I'm going to go back to FSX because a bridge in MSFS isn't modeled 100% accurately.  Yeah, right!  I am still LOVING MSFS despite is quirks and foibles.  

Thank you to the OP for announcing his departure.  Hehehe...

P3D, lol. Looks great when you cover your cockpit windows, or time travel to 2006.

Ahh he's just bored and trolling.  This can happen to people who use P3D exclusively    JK, P3D is fabulous for what it is and is still valued by some of the inmates in the asylum, myself included.  My chief complaints with it are performance, by comparison to what has now spoiled me, sucks wind.  And of course the land-class guess at plausible scenery was good for its day, just like pacman was good for its day!

Appalling, shocked and disappointed- all in one post... once the acute distress leaves you, I'd advocate another go.  There are many here, inclined to assist, should you decide to take another tack. 

Meanwhile... here's something for the pain.. Heavy iron it's not, but delightful, it most certainly is.  Just the ticket to soothe the ravages you've been enduring.

Come back in a few weeks after you recover, and we'll be glad to try and help... but give it some time, you seem quite bothered.

C

Edited November 25, 20205 yr by cavaricooper

16 minutes ago, cavaricooper said:

Appalling, shocked and disappointed- all in one post... once the acute distress leaves you, I'd advocate another go.  There are many here, inclined to assist, should you decide to take another tack. 

Meanwhile... here's something for the pain.. Heavy iron it's not, but delightful, it most certainly is.  Just the ticket to soothe the ravages you've been enduring.

Come back in a few weeks after you recover, and we'll be glad to try and help... but give it some time, you seem quite bothered.

C

Look at that terrible scenery with those obviously fake clouds.  Oh wait, never mind.  

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!  😉 

1 hour ago, SceneryFX said:

You're right, the default P3D bridges and scenery just blows it away...

 

is this FS2004?

5 minutes ago, desbean said:

is this FS2004?

It looks like FSX but it's P3D.

Edited November 25, 20205 yr by DJJose

1 hour ago, ryanbatcund said:

Is photogrammetry enabled?

Where is that setting?

Al

1 minute ago, ark said:

Where is that setting?

Al

Off the top of my head Options/General/Data.

2 minutes ago, DJJose said:

Off the top of my head Options/General/Data.

You are correct-- thanks! I was looking under Graphics. Sigh.

Al

Guys.  Let's just be genuine here.  All the serious users of P3D do not run default.  So the ugly picture is something they would never see.  I get that the OP may have been harsh.  

4 minutes ago, micstatic said:

Guys.  Let's just be genuine here.  All the serious users of P3D do not run default.  So the ugly picture is something they would never see.  I get that the OP may have been harsh.  

I think what happened is the harsh words of the OP were met with harsh words by regular forum-goers.  Everyone could have just used nicer words...

The OP does have a point though.  Photogrammetry (I can see its enabled now on my PC - was hard to tell on my mobile), does look terrible from a long ways off.  (Long ways being 5+ miles.)  It wasn't always so.  In the alpha it was pretty sharp and you had nice skylines from 10+ miles away.  Of course they had to dumb it all down because the performance hit was too much.  So we end up with short range LOD and melted city skylines 😞

It's not too terrible if you're flying at a regular zoom.  But when you zoom up, yeah, it just looks bad.

Actually I would ask @BWBriscoe to try to disable photogrammetry and see if it looks a little better.  I should load from that range, but you'll be seeing default-ish buildings but still get the Bing satellite images.

Edited November 25, 20205 yr by ryanbatcund

26 minutes ago, desbean said:

is this FS2004?

FS2004 looks much better than that cartoon simulator...

2 hours ago, SceneryFX said:

You're right, the default P3D bridges and scenery just blows it away...

 

You sir, have won the internet! 🤣

10 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

I think what happened is the harsh words of the OP were met with harsh words by regular forum-goers.  Everyone could have just used nicer words...

The OP does have a point though.  Photogrammetry (I can see its enabled now on my PC - was hard to tell on my mobile), does look terrible from a long ways off.  (Long ways being 5+ miles.)  It wasn't always so.  In the alpha it was pretty sharp and you had nice skylines from 10+ miles away.  Of course they had to dumb it all down because the performance hit was too much.  So we end up with short range LOD and melted city skylines 😞

It's not too terrible if you're flying at a regular zoom.  But when you zoom up, yeah, it just looks bad.

Actually I would ask @BWBriscoe to try to disable photogrammetry and see if it looks a little better.  I should load from that range, but you'll be seeing default-ish buildings but still get the Bing satellite images.

exactly.  I get it.  People here are tired of being ripped on.  People in P3D also.  Each sim has things that are better than the other