EarthSimulations

No, There's no online registration or activation required. They will install even without an internet connection. Out of the box no, As the ESI version 2.4 contained on the DVD's is FSX only. However a DVD essentially contains an ESI-Pack. So you could install ESI version 2.5 ( which has P3D and Steam Edition capability too) and direct it to the ESI-Pack contained on the DVD. Then it would install into P3D or steam.

The files are the same for each platform Keith, the only difference is the location ESI sends them to during install and where the scenery.cfg or similar files are located, So in answer...an ESI-Pack created with the FSX version of ESI can still be used by the P3D enabled version of ESI to install into P3D at a later date yes. I hope that makes sense.

Thank you to everyone who's commented in this tread with such kindness and understanding. Both Vikki and myself appreciate it very much. I'd just like to respond to some of the concerns raised regarding backups. It is possible to create backup ( esi-Packs) of any ES software you own. Once downloaded the ESI pack can be used to re-install your scenery should that need ever occur. The ESI pack you created is pre-configured with your valid serial code embedded. As such it does not require a connection to our servers to function. It doesn't even need an internet connection at all in fact. Our servers will remain active for at least a couple of months, but as mentioned we can't promise they'll stay active indefinitely. Vikki and I are committed to ensuring you are given every opportunity to safeguard your purchases from us, and as such we are continuing to man the ES helpdesk for at least the next couple of weeks to help anyone that gets in to difficulty. After that we will have to move on to pastures new, but we're not abandoning our moral responsibilities to our past customers in the meantime. Kindest regards Darren & Vikki

Just to add.....Earth Simulations Sceneries have a new Steam compatible installer ( and P3D) and are working well in FSX Steam edition.

Hi All Earth simulations would like to firstly wish everyone a very Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year! We would also like to let everyone know that we updated our installers to work in the following simulator platforms: P3D FSX Steam Edition and of course FSX Standard and Acceleration Kindest regards Darren & Vikki PS: If you haven’t taken advantage yet our Christmas gift to this year or haven't seen....we’re offering the award winning Alderney scenery for just £1.00 ( that's about $1.56 or 1.28 euro) There’s also some great savings to still be made with most of our sceneries at 50% off until 4th January 2015. Even our latest and largest Photogenesis & Autogenesis for North West Scotland (16000km²) is at 30% off.

Hi Just to let you know that our installer has been updated ( Version 2.5 ) and is now fully compatible with P3D 2.4 ( Also FSX Steam edition.)

Hi Oliver The "Demo" you're seeing is definitely not from the ES scenery. I suspect it is an old UK2000 scenery demo that's still active on your system. Firstly try to identify the conflicting scenery and deactivate it, and then when it's gone check the order of the ES activated folders in FSX scenery library too ES-3D ES-SFX Isle Of Man\ES-IOM-Airports\ES-EGNS-Ronaldsway Isle Of Man\ES-IOM-Airports\ES-X9JU-Jurby Isle Of Man\ES-IOM-Airports\ES-X9AN-Andreas Isle Of Man\ES-IOM-Airports\ES-IOM-Helipads Isle Of Man\ES-IOM-Airports\ES-X9MR-MountRule Isle Of Man\ES-IOM-3D Isle Of Man\ES-IOM-TFX Isle Of Man\ES-IOM-SFX Isle Of Man\ES-IOM-FX Isle Of Man\ES-IOM-Photo Isle Of Man\ES-IOM-Terrain

Great to see some videos. Thanks for making and posting them!

Hi Richard / John If you're happy with installing a scenery manually ( with instructions to follow ) send us a note via the ES helpdesk and I can sort that out for you.

Thanks to the last three posters, really pleased you like the screenshots. I'm generally not well known for my screenshot taking abilities :unsure: but it's such a beautiful area of the UK it's hard to go wrong. I've put the Autogenesis 3D feature list below, just in case you weren't yet aware of everything that's included...I think I'd be correct in still saying that this all amounts to the highest specification large scale (16,500km² ) photo real scenery ever developed for flightsim...or are there some others to compare it to now that I've missed appearing?

There's no huge frustration Chris, I've been mildly irritated by Petraeus's "opinion" ..but that's it. He'd always have an answer for anything I could possibly say I'm sure. Besides, anyone who's content to believe that a landclass based scenery is more real than our products are... well... is just plain wrong...simple as that. (In my own very humble opinion of course) and is never going to purchase anything from us because truly accurate scenery just isn't what they're looking for. Here's a selection of our own taken in FSX Clutch Cargo. Showing downloadable 60cm photoGenEsis and AutoGenEsis combined ( I should probably add that they're completely unedited) WARNING: The following images contain more than one shade of green. We accept no responsibility for the damage this might do to your eyesight!

Right Petraeus...with that being true, and also just because of the pointless time waste it is debating varying shades of green with you, is the reason I'm not playing. Your challenge should you wish to take it up, is to find us all a better Scottish highlands photo real scenery.

Hmmm I've played this game before Petraeus...you'll say it's saturated, I'll go off and Google a dozen images to show it's not.You'll find another dozen where the shades different again. Anyone can play..., it's fun if you've got nothing better to be doing with your life. :rolleyes:

Petraeus....have you looked lately at your profile picture? :rolleyes:

We'd rather not try to speculate on that 777, mainly because we don't want to raise expectations but also because it's almost impossible to give a meaningful answer. It'll all be as fast as we can possibly manage is all I can say. This is also our vision for the project Chris. It's just not humanly possible for ourselves to do all we're doing and to model a whole bunch of bespoke landmarks at the same time. But the addition of a few notable landmark buildings in amongst the more generic Autogenesis 3D will make each area as instantly recognisable as the Isle of Man project is now to anyone that's ever been there in real life. So when do you start?

It's not possible for us to include Northern Ireland at the present time sadly. Unfortunately we're not as well catered for in the UK as developers in the US are, and we have to pay expensive licences for our source data here. a royalty rate of 25% or even 35% is not uncommon. In the case of Northern Ireland there isn't even the option of licensing the data (yet), and to buy it outright is simply out of reach. :( You've had no problems with running Isle of Man Chris, so I'm confident you're in for a pleasant surprise ;)

Yes I guess, although we hadn't thought of it in that term exactly. :rolleyes: We are moving to the opposite end of the UK next. Our reasoning is to interest those that have no interest in Scotland currently, but that do for England & Wales, and to show the difference updated data and our own colour enhanced photography can have over the existing GenX and FTX products that already cover the southern regions.

It's very similar yes, texture detail is the same and density of coverage is too.But over a very much larger 16,500km² area which incorporates the Scottish highlands as some of the UK's most spectacular scenery. The exception is that there are fewer bespoke landmark models to be seen compared to Isle of Man, which is very heavily laden with exact replicas of buildings and landmarks.The other difference is there are no highly detailed airports in this product, which is already covered well by other products that we sell. The thing I'll say is higher quality IMHO, is the nightlighting.

Hi Novation That makes sense, we've tried to provide an option that'll suit everyone. :)

Hi The screenshots we have available at the moment are showing the 60cm. We'll get some more as soon as we can of the 30cm separately. The extra definition provided by the 30cm really only comes in to effect at quite low altitudes due to the way the simulator displays different levels of detail at receding distances. Which in turn can be influenced by settings and tweaks. For various reasons the performance of the Autogenesis 3D is noticeably better when compared to our Island sceneries. Influenced as all scenery is by just how populated an area is in view at a given time. Sorry Chris...no, but we'll be looking to provide one as the overall project advances. The sceneries are fully compatible with Orbx and also with the existing GenX scenery ( and indeed RevX, which is replaced of course within the ES scenery area but is unchanged outside of the active ES area. ). Unfortunately we have been effected this morning by some kind soul seeking to hack the ES website. :unsure: I so wish these people would spend their energy doing something ( indeed anything) that's a bit more productive. Hope that answers your questions, and thank you for the overall positive response. :)

Hi Naif ES & Orbx sceneries will work together. If you're having any problems please consider opening a support ticket here, and give us a description of what isn't right. I'm sure we will be able to sort you out. You might just need the Autogen compatibility files, which you'll find here.

Hi The products listed here are all 50%+ reduced with the exception of any bundle deals. (as they're already reduced.)

Hi Novation We have the same source data for Scotland it's true, which is still the newest and best quality available for that particular area. After we've processed it all it does look quite "different" compared to GenX Scotland. B) However, the England & Wales source data we have now is all much more recent than the data which used to make GenX E&W.

I'd just like to point out for the benefit of others reading this thread...that the supplier in this case was NOT Earth Simulations Ltd. All products being bought directly from ourselves are working correctly, whether they be downloads or disk versions of our sceneries. It sounds like a costly mistake during manufacture for them ( and indeed us too) I'm sorry to learn Richard that the supplier in question was unable to resolve the problem. For info: Isle of Man is covered by GenX ..though is not anywhere near approaching the detail or quality of the ES version of course.

Hi Richard The issue and error message you're describing isn't actually one we've encountered. If it were we'd have at least posted a helpdesk article about it and fixed it going forward. Fortunately the problem you appear to be seeing is isolated. I'll reply as best I can here...but you should note that we do not trawl the flightsim forums looking for customers who are unwilling to contact us directly through our support systems. Afterall that's why we have a support system. So...Are you able to run a repair of ESI by inserting the disk and running the file called ESI-Setup.exe that you find in the "Files folder" ? Please try that first and if successful continue with the advice above. If not please ( I insist ) open a support ticket with us so that we work with you to find a solution. Kind regards Darren & Vikki