June 29, 20178 yr 9 minutes ago, bonchie said: The simple answer is autogen overlays and resolution. Most people hate flat, blurry scenery when taking off and landing. With Ortho4XP you can customize very high resolutions around airports and still use ZL17 everywhere else (which even low is only as blurry as say Orbx FTX Global's resolution) while putting overlays of autogen that are semi-accurate on top. The big issue left to deal with is trees get put places they shouldn't be sometimes. That'll be dealt with at some point I think. I also think the Ortho mesh is a lot more detailed. Mountains have sharp jagged peaks and the photo overlay enhances that appearance. One thing I always disliked in FSX/P3D were the mountains. Even with the highest resolution 3rd party mesh add-ons, mountains still had these rounded/sloped peaks. They looked like oversized hills with no definition.
June 29, 20178 yr 54 minutes ago, exodus1977 said: I also think the Ortho mesh is a lot more detailed. Mountains have sharp jagged peaks and the photo overlay enhances that appearance. One thing I always disliked in FSX/P3D were the mountains. Even with the highest resolution 3rd party mesh add-ons, mountains still had these rounded/sloped peaks. They looked like oversized hills with no definition. In my (admittedly brief) experience the standard XP11 mesh is very low-res and gives clearly polyhedral mountains (i.e. with flat faces and triangular peaks). I have added a few of the HD Mesh v3 scenery tiles and this improves dramatically. Still, the ability to have high-res ground textures close to airports is an innovation that might just makes me go and look at ortho4xp. MarkH https://www.youtube.com/@AlmostAviation AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D / 64Gb DDR5 / Zotac RTX 5070 Ti / 2560 x 1440 display
June 29, 20178 yr 1 hour ago, MarkDH said: the ability to have high-res ground textures close to airports is an innovation that might just makes me go and look at ortho4xp. Try it, but be warned, once you see the difference, you will become a ortho4xp addict..guaranteed! Windows 11 - Samsung 990 Pro M.2 | Asus Prime Z690 | i7 12700KF HT | DeepCool LS520 SE | MSI 5070 Ti Ventus OC | 64GB G.Skill XMP II | Lian Li 216 LANCOOL RGB | TrackIr v5 | Honeycomb Alfa - Bravo - Charlie | MSFS 2024 - Samsung 990 Pro M.2 | Curved 27" MSI | JBL Quantum 810
June 30, 20178 yr 8 hours ago, CarlosF said: Try it, but be warned, once you see the difference, you will become a ortho4xp addict..guaranteed! Yea, pretty sure Oscar (creator of the Ortho program) works for Western Digital or some other hard drive company.
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