Hi all. If anyone has Flight1's UK VFR photoscenery, would you mind taking me a few screenshots of some particular areas. I'm adding some small GA airfields and I'm curious just how good this scenery is and how it will blend with the airfields I'm doing. I'm also curious how it works with World2XPlane UK scenery.

 

I'm debating whether to buy it, but it's quite pricey and requires a large amount of disk space, something my small SSD drive couldn't cope with. I have the areas I'm interested in using the Simheaven photoscenery, but I find it discoloured and there is banding. Scotland is particularly bad.

 

The areas I'm interested in are:

 

1) Around Edinburgh airport and city

2) Around EGNY airfield

3) Around Sheffield

4) Inverness area in Scotland

 

 

 

 

Flight1 ? isn't that the MSFS series stuff ?

 

If it's only Photo Scenery my suggestion is get FSET and download at 0 for FSX.  FSET  is a free tool. You need the working one let me know.

 

You will FSX SDK for it though.

No, Flight1 also did one for X-Plane http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flight1-X-Plane-VFR-Scenery-Volumes/dp/B00C4PXI0I

 

I'm interested in how it looks but also how the mesh is. Apparently they've improved the coastline as well which looks pretty bad in X-Plane.

 

I never believe preview screenshots from the product advertising itself, and I'm interested in particular areas, so hopefully someone here who has it can post me a few grabs ;-)

I think, Tony is talking about this:

• http://www.shop.aerosoft.com/eshop.php?action=article_detail&s_supplier_aid=12407

I have it installed Tony. I'll see what I can get a little later. Bare in mind that Scotland Isn't covered though, just England and Wales.

 

Jess B

Wow 100 USD 

Thanks Jess

 

 

 

Wow 100 USD

 

Not USD, but GBP (even more expensive) 

 

 

Bare in mind that Scotland Isn't covered though, just England and Wales.

 

Ah of course, just England and Wales. Thanks for the info.

 

 

 

I think, Tony is talking about this:
http://www.shop.aero...plier_aid=12407

 

Yep that's the one, thanks for the link

Wow Pounds.  That is more expensive than XPX itself. 

 

Must be a monster of a scenery.

 

 

Must be a monster of a scenery.

 

It is huge and I think it takes up 250GB of disk space as well. I'm asking here for screenshots, as it's quite expensive to buy and later work out it's not good in the areas I want. I'd like to see how it looks around my airfields and if it is as discoloured as the google imagery. 

Whoo 250gb of just those areas. I guess they would have a lot of 3d stuff.

 

My HDD is full  

Whoo 250gb of just those areas. I guess they would have a lot of 3d stuff.

 

No ... the most expensive - storage vise - stuff is with this type of scenery the textures (I bet, that 98% of that data is textures). And to my knowledge, this scenery brings NOTHING on the 3D object side (really only a phototextured mesh - but likely at a high resolution).

 

If you look at SimHeave.coms ZL17 DSF tiles, you will see, that often single (!!! 1x1 degree) tiles do weigh many GBytes! So yes, with photo scenery this is "normal" (their advantage is also their disadvantage B) ).

 

 

I guess they would have a lot of 3d stuff.

 

Nope, just high res photoscenery and a mesh. But they've also supposedly water masked the scenery and coastal areas are supposed to look more realistic, e.g. There should be beaches and mud flats.

 

 

 

you will see, that often single (!!! 1x1 degree) tiles do weigh many GBytes

 

Yep, I only have 5 of them installed and that takes up a huge amount of space (Space I simply don't have anymore, time for a new SSD). :smile:

Nope, just high res photoscenery and a mesh. But they've also supposedly water masked the scenery and coastal areas are supposed to look more realistic, e.g. There should be beaches and mud flats.

 

 

 

 

There is water masking in FSET.

Hi Tony,

 

I have it and absolutley love it. One of the great things about it is that it is consistent. As Andras has stated in another post somewhere the time and, therefore, cost involved in creating consistency is massive; and of course a smaller [but more discerning ] audience to sell to with X Plane.

 

As you know I am doing my PPL out of LIverpool at the moment and I can recreate flights very accurately, especially with W2XP as well. Will do some shots of EGNY and Sheffiled for you later.

 

But here are some you might recognise in the meantime. http://1drv.ms/1vonJcB

 

It's worth clicking on them to get the full picture.

 

They include Liverpool, Valley, Mona and Canaerfon and Llanbedr airports as well as some shots I thought you would like which show W2XP in play - a lot of which is your own work to the Wirral and LIverpool I think, also I was amazed to see the Trawsfynydd power station puffing away in the middle of nowhere. I like the estuary effect by the way (I assume that is W2XP producing this). Also some picturesque shots of Snowdonia - this scenery really brings it alive.

 

Wish they would do Scotland!

 

all the best

Peter

Many thanks Peter, they look good and consistent, I guess they are using getmapping, which is a few years old now, but good quality and not discoloured like the google imagery. I'll order myself this on Amazon as an early Christmas present, but I'll need to install it to an external harddrive. The World2XPlane objects seem to match the colour profile better than Google's imagery, which is very washed out in this area.

 

Yes, the mud flats and sand comes from World2XPlane. It looks nice high up but get too close and the effect falls apart, but as you well know, the estuary is anything but clear blue water ;-)