First Products Announced at Orbx

[Coneman 71]

The more the merrier, but I'll wait and see. Have become a bit disillusioned with performance of some products and their attitude. I'll just say I'm not sorry to leave the stutters behind.

[G-RFRY 1,710]

Is anyone doing a Google Earth overlay for MSFS to make it more accurate just asking for a friend 😁 

[Kilo60 660]

My God...

 

Their scenery is stunning with the new graphics engine of MSFS...

 

Gonna be hard to resist even buying areas I don't frequent often at those prices!

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

KORS... my first purchase for sure... 🙂

Great news indeed!

[HiFlyer 9,358]

6 minutes ago, Farlis said:

That is just insanity. I don't want to know how much storage space you need for a high-res capture like that.

Scary, isn't it?

[jlund 380]

20 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

Google Earth and Bing style photogrammetry certainly does have limits. On the gripping hand, I have seen other examples of photogrammetry where you might as well be there live.

The state of the art is advancing pretty quickly!

I know it's not a city simulator but a light simulator they're creating, but imagine the whole world in that detail. We never imagined that MS/Asobo would come up with what they have, so maybe in 5-10 years this will be the next step.

[fogboundturtle 2,708]

I will buy all of the landmarks packages. What an incredible idea.

[omarsmak30 4,068]

4 hours ago, 2reds2whites said:

The ‘landmark’ package just shows the magnificence of the approach that Asobo have taken. 

The base quality of the autograph/AI is so good that all you have to do to massively improve an area is to build really quite simple landmarks. You don’t have to build everything from scratch, just make a couple of tweaks here and there and you’ve got an incredibly realistic depiction of a city with completely accurate landmarks. 

Theres a thread on here complaining about Washington DC. Just stick a few custom landmarks in there, a couple of colour/autogen adjustments and you’re absolutely laughing. 

Indeed, I think the new ORBX business model will be the new Landmark products, for example Landmark product for Germany South/North, Great Britain .. etc. 

[SamYeager 244]

I wonder if users still need to buy FTX Global as a prerequisite before using any other Orbx products? 🤢

[737_800 434]

The more interesting question is: will there be a global version for msfs?

[bonchie 2,305]

3 minutes ago, 737_800 said:

The more interesting question is: will there be a global version for msfs?

There’s no point. 

[vgbaron 3,604]

KBUR is a no brainer for me, I live right off approach end of rwy 15

 

Vic

[Der Zeitgeist 1,575]

1 hour ago, SamYeager said:

I wonder if users still need to buy FTX Global as a prerequisite before using any other Orbx products? 🤢

FTX Global BASE is completely redundant in MSFS, as there's no landclass where replacement textures would be relevant.

[ludekbrno 302]

1 hour ago, 737_800 said:

The more interesting question is: will there be a global version for msfs?

Global version of what exactly?

[737_800 434]

2 minutes ago, ludekbrno said:

Global version of what exactly?

Of FTX. Who knows, maybe ORBX will find a way, to improve ground textures. Not everything is perfect. For instance, on some coasts the water is not dynamic, it's just texture. So I could image FTX Global fixing these issues globally. Although I am not aware if these issues are going to be solved with further asobo updates.