active CityScene Orlando - Some Minor Errors

[Sabretooth78]

Flying around CityScene Orlando for the first time yesterday, I found a few issues that should be considered for a future update.

 

So first for the good.  My tour consisted of 2 parts; first was a flight into KMCO (from KSTL) in the NGX, with CityScene enabled.  Normally I wouldn't have attempted this but I wanted to see the limits of my system.  I have to say that performance approaching the Orlando area was admirable; there were only a few points where the sim choked momentarily, and only short periods of time, maybe on the order of 30 seconds, where I had black buildings before things caught up and textures loaded.  Landing FPS was a little sluggish; on the order of 18-25 fps but nothing completely unreasonable or precluding a nice smooth landing in the TDZ.  (Also consider this was all done with the residential building setting unknowingly ticked; so my performance probably could have been significantly better.)  The only glitch was discovering that the Taxi2Gate KMCO taxiway bridges were missing, but a scenery reload seemed to fix that - no idea what that was all about but it would seem to be an issue on my end.  All in all, I was quite pleased!

 

Now for the "bad".  The second part of my tour was a helicopter tour from KMCO to the I-4 corridor and to the southwest to and around Walt Disney World, then over to downtown Orlando and back to KMCO.  Aside from my always suspect helicopter piloting skills, I found a handful of issues.  No show stoppers - I suppose with over 200k buildings as claimed, a few glitches are to be expected?

 

DoubleTree Inn Universal Studios  (Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/jD2YxeDGaZ32)

A few buildings appear to be missing, except for floating fascia wall elements:

 

 

Odyssey Center, WDW EPCOT (Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/W6ukapf4M7v)

Similar to the DoubleTree, there seems to be a building error:

 

 

Building just west of Cinderella Castle, WDW Magic Kingdom (Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/sGnPY1s14Bp)

Another similar problem - part of the building appears to be too short and is missing textures:

 

The Magic Kingdom Skyline

This was mentioned by a few in the preview thread but bears repeating here:

 

I measured the heights by slewing in-sim, so they are approximate.  The original comments in the preview thread centered around the height relationship between the castle and Space Mountain; they visually "don't look right", but when actually reviewing the heights they appear to be roughly OK - the castle could be made a little taller and Space Mountain a little shorter, but in the scheme of things it's a minor complaint.  The Astro Orbiter is grossly out of scale, however.  I wasn't able to find a height listed anywhere but based on a Google image search it appears to be somewhere around half the height of the castle.

 

Also, the castle is facing the wrong way!

 

Overall, let it be known that despite the backwards castle, the representation of Walt Disney World earned overall praise from my Disney nut girlfriend.

 

KMCO

There's an airplane on short final to RWY 35R.  Not really a big deal but thought I would add it to the list:

 

 

[Sabretooth78]

With the advent of the 1.1 update, I thought I would bump this just to note that several of these issues still remain:

 

The floating fascia walls of the Doubletree seem to have been removed (first 2 pictures above; therefore meaning these buildings are missing), as is the floating element in EPCOT (pictures 3 and 4).

 

The remaining noted issues still remain; most prominent being the backwards castle and the height of the Astro Orbiter.  I'm not even a Disney nut yet these make me cringe every time I see them .

 

Other than that, the update seems to have provided a significant performance boost.  Thanks for your attention!

[FireRx]

the helipad Downtown is still floating above the structure also.