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Well its out, who's first?

What about seasons and night textures? I don't like tileproxy, or small areas of phototextures. There is always something wrong with those.
 
It would really be nice if someone posted screenshots of this scenery... I can't find pics on any of the major FS forums. :mixedsmi:
 
I would like to see a few shots in low flying areas and what kind of FPS hit ya gonna take. Wouldn't mind buying one for VA. when it comes out but need mo info.
 
The shots of Florida on their site show textures almost identical to those in Google Earth, with some very weird colours.
 
I'm a little bit disappointed, because i had hoped that they have a smart tool for autogen/seasonal textures and night lighting.
For me it's only interesting for islands and special landscapes where the lack of seasons doesn't matter.
Does someone have screenshots of the Florida Keys?
 
The problem with MegaScenery is when you flying down on the deck it looks like crap and no change of seasons, no ground textures-just a blur or blob of color. I wanna see snow in Winter but only on my computer. I will wait and reserve judgement. Like the thread says...it's out whose first...and please post pics near the ground not 5000-10,000 feet up. Even stock FSX and FS9(leopard spots) look halfway decent up there.
Ted
 
Given the load times of former MegaScenery products I did try, I will pass. They have never lived up to expectations IMHO.

Caz
 
Well I bought a tile in Daytona Fla. Here's some screenies of it which megascenery site couldn't seem to post. The first two are photo "real" shots: The third is a regular FSX autgen shot. More to come.
 
I'd have to say that I'm not a "photo real" fan. In fact I DISLIKE photoreal because to me it just doesn't look real. My over all impression; I won't be buying anymore megascenery tiles. They didn't seem to change the frame rate becuae it messes with your scenery sliders. I had to go back and re-adjust everything to get it back to what my original settings were. Load times didn't change compared with regular scenery. I know it took for ever for FS9 megascenery to load, no so with FSX. Those the nicest thing I could say. Sorry to those who I know put a lot of work into this. I agree with Txnetcop, It's just not for me.


These are regular FSX screenies:
 
I use Tileproxy for my photoscenery whilst flying online. For offline flying I've created photoscenery using the freeware Maps2bgl utility. As stated by others, photoscenery looks great when flying toooooobliners...but crap for vfr flying in helo's or GA aircraft (for that I use FTX scenery).

My 2c
:)
 
What kind of resolution are we talking about here? Same ultra high res textures and terrain mesh as MegaScenery Hawaii for FSX or lower? Are they even bothering with creating a really really good autogen setup and landmark details for VFR flights?
 
They stated 1m/pixel display in FSX, though they said some of the source data is only 2m. From the images I have seen the source data is nowhere near Megascenery Hawaii quality, even best case, while some of it was just horrid. There's a thread at Avsim with a bunch of images where you can see for your self.
 
hey Mud, having flown at Embry-Riddle, I have to say that the megascenery does look a lot more like the KDAB I scooted around, and definitely has more of that Florida look to it over default. I stress "look". Thats definitely Daytona, and I recognize all those surrounding areas. I seem to remember KDAB having maybe just a handful more than the 4 trees shown though haha. I also seem to recall the buildings being a little more 3D. That racetrack is hard to miss. I guess it depends on how you fly, if you just wanna cruise overhead and pick out that dump of an apartment I spent some time in, megascenery would be great. But if i wanted to recreate my first solo and have the crap scared out of me as I got blasted by a 30mph gust,knocking me into a 45 degree bank as i passed the fence, it'd be much easier to slip past that treetop back onto centerline if the tree was actually there, ala default.
 
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