Arguments for and against photo scenery

The amount of new content has reached such a low point that threads like this are popping up.

I think that it's now official!

Maddox Games, 1C, and Ubisoft have carefully calculated exactly the worst possible decisions to make, and have executed them perfectly. There is no other explanation for this. You have a brand new sim, little to no included content, and then you stonewall everyone so that the community starts to get stale and people lose interest in it.

Bravo MG/1C/Ubi, you are master trolls!

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by Redroach

Why do you bring it up again then? People will jump on the bandwagon again

I suppose I'm just a bit fed up with all the threads which say 'Look at this! It's better than Cliffs of Dover!'

When it's not.

[Jumo211]

I don't think FSX looks bad at all from close distance , with a good global scenery package and individual airports you get also a very good looking textures around the ground level .

Tileproxy video from 2009 :
Created as FREEWARE by Christian Buchner, it's a real-time interface between Microsoft's Flight Simulator X and the Internet. It will download photo-terrain textures from online map services by acting as a proxy server and file format converter. This tool turns your Flight Simulator into an interactive 3D map browser unlike anything you have experienced before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAgcAVJ9MJE

Some different kind of ground scenery:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbq77WeJl-8

and custom scenery airport:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZGfUWCDyO0

Cheeers ,
S!

[SsSsSsSsSnake]

nice

[Redroach]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

I suppose I'm just a bit fed up with all the threads which say 'Look at this! It's better than Cliffs of Dover!'

When it's not.

Funny, I'm a bit fed up with those "landscape is too lime-green" complainers. As if they all came from the Gobi Desert or from Antarctica...

Ughhh! Do we have to say this every week?

1. FSX cherry-picks the scenery they show.
2. FSX does mountain very well, I will give them that.
3. Most of the stuff is aftermarket 3rd party pay-ware.
4. They usually only put decent detail around landmarks and airports. Everything else looks the same.
5. Does earth have 2 suns? Because Sat photos have shadows from buildings and mountains that cannot move because they are part of the texture.
6. Still looks like crap up close, you have to stay in the "sweet spot" which is usually a few thousand feet to get the "good views".
7. Satellite images don't really work for WWII sims due to all the overpasses, 8 lane highways, modern buildings and landscapes, etc... Removing them would have to be done by hand, and that would take a hell of a long time.

See you all in the next exact same thread in 10-20 days.