Anyone using Photovg landclass?

Thanks Obio. Mine turned 8 a few months ago and although I've done some upgrades, I'm still running the original Athlon XP cpu. I know exactly what you mean about watching framerates.
 
Ok, just installed the Photovg, the two fix and the cliffs textures. Going to be flying online here in short while and I'll let yall know here in a few hours.
 
No one showed up for the online flight, so I did a quick spin around the home airfield.

Didn't notice any hit on frames although I've got a lot more trees showing around KTGC than there were before. And it seems to mix okay with Silver Wings.

Verdict: I like it.
 
Sometimes ground textures will look good down low but be pretty horrible up high. Silver Wings is like that. So, I did an altitude test by taking off from the home airport and just head east climbing to 20,000.

Looked pretty good to me from up there...
 
This only replaces some textures, and doesn't fully overlap GE Pro.
So when you start GE Pro and allow it to update according to weather/season, you get a new look each time!

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All I have in a fresh install of FS9 on a brand new computer is FS9 and the Photovg textures. The framerates are excellent.

I started to post some new pictures just a few days ago but forgot that my picture taker "snapper" had not been turned on.

I was so impressed with the Photovg textures in the new area I had ventured to. I kept pressing the camera button after I made my departure from Gebraltar, Spain in Bauton's Huey. I took off and headed straight south over some tall mountains. The purpose of the flight was to inspect the area or bottleneck of where the Meditaranian sea opens up into the Atlantic Ocean.

If you have Photovg installed I highly recomend that flight path. Start at Gibraltar, Spain, head straight south over the mountain until you hit the Mrditaranian, then fly west along the coast to go see the narrow connecting neck of the two oceans. To me the main attraction were the textures place primarily on the mountains. It looked as if it were very real. I know it is generic textures but they looked real enough for me as I am not familiar with the reality of that area. With those textures I could easily imagine Spanish farms with vineyards and well kept fields on the mountainside and valleys and carefully managed clearcut over forests.

I was amazed at the reality that the Photovg textures placed on that mountain range as well as the farms and roads on them. If you have time take the flight. I will fly it again and post some select pictures if anyone is interested. It was astoundingly beautiful.
 
OK, thanks for posting the image - those are my trains all right :salute:

Well if those are your textures and the same ones used in the Photovg texture pack Sascha66, they look very nice in FS9. They appear to have a depth to them that gives the impression that they sink into the forest, city, and countryside. A vast improvement over the default FS9 railway textures. Thanks for creating them.

I also see some occassional automobiles on hiways that appear to be single cars made very similar to the depictions of the train cars. Did you do the hiway textures too, they look realistic too at a glance? The hiway textures are lit up with car lights although a little over-busy at night, but they look darn good as far as impression art goes.
 
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