Thanks Jan for your effort and your time great shots really appreciated Could see my hometown beach and habour Den HaagNice to see the A13 and A20 highwaysHow is it with the bluriness?What is better in your opinion the default or Netherlands textures from Horizon?What about night textures?Still not shure if I'm going for this one but temptingAndr

Yesterday I had the opportunity to fly above VFR Netherlands for an hour or so. I have to say I'm very disappointed. I think I expected to much off it... In order to make things look a bit real you have to fly so high you cannot see the details anymore. And when you fly lower you discover there are no real details... It's all way too pixelated IMHO. When you are looking straight ahead out of the airplane into the disctance it's all very nice but when you look down out of the side-window things look bad. And with vfr it's no use to look straigh ahead in the distance: you have to look down to see where you actually are. After all, you buy scenery like this to see details! Not just some generic texture in the disctance! I looked for my own home (a 'rijtjeshuis') and I could find it, well, I could find the place it should be. That was nice, but all in all the whole neighbourhood looked like a pixelated mess. Roads and houses merge into each other far too much. Yes, you can clearly see highways, but when it comes to cities, it all gets too messy. Nature looks nicer, I have to say. I also looked for bigger landmarks (like the palace at Soestdijk) but they too looked quit awfull. In order to really see them you have to fly so low that it gets very, very ugly. And when you fly higher you know that somewhere out there is indeed that landmark, but you are too far away to actually enjoy looking at it.All in all this scenery can look nice when you make screenshots OUTSIDE of the plane (just like the official screenshots on the site), looking down at a great height. In that case things look nice. But when you stay inside the cockpit and want to really look at certain things the way you would in real life, it's just not possible. Well, it IS possible, but all you see are PIXELS.Pity. But I think I expect too much. Or better said I KNOW I expected too much. After all, FS and today's hardware just cannot give what I want... I mean, I even don't like the much acclaimed MegaCity Denver, so... (although that looked better than this one: VFR Netherlands is REALLY too pixelated IMHO). And I just can't get used to those fixed shadows which always seem to be at the wrong side of things... And seeing things from straight above while yo aren't even close yet is still weird. Yes, I think I'm just not the man for photorealistic sceneries...Well, luckily I had to opportunity to give it a try... That saved me some money!P.S. BTW The scenery DID have an impact on fps. I read somewhere this would not be the case. Well, things stuttered more than usual on that computer. Also load times were horrible. The computer had 1 Gb of RAM and it really took minutes before I could take off. I even thought for a while the computer had locked up completely! Unfortunately I didn't have the change to manually change things (don't want to mess up someone elses setup!), so maybe a little tweaking could help, but still: that wouldn't make the textures less pixelated... As far as I know all was installed using the standard settings and options the installer provided.

You have to change some settings to avoid stutters, but it is in the manual. I know not many people read the manual, these are all made for fun ;-) However this time there are some very usefull tips in it, so it is worth reading the manual.Landmarks are not provided in the photographic scenery, like Aerosoft has Real Germany for the photographic scenery and the Germany series for the landmarks and other visible points. Concerning the shadows, the pictures are taken on an surtain moment, and when ther is a shodow on this moment you will see this shadow on the picture. When the time goes by, the shadow will point to another direction, but as the scenery is made useing one picture, the shadow will keep pointing to one direction: the direction it was on the moment the picture was taken. Therefor all the pictures are taken arround the same time of the day and in the same season, just to avoid a to large differance in the shadow direction.I am very happy with the scenery, and as stated in the previous post, it is depending of what the expectations have been before you saw the scenery.Tino