announcement Global Buildings HD Released!

[Ed Correia]

BuildingsHD for P3D and FSX is now available for purchase from OrbxDirect! 

 

 

 

 

BuildingsHD is a worldwide autogen building upgrade, featuring incredibly detailed, regionally-accurate 4K building textures and FPS-friendly 3D models!  The new textures are based on photos taken from many locations around the world in the actual locations that they represent in the sim, resulting in incredibly authentic new buildings worldwide.  Buildings HD will improve the autogen buildings throughout nearly the entire Orbx catalog, and will also replace your sim's default building textures for a full and comprehensive upgrade.

 

With textures four times more detailed than before, buzzing the rooftops, approaches over cities, and taxiing at urban airports has never looked so real!  All new textures feature ambient occlusion shadows, high-rez rooftops derived from drone photography, and more.  And the new night lighting is something that must be seen to be believed: with textures based on real photos of night-lit buildings and vastly improved color balancing, the sense of immersion after dark is sure to amaze.

 

A monumental undertaking three years in the making, lead developer Scott Armstrong has painstakingly overhauled over 900 texture sheets, containing 3,860 individual building textures.  During project development, Scott traveled to over a dozen countries throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia to take on-location source photos, resulting in remarkably authentic architectural variations.  The difference is especially remarkable in Global regions which have never before seen the full Orbx region treatment: Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and South America now, for the first time ever, feature buildings that are highly accurate to their true-life counterparts.

 

Additionally, FS legend Bill Womack has lent his 3D modelling skills in completely overhauling over 400 3D models in the  default 3D building library!  Those clunky-looking low-poly default water towers, generic fast food restaurants, apartment buildings, and blurry-looking factories will be replaced with brand new beautiful models that are at once highly detailed and performance-optimized.

 

Features:

• High-Definition 4K building textures covering the entire world.
• Regionally accurate buildings worldwide, derived from on-location source photos
• Over 400 brand new 3D building models for complex autogen objects, created by Bill Womack
• Will improve the appearance of most Orbx products, including Global, regions, and airports (see this post for full compatibility list)
• Also compatible with default FSX / P3D; no other Orbx products required
• Ambient Occlusion shadows baked on to building textures for added depth and realism
• High resolution rooftops derived from drone photos
• Incredibly realistic night textures for an immersive new night flying experience
• Negligible impact on FPS
• Completely compatible with FSX, FSX:SE and P3Dv1-v4
• Easy download and installation in FTX Central
• By Scott Armstrong and Bill Womack

 

Orbx BuildingsHD is now available exclusively via OrbxDirect for AUD $34.95 (approx. USD $24.25/ €21.50 / £19.00)