John Venema Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Hello all, Here's a batch of screenshots from the development team's PCs, nothing fancy at all but it provides a hint at the diversity of textures to be found as you traverse the USA from midwest to the east coast. See if you can spot the new tech in this build including grass skirting clearly defined around motorways and junctions, city parks with proper boundaries, urban areas as per their real-world counterparts, mixture of arid and fertile lands and much more. Don't ask me for locations, these were taken from a test flight made last week. We will be showing location-specific screenshots based on your requests fairly soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregmorin Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 John, Very impressive! thanks, Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Hickerson Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Wow! Vector is finally integrated into the scenery. Nice! Larry aka Pappy @ EagleValleyAir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustin Winther Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Loooooking goood! Amazing job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awreaper Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 You guys are getting pretty darn close. Orbx and a real life pic I took while flying this last weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonchie Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 The way towns actually blend now looks great, as opposed to the normal gray splatter. Having lived in DC, your vector data shown in that shot of the Potomac is incredibly accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.a Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Will this new tech improve other orbx´s sceneries? I really liked the improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 It's no different that what you already get in our full-fat regions when a lot of polyLC and vector elements already work together for better boundaries and city definitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molleh Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 That looks incredible. Thank you for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaronKen Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Thanks for sharing... glad you've added the overlays/skirting around the freeways; really adds to the immersion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick66 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 John i have noticed a very distinctive green edge around most of the small rural dams and streams , it`s impressive and makes the landscape appear fuller, is this because of the increased detail of your sourced data. Thank you i`m looking forward to the release. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.a Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 42 minutes ago, John Venema said: It's no different that what you already get in our full-fat regions when a lot of polyLC and vector elements already work together for better boundaries and city definitions. There are skirtings around the lakes, rivers etc, around roads too. Something is different from the other sceneries. I really hope you improve the other sceneries with these new textures (?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsvette12 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Looks great - I would assume regions would still use their LC and this global LC would be not used in those areas ? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bermuda425 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Positively terrific! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopperle Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Looks very impressive. For future screenshots a comparison between FSX/P3D default and openLC USA woud be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KORDATC Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 The only two things I noticed, are that Roosevelt Island in your picture of Washington, DC is covered with buildings. In real life, there's not a building on the island as it is a wildlife sanctuary/park and completely covered with trees. Also, the area around the western end of the mall, particularly around the reflecting pool, should all be park, not buildings. Other than that, the scenery looks very impressive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigtall10 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 This all looks SWEET and I'm buying soon as it is released! But question, seeing as how Vector data seems embedded in this version of OpenLC, would we still need to run Orbx Vector with OpenLC USA? or is vector now irrelevant?? Also, off topic here, but why do Orbx products not included uninstallers? I have plenty of Orbx and uninstall always has to be a process of messing with files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turboarrow4 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Thanks for sharing John, looks realliy impressive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabnz Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Beautiful thank you John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtwillia Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 4 hours ago, KORDATC said: The only two things I noticed, are that Roosevelt Island in your picture of Washington, DC is covered with buildings. In real life, there's not a building on the island as it is a wildlife sanctuary/park and completely covered with trees. Also, the area around the western end of the mall, particularly around the reflecting pool, should all be park, not buildings. Other than that, the scenery looks very impressive! I concur with this observation. I hope the team have time to revisit this area before release. I just checked my current FSX installation and these areas a correctly depicted using UTX USA product. I appreciate the hard work to bring this product to market and am looking forward to its release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 I just flew over the country from East to West; At Sedona now. I'm definitely looking forward to this release. Thank you for the previews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KORDATC Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 43 minutes ago, jtwillia said: I concur with this observation. I hope the team have time to revisit this area before release. I just checked my current FSX installation and these areas a correctly depicted using UTX USA product. I appreciate the hard work to bring this product to market and am looking forward to its release. Also, just noticed, but the national lawn (mall) should extend up to the back of the white house as well. This whole green area known as the national mall is actually a national park. It has more than double the visitors of Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks combined making it the most visited national park in the world. For a product that is supposed to include accurate vector data for city parks and stuff, this of all parks should be accurate, as you fly right over it for the world-famous "river visual" into RWY 19 at DCA. Looking forward to the release as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molleh Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 I wouldn't worry too much guys, the product is *just now* entering beta testing where I'm sure it will be put through the wringer, especially in these most popular of areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertPilot Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 I'm sure there'll be periodic service packs for the openLC regions over time. Just like Vector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Pilot Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 John, You remind me of a proud father showing off pictures of his latest and with good reason too, they are beautiful. Congratulations on assembling the finest team of scenery designers/artist in the world and thank you for sharing their work with us at such a reasonable price Dale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olderndirt Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Very landCLASSY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_A Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 On 4/19/2016 at 9:29 AM, bonchie said: The way towns actually blend now looks great, as opposed to the normal gray splatter. Having lived in DC, your vector data shown in that shot of the Potomac is incredibly accurate. Agree completely - DC looks stunning. Actually they all do... but DC I can vouch for. Somebody's gotta raze the buildings on Theodore Roosevelt Island, though... it's a nature preserve. Microscopically minor point, though - this is a breakthrough for us Easterners. Can't wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Vega Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 On 4/19/2016 at 2:42 PM, KORDATC said: The only two things I noticed, are that Roosevelt Island in your picture of Washington, DC is covered with buildings. In real life, there's not a building on the island as it is a wildlife sanctuary/park and completely covered with trees. Also, the area around the western end of the mall, particularly around the reflecting pool, should all be park, not buildings. Other than that, the scenery looks very impressive! Also concur. The land around the Pentagon should be parking, not housing. Great looking scenery. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KORDATC Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 The 2nd to last picture is particularly realistic to me. Looks like it's taken over the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Alsip, IL (A SW suburb of Chicago) facing east towards Gary, IN. If you compare with Google Earth, you can get an idea of just how accurate this is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avance Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 Superb, I'm looking forward to the month of June ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottb613 Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 Hi Folks, Pix look great... So I know what a land-class is - but - how would this package behave with Global FTX ? Obviously there the new textures in this package as well - do they just overwrite the global textures ? I also have UTX2 - will it play nicely with that package as well ? Thanks... Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malafor Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Yum Yum Credit card ready Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walterg74 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 John, looking good! Quick question was there a thread with the timeline of current products in the queue somewhere? really looking forward to this, but also wondering about the new vector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 Closest thing to a timeline was my pinned topic here: Vector is due for a service pack with many bug fixes very soon, still being worked on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexczarn Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 There's a real richness in these textures; outstanding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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