April 8, 20179 yr I have recently been playing with X-Plane 11 and stumbled upon the program Ortho4XP that generates photo scenery. In short, I am extremely impressed. The images are superb and unlike anything I have seen in Prepar3d. It would be a great advanced for Prepar3d if a similar program was available. It makes VFR flying very realistic. Beechcraft Sundowner
April 8, 20179 yr I have been doing a great deal of VFR helicopter flying In P3D with the Orbx FTX regions on the west coast between Alaska and Mexico, and it looks very realistic, and much Like I have seen in real life.
April 8, 20179 yr I use photoscenery only + custom AG. Very realistic as the ground you look at exists in reality too .. 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
April 8, 20179 yr Orth4XP is a great XP all in one tool for photo scenery. It needs a way though to help preview tiles across providers in advance to avoid tone issues from tiles not taken in the same season. Do that automatically and that would be pure heaven. For P3D, creating your own can be done with SbuilderX, Resample & Annotator from the SDK. There's no automation however, it's a rather manual and time consuming process but on the plus side you get to see your tiles in advance which can help with picking the best available and consistency in tone/season. There are freeware photo sceneries already made available to download for P3D, Hawaii, Spain, Western US, Japan and I'm sure many more. I've been exploring Spain photo real recently along with Airhispania which I definitely recommend. http://www.blueskyscenery.com/screenies.html https://hawaii-photoreal.com/ http://deckard.uv.es/ http://www.airhispania.com/moddoc01.php?tCod=20121101120945
April 8, 20179 yr and FSET (FS Earth Tiles) which can do water/blendmasking and seasonal photoreal... Kevin Firth - AMD 9800X3D; Asus Prime X670E; 64Gb Cas30 6000 DDR5; RTX5090; AutoFPS
April 8, 20179 yr Yes amazing what can be done. Robin Corn of Godzone Vittual flight has it nailed. This is his work from his latest project - Coromandel, New Zealand (The compressed images do not do it justice...it is superb) Cheers Steve Hall
April 9, 20179 yr 16 hours ago, GSalden said: I use photoscenery only + custom AG. Very realistic as the ground you look at exists in reality too .. Just a bit off-topic, but can you inform me where your photorealistic for Belgium still can be obtained? Hans Kind regards, Hans van WIjhe Acer Predator P03-640 2.10 Ghz Intel 12th Gen Core 17-12700F 64GB memory, Noctua NH-U9S Cooler, 1.02 TB SSD HD, 1.02 TB HD, NVidia Geforce RTX 3070 16GB Memory, Windows 11 (x64)
April 9, 20179 yr If you are interested, here you can get the whole of Europe in photoscenery for free: http://italyphotoreal.weebly.com/download.html It takes quite a bit of time to download the individual tiles and install them onto your HDD. Except for Italy (which is 1m/pixel) it is 2m/pixel. I have downloaded all of Germany and all of the Alps and it is pretty good. It also comes with its own autogen. 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
April 9, 20179 yr 32 minutes ago, bernd1151 said: If you are interested, here you can get the whole of Europe in photoscenery for free: http://italyphotoreal.weebly.com/download.html It takes quite a bit of time to download the individual tiles and install them onto your HDD. Except for Italy (which is 1m/pixel) it is 2m/pixel. I have downloaded all of Germany and all of the Alps and it is pretty good. It also comes with its own autogen. Thanks a lot Bernd, will take a peek later today. Thanks. Hans Kind regards, Hans van WIjhe Acer Predator P03-640 2.10 Ghz Intel 12th Gen Core 17-12700F 64GB memory, Noctua NH-U9S Cooler, 1.02 TB SSD HD, 1.02 TB HD, NVidia Geforce RTX 3070 16GB Memory, Windows 11 (x64)
April 9, 20179 yr Commercial Member Yes Bernd, thx for the link. All of Europe... that's just nuts! But nice. I have always believed the direction for the future of simming is photoreal. We hope to find out this year. Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
April 11, 20179 yr On 8-4-2017 at 11:48 PM, cowpatz said: Yes amazing what can be done. Robin Corn of Godzone Vittual flight has it nailed. This is his work from his latest project - Coromandel, New Zealand (The compressed images do not do it justice...it is superb) Very nice screenshots you have made. Your water looks very realistic. Do you mind sharing your settings ? 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
April 19, 20179 yr These are screenshots from the developer (Robin Corn) which he posted on a local New Zealand flight simming forum. Cheers Steve Hall
April 20, 20179 yr Commercial Member On 12/04/2017 at 0:04 AM, GSalden said: Your water looks very realistic. Do you mind sharing your settings ? This is Prepar3d with PTA, but there isn't much special about my settings, except that it is tweaked to bring out the underlying photo in the water. The particular setting in PTA is the Water 'limpidity', which I've set to .70 (default is .35) The effectiveness of this is going to be based on the actual photoscenery -- whether or not it includes plenty of photo water, and whether this has actual photographic detail. In this scenery (unfinished) the available photo doesn't include much surrounding water, but enough to show up the shallow bays and rocky coastline.
April 22, 20179 yr On 08/04/2017 at 6:09 PM, AoA said: There are freeware photo sceneries already made available to download for P3D, Hawaii, Spain, Western US, Japan and I'm sure many more. I've been exploring Spain photo real recently along with Airhispania which I definitely recommend. Can you please share links where i can find Japan photo scenery please? I can't seem to find any...
April 23, 20179 yr On 4/9/2017 at 2:26 AM, bernd1151 said: If you are interested, here you can get the whole of Europe in photoscenery for free: http://italyphotoreal.weebly.com/download.html It takes quite a bit of time to download the individual tiles and install them onto your HDD. Except for Italy (which is 1m/pixel) it is 2m/pixel. I have downloaded all of Germany and all of the Alps and it is pretty good. It also comes with its own autogen. Not sure about downloading this freeware scenery, the server is Russian.
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