Jarrad Marshall Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 G'day All, Whilst John has been mercilessly teasing you all with early alpha shots, the team are very proud to officially present the first of our next generation of region products; TrueEarth Netherlands! This is a game-changing product for the team; for the first time we are combining the full suite of features from our FTX Region sceneries, with a completely photoreal terrain base, a feature previously limited to our airports. It is important to understand that Netherlands TrueEarth is far more than a traditional photoreal product; comprehensive (and complete) building and vegetation placements, thousands of hand-placed landmarks and POI, complete seasonal and night variations, integrated GIS components and hand-edited textures only scratch the surface of the complete feature list. Ground-breaking technology has gone into bringing you the most detailed and accurate terrain product ever seen in a flight sim to date; we are very excited at what this product represents. ORBX TrueEarth TrueEarth is the name that we will be giving to our new line of photoreal region products. An ORBX TrueEarth scenery will combine the best features found in existing Region products, with the added benefit of full photoreal terrain. Many of the components found in TrueEarth packages are a natural evolution from our existing lines; for example we are leveraging CityScene technology found in CityScene Gold Coast, expert GIS technology found in our latest Regions, advanced night lighting from ORBX Global Base and openLC, propitiatory autogen techniques previously seen at Innsbruck, Berlin (GEN) and Munich (GES), and many more. TrueEarth regions will also sit alongside landclass-based regions; both types of Regions will be continued to be developed into the future. As John has already mentioned in other discussions, several other TrueEarth titles are currently in production for locations in Europe and the United States. TrueEarth pricing will mirror our existing regions; Netherland will be released for AUD$54.95 (~USD$42 / £30 / €34 ) TrueEarth Netherlands As our first TrueEarth photoreal region, Eugene and the team have pulled out all the stops to bring the best product possible. Rather than describe all the details (there are just too many!), please find a partial feature list below: The entirety of Netherlands depicted in complete detail! 85,000km2 of photoreal terrain at 1m resolution (nb the same resolution as traditional landclass textures) Complete seasonal variation: 5 hand-coloured seasons! Full 3D night lighting and night ground textures 43 updated airports, including 18 not found in the default scenery. CityScene building technology for all major cities, towns, villages and urban areas. CityScene tech improves on traditional autogen by adding unusual footprints, higher detail (roof details etc) and better long-range visibility Incredibly dense autogen vegetation. Far superior to automated OSM technology, our agn is compiled from multiple data sets, and hand-edited to ensure maximum fidelity, accuracy and density. Beautifully edited terrain textures - colourised, edited, cleaned up. Blemishes such as cloud cover, water sun glare, seamlines, discolouration and some vehicle footprints have been removed. Colour palettes have been edited to match ORBX Global texture sets. Custom-painted rural variations, including tulip fields during spring Ultra HD mesh at 5m resolution. Netherlands may be flat, but incredible details such as tailings dumps, sand dunes and even highway overpass ramps are visible Accurate road, waterway, bridges, transmission line and other vector/GIS components. Road AI traffic also included to regular Region standards Beautiful custom building textures for all autogen buildings Hundreds of custom landmarks and POI Traditional Dutch windmills Major churches and cathederals custom modelled Custom models for all major TV and radio masts Many major bridges custom designed Custom ship models unique to Netherlands Thousands of hand-placed wind turbines, refineries, harbours and other library objects Hand-edited and colourised water textures, including complete watermasking Fully compatible with neighboring regions (GES, GEN), ORBX Global and OpenLC Europe Netherlands will launch for AUD$54.95 (~USD$42 / £30 / €34 ) The TrueEarth Netherlands Team As to be expected from such a huge project, many developers have been working tirelessly to get Netherlands prepared for you all. First and foremost, Netherlands TrueEarth is the brainchild of Eugene Krikunov, the lead developer of many other best-sellers such as Global Base and our Open Landclass series. Holger Sandmann has contributed his considerable GIS expertise to the scenery, in between his long list of other projects. Chris Clack and Neil Hill bring the airports of the Netherlands to life; as our regular "region airports" specialists, their work can be found at each landing zone around the country. Richard Bui, Frank Schnibben and Sylvain Delepierre are the "special detailing" team; the custom landmarks, ships, bridges, radio towers, windmills and thousands of other custom placements are their work. Frank has also designed the custom building autogen texture sets found exclusively within this region. Finally, Allen Kriesman has brought components of his CityScene technology over to the urban and city centres of Netherlands. Iain Emms and John Lovell have been hard at work capturing many facets of the Netherlands, please find a small taste of the screenshots below. As always, we don't give any release dates. The team are working extremely hard in the background; we look forward to sharing more info with you over the coming weeks. Most importantly for you guys, Emmsie and JL will be posting even more shots later in the week... but in the mean time, enjoy! Cheers, Jarrad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riverreveal Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 This is just jaw dropping. Fantastic work. The detail on those TV / radio masts, Churches / Cathedrals is stunning. Its all stunning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flo Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Speechless... Great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airborne Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 nice work! Xplane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisd6340 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Very Nice, Just out of Curiosity how does it look with FT Amstedam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantock Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 I also have the same question about Fly Tampa Amsterdam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimshot Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 I am stunned. Fantastic work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Er!k Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Cannot believe my eyes! It looks amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroendeB Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 You must me kidding me!! This is absolutely jaw dropping. Really hope this comes available to X-PLANE, P3D and Aerofly. I'll buy it 3 times!!! Jeroen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sawyer Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 I can't believe my lying eyes! I was ready to buy this right now till I read more. But it'll be a day one purchase, and Jarrad, I love the cool slider screens, well done and very creative idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimo Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Looks stunning. I hope the framerate can keep up with all this detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harald787 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Wauw, as soon as it is released I will buy this. It is a must have on my system. Great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonjo140547 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 STUNNING just STUNNING Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundancer Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 This is really my country, what else should I say !!! Fantastic. -Fred- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Graupeter Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 That looks soooo freaking stunning! Hype hype hype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 20 hours ago, JeroendeB said: You must me kidding me!! This is absolutely jaw dropping. Really hope this comes available to X-PLANE, P3D and Aerofly. I'll buy it 3 times!!! Jeroen Yes it's coming to all those sims. FSX/P3D first, then AFS2, then XP11. England TrueEarth will be first for XP11, then FSX/P3D, then AFS2. We will offer cross-platform discounts, but we have not yet determined the discount amount due to the high development costs to date. All will be revealed when the AFS2 version of Netherlands TrueEarth is released. We won't be offering discounts for customers who have bought the same region as FTX Landclass Regions previously. This is a new, very expensive tech and as such we are offering it very cheaply to the market but this prevents us from discounts for previous regions. We can offer discounts if you're prepared to pay more for it I can vouch for performance, it's very very good. And in VR on AFS2 it is remarkable - link to my vlog on this here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadtom65 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Hot dam. I need some bigger Hard drives. I think a couple 2 Tb ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabe777 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Lol. Can't wait to see the fps performance. Saving that for when I'm feeling really down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stian Rolandsen Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Looks absolutely stunning. You guys have raised the bar again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caleb1 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 This looks amazing. It will be great when this tech comes to PNW. If I read it correctly, it comes with CityScene for some of the cities! This is absoulutly incredible. Any chance for a True Earth for Norway? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewout van Linge Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 It looks beautiful Especially Rotterdam-The Hague airport and the Nieuwe Waterweg are looking very very good (I am living in Rotterdam) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianV Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Congratulations with this outstanding work. With seasons, day and night, I think we will all be eager to visit every corner of the Netherlands in the sim, and in real life. Great images! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 1 minute ago, caleb1 said: Any chance for a True Earth for Norway? Yes of course, if we can license the ortho data. It's a bit soon for us to commit to that yet though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harlank37 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 OMG-looks fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaim Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 This looks like a game changer to me. Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graffix75 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 I'm speechless ..... you guys have raised the bar yet again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riverreveal Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 2 minutes ago, Graffix75 said: I'm speechless ..... you guys have raised the bar yet again. There are planes 38,000ft high wondering what that bar whizzing past them is! Its just on another level to any scenery I have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFS Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Mind-blowing! Fantastic job, guys! Yup, a "Day One Purchase" for sure! (and can't wait for TrueEarth to visit the United States in the future) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregmorin Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Amazing! We had cityscapes, now we have countryscapes! Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flo Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Can I believe my eyes... Do you really have graffiti on radio masts? Is it on the real mast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Cecchinato Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 OK, now I have a reason more for reinstalling the system from scratch as soon as possible. Great scenery, great work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakashi Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Holy Mackerel! I gotta have me some of that! Outstanding imagery and inovation on ORBX part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTigerM Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Simply stunning! Amazing detail in the Cathedrals. Is the red boat, {ore carrier}?, one of the objects that come with the country?? TTM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundancer Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 9 minutes ago, Flo said: Can I believe my eyes... Do you really have graffiti on radio masts? Is it on the real mast? Do you really think we can live from tulips only? We have graffiti all over the country, like every big city. Well.....we do have coffeeshops ;-) -Fred- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadtom65 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 I would like to thank all the people that have had a hand in the upcoming sceneries. You all have done a fantastic job. Thank you. Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimshot Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 I know this is not the finished product, but still, if I may nag just a tiny bit, will you guys please make the grass strips look like grass? Looking at the shot of EHHV (the fifth screenshot after the product description), with all that stunning detail and crisp terrain, the brownish runways kind of kill the immersion of the spectacular surroundings. My remark will probably be premature, because the grass strips in your other sceneries look good, but I just have to make sure to sleep well . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper31 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 This is phenomenal work that is showing in this thread. Major kudos to the development and testing team! This is exactly why I have been such a long time Orbx fan....it seams the developers at Orbx are never resting on their laurels and always coming out with ground breaking new sim tech and scenery. Simply amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Er!k Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 How does the scenery perform vs. the default scenery? I can imagine better, because default Amsterdam is exluded, I can also imagine much worse, since a lot of autogen is placed. I understand you cannot give exact numbers... The question behind it is that I also have FT Amsterdam and lots of AI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradB Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 OMG !! . Cheers John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjmx Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 I will be a day one buyer! How much disk space do I have to reserve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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