Popular Post John Venema Posted December 8, 2018 Popular Post Posted December 8, 2018 Hello everyone, We are happy to announce that TrueEarth GB Central is now available for X-Plane 11! PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BELOW TrueEarth GB Central covers a massive area of 59,383km2 of hand corrected imagery covering the entire central region as shown below in the coverage map. Of particular note are metropolitan areas such as Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle. We have also faithfully recreated scenic areas such as the Lake District, the Peak District, Snowdonia National Park, the North Yorkshire Moors, and the North Wales Coast/Llandudno. If you like castles and cathedrals, then you'll be excited about the hundreds of POIs, especially around Bangor, Caernarfon, Cumbria, Northumbria, and Yorkshire. Features: 37,000 square miles (59,383km2) of hand corrected, crisp, color-matched aerial imagery New autogen technology developed specially for X-Plane 11, allowing thousands of UK-themed houses to be placed at a realistic height with minimal impact on performance 72.5 million individually placed trees, ensuring maximum accuracy in forest areas Well over 4 million buildings at the correct height and location VFR landmarks such as masts, wind farms, churches, power lines, and lighthouses are all accurately placed. Hundreds of custom-modeled 3D POIs Hand-placed and custom modeled landmarks placed throughout the scenery such as bridges, skyscrapers, castles, piers, stadiums and monuments – this is especially noticeable in city areas such as Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle. Sharp and detailed 10-meter mesh brings out stunning detail in natural features such as hills and beaches Superb water masking along the entire coastline Accurate road and rail network blended into the aerial imagery with moving left-hand drive traffic. Control Panel option to use photoreal major roads/motorways or synthetic X-Plane ones. Summer season only with full night-lighting supported We have also added a new built-in decompression feature in FTX Central to greatly reduce the download size ensuring an efficient installation process. In addition to these features, users will get free service packs for life as well as more POI models in future updates. TrueEarth GB Central is now available to purchase from OrbxDirect for AUD $54.95 (approx. USD $39.55 / €33.95 / £30.60), but you can save 10% until 1st January 2019 at 01:00Z! Please note that there is no cross-grade discount from the landclass-based FTX England, Wales or Scotland regions. ** IMPORTANT!! *** Please update to FTX Central v3.3.2.2 before installing. Run FTXC, wait about 20 seconds, then you will see the blue Apply FTX Central Update button. Please run the update before installing TE GB Central. THIS PRODUCT INSTALLATION HAS A DECOMPRESSION STAGE - The TrueEarth Great Britain Central download size is a compact 16GB to save on download time, but we are using a new installation system where we decompress the ortho textures using FTX Central. This expands the total installation to around 77.3GB of drive space. The texture conversion process of 7,188 files can take between 1 to 2+ hours, depending on your CPU speed and the number of cores it has. It is normal during this process for the cooling fans to speed up on your PC. After the download stage is complete, you will still see "Downloading", but the STATUS will change to "Converting" and a countdown of the number of texture files remaining: DO NOT ABORT OR INTERRUPT THE INSTALLATION DURING ANY STAGE! Wait for the tick to appear and the text "Product Installed". Also, Nick has created a support topic for customers who have any installation issues: Roads Control Panel We forgot to add control Panel option to disable the default XP11 roads. We will patch that in via FTX Central soon, but if you can't wait for the patch, copy the attached control_panel.xml into Custom Scenery\Orbx_A_GB_Central_TrueEarth_Custom and it'll appear in FTX Central after a re-start. control_panel.xml Mac Users There is an error in the 1_mac_conversion script which causes much slower conversion. Please use the attached ZIP to replace the conversion script. If you get a permission error just chmod 777 the file. mac_1_conversion.zip control_panel.xml 16 1 3
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