christbythesea Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 This is such exciting news about XP11/Orb/TrueEarth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danni Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 15 hours ago, tonywob said: This has now been resolved for EGCB Barton and will be in the final release of the airport Excellent, I am already hyped. How about fps? I guess you can't really say with alpha but can you say there wont be much impact? Xplane is demanding at the best of times and I'm wondering if this add on will run well in VR where it can be fully appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chumley Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Don't worry about Old Trafford Stadium. Not worth the effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 11 minutes ago, chumley said: Don't worry about Old Trafford Stadium. Not worth the effort. What is Old Trafford Stadium? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogtrack Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 30 minutes ago, VH-KDK said: What is Old Trafford Stadium? A very good Croquet Lawn ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wroblewski Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 2 hours ago, VH-KDK said: What is Old Trafford Stadium? I think that some insignificant football (soccer for the Americans) team play here that nobody has heard of or supports, Manchester Unified or something. You're best flying 15NM or so to the west where you will find a real team's stadium, Liverpool In all seriousness, remember this video was an alpha/tech-demo preview. Old Trafford stadium has been added as part of the EGCB Barton coverage area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 23 minutes ago, tonywob said: I think that some insignificant football (soccer for the Americans) team play here that nobody has heard of or supports, Manchester Unified or something. You're best flying 15NM or so to the west where you will find a real team's stadium, Liverpool In all seriousness, remember this video was an alpha/tech-demo preview. Old Trafford stadium has been added as part of the EGCB Barton coverage area. Thanks Tony, I hope you have the Vitality Stadium on the South Coast included too. What a great result for Southampton, er I mean Liverpool this morning. We all had to follow Div One teams when I was at school in the 60s and my team was Man Utd in the great days of Law, Best and Charlton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chumley Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 As a young boy I lived in a mad keen Man Utd household. As an equally mad keen Liverpool supporter I was basically persona non grata and in some respects continue to be so to this day. I have managed to instill the values of Liverpool to my son and his children so there is hope yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTigerM Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 If this has been asked elsewhere, apologies, but I am wondering how the current Orbx UK airport P3D products such as Old Warden & Fairoaks, Goodwood etc, will fit in with OETE? By this I mean will they still exist as they are now & will be able to be placed on top of OETE, or will the OETE version of these airports look better than the current add-on, & supplant them? Or will there be a choice as to which you use? TTM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Low Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 John stated that they should be compatible with TrueEarth, and that any tweaks that are required will be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danni Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 3 hours ago, chumley said: As a young boy I lived in a mad keen Man Utd household. As an equally mad keen Liverpool supporter I was basically persona non grata and in some respects continue to be so to this day. I have managed to instill the values of Liverpool to my son and his children so there is hope yet. Values of Liverpool? Before this turns into the football slating thread, it is fantastic news that major stadiums and landmarks are being included for VFR flights. I can't wait to get my hands on it. Will have to get yet another SSD though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caleb1 Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Is the P3D version planned to be out before the end of May 2018? If you can't say that's fine, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask.Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Low Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 I doubt that even the XP11 version of TrueEarth England will be out as soon as that.....or do you mean EGCB Barton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caleb1 Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 I doubt that even the XP11 version of TrueEarth England will be out as soon as that.....or do you mean EGCB Barton? I mean England. I agree now that I have seen the new post from John with the new teaser. Probably Netherlands will be out first.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chumley Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 18 hours ago, Danni said: Values of Liverpool? Before this turns into the football slating thread, it is fantastic news that major stadiums and landmarks are being included for VFR flights. I can't wait to get my hands on it. Will have to get yet another SSD though. Meant the value of supporting them not the bogan behaviour of a few earlier in the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonfrederickl Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Are you using reshade john? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Museumkeeper Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 3 hours ago, jonfrederickl said: Are you using reshade john? Hi This is a quote from JV on 2/04/18 to a comment made by myself. I stopped using ReShade, because it causes CTDs on XP11 exit. Instead I just increase my Digital Vibrance setting in my nVidia Control panel to 80% which has the same effect as the saturation and clarity shaders but with zero fps impact: Kind regards Ian S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 I am now using the MaxxFX plugin to create custom tones in XP11, it works very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper31 Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 I would say JV...looking marvelous!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Clarke Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 On 04/04/2018 at 10:02 AM, tonywob said: Uncompressed, it's approx 350MB. This is subject to change though as it's still under development Far too early to say. If you want a very rough approximation in X-Plane, then looking at the number of 1 degree tiles covering England and how much space is generally required for orthos at this latitude (including the fact that a lot of them are coastline + water), it's approx 150-200GB uncompressed. However, this could be less, could be more and we just don't know yet. Tony: I am assuming your very rough guide to disk space (150-200GB) is in regard to a total for both Netherlands and England? Or each? I am asking as I have a concern regarding the download and subsequent unzipping of each and the disk space required for that process. I have 180GB free space on the C drive ( this is an OS/utilities SSD disk only)so say ENG is 75GB compressed then unzipping adds 200GB I would not have enough disk space to perform the required actions of download ( compressed) followed by unzipping. Does Central do the unzipping in the sim directory? Also another question: you kindly answered my question regarding x-life and World Traffic compatibility but you only mentioned that Barton was compatible. Do you know if the included airports in ENG are compatible as well? Appreciate your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wroblewski Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 FTX Central will use your TEMP directory for downloading the files. I generally move my TEMP directory to another drive as I have the same problem. Nick's post here worked for me. Now, my estimate was for England only, and I'm basing this on having covered the country in the past using orthos at 1.2m/px. Each subsequent zoom level increases the size by a factor of 4. If you want this sort of detailed coverage, then yes, you're going to need the space to cover it. The Netherlands is smaller, with less tiles to cover, so the size won't be as large. P3D compresses ortho imagery better than X-Plane, so sizes in P3D will be smaller. 1 hour ago, jjaycee1 said: Also another question: you kindly answered my question regarding x-life and World Traffic compatibility but you only mentioned that Barton was compatible. Do you know if the included airports in ENG are compatible as well? Any ORBX airports that will be converted will have ground traffic routes. The existing airports from the X-Plane gateway are a bit hit and miss in this regard, many do have them, but others don't. Support for GA traffic is still not very good in WT3, e.g. It has no support for helicopters, but it works very well for larger airports, e.g. EGHI. Hopefully this will improve over time. I can't comment about xLife as I don't have it, but presume it uses the same principle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Museumkeeper Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 2 hours ago, jjaycee1 said: Tony: I am assuming your very rough guide to disk space (150-200GB) is in regard to a total for both Netherlands and England? Or each? I am asking as I have a concern regarding the download and subsequent unzipping of each and the disk space required for that process. I have 180GB free space on the C drive ( this is an OS/utilities SSD disk only)so say ENG is 75GB compressed then unzipping adds 200GB I would not have enough disk space to perform the required actions of download ( compressed) followed by unzipping. Does Central do the unzipping in the sim directory? Also another question: you kindly answered my question regarding x-life and World Traffic compatibility but you only mentioned that Barton was compatible. Do you know if the included airports in ENG are compatible as well? Appreciate your time. Hi I have at present compiled England in X-Plane 11 using Ortho4XP tiles. Zoom level 16-(2.4m/px) for water, ZL17-(1.2m/px) for countryside and ZL 19-(30cm/px) for airports and surrounding areas and these tiles come to 413GB in size. Add to this mesh, OSM data and airports and I am using about 460GB in total. If their is any advice I can give those simmers who have so far not used photoscenery to any great deal and that is invest in a large HDD. The above advice is irrespective of the flightsim you use. Kind regards Ian S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wroblewski Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 10 minutes ago, Ian S said: ZL 19-(30cm/px) IMO this is wasted effort and disk-space. There is almost no visible difference between ZL18 and ZL19 in X-Plane (and some ortho providers don't show higher, so you're just getting the same texture but 4 times bigger). Dropping this to ZL18 or 17 would probably save you a large amount of disk-space. Anyway, sorry for going off-topic here, but yes the advice about investing in more storage is a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FILOU Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 ZL16 is already very satisfactory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haydon the Womble Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 On 31/03/2018 at 6:26 PM, rogera said: Just seen the Barton video and Wow! as a Mancunian living on the south side of the city, I can say that it is stunning. I was a passanger in a Puss Moth with Geoff Mollison (related to Amy Johnson's husband), from Barton a few years ago and I would love to reacreate that flight. So maybe X-plane is in my stars. Well done ORBX. I recently learned (from Wikipedia) that Jim Mollison lived here in Surbiton in his later years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeroflux Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 ...very nice...will purchase! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre Bolton Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Cannot wait for this amazing looking scenery!!! Being from England I have the whole of the UK done in ZL17 Ortho which looks fantastic bar it’s known flaws. I WILL be buying your TrueEarth England the day it releases and plan to scrap my Ortho as a result, should the FPS be good. If it’s anything like your Meigs scenery it’ll run like butter!! It’s exciting to see we will soon have the UK and Holland in TrueEarth! I’d “LOVE” to see TrueEarth Belgium/France/Germany/Spain in no particular order so as to tigh-in the area so to speak, so we can fly TrueEarth country to country. Fingers crossed this is the plan!? [emoji6]I shall be watching closely Regards Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodneyprice Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 I remember back when I use to play Flight sims such as Fly and FS 2000 and all my friends were into shoot em up games and they laughed and called me the nerd. Well how things have changed , some of those friends have now built new PC just for flight sims . Just cant begin to imagine what flight sims are going to like in another 5 to 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caleb1 Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 I remember back when I use to play Flight sims such as Fly and FS 2000 and all my friends were into shoot em up games and they laughed and called me the nerd. Well how things have changed , some of those friends have now built new PC just for flight sims . Just cant begin to imagine what flight sims are going to like in another 5 to 10 years. Same with me. [emoji846] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spockain Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 On 30/03/2018 at 10:35 PM, FILOU said: That's exactly what happened to me. I have tried several times to come back with P3D but it was impossible. The difference is too big for me. same for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre Bolton Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 On 4/8/2018 at 10:31 AM, tonywob said: IMO this is wasted effort and disk-space. There is almost no visible difference between ZL18 and ZL19 in X-Plane (and some ortho providers don't show higher, so you're just getting the same texture but 4 times bigger). Dropping this to ZL18 or 17 would probably save you a large amount of disk-space. Anyway, sorry for going off-topic here, but yes the advice about investing in more storage is a good one. Are you able to share news on England TrueEarth please? and/or when we can expect TrueEarth Netherlands for XP With thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 It's entering beta testing shortly. We will be posting an announcement soon with much more details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoLonger Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 2 hours ago, John Venema said: It's entering beta testing shortly. We will be posting an announcement soon with much more details. Does this include TrueEarth Netherlands for Aerofly FS 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 TE NLD AFS2 is almost ready, announcement and preview topic has just been posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoLonger Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 27 minutes ago, John Venema said: TE NLD AFS2 is almost ready, announcement and preview topic has just been posted. Totally awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dblue_one Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 9 hours ago, John Venema said: It's entering beta testing shortly. We will be posting an announcement soon with much more details. My CC is awaiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelhj Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Quote FTX Central will use your TEMP directory for downloading the files. Have one question regarding when True Earth UK is released and although FTX will manage the download I have at times lost connection from the internet (not my setup but the provider). In cases of lost connections will FTX continue the download once back on-line or is it a case of start again? Also, if FTX continues with the download would there be any likely chance of missing files once re-connected? Sorry for sounding pessimistic but knowing my luck it could happen at a critical time of download. Note to self: must try to be more optimistic in the future but then again being pessimistic could be down to my age!! Regards Nigel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 Yes FTX Central supports auto-resuming down to byte level so you won't lose anything at all if your internet goes down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelhj Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Very many thanks John, great news. Regards Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodneyprice Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Looks Awesome , Any idea of a possible release time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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