Orbx True Earth Washington Released

[strider1 575]

Excellent job Tony! Its a work of art! The only thing really missing would be marinas with boats. Looking fwd to Oregon and CA!

[fta2017 160]

Remember they have a HD pack coming which upgrades all the Seattle airports

[irrics 1,517]

How is it closer to the ground?

Screenshot porn from high-altitude is old news. 

There was a video they had on their forum of an approach to KBFI and the textures around the runways looked fairly meh.  I hope that got upgraded and isn’t the kind of stuff they are holding to get more money from people with the HD pack.

Curious to hear some more details about how things look down close in on approaches and just closer in general.

[Paraffin 2,197]

45 minutes ago, irrics said:

Curious to hear some more details about how things look down close in on approaches and just closer in general.

I did a helicopter flyover of my home town, have some nice shots, but my web host is not cooperating with the image upload. I'll post 'em as soon as I can.

[strider1 575]

I would post some photos but Photobucket is not working :(

Ive been flying around about 1000-2000 AGL staring outside the window all day🤩

Depends on the area but 1000' AGL is going to look decent-excellent! 2000' AGL is going to look excellent! The sweet spot is max autogen at 2000' AGL any area! 

[olderndirt 2,295]

15 hours ago, tonywob said:

Yep this is indeed the case. When I was looking for imagery for this area I had a choice of using the most recent which was taken during what looks like a very dry summer, or older more greener imagery that was worse quality and had more clouds in places. As you move further south towards Oregon it becomes more green

 

Since I have you on Tony - took a short flight out of Concrete to look at Mt Baker and it does look good.  Several fairly large splotches of red were scattered hither and yon.  Looks like some firebombers had dropped their loads or did you just spill some paint ☹️.   

[tonywob 4,769]

8 hours ago, olderndirt said:

Several fairly large splotches of red were scattered hither and yon.  Looks like some firebombers had dropped their loads or did you just spill some paint ☹️.   

If you haven't already, please can you post a bug report over at Orbx. Please try to include the locations you saw this occur as well.

[JimmiG 244]

20 hours ago, irrics said:

How is it closer to the ground?

Screenshot porn from high-altitude is old news. 

There was a video they had on their forum of an approach to KBFI and the textures around the runways looked fairly meh.  I hope that got upgraded and isn’t the kind of stuff they are holding to get more money from people with the HD pack.

Curious to hear some more details about how things look down close in on approaches and just closer in general.

I took some shots at lower altitudes:

Things are a little bit "fuzzy", but I love how the autogen almost looks hand-placed even when you just take a shot at some random location in the middle of nowhere.
Synthetic textures are always going to look better in terms of clarity and resolution, since each tile can be edited to perfection and storage space isn't such a concern. However photographic scenery can capture nuances and little details unique to each area, where as landclass-based scenery just provides a generalized "impression" of the area.

Edited June 24, 2019 by AdvancedFollower

[pmb 5,137]

Thanks. I've flown over it at 3000' myself and I think it's a pretty good trade-off for today's technology. The next step (I think that would have been ZL17) would have meant 800GB. Now add Oregon, California and what not and you have a product range scaring off even brave people. In any case, ground looks better than what you get with Ortho4XP as it's been carefully color-corrected and clouds and artifacts removed.

I would also take into account that the converted PNW airports becoming available during the next months will come with a higher-resolution surrounding for sure. 

Kind regards, Michael

[irrics 1,517]

Did they not do higher resolution imagery around airports like you can do in ortho4XP?

Bummer if not - doesn’t look like it. 

The lower rez imagery does not look great around runways and places where you really are getting close to the ground. 

Can you augment this package with your own ortho?