The regions are only worth it where TrueEarth sceneries are not available.

I would never recommend OrbX PNW region, but instead I would recommend Orbx True Earth Washington.

In the same way, I would never recommend OrbX EU England region, but instead I would recommend Orbx True Earth England North + Central + South.

But for the places where there is only an Orbx Regional scenery and not True Earth scenery, then I would totally recommend the Regional addon 🙂

Edited April 2, 20242 yr by Daube

I never bought the TE California scenery because I have read complaints about the coloration not being good. TE Florida,Oregon and Washington are nice.

Edited April 2, 20242 yr by Patco Lch

5 hours ago, Patco Lch said:

I never bought the TE California scenery because I have read complaints about the coloration not being good. TE Florida,Oregon and Washington are nice.

I'd like to followup on this comment. ^^^

I'm an old VFR SoCal pilot IRL. I mainly fly bush planes low level in P3D 4.5. Photoscenery would be helpful and enjoyable but I seem to remember some complaints when TE SoCal was released. On my aging machine I have been running SoCal and NorCal regions quite successfully. I'd love to add TE SoCal but I don't want to waste $23 USD or bog down my machine.

Any feedback from actual owners of TE SoCal would be greatly appreciated.

I'm running:

Intel I7-6700 Skylake at 4.0 ghz

16gb DDR4

GeForce GTX 970

 

7 hours ago, mslim said:

I'm an old VFR SoCal pilot IRL. I mainly fly bush planes low level in P3D 4.5. Photoscenery would be helpful and enjoyable but I seem to remember some complaints when TE SoCal was released. On my aging machine I have been running SoCal and NorCal regions quite successfully. I'd love to add TE SoCal but I don't want to waste $23 USD or bog down my machine.

Any feedback from actual owners of TE SoCal would be greatly appreciated.

The True Earth photo scenery is extremely red. There was an ORBX forum post where they acknowledged and then basically said "meh".

For NorCal there were complains about them being lazy on bridges when they had higher quality ones in the past.

It also needs around 150 GB to install (~75 for the installer and the 75 for the result) which then you can delete the installer.

For these reasons I was considering the more "programmatic" regions.

29 minutes ago, level7 said:

The True Earth photo scenery is extremely red. There was an ORBX forum post where they acknowledged and then basically said "meh".

Some areas are more red than others. This can be adjusted in NCP with gamma. They didn't say 'meh', they said it was a component of the source data. Maybe.

 I too am working with regions for other reasons.

On 4/2/2024 at 10:07 AM, mslim said:

I'd like to followup on this comment. ^^^

I'm an old VFR SoCal pilot IRL. I mainly fly bush planes low level in P3D 4.5. Photoscenery would be helpful and enjoyable but I seem to remember some complaints when TE SoCal was released. On my aging machine I have been running SoCal and NorCal regions quite successfully. I'd love to add TE SoCal but I don't want to waste $23 USD or bog down my machine.

Any feedback from actual owners of TE SoCal would be greatly appreciated.

I'm running:

Intel I7-6700 Skylake at 4.0 ghz

16gb DDR4

GeForce GTX 970

 

If you buy California, then you will go back and buy Oregon and Washington too. There are a TON of flights you can do with the entire west coast. You can even perform a concorde flight from Vancouver BC to Los Angeles. Even considering having to travel 100m off shore before going MACH 2 is still faster then a 737 going direct.   

Personally, with so many other options that haven't dropped my PC to it's knees, I don't even have trueearth anything installed anymore...What I use are a combination of:

Megascenery with either nuvecta or living airports autogen

Matthias freeware photoscenery and autogen (definitely worth donating to him)

FC Scenery - best out of this, megascenery and realworld by far

real world scenery

The above doesn't kill my performance and looks great for the most part. Not cheap in some cases but neither is orbx.

Regards,

Sean

Edited April 3, 20242 yr by ywg256

7 minutes ago, ywg256 said:

Matthias freeware photoscenery and autogen (definitely worth donating to him)

Best I’ve ever seen. But per his last post it looks like he might be taking his time and talent to the eye candy sim. Hate it because his photoreal scenery is knock out gorgeous. He’s a fine fellow to share it with us.

1 minute ago, Patco Lch said:

Best I’ve ever seen. But per his last post it looks like he might be taking his time and talent to the eye candy sim. Hate it because his photoreal scenery is knock out gorgeous. He’s a fine fellow to share it with us.

If that's the case thank god he has so many countries covered off that probably will never see light of day even as payware. Hopefully if he does pull the pin, there is at least some where/some one that is willing to host for him.

Though I’ve collected a barge load of photo scenery over the years sometimes the old tried and true tile work like ORBX Global and land class just looks sharper. The colors look more realistic and then there’s seasonal changes. That’s why I only use photo scenery in the tropics for bush flying. A lot of photo scenery starts to look like a bowl of pea soup as you get close to the ground and buildings look like someone just painted roof tops o the ground.

Let's be clear: we're only talking about photoscenery which has autogen on it.

Photoscenery without autogen is, to me, completely unwatchable.

 

13 hours ago, Patco Lch said:

Though I’ve collected a barge load of photo scenery over the years sometimes the old tried and true tile work like ORBX Global and land class just looks sharper.

I've done the same thing. However, I'm still battling with that slow, square by square scenery fill that I've never been able to correct. It's not bad; it looks like a slightly higher resolution is being loaded on top of the existing one. This is with high rez textures unchecked. This does not happen with True Earth for some reason.

A great addition to tile scenery, especially when jet flying is the city scapes that have appeared on the market by developers such as Alpine Scenery with hand placed custom made autogen buildings. Even ORBX has some. Very nice when on approach your looking at the city as it is. Not a big storage drive hog either and usually inexpensive.Only problem is the limited number available. I wish more would be developed.