I'm curious to compare default vs 'usual' modded X plane 12 visuals before buying but don't know if mods work in the Xplane 12 demo?

Edited August 18, 20241 yr by VeryBumpy

Yes but only in the demo areas: region around KPDX and I believe Hawaii(?)

My initial impressions are I'm not very impressed with Ortho and Xworld vs default.

X-World lacks data coverage for trees and forests outside of Europe, so Global Forests v2 is kind of a mandatory investment to improve ortho scenery.

 

If you want an impression of a certain area with that combo, post an airport, runway (or parking position) and camera pitch, heading and altitude. I'm pretty sure that some user is going to respond with the corresponding screenshot.

Edited August 19, 20241 yr by Bjoern

Ah thanks, I didn't not realize Americas Xworld was sort of 'incomplete', I'm surprised they don't inform that on their web page.<shrug>

I honestly don't mind the default XP12 gfx. They may not be exacting but they are very nice overall.

On 8/18/2024 at 4:32 PM, VeryBumpy said:

My initial impressions are I'm not very impressed with Ortho and Xworld vs default.

If thats an airport on the right hand side, it looks like you have them out of order in scenery_packs.ini -> the ortho shot is missing the airport objects, you want global airports above both iirc.

For tree coverage, you can use my somewhat old but free scenery https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/45408-us-forests-and-woodland-for-ortho-scenery/

It used default art assets for trees, so it should just work in X-Plane 12, and will give much better and complete tree coverage for the USA and can be used on top of xWorld

21 hours ago, VeryBumpy said:

Ah thanks, I didn't not realize Americas Xworld was sort of 'incomplete', I'm surprised they don't inform that on their web page.<shrug>

If anything they need a big, fat "If you want better and more accurate data in X-World, start contributing to OpenStreetMap today!" banner, because that's where almost everything is generated from.

Edited August 20, 20241 yr by Bjoern

3 hours ago, Bjoern said:

If anything they need a big, fat "If you want better and more accurate data in X-World, start contributing to OpenStreetMap today!" banner, because that's where almost everything is generated from.

THIS! I can only speak for myself, not only that I created some sceneries for XP, but also added thousands of buildings to OSM (in this case mostly to the Canary Islands).

And as chance would have it, just today I started my XP again (after months) and took a longer flight over the Canary Islands. Flying over the buildings I contributed myself is great fun.