Orbx released Boise, 20% initial sale for KBOI

[Wise87 1,275]

Orbx released KBOI for 2020. To celebrate the release of Boise Airport, enjoy 20% Off until June 6th @ 00:00 UTC!

Features:

• Detailed depiction of Boise Airport
• Custom Ground Poly
• PBR textures
• Custom military static models
• 60cm Ortho

Edited June 4, 2022 by Wise87

[CFIJose 5,485]

Looks really good.

[aniiran 428]

Had to get it.  For 13 dollars... I spend that on lunch per day.  Boise was my home Airport when I was stationed at Mountain Home. The scenery is better than FSElite preview screen shots but it still has a lack of detail some of you will find intolerable.  However, with AIG traffic at 80%, I'm still running low 40s FPS looking at the terminal... and from inside the cockpit 40-50fps even at dusk on 300 TLOD. Well optimized.   Ground textures are pretty bad outside of the airport.  Landside, is very limited in detail (I don't care, but I know many will)  Then interior is not modeled at all.  Airside, is pretty vanilla. The windows are completely 2d with a texture, no depth at all which is disappointing.  Everything is accurate, everything is modeled, AIG AI works, takes off and lands and parks whit out anything weird. Its a 3.5 star out of 5 scenery to me.  If VerticalSim comes out with their version I think it will be better.  I'm a little disappointed in ORBX quality control. First they allowed AMSIM...which I'm on the fence about and now however this developer is...   

I'll just let you look at the screen shots.  2560X1080 100RS 300TLOD most everything high or ultra, clouds ultra. i7 9700KF, MSI RTX2070super, 32GB RAM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 4, 2022 by aniiran
imgbb is difficult to work with sometimes

[Wise87 1,275]

Thank you for the detailed review. Not sure what’s going on with Orbx but there MSFS recent releases don’t seem to be of the quality we expect from Orbx. I hope they step it up or users will loose faith in the Orbx brand.

[Coneman 71]

Disappointed. Really subpar for Orbx. Will make me think twice on another purchase.

[AeroMaster12 46]

2 hours ago, aniiran said:

The scenery is better than FSElite preview screen shots but it still has a lack of detail some of you will find intolerable.

Thanks for sharing these screenshots! I mainly fly AS routes, and their planes park only in the C concourse. One of those "intolerable" details that are holding me from purchasing are the missing jetways at C11 or C8A... I see that the Google Maps satellite view doesn't have the jetways showing there so that could be why if Orbx relied on them as a resource. Interestingly, though, Bing Maps satellite clearly shows the jetways existing. Not sure if they've been removed since due to the upcoming A concourse construction, but recent videos on YouTube show that they're still there. At the end of the day, it's not a big deal and I shouldn't be that nit-picky... but maybe there are others who share the same sentiment?

[Jnin 15]

Not from Boise, so ain't gonna tell whether all the gate placements are right or anything like that. But I gotta say I feel like the taxiway textures could use more work, they seem underweathered in many areas, and the whole airport seems rather lacking in clutter. I have the London City airport Orbx did for MSFS, and looking at that I don't see really see issues with either the taxiway textures or the ground clutter, both seem fairly well done in that airport.

[aniiran 428]

1 hour ago, AeroMaster12 said:

Thanks for sharing these screenshots! I mainly fly AS routes, and their planes park only in the C concourse. One of those "intolerable" details that are holding me from purchasing are the missing jetways at C11 or C8A... I see that the Google Maps satellite view doesn't have the jetways showing there so that could be why if Orbx relied on them as a resource. Interestingly, though, Bing Maps satellite clearly shows the jetways existing. Not sure if they've been removed since due to the upcoming A concourse construction, but recent videos on YouTube show that they're still there. At the end of the day, it's not a big deal and I shouldn't be that nit-picky... but maybe there are others who share the same sentiment?

See a lot of the time people go to google, and say yeah that looks right, not knowing the developer also used Google.  A good example of this is AVSIMs LIJC Palermo.  All of the ads you see at the terminal have the save exact placement and content as the 2019 google street view. Additionally, they made the terminal landside wrong because they did not know the terminal had changed since that Street View.  ORBX signed off on it.

Yeah that would be a deal killer. I was not aware they built two gates on C but I see it on Bing. I recall that in 2015.... yeah 7 years ago I know.  The Q400s and CRJ came in at C but the mainline didn't fly - Boise wasn't big enough. Even now PDX is all Horizon Q400s and E75s and there is only 2 mainline flights per day to SEA the rest is QX Qs and E75s.

Everyone keeps telling me that VerticalSim is coming out with KBOI but I do not see it.  They made a scenery for X-Plane but itf it is a port it will be wrong as well.  I see C11 but not C8A. 

I think they need to know about these gates. Too bad Orbx doesn't allow you to leave reviews.  I could tell many people were on the fence so I took one for the team...  Maybe it will lead to the developer taking the critique and improving the scenery.. but probably not.

[Jude Bradley 659]

I have it for X-Plane, so why not. seems a good deal.

[F737MAX 5,511]

The thing about Orbx for a while now is that you have to check the product description contains a named developer.

If Marcus Nyberg, Misha Cajic or Jarrad Marshall (although the latter is apparently taking an extended break away from scenery creation) is named, you can be sure that the scenery is going to be of a very high quality.
If 'Havant Studio team' appears or there is no-one named, you can almost be certain that it's not worth picking up, unless it's one of your 'must-have' sceneries and is heavily discounted.

The criticism of Orbx's direction of travel has been noted, but who knows if anything is going to change on that front:
https://forum.orbxdirect.com/topic/209722-concerned-about-direction-orbx-is-heading/?do=findComment&comment=1777550

I don't think that it is solely restricted to Orbx. There are lots of other payware developers that seem to be scrambling to make a quick/easy buck after the add-on market collapsed for a while following the MSFS launch announcement.
The new names (e.g. Pyreegue) are exciting and will fill the gap if the established developers don't step-up.

[Fiorentoni 4,100]

Wow, I think this is the final nail in the coffin for my appreciation of Orbx.

[fakeflyer737 991]

Junk 

[Mike S KPDX 597]

I just got it and love it, for the price you cant beat it.  Well done.

[threexgreen 3,135]

Aren't people overreacting a bit? Looking at the screenshots, both here and on the release announcement, I really don't think it's bad at all. It's not up there among the top devs but certainly decent, especially for the price.

[Treetops45 1,081]

10 hours ago, F737MAX said:

The thing about Orbx for a while now is that you have to check the product description contains a named developer.

If Marcus Nyberg, Misha Cajic or Jarrad Marshall (although the latter is apparently taking an extended break away from scenery creation) is named, 

If you dig into orbx's structure & down into the "People", you should find Jarrad is now Manager of Free Lance Developers.

T45