US Cities X - New Orleans

[mathijs (aerosoft)]

Abbreviation's of swear words are a waste of time to me, as I read yours as 'what the f**k'. If you'd rather not post the word, why abbreviate when you know people will read it as you actually intended? I just tried to write it, but of course the forum quite rightly moderated my post, as it's an inappropriate word.

Yes, I've had a stressful day today!

I've just deleted the informative part of my reply, as it seems Mathijs beat me to it above. I spent too long whining...I need to go find another beer.

I win! yeah...

 

[Nick C]

Maybe, but I now have a cold beer and feel much better. :ernae:

It's not sitting well with the chocolate coated nuts and raisins however!

 

[jimjones]

I have both Indy and SF and am happy with both even though both show fuzzy textures, sometimes strecthed. Some buildings have better textures than others, usually the larger buildings are better done both in model and textures. The textures are not going to look great up close, but are more than sufficient at an altitude of 3000 ft or so.

It is beyond me how the designers are able to provide such a detailed product at all, much less for the low price. I look forward to more US cities to collect, though New Orleans may not be one of them.

If the bridge shadows are self created it could be a result that the bridge beams seem to be a part of the model, not created with textures as they usually are. Maybe the beam shadows are only in the texture of the bridge roadway. Anyway it is a nice effect, and rather unique.

 

[ryanbatc]

Really? Seriously? The 2nd shot textures look bad. Period. I hope they do something about that. Everything else looks nice (as I wrote in my initial post). What is with people getting all upset over a negative comment? Goodness....

 

[Nick C]

I think the smaller buildings use the same aerial source Google uses, hence the stretched textures. It's really only noticeable when you fly as low as I was when I took the pictures. I guess it's as Mathijs said, if you want high detail, with this coverage, it's going to be at the sacrifice of price and performance. It's certainly not going to be everybody's cup of tea.

 

[ryanbatc]

Thank you for the reply. Your shots are amazing as usual, I was just pointing out the ugliness (sp?) of those smaller houses, not a show stopper for someone looking at buying this sort of thing. The rest of MSY looks very well done. I cannot imagine how they could make all those buildings....that's nuts.

 

[Nick C]

Hi Ryan, as I said in my post, I think there's no need to post in the manor you did unless you don't understand the abbreviation you used? But of course that's just my opinion and I seem to be in the minority these days. And I did state that I'd had a stressful day, mainly dealing with rude people. But, I've had a couple of beers and my blood pressure has dropped considerably.

 

[ryanbatc]

Hi Ryan, as I said in my post, I think there's no need to post in the manor you did unless you don't understand the abbreviation you used? But of course that's just my opinion and I seem to be in the minority these days. And I did state that I'd had a stressful day, mainly dealing with rude people. But, I've had a couple of beers and my blood pressure has dropped considerably.

Fair

 

[Nick C]

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A few more pictures. I think it was asked about the bridge shadows earlier, they are actually photo textures on the road.

 

[ryanbatc]

How is that Eurocopter on fps?

 

[Nick C]

It's not something I've thought about when using it, so without booting it up again to check, I presume very good. Next time I load it up I'll let you know.