beginner's guide: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide More about OpenStreetMap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap More about the height tag: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:height My favorite editor, JOSM: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ Georges - OpenStreetMap - Ubuntu GNU/Linux -
April 24, 201412 yr Moderator Last time I used OSM2XP to export just the CBD area of Brisbane I noticed that all the buildings seem to have some sort of limit in height, in the sim the skyscrapers look a lot lower than they should be. Whilst no substitute for editing buildings manually in OSM. v0.4.0 of World2XPlane (Under Development) can be told to make buildings taller (using a random height) when they are a certain radius from a city centre. This same is also used for villages to make sure the buildings aren't tall.
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