Enhanced Airport Graphics

[Bobsk8 12,551]

I just purchased this at the Market place after reading about it on the MSFS Facebook page. Really makes the airports look real. 

[edpatino 1,960]

If it's the same, it's been around since Jan. 1st., 2021:

https://secure.simmarket.com/zinertek-enhanced-airport-graphics-msfs.phtml

It's very good indeed.

 

[styckx 1,870]

Bought it a month ago. And immediately uninstalled it.  It makes airports look worse. The textures are low quality and a step back in everyway from default. Waste of my money. Once you see this unsightly mess on the apron you can not un-see it. The apron and taxiways are an ugly patchwork of textures, color, and repeating patterns. 

Example

Default KPHL - Absolutely seamless transitions between varying textures. Beautiful 

Enhanced Airport Graphics KPHL - The aprons, taxiways and runways looks like default FSX 2004

Edited May 13, 2021 by styckx

[fppilot 4,352]

5 minutes ago, styckx said:

Enhanced Airport Graphics KPHL - The aprons, taxiways and runways looks like default FSX 2004

Humm!  I have not tried this mod.  I see differences in coloration, but not in texture quality.  Looks like the same textures with some aging in the coloration. 

[styckx 1,870]

7 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Humm!  I have not tried this mod.  I see differences in coloration, but not in texture quality.  Looks like the same textures with some aging in the coloration. 

Take each photo, make it full screen. Follow the right wing over to the taxiway. 

Default is a seamless transition from apron to taxiway. There are light shades of rubber from the wheels on the concrete. It looks used.

EAG - The transition is absurdly abrupt. There is no signs of use, and it really shows the low quality of the textures a little further out as you can see visible noise and pixilation on the taxiways and runway. It's bad.. Just bad

Edited May 13, 2021 by styckx

[bobcat999 8,444]

I bought it at release but had problems with some freeware airports, and I didn't like the strong red/black blocks at runway entry etc.

I have it uninstalled at the moment and use some of the freeware solutions over at flightsim.to for the lines etc., as they look more worn and faded.

[Bobsk8 12,551]

The one thing I didn't like about the default runways, many of them, is that they look like they were constructed  yesterday. Very pristine looking. The couple of airports I have tried this morning, look to me, more like the real thing. Will have to fly it awhile to truly judge how well it works. 

[fppilot 4,352]

1 hour ago, bobcat999 said:

I have it uninstalled at the moment and use some of the freeware solutions over at flightsim.to for the lines etc., as they look more worn and faded.

Would you point to the solutions at .to?  I scouted around there for a while but likely failed to look in the correct category.
Thanks.

Edited May 13, 2021 by fppilot

[Noooch 1,084]

I love this addon. It is meant to be seen from ground level, not from the skies.

And the runways are much more realistic with more tire marks than the default Mario Cart runways.

Edited May 13, 2021 by Noooch

[Bobsk8 12,551]

4 minutes ago, Noooch said:

I love this addon. It is meant to be seen from ground level, not from the skies.

And the runways are much more realistic with more tire marks than the default Mario Cart runways.

I have never seen runways and markings as pristine as they are in default MSFS in real life.

[Noooch 1,084]

32 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

I have never seen runways and markings as pristine as they are in default MSFS in real life.

Agreed, they are a total immersion breaker, imagine them in Amazonia or in Cameroon :))

Edited May 13, 2021 by Noooch

[styckx 1,870]

42 minutes ago, Noooch said:

 It is meant to be seen from ground level, not from the skies.

Sir this is a flight simulator, not a ground service simulator

[GSalden 4,656]

1 hour ago, styckx said:

Sir this is a flight simulator, not a ground service simulator

This is also not an “I only fly circles over an airport and look down” simulator 🥳

Edited May 13, 2021 by GSalden

[bobcat999 8,444]

1 hour ago, fppilot said:

Would you point to the solutions at .to?  I scouted around there for a while but likely failed to look in the correct category.
Thanks.

Sure Frank!  Flightsim.to has gotten really big over the months so it can be difficult to find stuff there now, and I notice the search function also lets some items slip through the net, so I looked in my community folder.

These two are pretty good for a start, and you just drag and drop them into your community folder, or addon folder if you use one of the add-on selector programs.  If you have any problems, give me a shout!

https://flightsim.to/file/5380/red-painted-lines-fix

https://flightsim.to/file/7963/yet-another-ground-marks-fix

 

[Alpine Scenery 1,609]

1 hour ago, styckx said:

Sir this is a flight simulator, not a ground service simulator

It's a world simulator. I need to be able to break out of Houdini like chains underwater, jump in a car, drive to a casino near an airport while soaking wet to try to gamble enough money to be able to afford whatever MSFS plane I want to rent... So I guess I'll stop off at a casino in Laughlin-NV, so I can then realize i wasted all my money because density altitude exceeds the performance of the plane during a hot 128 degree summer day in Nevada. But I didn't check density altitude, instead I aborted the take-off too late and ended up ditching the plane (not total crash). Now I have to jump in a Taxi to go grab that $100 hamburger.

Once I can do all that, then I'll consider it a real simulator.