October 30, 201510 yr Not quite, but same exact source that MegasceneryEarth used. -Using g2xpl to download USGS orthophotos -Just north of Spokane Washington
October 30, 201510 yr Looks great! I have always wanted to purchase g2xpl, but am not sure I could figure how to use it. Do you find it difficult? Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W, G.SKILL 48Gb@76000 MHz DDR5, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the day and night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”.
October 30, 201510 yr Author No, it's a plugin. Start it in x-plane, and it will pause and load the textures. You have to select what resolution and map service you want to use, but they are already built in. So just select say Bing or USGS and when done it puts the scenery in your Custom Scenery folder. USGS has 1 meter coverage for the entire USA, so given enough time and hard space, you can basically have MSE2 for X-plane. USGS also has a substantial area in 1 foot (50cm) coverage as well. Some more over here where I'm using it with Vermont: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=90283&page=2
October 30, 201510 yr Author What the heck, I think I'll just post images from some of the work I've been doing. The deal is to try and get some USA scenery into x-plane regional or statewide. So far Vermont is done. Here's Burlington, Vermont. -70+ custom buildings in Burlington. -1 meter Bing map photoscenery -Accurate full state of Vermont tree coverage -Full state building coverage (I'll post other pics as well)
October 30, 201510 yr Great looking Photo scenery. Think I will make a donation to G2xpl. Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W, G.SKILL 48Gb@76000 MHz DDR5, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the day and night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”.
October 30, 201510 yr Author Good idea, but there is another coming out of alpha (soon I think) called ortho4xp. It has some additional features and some great water masking unlike anything you've ever seen before. I think would be free or donationware, but it's going to be a bit more friendly to use from what I can tell. If you need help with g2xpl feel free to ask. BTW, if anyone wants to see how "megascenery" X-Plane compares to MegasceneryEarth FSX, let me know. I can whip up a piece of scenery in the USA in about an hour or so.
October 31, 201510 yr Author West of Choteau Airport, northwest of Helena Montana. -1 meter USGS photoscenery -Enhanced with MAXXFx plugin and Raleigh effects
October 31, 201510 yr Maybe it is just me or my computer settings, but some of these otherwise great shots are a bit too dark Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
October 31, 201510 yr Just awesome shots. Nice job! Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W, G.SKILL 48Gb@76000 MHz DDR5, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the day and night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”.
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