Hi F737NG. I am glad that you like the scenery concept and great screenshots! A forum member made me aware of your post.
I have produced the scenery and have an upgrade to China coming soon using a different concept. I will upload to Simmarket as time permits and it will be a free upgrade to existing purchasers.
I will explain the concept. For those who do not know, LOD stands for "Level Of Detail". With LOD13, the scenery will show below and around the aircraft. With an LOD 12, the scenery will show further out from the aircraft leaving your add-on land class scenery showing below and around the vicinity of your aircraft. LOD11 will show further out from LOD12. If 15m imagery is produced at LOD13, the scenery will appear blurry at lower altitudes due to the low resolution.
My new technique and maybe a first for flight simulator (FS/P3d), is to produce a "composite blend" of the imagery scenery at LOD12, however using a mask over the imagery such that if this scenery layer is placed above you land class scenery, your land class will surround your aircraft at lower altitudes, however further out from your aircraft the composite between your land class and the imagery will be seen. At higher altitudes, the blended scenery is hardly noticeable and the scenery will appear as real world. Your Landclass scenery is not altered in any way. If you turn the composite layer OFF, your landclass will be fully seen as if the composite did not exist. I tested a blend at LOD13 which gives a composite over the full area of your land class, however autogen will not show through and it can look a little messy over built up areas, thus I decided to produce one composite scenery at LOD12. The installed size of the Composite NE China will be around 15GB.
Here are a few screenshots over NE China showing the "composite". The scenery blends in nicely if you own ORBX Global.
The following is over ORBX Global with ORBX showing at low altitude. The composite can be seen in the distance
Some composite and full imagery appears in the distance
I am currently reproducing my Australian States, Tasmania, NSW and Victoria as a complete composite area of SE Australia. So far this is looking at being around 10GB. I will upload this to Simmarket hopefully by the end of this month.
ORBX AU2 in front of the wing. Composite above the wing tip with imagery showing further out. Any differences are hardly noticeable.
A nice shot over eastern Victoria.
Cheers,
Norm Gibson
