Hi AllJust getting back into Flightsimming and was wondering if anyone could recommend great scenery for FS2004.Basically what I am looking for is Hi-Res and photorealistic mesh or tiles especially for the States and any other areas whether they are free or not.THere is a plathora of stuff out there and I don't even know where to look, so if anyone can point me to a diffinitave package or the most popular highly recommended or whatever I would really appreciate that. The thing is if I by I really don't like just getting something for the West of the US as an example but rather a more complete package.Any advise would be appreciated.Thanks,Gian

Hmmm........photoreal. First of all, I know of no photoreal material that covers the entire planet. There are payware packages that cover defined areas of Europe and USA. THere may be some freeware packages that have photoreal material, but I do not use them. I stick to Megascenery products, they are terrific. You better have a high end machine however. There are other payware photoreal products as well. THe best payware photoreal coverage is on the west coast of USA with the Megascenery products and oh, yes, the Alaska Cinematic products over at geoender.org are superb.Randy Jura, KPDX

I would recommend Megascenery. They have several impressive titles, one of which I really enjoy using - and that's Pacific Northwest (Volume 4). They also just released a package for the greater Washington DC area as well, so it's not just "West Coast only" so to speak.Right now, I'm currently working on my own high-resolution photoreal scenery package with a release scheduled sometime in May, and it covers close to 2,000 square miles of terrain sourrounding the greater Mount St. Helens area of Washington State. It's my final release in the series of "Mount St. Helens" scenery packages I have released. Every tile in the package is covered in Autogen, and the source resolution of the imagery is 5M per pixel, up from 8M-15M per pixel in my previous release.*EDIT* Oh.. And I forgot to mention, this is going to be a freeware release with much more features than just a ground imagery package! */EDIT*-Steve

www.c130sim.com has done a beautiful photorealistic version of Tucson, Arizona that won a developers award. Best of all, it's freeware.Bobby

For Hi-res (1.2m/pixel) scenery, the only one I know about (please tell me if there is more out there), is Sao Paulo, Brazil by Paulo Ricardo. He did the surrounding area in 4.8m photoreal then having the city center in hi-res on custom terrain mesh. His nightime textures are some of the best I have ever seen (all hand painted).A nice freebee addon...Also a few payway ones like Switzeraland Professional ($$$) and a product called Wonderful Rio are some of my favorites.

Try thesehttp://www.spainvfr.com/home.htmhttp://www.francevfr.com/http://www.realscenery.net/http://mazzokan.altervista.org/http://www.horizonsimulation.info/Landing/index.htmland search the library for photoreal and especially the superb new offering from Canarysim.John