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I've been developing some photorealistic scenery for a few months now (mostly NM) but have just started to dabble in airport design as well. I live in San Diego and would love to have (or develop) better versions of Montgomery, Gillespie and others.I don't expect to get quite the quality of FTX ;) but would like something more than the default FSX.
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I found an old topic from 2008: The Need for High Quality GA Airports - unfortunately, the topic died out in 2008 and all of the links to GA airports are bad.Does anyone have an up to date list of GA airports? I'm particularly interested in Montgomery Field, Gillespie Field, Borrego, etc.Thanks
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I've been getting some pay and freeware photoreal scenery for much of the west and developing my own scenery for NM as a hobby.I would very much like to try out some of the higher resolution meshes but have read mixed review on them. Sometimes I'll see screenshots and videos of photoreal scenery and it looks pretty spectacular. I have a fairly good system and have been trying out various settings as read on these forums. But I have yet to try higher res meshes. I assume they help out with lower altitude flying but are not so useful at higher altitudes. I do a bit of both.Any advice is welcome, thanks.
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I have the MegaSceneryEarth area you are talking about - just north of the SoCal area, it covers the Mojave west to the ocean and south just to Cajon Pass.The quality is good. It's overly orange/red. One BIG IMPORTANT note about MSE scenery. It is not actually complete. This scenery in particular does not go all the way to the Colorado River. Similarly, the Central Arizona scenery I purchased does not got all the way to the river, nor does it go all the way east to New Mexico. So you're stuck with no scenery in between - they need to make that clear. They say California and Arizona are complete but that is false advertising. I stopped at that point and will not purchase anymore MSE until they fix this.I am developing freeware scenery for NM and even when I overlap the NM/AZ border, there is still about 50 miles of NO scenery west into Arizona.
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Photographic scenery covers all over the world
Mojave replied to frank1223's topic in MS FSX | FSX-SE Forum
I just have to give props to BlueSkyScenery. The scenery is absolutely amazing (the locations in Utah/Colorado/etc. help a lot) and the layout is very well ordered. I have downloaded (and donated for) most of their scenery. And it's FREE!BlueSkyScenery is so good, it inspired me to get into creating my own scenery, which I hope to release as freeware at some point.The only gripe I currently have is that California and Nevada are being done at 2m/pixel instead of the usual 1m/pixel used in Utah and Colorado. The other minor gripe is that Colorado doesn't come all the way south to the border of New Mexico. This is important to me because the main area I am concentrating on now is a freeware New Mexico. -
What is the resolution of the scenery? Didn't see it listed in the FAQ.
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I have two monitors - my main monitor is a cockpit view and in my second, I toggle between map view and a spot plane. I set different zoom levels for both.Is there anyway to save these window layouts? I know I can save/load various plane/location settings in the main FSX screen, but I can't figure out how to save window settings.
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Tile Proxy versus regular photorealistic scenery?
Mojave replied to Mojave's topic in MS FSX | FSX-SE Forum
I had a feeling Tile Proxy was too good to be true. I believe it uses Virtual Earth and while that can be very high quality in some places, it can be quite lacking in others.If I get around to releasing it, it will probably be freeware/donateware, simply as payback for all the other great freeware scenery out there. But I think there is plenty of room for commercial scenery, considering all the current issues: lofty unfulfilled "coming soon" claims, low quality, low LOD, lack of night and seasons and huge price ranges. -
I've downloaded a lot of free/pay photorealistic scenery. I've also recently started to create my own scenery - and this hobby is now growing to where I hope to release some scenery myself. But I also just today found out about Tile Proxy. I have yet to install and test it since the idea of basically streaming scenery seems a bit over the top.What are the pros and cons of the two methods? Obviously streaming scenery could be slower and requires quite a fast connection. But you get scenery for the whole world without doing anything more than installing/configuring one application. Downloaded scenery, on the other hand, can be spotty and inconsistent, but you get a faster system, I assume. Plus, you can have seasons and night as well as manipulated and adjusted scenery.So, is it pointless for me to continue developing my own scenery in light of Tile Proxy? Or should I keep up with my new hobby?
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VERO Flight Simulation Environments Lab., NEW ERA for FSX ?
Mojave replied to a topic in MS FSX | FSX-SE Forum
Typos in some of the above math have confused things. LCSims, you said "CONUS has 3,121 sq. miles" when obviously you meant 3,121 thousand sq miles. tf51d, you took the 5 gigs per 1000 sq miles, which was for all 5 seasons, and multiplied it again by 5.So there are about 3 million sq miles in the CONUS. And 1 gig per 1000 sq miles per season sounds about right. I currently have done 2000 sq miles of NM for one season at just over 2 gigs. 5 seasons plus 1 night, which should compile down to a much smaller size gives us about 6 gigs per 1000 miles. Multiply by 3000 to get the CONUS and you have 18 terabytes for final BGL product. Is that about right?Currently my source material for one season is coming it at about 50 gigs for my 2000 sq miles of NM, or 25 gigs per 1000 sq miles. That would be 75 terabytes for the CONUS for ONE season. Multiplied by 5 is nearly 400 terabytes.I probably messed something up. Please correct me if I did. -
VERO Flight Simulation Environments Lab., NEW ERA for FSX ?
Mojave replied to a topic in MS FSX | FSX-SE Forum
Yeah, payware MegaSceneryEarth has quite a bit of coverage, they do summer and night textures, no other seasons or hard winter though. There are some issues with their scenery to be sure. If your scenery fixes those problems and adds other seasons, it will be an improvement.BlueSkyScenery is free/donate ware and covers much of Colorado and Utah, and they are now moving into California, though only at 2m/pixel. Their Utah scenery is amazing quality. They don't have night or other seasons, however.Personally, I'm using existing free tools and handcrafted scripts to create my own photorealistic scenery (not land class) and while it is time consuming, it is fairly straightforward. Doing summer and some night right now, but other seasons are just a matter of hue/saturation/color balancing the data. You can use scriptable graphics programs like Gimp to churn through gigs of data, processing the data overnight say. I'm still new to it, but it's very doable.That said, I look forward to your scenery and especially what areas you plan to release on what schedule. -
VERO Flight Simulation Environments Lab., NEW ERA for FSX ?
Mojave replied to a topic in MS FSX | FSX-SE Forum
I tried it (summer day only, so far) and it's pretty nice, but I'm not sure it's a new era. There is a lot of commercial and free scenery that already has this quality. I'm going to do my own version of Mt Shasta and see how it matches up. -
Hi, this is my first post. Just wanted to say this is an awesome forum, I have learned so much, thanks!I like to fly with photorealistic scenery and have many free and payware scenery and I'm now developing my own scenery for areas I like that are not covered by other add-ons yet. I'm hoping I'll be able to release these sceneries as freeware, but don't know about copyright issues and such yet.My question is what types of add-ons are useful with photorealistic scenery? I assume products like GEX and UTX are pointless since the photo scenery would just cover up what they provide. But what about road services and such? On the other hand, I assume FEX would be a great add-on since it wouldn't affect the scenery.Right now, I am pretty happy with the 1.2m/pixel scenery I have. It looks great. The scenery I am creating is also 1.2m. How much of an improvement will I see with new meshes? I was looking at NextMap's ProMesh and it looks great, the only issue being I can't afford to purchase all the US states I would like just yet. Are there any other payware or freeware meshes that cover the entire US?Thanks again