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New Zealand - Vector Land Class

CodyValkyrie

CodyValkyrie

Charter Member 2016
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YouTube Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQxpOo8LSJ4

High Resolution Download:
http://www.jaggyroadfilms.com/movies/commercial/flightsimulator/vectorlandclass.zip

http://www.vectorlandclass.co.nz
http://www.jaggyroadfilms.com

Want the most realistic depiction of the country of New Zealand within Microsoft Flight Simulator X?

Introducing Vector Land Class, a high fidelity landclass scenery package developed using innovative geo-spatial processing techniques to deliver breathtaking representations of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

-Cody Bergland
Owner, Jaggyroad Films
 
Great video, got me to their website and I'm very tempted. How would you compare it to ORBX, it looks similar quality?
 
They are differnet way of doing a landclass. VLC uses Vector data to place every thing. Every tree crop, snow line, tree line, shelter belt, tramping hut, cell phone tower, Marae, Bouy, Wing turbine, road, river, shoreline, airfeild and Town is where it should be and can be used the same way they are used in real life to approach an airport or Navigate NZ. Orbx is done the other way by using tiles but still use Vector Data for rivers, roads, towns and shorelines. Also Ian Warren and I are working on a project to make as many towns as possible Photoreal so the streets and houses of the towns are perfect. And also Robin Corn and Tim Barnes (the two devs) are working on Airfeilds around NZ and doing them up with Photoreal buildings and background. Plus, who can do Aotearoa better than Kiwis;)
 
This will be an excellent companion scenery to FTX AU. One thing however; is it possible to make the snow lines on hills more natural ? Looking at the video, they seem too perfect and continuous. Shouldn't the edges of snowfields be a little more patchy and irregular ?
 
Sounds really good and the price isn't too bad either. I think this will be added to my scenery collection once I complete my trip around FTX AU, the scenery looks superb.
 
kcgb said:
nope, They are pretty strait just depends on your point of view and shape of the mountain.

see
http://image30.webshots.com/31/2/11/36/2912211360061294480FJokDM_fs.jpg
and in these shots they arn't striat
http://www.vectorlandclass.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=65
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Unfortunately, I don't have permission to view the first shot. The screenshots in the second link look much more convincing.

Having looked at the video again, its under the Catalina at 2.53 and looking out the side window at 3.06 - the delineation between snow and greenery looks a little too precise and unnatural. For the rest of the video, however, it does look spot on.

Nice to see the Antipodes getting worked over. As my Airhauler operation is based in New Guinea, I recently got all of FTX Australia, and this is New Zealand scenery is an obvious next step. Looking forward to seeing more.
 
Paul K said:
Having looked at the video again, its under the Catalina at 2.53 and looking out the side window at 3.06 - the delineation between snow and greenery looks a little too precise and unnatural.
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It could be unnartural in real life, the trees could have been cut back by farmers/loggers. With sheep grazeing during the non-snow months on the mountains preventing new trees growing, thus creating solid edges to the woods, a bit like over here in wales and scotland :wavey:
 
Paul K said:
Having looked at the video again, its under the Catalina at 2.53 and looking out the side window at 3.06 - the delineation between snow and greenery looks a little too precise and unnatural. For the rest of the video, however, it does look spot on.

Nice to see the Antipodes getting worked over. As my Airhauler operation is based in New Guinea, I recently got all of FTX Australia, and this is New Zealand scenery is an obvious next step. Looking forward to seeing more.
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I guess it's a case of either having those small areas of trees or not having them (due to the limitations of traditional landclass- small areas are simply too small to be included in a raster based landclass file)- New Zealand is very much like that- Lots of little vallies with native bush only in the middle (i.e. 300m wide) or small plantation pine lots on farmland etc.....so it is representative of what is there


For the vast majority of cases, it looks really good because of all that detail (i.e. very close to photoreal)- Very rarely, it looks a little unnatural (only really when between 1000-5000 feet and at high viewing angles and with certain vegetation types in certain seasons)- Once you try VectorLandClass though I think you'll find it hard to go back to traditional landclass with it's inaccurate boundaries which look very 'smooshed together' at anything under 5000 feet :)
 
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