• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Basic Scenery Questions

nomad13

nomad13

Members +
I finally got FSX and after a quick flight, I'm thinking some kind of general scenery upgrade is needed. Being an old CFS 2 guy, I'm hoping for freeware, but I got a feeling the good stuff is going to cost something. Stuff like Orbx Global is too expensive right now so I was looking at REX. Since it's 50% off, it's more in the ballpark. What would be best for a new installation, Rex Essential PLUS with Overdrive or Rex 4 Texture Direct with Soft Clouds? They are about the same price. What's the difference between the two? Everything I've read so far says that the Soft Clouds are worth the money.

I'm thinking of using some Orbx freeware scenery if it is compatible with the REX software and probably hunt for freeware planes to get started. I probably would have done more research before posting, but I don't want to miss the REX sale, if that is what I'm looking for. I'm sure the members here know all about this stuff and what the best call would be.

Happy Holidays
 
Go with REX4+soft clouds. More recent technology. Hoever, this will give you only environment enhancement (i.e. water, clouds, runways etc.) Nothing will change scenery-wise so it is compatible with everything.

Since also ORBX are having a big sale until year's end, I would suggest that you also get at least ORBX Global base.
 
Dimus said:
Go with REX4+soft clouds. More recent technology. Hoever, this will give you only environment enhancement (i.e. water, clouds, runways etc.) Nothing will change scenery-wise so it is compatible with everything.

Since also ORBX are having a big sale until year's end, I would suggest that you also get at least ORBX Global base.
Click to expand...

So, ORBX is sort of like mesh and the LC Packs are the actual scenery and textures? What happens when ORBX LC Packs are installed over the stock FSX mesh?
 
Actually no. ORBX Global base are replacement ground textures, not mesh.

Landclass (LC) is not textures, it is definition of what texture to use in a specific area to represent a town, forest, fields etc. ORBX goes even further by defining LC polygons in areas to define exactly the shapes of towns, villages, parks etc.

The ORBX LC packages will probably not work well with default ground textures as they are designed to use the ORBX Global ones. The results may be weird.

For replacement mesh you can not go wrong with the freeware FreeMeshX here:

http://ninetwopro.com/
 
Dimus said:
Actually no. ORBX Global base are replacement ground textures, not mesh.

Landclass (LC) is not textures, it is definition of what texture to use in a specific area to represent a town, forest, fields etc. ORBX goes even further by defining LC polygons in areas to define exactly the shapes of towns, villages, parks etc.

The ORBX LC packages will probably not work well with default ground textures as they are designed to use the ORBX Global ones. The results may be weird.

For replacement mesh you can not go wrong with the freeware FreeMeshX here:

http://ninetwopro.com/
Click to expand...

I see. This ten dollar deal for FSX can wind up costing a few bucks. There's no doubt that ORBX scenery is beautiful.

awstub said:
There is some pretty decent freeware scenery available.... such as Blue Sky Scenery http://www.blueskyscenery.com/

Also, this site is good for finding freeware scenery: http://www.freewarescenery.com/fsx.html
Click to expand...

I will check those out, thanks for the links. I may start out with freeware at first and see how that goes.
 
This ten dollar deal for FSX can wind up costing a few bucks.
Click to expand...
If you mean that FSX is ten bucks, that's a good deal! I paid five for FSX:SE when it first came out, back in 2014, and the most I've paid for add-ons to date is $35.00 for a new joystick. I'm a cheap *** :D FSX can cost you as much, or as little, as you like. Freeware is abundant for it. It's all I use...
Pat☺
 
PhantomTweak said:
If you mean that FSX is ten bucks, that's a good deal! I paid five for FSX:SE when it first came out, back in 2014, and the most I've paid for add-ons to date is $35.00 for a new joystick. I'm a cheap *** :D FSX can cost you as much, or as little, as you like. Freeware is abundant for it. It's all I use...
Pat☺
Click to expand...

I play other sims so I have a Thrustmaster HOTAS X which is fine, so I'm OK there. The ORBX stuff looks incredible, they have an LC package for the area where I live that looks great, but I have limits on how much I spend on computer games.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top