40 minutes ago, Phantoms said:

While the first post looks more lifelike, the second post building and rooftop colors seem closer to reality.

Hi James, that may well just be the light in this shot. The atmospherics were a lot cloudier for the trip that shot came from. I've done the same sort of tour in bright sunlight settings and the roof colurs are more like the XP shots.

30 minutes ago, 1st fltsimguy said:

and yes I need a ton of storage

Tell me about it. With backups, my sim pc has hit around 70 TB of storage now. Most of that for Ortho4XP stuff. When I got my new machine built for MSFS I was sort of anticipating being able to (or even needing to) download lots of scenery and cache it. Turns out I don't need to do that, so what with the sim pc and the extra 16 tb of HD I never bothered installing I now have over 110 TB of SSD/HD sitting on my desk across two PCs.

The first mainframe I worked on used 7Mb removable DASD spindles!

17 minutes ago, andy1252 said:

Hi James, that may well just be the light in this shot. The atmospherics were a lot cloudier for the trip that shot came from. I've done the same sort of tour in bright sunlight settings and the roof colurs are more like the XP shots.

Absolutely true...I just did a new flight out of Venice in some weather to see the colour variation....different than my original post showing a modeled Venice.

12 minutes ago, andy1252 said:

Tell me about it. With backups, my sim pc has hit around 70 TB of storage now. Most of that for Ortho4XP stuff. When I got my new machine built for MSFS I was sort of anticipating being able to (or even needing to) download lots of scenery and cache it. Turns out I don't need to do that, so what with the sim pc and the extra 16 tb of HD I never bothered installing I now have over 110 TB of SSD/HD sitting on my desk across two PCs.

The first mainframe I worked on used 7Mb removable DASD spindles!

Yup exactly.  This large storage does become an issue, concern over HD failure for instance.  Now I see there are 16GB internal and external drives, lighting fast but of course there is a larger cost.

I "live away" in my RV in winter usually and I take along my PC and suite of external HD's with sim data (ortho scenery), this way I can flightsim on the road, but otherwise there is no online option available.  While there can be some high speed internet in more expensive RV places, you can't download data. So XP works great in that scenario.

1 hour ago, andy1252 said:

Hi James, that may well just be the light in this shot. The atmospherics were a lot cloudier for the trip that shot came from. I've done the same sort of tour in bright sunlight settings and the roof colurs are more like the XP shots.

I've flown around it with bright sun (MSFS) and it's still more red than it should be.  BTW, don't take an ultralite around the city at low altitudes unless you like melting and drouping.

1 hour ago, Phantoms said:

I've flown around it with bright sun (MSFS) and it's still more red than it should be.  BTW, don't take an ultralite around the city at low altitudes unless you like melting and drouping.

Yep, that's exactly why I usually have PG turned off, but the non-PG Venice in MSFS is pretty poor. That's why my original comment about preferring to have decent 3d modelling - you can get real down and dirty with it - my preferred mode of travel is rooftop to maybe 200 feet in the H135 and you can't do that in PG.