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SFD Global out: any reviews?

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On 10/5/2019 at 9:03 AM, ryanbatcund said:

I noticed Mister X (Short Final Design) has released his SFD Global package.

Wondering if anyone purchased yet and has a review?  I'm also wondering if I should pass because of my 4GB GTX 980 card.

Buy it man. At $30 price point its superb.

The autogen for non ortho area is fantastic. The new textures are great replacements (photo real) over the default.

No impact on frames.

Bryan

Edited by 1st fltsimguy

Bryan Wallis aka "fltsimguy"

Maple Bay, British Columbia

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50 minutes ago, 1st fltsimguy said:

Buy it man. At $30 price point its superb.

The autogen for non ortho area is fantastic. The new textures are great replacements (photo real) over the default.

No impact on frames.

Bryan

still missing features promised....will wait for complete package

WOW, looks good, but I do not have the system to run it. nivida 1060 6gb vram is not enough.

On 6.10.2019 at 10:38, france89 said:

You should add one with just SFDG if you can 🙂 Being from Pisa, i am curious about that too.

Default scenery (without SFDG,without X-Europe,without Ortho) 😉 :

1079469407_0LIRPbezSFDHbezXEBezORsm.jpg.

 Pisa (only SFDG without X-EUROPE, without Ortho):

1498168167_3LIRPSFDsm.jpg.06062eec046f96

Pisa does not show well the possibilities of SFDG.
SFDG in the Mediterranean changes the texture of only small and medium-sized buildings. The rest of the buildings remain the same as the default XP or X-Europe autogene (if you use). I hope this will change with future SFDG updates.
Therefore, in large cities with much larger buildings, the impact of SFDG is less visible than in other areas, which look very good. 

Edited by Bulva

Both vanilla and SFD look better than X-Europe though. Those crappy models ruin it.

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Currently giving X-Plane 12.10 a spin on Shadow PC. 10 years with X-Plane now, since 10.20

19 minutes ago, Colonel X said:

Both vanilla and SFD look better than X-Europe though. Those crappy models ruin it.

In some places in Europe this is true.
But X-Europe adds a lot of facilities that SFDG doesn't have, or defaults XP- churches, stadiums, factories, monuments ... etc

Soon (I hope) X-Europe 3 will come, which will improve the situation of the appearance of "crappy models ". 😉

Edited by Bulva

I just wished they offered a "Europe Landmarks" package that doesn't include any Autogen replacements - just the Landmarks.

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Currently giving X-Plane 12.10 a spin on Shadow PC. 10 years with X-Plane now, since 10.20

That would be a good option...

19 minutes ago, soaring_penguin said:

they do, only it is worldwide: 

http://simheaven.com/simdownloads/vfr-landmarks/

Yeah, but these are just specific VFR objects (such as towers, wind turbines ect.) - no Landmarks as in "famous buildings" which are included in X-Europe. Unless there has been an update? Got rid of that scenery due to stutter issues (good luck rendering 2000 wind turbines in SoCal).

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Currently giving X-Plane 12.10 a spin on Shadow PC. 10 years with X-Plane now, since 10.20

Colonel X is right. That's why I still use X-Europe, although the buildings are ugly.

7 hours ago, Colonel X said:

I just wished they offered a "Europe Landmarks" package that doesn't include any Autogen replacements - just the Landmarks.

Good luck with that. The number of custom models would be in the thousands.

7950X3D + 7900 XT + 64 GB + Linux | 4800H + RTX2060 + 32 GB + Linux
My add-ons from my FS9/FSX days

X-EUROPE ver.3 has just appeared 🙂
I am very curious about the new version and how it will work with SFDG.
MisterX announced an update for the Mediterranean in about two weeks. Happens ... 😉

14 hours ago, leon310 said:

WOW, looks good, but I do not have the system to run it. nivida 1060 6gb vram is not enough.

I’m running a 1060 6 GB and have no problems with it. I do have the texture slider at medium for my system but it looks great and runs great. 

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