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For me addons linker is a very good way of managing add-ons. I fly as near to real as I can, no random spawning at airports, I fly to them and my next flight will be from where I landed on the previous flight. Right now my planes are in Australia, at YBSU, I flew to Australia from the UK over a three week period. I have all my airports in folders by country so everything is disabled apart from Australia and New Zealand whilst I am flying in that region of the world. This way of managing add-on scenery speeds up the boot time, makes crashing or clashes far less likely and makes disabling all the add-ons far easier if one scenery causes an issue and I have to find out which of my hundreds of add-ons is causing a problem. I have 277GB of add-on scenery, having all that in a single community folder is just chaotic.

The autogen buildings are better in the top image but the vegetation colours are too dark, more like winter colours than summer. Roads have a green tinge too as do hay fields. And those shadows are baked into the image, there were no clouds to cast them so they should not be there. If you prefer that well that's your subjective opinion but I don't share it and the point I was making about which are clearer stands. The bottom image, regardless of your opinion on colours looks sharper than the top image. The trees are more accurately sized too.

OK so here are shots from each sim at a similar altitude in the same spot. One is noticeably better in my opinion. Identical weather in each by the way and same time of day. There are no clouds in the sky to cast any shadows you see on the first image by the way, that's just what it looks like in the sim. Now you tell me, which of these two looks better?

Well, I think many think Bing textures including me are not as good as textures from the competition. Here is a screen shot of both in the same area at the same altitude and in my opinion, one has the edge over the other. Add to that the colour issues in MSFS textures (yellow-ish roads) and I think it's fairly clear that TE is the better of the two.

I fail to see what's funny about my question. Care to elaborate Seanmo?

Thats good to hear. I noticed some areas in London looking blue, as if they were not loading properly in XP12. But I have to say the textures looked really crisp none the less, much nicer than what I see streamed in MSFS which I also use. Will you also be looking at tree improvements in TEUK so we can take advantage of the new 3D moving trees the sim has?

Thanks Nick but that doesnt work either. I cannot create more than one library using that method. Yes it creates a library in a folder with existing content but it won't create a second library in that same folder so I still cannot have sceneries in folders by country which is what I want to do.

No it doesnt unfortunately (as far as I can tell) because the create library dialogue complains if I try to create a new library in a folder in which other folders already exist, throwing a "The library location isnt empty" Warning. So I cannot have a folder called FLIGHT SIMULATOR Add-Ons Folders for instance and create various libraries within that folder, it just wont allow it.

Using the add-ons linker due to the sheer volume of add-ons I now have is highlighting short comings in the Orbx installer. Having the option to install scenery in either a single library or the community folder is no longer very user friendly in my opinion. I think we need the option to install each individual scenery title in a folder of our choice so that the installer is aware of where each scenery is located for auto update to function properly. As it is I am having to manually update to a library then shift the scenery afterwards to the proper place because I have so many airport and mods sceneries it has become necessary to group them by country. I know the linker gives us the ability to keep everything in one folder and use pre-sets but that's just as messy. So can Orbx please consider giving us this added flexibility?

No luck re-installing the UK update. Attached shows the sort of thing I see, massive areas with no buildings and flickering where Photogammetry buildings should be appearing.

I think I will try deleting the UK update in Content Manager then downloading it to see if that helps.

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I am seeing bare areas in London too with the London pack installed and properly configured for the World Update for UK. There are no updates available in the sims marketplace so there does appear to still be an issue with the London pack not behaving properly.

This looks excellent!

The London Landmarks City pack is really good news. London really needs this sort of addon to improve the out of the box experience. The airports will be great too.