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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Orbx Releases NZ South Island (payware)

J

JayKae

Charter Member
Kia ora Te Wai Pounamu!

At long last, 151,215 square km of the epicly scenic New Zealand South Island in full FTX glory! Embrace the majesty of the Southern Alps and the mighty Aoraki (Mount Cook: 12,316ft), the Cantebury Plains to the east and the Fox and Franz Josef glaciers on the west coast. There is an endless list of wonderful scenery to aborb; Fiordland, Marlborough region, Banks Peninsula, Milford Sound, over 3,820 lakes and much more. All major and minor airports have been given a complete upgrade and the region features brand new custom ground textures, native NZ tree models, precise autogen annotation and a spectacular 10m mesh. Like all Orbx FTX regions we include accurate roads, rivers, lakes, railways, bridges, vertical obstructions, shores, mudflats, glaciers and coastlines. This is truly one of the most anticipated Orbx releases ever!
  • Over 151,000 sq km of FTX scenery!
  • Brand new beautiful ground textures
  • New trees made from local photographs
  • Roads, rivers, coastlines, lakes, rail
  • All major and many minor airports upgraded
  • Custom NZ airport objects and markings
  • Photoreal mountain peaks and glaciers
  • A huge number of polygon landclass areas
  • Hand-crafted landclass for the entire region
  • Seamlessly joins FTX Australia for tran-Tasman flights
  • Hand placed super-accurate autogen
More info to be found at : http://www.fullterrain.com/product_nzsi.html
 
Wow... 5 gigs of pure awsomeness. :applause:
I just had a few small hops and now this dweller of the northern Alps has totally fallen in love with the southern Alps.
How can you live there and not have a PPL?
 
Rimshot said:
Lack of money?
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Sell three sheep and you're good to go. :icon_lol:
Did I mention that I love stereotypes?

On topic... JV mentioned in a thread somewhere that Queenstown NZQN will get a special attention in the future... good choice.
 
YoYo said:
Do You know? Scenery is compatybile with landclass (the rest of Country) of New Zeland from vectorlandlass: http://www.vectorlandclass.co.nz/ .
Both scenery works well in too same time?
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The ORBX NZSI package is complete with its own handcrafted vector elements and landclass, designed to match its textures.

There is no need to combine it with VLC

The advantage of combining the Mesh, Textures and autogen together in the one package with upgraded airports is that all the elements work together.
 
hcornea said:
The ORBX NZSI package is complete with its own handcrafted vector elements and landclass, designed to match its textures.

There is no need to combine it with VLC

The advantage of combining the Mesh, Textures and autogen together in the one package with upgraded airports is that all the elements work together.
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This is swell and good for you Orbx but, for those of us with VLC and still wanting to fly in the North Island, what problems will arise using both NZSI and VLC simultaneously? E.G. A flight from Nelson (NZSI) to New Plymouth (VLC).
 
olderndirt said:
This is swell and good for you Orbx but, for those of us with VLC and still wanting to fly in the North Island, what problems will arise using both NZSI and VLC simultaneously? E.G. A flight from Nelson (NZSI) to New Plymouth (VLC).
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I have both now and will give it a try once I have NZSI installed.
 
Hi guys,

This is swell and good for you Orbx but, for those of us with VLC and still wanting to fly in the North Island, what problems will arise using both NZSI and VLC simultaneously? E.G. A flight from Nelson (NZSI) to New Plymouth (VLC).
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Both VLZ and ORBX NZSI replace some default autogen files with their own custom versions. Since only one global set can be active at any point in time there will be incompatibilities when both add-ons are active at the same time. Hopefully, though, the visible differences will be fairly minor (these are texture files only so we're not talking about crashes or other nasty issues). As mentioned in the NZSI manual we'll be posting information and, if possible, work-arounds or patches for VLC and other existing NZ add-ons in our compatibility forum.

Cheers, Holger
 
On first glance I didn't see any problems. Real NZ photo sceneries also seem to integrate quite nicely (only some mesh steps here and there).
 
I have it - I wonder what the LOD setting is in the photos on the product page?

Out of interest only - I am finding I can now have higher LOD settings now (due to item 4 on my complete links setup guide which is stickied under FSX Tweaks on this forum)
 
This is really really good!

I'm lucky enough to live in the Pacific Northwest and to have flown in and out of quite a few FTX airports in this area, like Orcas, Skagit, Anacortes, and Concrete. It's always been special to see how close they are to the real thing.

I'm also lucky enough to have visited New Zealand, for about 3 weeks, ten years ago. Getting to see it again is just so cool, and so very different from flying FTX in my local area. It's getting to go back there again and remembering what an amazing place it is. All those places we saw years ago are now back for me. I like it. :salute:

cheers,
steve :wavey:
 
Thanks JayKae, I'm getting full speed now, problem is my internet connection likes to drop and Free Download Manager isn't preventing that from corrupting the file lol.. Oh well It'll get done! Gonna be a good day :)
 
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