31 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Are you referring to UK2000 Belfast International Xtreme? I think that was the penultimate airport before Gary switched to his new HD airports. I was disappointed that the window textures were not improved in version 2 (and I did mention this at the time), but it was definitely a nice improvement over the old version. However, I have always been critical of low resolution textures in airport scenery packages, and I will continue to be critical of any that I see in the future. Frankly, low resolution textures have no place in 2020 products, whether they are on terminal buildings right next to the apron, or barns hidden behind trees on the airport boundary. If you are going to include 3D building models of any kind in an airport package, then I personally feel that the texture quality should be at an acceptable minimum standard on all of them.

As for your comment about the static cars, why do they need to be disabled in P3D? I have the maximum number of 3D cars displayed in ALL of my UK2000 airports in P3Dv4.5HF2, and they do not affect the performance to any great extent.....and that's on my very average PC (i5 7600k @ 4.6Ghz/32GB DDR4-3600 RAM/6GB GeForce GTX 980Ti GPU).

Yes Christopher it was that Belfast airport, very disappointing imo it looked very "old school". It's more habit with big/huge airport made by other developers that got me into the habit of having no cars and grass also as it always looked terrible anyway.. Anyway that's all in past.

Parked up with other GA at Bristol with all that amazing grass and a packed car park within all the other GA's around me was  a "WoW" moment.

Edited September 26, 20205 yr by Nyxx

35 minutes ago, Evros said:

If not, then buying something because it has a company name attached to it is quite a bad practice.

What's your favorite peanut butter?   Why that one?   If I gave you two spoons full of peanut butter, one of that and one from another major brand, could you tell the difference?   Are you sure?  So why do you buy that one?

We're a Jif family.  I don't know why.   I know when I've bought other peanut butters they've tasted mostly the same.   But I buy Jif, because I've bought Jif before, and I like Jif, and I know if it says "Jif" on the bottle it's likely to be an enjoyable peanut butter based on past experience.   Sure, they may change the formula one day and I could hate it, but no one has time in life to make fully informed decisions about every single product they consume.  

We use brands to help guide our decision making.  They become a cheat code for your brain to avoid the need to fully assess every consumer decision you make.  I have bought UK2000 products, I have had good experiences with them, and I know if I buy another one I'm likely to enjoy it.  I'll look at screenshots, sure, but it's still a considered gamble like almost every other decision you make in life.

Whether it's a large company or a one-man shop doesn't matter -- except perhaps to the degree that you're more likely to get consistent quality from a small developer who has been doing this for years out of their own passion than a large company that could change whims or make a cost-cutting decision at any moment.

(Perhaps you have a particularly discerning peanut butter palette and can tell the difference between Jif and Skippy.  I'm suspect there is _some_ product in your life you buy the way I buy peanut better, so substitute that one.)

Edited September 26, 20205 yr by kaosfere

I have many of Gary's sceneries, all P3dv4, so it's nice to hear that you have found Bristol to be so good Dave. I will make the same purchase! 

Can we get some screenshots or a short video?

47 minutes ago, jbdbow1970 said:

Can we get some screenshots or a short video?

Lots of pics here...

https://www.uk2000scenery.co.uk/copy-of-bristol-2019hd     (scroll down page and click first pic to go through them)

UK2000 also just announced..   Glasgow, Luton and Inverness coming soon.

Graham

Edited September 26, 20205 yr by Moria15

12 hours ago, kaosfere said:

What's your favorite peanut butter?   Why that one?   If I gave you two spoons full of peanut butter, one of that and one from another major brand, could you tell the difference?   Are you sure?  So why do you buy that one?

We're a Jif family.  I don't know why.   I know when I've bought other peanut butters they've tasted mostly the same.   But I buy Jif, because I've bought Jif before, and I like Jif, and I know if it says "Jif" on the bottle it's likely to be an enjoyable peanut butter based on past experience.   Sure, they may change the formula one day and I could hate it, but no one has time in life to make fully informed decisions about every single product they consume.  

We use brands to help guide our decision making.  They become a cheat code for your brain to avoid the need to fully assess every consumer decision you make.  I have bought UK2000 products, I have had good experiences with them, and I know if I buy another one I'm likely to enjoy it.  I'll look at screenshots, sure, but it's still a considered gamble like almost every other decision you make in life.

Whether it's a large company or a one-man shop doesn't matter -- except perhaps to the degree that you're more likely to get consistent quality from a small developer who has been doing this for years out of their own passion than a large company that could change whims or make a cost-cutting decision at any moment.

(Perhaps you have a particularly discerning peanut butter palette and can tell the difference between Jif and Skippy.  I'm suspect there is _some_ product in your life you buy the way I buy peanut better, so substitute that one.)

I suppose you are right, but then again, I try to distance myself from brand preference as much as i can. If I look at a can of beanut butter, I see product name before a brand name.

I don't buy by brand, It so happens that UK2000scenery does airports that I'm interested in flying to. 

23 hours ago, Evros said:

I see that around quite often. "I'll buy anything from Gary" and so forth.

Just out of curiosity, do you all know this Gary guy or have deeper ties to him? If not, then buying something because it has a company name attached to it is quite a bad practice. You should evaluate products individually and if one doesn't stand up to criticism, then just don't get it. Personally, I don't have an affiliation to any FS developer and I couldn't care less about their bottom end of whether they're "good people" or not. I'm just a business transaction to them and they are nothing more to me either.

I feel dumber for having read this.

I just bought it on the OP's recommendation. But there is a small issue I just spotted. the Green grass besides the runway texture is not right.. the underlaying textures bleeds through if you fly low to the ground, you can see the darkgreen texture bleed through the light green texture.

With regard to 'brand loyalty' if you want to call it that, I've stuck to UK 2000's sceneries for a number of reasons, most of which were based on the knowledge that the products were well designed and implemented.

First up, UK2000's stuff generally strikes a good balance between detail and performance which means they've not always been the prettiest option, but they usually are the smartest one. Second, it tends to cover airfields which few other developers would consider looking at and usually includes a bit of 'local knowledge'. And third, historically for FSX and P3D versions, they've invariably had some optional installation features geared toward sorting out whether you had this or that additional scenery or add-on installed, so you rarely got problems with them in terms of layering and boundaries etc.

All that means that you could generally be sure that if you bought a UK2000 scenery, it would be thoughtfully produced and mindful of any potential problems which might occur. That does engender loyalty of course, but it's not blind loyalty, it's more about sticking with someone who appears to know what they are doing.

 

Couldn’t have said it any better than that. 100% concur!

I did a flight into Bristol tonight from EGNX sorry the sun is setting but here are some screenshots

Off to park the Bonanza

 

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by Nyxx

Helping out a guy who has bought the UK to life is well worth looking after. I hope I've done my bit to support him.

Two shots taken on route to Bristol. The UK is a wonderfully place to fly in MSFS2020

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by Nyxx

Some fair points here but for me personally at £18.50 it’s overpriced. When you look at some of the freeware airports that are coming out already, below being an example I don’t see how this developer can justify that price.

https://flightsim.to/file/624/oslo-airport-2020-engm

 

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by Carts85

22 hours ago, Carts85 said:

Some fair points here but for me personally at £18.50 it’s overpriced. When you look at some of the freeware airports that are coming out already, below being an example I don’t see how this developer can justify that price.

https://flightsim.to/file/624/oslo-airport-2020-engm

 

Thank you for that link. It is payware quality Freeware.  Not very common.