Roads most accurate

[sonic]

Ok the area around my local airport is very hussle and bussle lots of commercial and stores very busy roads. In FSX it has it portrayed as pretty much lush meadows. ;(.. I recently installed Orbx base and orbx vector. It improved the roads alot very accurate but the landclass still has this area as meadows. Is there any addons that really improves that. thanks

[Fozzer]

The most accurate scenery for me, regarding accurate Roads, Rails, and Coastal, etc, outlines; involved the purchase of both FTX Global scenery mesh, and Ultimate Terrain USA for FSX.
You will find the results amazing!

https://www.fullterrain.com/product/ftxglobal

Flight 1 - Ultimate Terrain X USA Edition http://www.fspilotshop.com/product_info ... 58&ref=372

Flight 1 - Ultimate Terrain X Europe Edition http://www.fspilotshop.com/product_info ... 18&ref=372

Well worth the purchase if you want highly realistic scenery....like me!

Paul.... ...!

[pegger]

Download a copy of SbuilderX (freeware) and create landclass polygons to suit your preferences.

[OldAirmail]

Ok the area around my local airport is very hussle and bussle lots of commercial and stores very busy roads. In FSX it has it portrayed as pretty much lush meadows. ;(.. I recently installed Orbx base and orbx vector. It improved the roads alot very accurate but the landclass still has this area as meadows. Is there any addons that really improves that. thanks

So far, the most accurate scenery that I've flown over, is anywhere that I've never been to.

So the natural question is - where is "my local airport"?

At least give us the airport that you fly out of. Maybe we can come up with something.



If it's in Wales, Scotland, or England then you can get it looking a bit more accurate, but it'll never be perfect.

If you live in the continental US, and you don't mind commercial photoreal scenery, then MegaSceneryEarth might be what you want.

The only problem that I've found with a lot of photoreal scenery is that you have to fly quite high or it isn't going to look very good.

If your favorite aircraft is big tubes that might be ok. Then all you have to do is to add a good airport scenery on top of it.

That will give you something lie this:



But other than that - - - - no, it just isn't going to look like where you live.

[sonic]

Makes sence lol.. Its Kavl Asheville reg airport in NC..

[OldAirmail]

OK, you're in luck.

You have Orbx FTX Global so your golden.

You can download KAVL, Asheville Regional, Asheville, NC for free. It's part of their FREE North America airport pack #10

Did I say that it was FREE!


For others - you have to have an Orbx product for it to show up correctly.

Someone, somewhere, said that you can DL one of their free demo sceneries, such as the FTX Global Iceland Demo.

I think that this will setup certain Orbx files in FSX/P3d. And after that, I believe, you can DL their free airports & have them show up correctly.

I don't know it this really works though.


Anyway, if you were to get MegaSceneryEarth - North Carolina with the free Orbx KAVL on top, you'd then have it as close as possible to what you want.

BTW - MegaSceneryEarth - North Carolina would have to be placed higher on the scenery list than Orbx Global. That's what I did for the Philadelphia airport KPHL & MegaSceneryEarth - Pennsylvania.


OH yeah. The free KAVL looks like this -










One thing about the MegaSceneryEarth scenery is that everything looks good (mountains, etc.) EXCEPT the cities.

That is, unless you're flying relatively high over them.

[TUCANTO]

If Ya won a try England, 'Horizon VFR photographic' is the REAL thing in my opinion, best of the lot.
Real scenery, with accurate colour density.

[sonic]

oldairmail. are those screen shots with megascenery and the orbx free airports.. I installed the orbx free airports and it doesnt have alot of whats in those screens..

[OldAirmail]

I don't have MegaSceneryEarth - North Carolina. I just downloaded the Orbx airport pack #10 to see what they did with KAVL.

Compared with the "standard" FSX/P3d KAVL airport scenery, I think that the Orbx version is fantastic.

That area, in my computer has FTX: Global, FTX Vector, and the Orbx version of your airport.



This picture has MegaSceneryEarth - Pennsylvania with the SunSkyJet KPHL scenery placed over the MegaSceneryEarth scenery.



Not shown in that picture, but underneath both of the other sceneries is the Orbx add-on sceneries.

As you see the airport scenery has 3D buildings and the MegaSceneryEarth scenery doesn't.

But once you get 8,000 - 10,000 feet up, it doesn't matter any more - It'll look OK.



BTW - If my picture doesn't match the scenery on your screen, it may be that you haven't Updated your Orbx/FTX scenery files - Product Updates.

[sonic]

Ok thanks.. How does orbx put things in your scenic library.. I have orbx global base and vector and mine looks nothing like that.

[sonic]

Here is mine

[OldAirmail]

You can download KAVL, Asheville Regional Airport for free. It's in one of Orbx's free airport sceneries called North America airport pack #10 <--- Click on the blue link

[sonic]

I already downlaoded and installed the orbx free airports.. That is what I get after I installed

[OldAirmail]

Ok the area around my local airport is very hussle and bussle lots of commercial and stores very busy roads. In FSX it has it portrayed as pretty much lush meadows. ;(.. I recently installed Orbx base and orbx vector. It improved the roads alot very accurate but the landclass still has this area as meadows. Is there any addons that really improves that. thanks

Looking at the difference between the background scenery and the roads in your picture, I have to say that I don't think that either Orbx FTX: Global (Base) nor Orbx Vector have successfully installed on your system.

I have FSX installed (but rarely used) on my computer. So far, I've installed almost nothing - No Orbx products except for the Pacific Northwest & Australia.



Notice the roads & scenery outside of the immediate airport. Notice the buildings.

This is the full Orbx everything on Prepar3d. This has all of the Orbx updates.


This is the airport in FSX without Orbx Global. I installed North America airport pack #10 just now.


And this is your picture blown up to show more detail.



What probably happened is that your Orbx FTX: Global didn't download properly. Copying & pasting could also have produced the same problem.

It's a little harder to tell about Orbx Vector.


The first two pictures show what a difference having all the updates can make. FSX & Prepar3d, at this point, should look almost identicle.

MY FSX install has no Orbx/FTX Product Updates.

The P3d instillation does.

The second picture shows the difference in buildings. The buildings in the FSX shot (without FTX: Global) look a lot more like yours.



If you download & run FTX Central v2 Public Beta it may help you to spot whether or not Global and Vector are installed properly.

This is FTX Central 2 for FSX.


This is FTX Central 2 for P3d.



To repeat: It doesn't look like Global & Vector are properly installed. Use FTX Central 2 to check it.

As you can see in my pictures, it will be well worth the effort to get it right.

[OldAirmail]

Just a note - PCAviator has an Easter sale on, including MegaSceneryEarth.

Don't know when it'll end, probably on Monday.

MegaSceneryEarth 2.0 - North Carolina - $20 (reg$40)