FTX: Global openLC Europe out

[vonstroheim]

Check out also this free alternative to FTX OpenLC Europe, it's called "Vector Land Use Europe" by Sami Toronen (library.avsim.net)

Default FSX with FTX Global textures, over Belp LSZB (Switzerland):

With "Vector Land Use Europe":

Not perfect, but quite cheap... And a free Alps mesh helps too!

Over Courchevel, default FSX with FTX Global textures, no mesh, no landclass, no vector, no scenery:

Same place with "Vector Land Use Europe", Alain Ragot's "Mesh Alpes 19m LOD11-V2" and Courchevel "altiport" scenery (vf-air.com/FSX2.htm)

Ok my screenshots are awful, but give it a try, at this price you can't go wrong...

 

[Bjoern]

Beware: It's an 800 megabyte download in two parts!

It is pure landclass made from freely available, official CORINE landuse data. I don't know how well it compares to the one included in UTX or the OSM stuff in openLC.

 

[Firekitten]

It looks a little... jagged? Global with vector and open LC looks a bit more blended and soft...

 

[Bjoern]

Welcome to the world of large area land use data and limited vertex point storage capabilities. (And unsuited textures, but shhhhhhhhh!)