Jon Clarke Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 @John Venema Have Orbx taken into account the requirements for Exclusions noted in TE-GB South and ensured that Exclusions are included in the Central version prior to release, or will we have to wait for a Service pack.?Personally i would prefer the job to be done before release so that we don't have to wait for something as important as the exclusions at airports to be delayed as we are in TE-GB South version. Seeing overlapping buildings a t some airports is quite an immersion killer, As you know people love the positive but dwell on the negative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Clarke Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 (edited) Duplicate post Edited November 20, 2018 by jjaycee1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 1 hour ago, jjaycee1 said: @John Venema Have Orbx taken into account the requirements for Exclusions noted in TE-GB South and ensured that Exclusions are included in the Central version prior to release, or will we have to wait for a Service pack.?Personally i would prefer the job to be done before release so that we don't have to wait for something as important as the exclusions at airports to be delayed as we are in TE-GB South version. Seeing overlapping buildings a t some airports is quite an immersion killer, As you know people love the positive but dwell on the negative No we are taking the opposite tack, removing all our buildings from South airports and not including any in Central. Authors of Gateway airports need to start conforming to the XP11 SDK and adding exclusions to their airports. The result will of course be that any airports not upgraded in the Gateway database will be flat without buildings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul_Blythe Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 (edited) Looking forward to this release. Can't wait to fly over my home county of Cheshire and it's neighbours. Highlights for me will be, Manchester & Liverpool metropolitan areas, Snowdonia National Park, Peak District and Lake District Edited November 20, 2018 by Paul_Blythe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Clarke Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 9 hours ago, John Venema said: No we are taking the opposite tack, removing all our buildings from South airports and not including any in Central. Authors of Gateway airports need to start conforming to the XP11 SDK and adding exclusions to their airports. The result will of course be that any airports not upgraded in the Gateway database will be flat without buildings. Interesting and thanks for the insight. Will the South SP take care of the airport buildings removal via another substantial download of the product or will there be something in the SP that triggers the removal like via FTc Central? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Say Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 (edited) Hope they correct the colour of the Humber Bridge towers. Drab concrete please! It did used to be the longest suspension bridge in the world. Can't wait though. x Edited November 21, 2018 by Sheridan Say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Say Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 4 hours ago, Sheridan Say said: Hope they correct the colour of the Humber Bridge towers. Drab concrete please! It did used to be the longest suspension bridge in the world. Can't wait though. x Actually never mind. Still could have been modelled better though. The concrete that goes into the water, the road and footpaths and the North Bank tower base for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 2 hours ago, Sheridan Say said: Actually never mind. Still could have been modelled better though. The concrete that goes into the water, the road and footpaths and the North Bank tower base for example. True to a certain extent, however keep in mind the product and its price. At $50 or near enough the product cannot be 'hand-crafted', the best efforts of the testers and devs goes in to making the product the best available with the resources at hand. Some shortcomings will be evident no matter where you look, the point is it is an outstandingly accurate representation of a huge area and millions of data points at a very reasonable price. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Steve Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 Orbx products are the best. I'm so glad this company exists however,. I am a little disappointed that Northern Ireland isn't included in the True Great Britain products. They are after all, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Steve Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 On 11/19/2018 at 2:47 PM, John Venema said: We don't upgrade XP11 airports. If RAF Valley has been done as a Gateway airport then it will be part of default XP. Does this mean you'll never make XP UK Airports? I'm desperate for some Orbx airports, LBA, Manchester, Gatwick ... you so need to do it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longranger241 Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 8 minutes ago, Shotgun Steve said: Does this mean you'll never make XP UK Airports? I'm desperate for some Orbx airports, LBA, Manchester, Gatwick ... you so need to do it. Manchester or Gattwick would be an unusual size for OrbX. But otherwise, they have already released EGHI, EGKA and next EGFF. What they talked about was something different. In their regions for FSX they replaced the default airports, with their own, improved versions, but far below payware standard, with the exception of EGFF. But X-Plane has its community airports, that are already filled and improved, so they decided that it wouldn't help to put really work to these things, since the community already does it by themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longranger241 Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 27 minutes ago, Shotgun Steve said: They are after all, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. X-Plane and OrbX don't really deal with political plans but with geographic realiities. X-Plane works in tiles and GB and ireland don't share tiles but north and south ireland do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Hallam Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 On 11/23/2018 at 4:08 PM, Longranger241 said: Manchester or Gattwick would be an unusual size for OrbX. But otherwise, they have already released EGHI, EGKA and next EGFF. What they talked about was something different. In their regions for FSX they replaced the default airports, with their own, improved versions, but far below payware standard, with the exception of EGFF. But X-Plane has its community airports, that are already filled and improved, so they decided that it wouldn't help to put really work to these things, since the community already does it by themselves. @John Venema Will Orbx ever make mega airports like Aerosoft , Nimbus and Mister X? It seems most of your products are lesser known airports and or known airports but 1 runway, like KSAN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidrebolton Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 Any news hot off the press as to when Central will be ready for the masses? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzelle Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 On 11/20/2018 at 9:22 AM, John Venema said: No we are taking the opposite tack, removing all our buildings from South airports and not including any in Central. Authors of Gateway airports need to start conforming to the XP11 SDK and adding exclusions to their airports. The result will of course be that any airports not upgraded in the Gateway database will be flat without buildings. I think this is the right tack to take Jon. Is ORBX taking a pro-active stance within the airport authors to get conformity - which is so badly needed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 1 hour ago, davidrebolton said: Any news hot off the press as to when Central will be ready for the masses? We'll miss November. We are waiting on a bunch of stadiums and other POI models to be finished this week and of course all the bug fixes from beta testing. Aiming for first week in December now, so not too long now. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phill Morgan Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 49 minutes ago, John Venema said: We'll miss November. We are waiting on a bunch of stadiums and other POI models to be finished this week and of course all the bug fixes from beta testing. Aiming for first week in December now, so not too long now. Hi John Just a quick note from a new(ish) ORBX user. You guys have done a fantastic job with all of your products thus far, and I cannot wait for this one sometime in December. I am totally blown away by the accuracy we are seeing in the true earth series. Thanks to all of you for your hard work and dedication to the flight sim community. Phill 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forostar Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 It looks like you're missing St James' Park in the middle of Newcastle though leek, div'n't yer nar? Now I know you can't have every POI under the sun in the product - but SJP is kind of an integral part of Newcastle city centre and skyline! I might be being blind though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wroblewski Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 30 minutes ago, forostar said: It looks like you're missing St James' Park in the middle of Newcastle though leek, div'n't yer nar? Not in those screenshots, but it's on its way 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forostar Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 Canny lad! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gussgull Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 bcfc or villa grounds ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grom Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 On 11/27/2018 at 11:42 AM, John Venema said: We'll miss November. We are waiting on a bunch of stadiums and other POI models to be finished this week and of course all the bug fixes from beta testing. Aiming for first week in December now, so not too long now. Any news on a release day as yet John ? looking forward to it ;-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Museumkeeper Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 On 11/23/2018 at 9:41 PM, Shotgun Steve said: Orbx products are the best. I'm so glad this company exists however,. I am a little disappointed that Northern Ireland isn't included in the True Great Britain products. They are after all, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. The term "Great Britain" is often used to include the whole of England, Scotland and Wales including their component adjoining islands; and is also occasionally but contentiously applied to the UK as a whole in some contexts A single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the union of the Kingdom of England (which had already comprised the present-day countries of England and Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland by the 1707 Acts of Union. More than a hundred years before, in 1603, King James VI, King of Scots, had inherited the throne of England, but it was not until 1707 that the two countries' parliaments agreed to form a political union. In 1801, Great Britain united with the neighbouring Kingdom of Ireland, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which was renamed the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" after the Irish Free State seceded in 1922. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzelle Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) I understand that the North of Ireland, along with Eire, is not included because the imagery was of too poor quality for ORBX's standards, and nothing to do with the political division etc of GB itself. I may be wrong... On the other hand I found this link: and then saw that ORBX had indeed got pristine ortho photos for Ireland (all of it) so that clarifies everything dunnit! Edited December 3, 2018 by Fizzelle Clarified stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaim Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Is the Stadium of Light in Sunderland modelled. Is all of area Tyne and Wear area modelled in higher detail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Steve Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) 11 hours ago, Ian S said: The term "Great Britain" is often used to include the whole of England, Scotland and Wales including their component adjoining islands; and is also occasionally but contentiously applied to the UK as a whole in some contexts A single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the union of the Kingdom of England (which had already comprised the present-day countries of England and Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland by the 1707 Acts of Union. More than a hundred years before, in 1603, King James VI, King of Scots, had inherited the throne of England, but it was not until 1707 that the two countries' parliaments agreed to form a political union. In 1801, Great Britain united with the neighbouring Kingdom of Ireland, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which was renamed the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" after the Irish Free State seceded in 1922. Edited December 3, 2018 by Shotgun Steve Either way,. Just give me those rolling Yorkshire hills! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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