The importance of vegetation.

[Murmur 3,941]

The main difference in the scenery between these two pair of screenshots is the vegetation (different polygons and textures).

I think this could be a good starting point for LR to improve default scenery. A lot of bang for the buck (i.e. good visual improvements with little development time necessary).

 

 

Edited September 26, 2022 by Murmur

[tonywob 4,768]

100%... But, need to be careful not to over do it, too much vegetation (or trees that are too big) can drown out the scenery below. In earlier versions of MFS I found the UK and some other areas had way too many trees that made some areas unrecognisable, but I think in the below shots the balance is good:

[steve310002 1,198]

1 hour ago, tonywob said:

In earlier versions of MFS I found the UK and some other areas had way too many trees that made some areas unrecognisable, but I think in the below shots the balance is good:

That was also because tree sizes were far too big and have since been reduced in MSFS. XP 12 vegetation is far too sparse and uniform in its current iteration. 

Edited September 26, 2022 by steve310002

[darshonaut 237]

I bought the Global Forests Addon for XP12, but I need to test it more to give a verdict.

[UKflyer 630]

I have global forests, although it appears to place trees in a better position it can be sparse in places

[UKflyer 630]

14 hours ago, Murmur said:

The main difference in the scenery between these two pair of screenshots is the vegetation (different polygons and textures).

I think this could be a good starting point for LR to improve default scenery. A lot of bang for the buck (i.e. good visual improvements with little development time necessary).

 

 

Wow nice difference, what addon is this?

[Baber20 1,438]

15 minutes ago, UKflyer said:

Wow nice difference, what addon is this?

Probably one of those orbx true earth sceneries 

[UKflyer 630]

3 minutes ago, Baber20 said:

Probably one of those orbx true earth sceneries 

i have orbx but don't look as good as that! 😄

[Bjoern 1,153]

16 hours ago, Murmur said:

The main difference in the scenery between these two pair of screenshots is the vegetation (different polygons and textures).

I think this could be a good starting point for LR to improve default scenery. A lot of bang for the buck (i.e. good visual improvements with little development time necessary).

Oh yes, exactly, I love that exact add-on for the very same reason you're showing it off here and I totally know it even without you PROVIDING A F'IN OUNCE OF CONTEXT. Gah!

[Murmur 3,941]

6 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

Oh yes, exactly, I love that exact add-on for the very same reason you're showing it off here and I totally know it even without you PROVIDING A F'IN OUNCE OF CONTEXT. Gah!

What context? 🤷‍♂️ It doesn't matter what the specific add-on is, the point of the post is to show the difference between default vegetation VS a much better one.

[UKflyer 630]

4 minutes ago, Murmur said:

What context? 🤷‍♂️ It doesn't matter what the specific add-on is, the point of the post is to show the difference between default vegetation VS a much better one.

what's the big secret? 😉

Is this orbx 2.0?? 😄

Edited September 26, 2022 by UKflyer

[Murmur 3,941]

9 minutes ago, UKflyer said:

what's the big secret? 😉

Is this orbx 2.0?? 😄

A friend took the screenshots, it should be Orbx Oregon (without ortho). If you have it, how does it appear on your XP? You said it looks different?

[UKflyer 630]

4 minutes ago, Murmur said:

A friend took the screenshots, it should be Orbx Oregon (without ortho). If you have it, how does it appear on your XP? You said it looks different?

ah Oregon very nice, i only have UK and the Europe ones. So you use the overlay without ortho's? I'm going to try that out 👍

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,317]

18 hours ago, Murmur said:

The main difference in the scenery between these two pair of screenshots is the vegetation (different polygons and textures).

I think this could be a good starting point for LR to improve default scenery. A lot of bang for the buck (i.e. good visual improvements with little development time necessary).

 

 

That looks 100% better. If we had an add-on that produces that, it would go a long way to making it better!

[Murmur 3,941]

2 hours ago, UKflyer said:

So you use the overlay without ortho's? I'm going to try that out 👍

In some screenshots I've seen, it can look better without ortho than with low res ortho. This gives me hope for the increase in quality possible in default scenery for XP12.