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FTX: Global openLC Europe out

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):

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With "Vector Land Use Europe":

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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:

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

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Ok my screenshots are awful, but give it a try, at this price you can't go wrong...
 
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.
 
Welcome to the world of large area land use data and limited vertex point storage capabilities. (And unsuited textures, but shhhhhhhhh!) :)
 
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