My question is has anybody succeeded in applying this approach and if so would you shed light on how you achieved it.

I am only able to use Google and Bing as providers for UK ortho source, Arc, Here and USA2 no longer seem to work?

Would any of you have any other suggestions please?

Thanks

Phil

Thx!

As of this morning Paul has re-opened the Horizon web site to enable direct purchase of any and all volumes that you may be missing from your set.

The address is: https://www.horizonsimulation.com/shop/

The shop will be open for a limited time only and delivery will be via USB stick, either purchased with software or at reduced cost if you supply your own.

Tony

I am working on a photo scenery for Africa for 2.5 years now.
Sounds megalomaniac? It is.
In the meantime, the project is already well progressed, and many people told me to do some advertising for it.

First of all the little story behind the project:
After I bought the FSL bus, I noticed how bad the performance of the FSL bus was together with ORBX Germany.
So I was searching for a solution, and I found it in Photosceneries.
Since I didn't want to fly without autogen, I used my experience from my geography studies and programmed Python scripts based on arcpy.
These are able to generate high-precision autogen for the sim based on OSM and Corine data sets, as well as water data, elevation data, population data, etc. and with the help of ScenProc.
After Germany was finished, I created Belgium.
Although the data for these countries was very good, I started writing Python scripts in parallel, which can also create autogen based on Landsat and Sentinel data, in regions where OSM data is hardly available - like Africa.
And so, since Africa is a dark spot in the sim, I started to create african countries about 1 year ago.
It took again more than 6 months, until my scripts - and the results - were good enough to post the first pictures.

And yes, what can I say, the feedback was excellent!
And while I'm still improving my scripts piece by piece, I've been releasing a country every now and then since half a year.
At the moment approx. 30 % Africas are covered.

Here's a small list of the features I've put a lot of effort on:
- Good photo scenery with 2 m/px without strong visible color transitions and without many clouds
- Accurate Water- (based on OSM) and Blendmasks
- Color adjustments so that desert areas are not overexposed
- Accurate autogen vegetation (based on vegetation classifications and land cover data), spatial resolution less than 10 m
- Accurate autogen buildings (method introduced with Senegal), placement based on OSM and high resolution land cover data
- Small file size (I expect to get whole Africa in less than 700 GB)
- No performance impacts

But I think I've written enough for now, so some pictures:

More Information about my project you can find here:

Project Africa - FSDeveloper.com

and here:

Project Africa - FSXforum.de

Have a nice wekend everybody and kind regards!
Matthias

Thanks 

But it seems that my local KSBM is now not aligned with the ortho scenery nor are other default fields...I need to extend my default airport’s runway etc. probably in ADE?

In the meantime, don’t the default P3Dv4 airports have default grass textures within the airport boundary to disguise the fact they don’t match with the orthos?

Does Megascenery Earth or Nuvecta autogen make the landclass/default grass texture disappear?

On a related note, I can use ADE..what is the best way to align the default airports exactly with their orthoscenery base?

Thanks,

Steve

Hello,

Is UK 18 still regarded as the best source for UK Ortho, or has anyone found something better, prefferably ZL19 or 20 please?

Best

Phil

I've seen many times on this and other forums that I should un-tick the areas of photo-scenery that I'm not using, as all scenery is loaded and I can improve loading times if I'm only using scenery in the area around which I'm flying.

Well, I've just tried a little experiment, loading a flight within the UK, but with all my Megascenery for the US (16 states) enabled and then dis-abled.

Guess what? Exactly the same loading time (120secs) for each condition!

So, have I been mis-led all these years, or was it not a valid test?

I have a strange problem after installing Megascenery Earth V3. What happens is that stock FSX airfield buildings repeatedly disappear then re-appear as I get closer to the airfield on a final approach. It seems to be "height" sensitive - so it does not happen if I overfly an uncontrolled airfield at 2,000 ft AGL to check the windsock before going into the pattern for landing. But it will always then happen when descending on final approach as I get closer to the ground. The buildings will even do this when I am merely taxiing around at the airfield. It can also be easily reproduced by going into spot view on the ground at the airfield and raising the camera perspective a little above aircraft height. At a certain height, the buildings completely disappear and then re-appear when I lower the elevation perspective once again. This problem occurs with all aircraft - stock or otherwise - and having tried dozens of different settings, nothing whatsoever changes this behaviour (including terrain mesh complexity as I thought it might have something to do with elevation relative to the ground). It obviously does not occur with the stock FSX terrain - it only happens when I am using the photoscenery.

I also tried it with and without the photo alignment "fix" files and it makes no difference. It seems that as soon as the photoscenery is there, this happens regardless. My guess is that it probably would not happen if I were to install a third party airfield "over" the photoscenery, but I am not using any third party airfields in any of the scenery areas I bought.

Any ideas at all please? 😊

Thanks

I'm wondering if anyone has this scenery along with Nuvecta Landscapes FL and what are their thoughts. I bought and installed both this morning, but so far I'm unimpressed with what I'm seeing.

The photo scenery is not as sharp as the freeware photo scenery packages that I've downloaded. Plus, Nuvecta AG trees & houses are only scattered and not widespread like on my other freeware packages.

Thanks!

Jose

How much extra Oomph of CPU is required to run some of the photo real packages I have seen floating around?  Fly Away Simulations has a few of, mostly, the Western U.S. and while they run in the several dozen GBs of file sizes, how much of a drain is that going to be on 'somewhere near the top' of gaming hardware that I have currently?  My rig is certainly not bleeding edge technology, but its not a slouch, either, and I am getting (with tweaks to NVI) a solid 30 fps except at busy airports where things dip into the low 20s and sometimes a high teens.  I have frame rates locked at 1/2 in NVI, currently, and few other bells and whistles enabled.  That is the first question...

Now, second question.  I had ORBX global installed, but recently uninstalled it thinking it drained too many resources (until I found out where other culprits lurked, and have worked them out), and now I am re-thinking of re-installing ORBX, but I hesitate as I am feeling a little gun shy.  I really like the imagery, but cringe at the thought of it being an imagined resource hog.  It really may not be, but I would like some opinions if my doubts are unfounded and paranoid.

What I have is this: Intel Core I7-8700 @ 3.2 GHz  16GB RAM  GeForce GTX 1060 3GB  Windows 10 64-bit  1TB SSD  (in a nutshell)

It is the AZ_North3West10_FSX.zip file.

When I try to download, it goes to a page where it says it is generating a KEY and then counts down. It never gives me the actual file to save...

Anyone have this file?

Cheers.

 I create and modify sceneries and airports in FSX for personal use based on real satellite imagery and other sources such as FSET, ADE, Photoshop, Sketchup, and sometimes gmax. I recently started using Free Mesh X as well.

Recently I discovered Norfolk Island airport (YSNF), which the main problem I'm having is that the airport elevation is 371ft. Default version is 0ft. I changed it in ADE, added a ground polygon to flatten the area I wanted up to 371ft as well but then the whole airport is at 371ft, except the photoreal surrounding area which I dont have control of. 

Another airport I worked with applied the photoreal on top of the mesh nicely so I don't know what or where Im going wrong.

I tried turning off the mesh only, then with the photoreal, then just the photoreal, etc and all sort of combinations but none seem to be working.

Any help is much appreciated. Thank you!!!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ruoeh7nidixtfus/Microsoft Flight Simulator X 12_13_2019 3_10_32 PM.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fikqhqmishijomu/Microsoft Flight Simulator X 12_11_2019 11_36_56 AM.png?dl=0

I assume a product like Orbx UK can solve this easily with its updated vector data, but since I dont fly in mainland UK at all and I dont need the landclass, updated airports etc that the product provide I figure I am better off with any freeware alternative that basically just fixes the Channel Islands coastlines. So my question is, does anyone know where to find this…. or if nothing else if its possible to corrrect/improve coastlines myself somehow?

Thanks
Mikael Cedergren

The first glance leaves a good impression. The detail is awesome!

+ Autogen Nuvecta

I've been hunting around for patches for the Horizon Gen-X Photosceneries (Vol 1-8) but can only find references to them on Tony Meredith's arm-computers.co.uk website, which appears to no longer be active.

Could anyone point me in the direction of where I can find/download the patches from?

Many thanks

Phil