fishtail99 Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 PNG here too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain_Mc Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 Pleasing and surprising amount of votes for PNG! I spent the first three years of my life there so I'd definitely buy it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclex Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Let me be the first to suggest BERMUDA ! Nobody has done it yet. Now, back to your regular scheduled presentation. Dave Swigert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilottj Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Northern CA is on my patiently waiting 'must get' list. Hopefully we will start seeing some preview pics from either SAK or NCA. Other regions I would love to see; American Southweset, Japan, Ireland, Caribbean, Alps countries, Himalayas. I woudn't worry about HD space, by the time FTX covers the world, HDs that large will be cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momo737 Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Let me be the first to suggest BERMUDA ! Nobody has done it yet. Now, back to your regular scheduled presentation. Dave Swigert That will be an amazing Bonus for ORBX FTX North Carribean Sea NCS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 I believe Norway would be a great place to fly indeed . Is this a hint from an insider? Wolfgang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vora Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Pleasing and surprising amount of votes for PNG! dito. I'm actually positively surprised... I always thought I was alone in the opinion that PNG would be the logical bush flying successor to AU and NZ in Oceania (esp. considering there is already a quite nice payware scenery for that). This PNG clip is my all-time favourit flight video: Just look at the third approach: clouds, mountains, a steep turn on extreme short final, uphill.... whoaaah!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medwyn Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Incredible video! Of course I could trust ORBX to cover the whole planet (and the Moon in case of a new NASA sim), but maybe the whole Carribbean area would also be a precious add-on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boetie Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 PNG for me also, my cousin is a pilot for Air Niugini (Dash 8's) and some of the strips he flies into are amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Need-To-Know Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Natural progression: Alaska. Can't wait for their southern AK. Alaska is an awesome place to fly for GAers. That is why they made a TV show about it. http://dsc.discovery...ing-wild-alaska But dreamful areas: #1 Florida Keys - so small but is fun in a floater and add the new Accu Feel for float planes and it would make it even funner. Since now there is a Miami, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, and the Islands of FlyTampa already done there are lots of places to fly in Florida. #2 Hawaii. And have it work with FSDream airports. This is another small area. Heck Orbx could do it in a weekend......kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalbotFlyer Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 the you tube porter flying in PNG is a great clip My area would be New England and the Maritimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 That's really interesting that New Guinea has so many people speaking out for it... One other region that came to my mind was the South American Andes region. From extreme high altitude takeoffs from Bogota to the fjordlands of Patagonia - with the occasional volcano in between... Those are the kind of landscapes that ORBX has already proven that they can do. Don't know if there are that many takers for this, but I have the feeling it would be quite something. Cheers Mallard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momo737 Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Incredible video! Of course I could trust ORBX to cover the whole planet (and the Moon in case of a new NASA sim), but maybe the whole Carribbean area would also be a precious add-on... +1 I'm sorry but i think Orbx FTX needs to stop developing the samething over and over in different places. I do not want to fly in jungles and mountains any more. With PNW i get every thing they got combine. I wanna go island hopping in the carribean, something new. Please Orbx mix it up for a change, i want to see Beautiful beaches and coral reef while flying to the next and the next island. Beautiful Puerto Rico [media=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ziqqi7SnPI&feature=endscreen&NR=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyroamer Posted December 27, 2012 Author Share Posted December 27, 2012 That's really interesting that New Guinea has so many people speaking out for it... One other region that came to my mind was the South American Andes region. From extreme high altitude takeoffs from Bogota to the fjordlands of Patagonia - with the occasional volcano in between... Those are the kind of landscapes that ORBX has already proven that they can do. Don't know if there are that many takers for this, but I have the feeling it would be quite something. Cheers Mallard +1!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Meson Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Updated Australia and PNG for me, but of course it will be market driven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donbrindles Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Alaska, Alaska, Alaska...please, please, please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amentiba Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I dream of FTX Africa ! Egypt Monuments and the Nil, Kenyan's animals and Kilimadjaro, Sahara, Atlas, The other great rivers as the Zambeze, Madagascar and its unique floral species... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill ho Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 hi Dave M.+1...I'd even settle for 6cm/pixel for Oz and PNG....cheers Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codo Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Iceland and Faroe islands please !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane2801 Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I'd love Sydney. Most beautiful harbour in the world. I also think Hawaii would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 One more region suggestion (but that would be a hard one to realise): Indonesia. Thousands of islands with medium to small strips, can be split into parts like the UK (Java/Bali/Sumatra/Borneo and surrounding islands). But I have no idea how the rice-paddies could convincingly be brought to the slopes of the mountains for example in Java... I remember the flights between Jakarta and Bandung (where we lived back in the eighties) well, cooped up in overloaded Garuda Fokker F28s (but they were far better than the flights with Bouraq DC3s that more often than not had to be cancelled due to technical problems...) Shortly after leaving Jakarta the plane had to reach quite a bit of altitude rather quickly to make it over the mountains surrounding Bandung, just to drop down again as quickly to make it to the airport on this short hop. And if there would be a seperate Sumatra-pack I would strongly pine for Singapore to be included. THE Qantas hub for international flights... Cheers Mallard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Ri Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Praying for Hawaii. I belive ORBX can make Hawaii for less than 3 months! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crcjetty Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 ooh, ooh, yes please. Then PNG definately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 In 2013 we will be releasing a FTX product that covers the entire world with FTX textures combined from the twelve different regions we have developed since 2008 including England and Wales. It won't be a perfect solution because it is textures only (no landclass, airports, POIs, or geodata), but it will cover the whole globe with Orbx so you never have to experience FSX default again. It will include custom autogen, 3D lights and some custom trees as well, which will need an installer that manages some global files, but you will be able to uninstall it and revert to default FSX again if you wish. I am testing an alpha build at the moment and I can promise you most of the places mentioned in this thread look beautiful covered in Orbx textures. I did a dusk flight over the south of France last week and to see all the 3D lights twinkling over villages and towns was magical The price of this product (less than $200) will include free perpetual upgrades including a constant flow of upgraded airports at key locations around the world, for example Helsinki in Finland or Manila in the Phillipines. We are building a dedicated team of people who will do nothing but work on continual improvements, POIs and airports around the world. Additionally, as Orbx releases the much more detailed and sophisticated regions around the world, we will dip into the expanding texture pool to finesse the global product, all at no charge. Stay tuned for the formal announcement in January along with many screenshots and some video footage. If you can imagine your whole world covered in Orbx, you won't have to wait too much longer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukester Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Wow that's an interesting development for the FTX product line. I look forward to seeing it but I do hope this doesn't impact development of the usual FTX regions... Thanks for candidly sharing JV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Zero impact on regular regions Flinty since we're hiring new staff to make this product and we're using existing texture assets. If anything in 2013 we will release more regular FTX regions than any year of our short history; South Alaska, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and Northern California as well. Our average release rate has been 1.75 regions per year; in 2013 it will be 5+ This has been a product I have wanted to release for quite some time but only now do we have the depth of textures to cover the globe in a semi-realistic manner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wroblewski Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 In 2013 we will be releasing a FTX product that covers the entire world with FTX textures combined from the twelve different regions we have developed since 2008 including England and Wales. It won't be a perfect solution because it is textures only (no landclass, airports, POIs, or geodata), but it will cover the whole globe with Orbx so you never have to experience FSX default again. That's a pretty good idea, if this makes Spain for example look more like Spain than a desert, then count me in. However, when you say will be under $200, I hope you don't mean $199.99 ;-). I'm looking forward to trying out the rest of the UK and also being able to fly across the channel ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I do mean $195.95 - we're not going to sell a product that contains five years' worth of our intellectual property and textures for $20. Sorry, that does not make any business sense at all. What we are giving customers is the whole world covered in Orbx textures which does a pretty good job until such time as we get around to the detailed products. In the meantime, consider the $195 like a "subscription" to continual improvements to the product including a constant flow of patches (perhaps once a month) to add new airports, features, textures etc. It's an "Orbx Lite" for the whole world, with continual upgrades that will cost twice that of FTX Australia, but gives you the globe. Sounds like a bargain to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 The whole world in ORBX(Lite)? That sounds really really really interesting! And the continuous improvement bit makes the price actually very reasonable indeed... Looks like this will be an interesting year - and I might get to fly a PNG(Lite) after all Cheers Mallard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 To be honest the price is a bargain especially given we'll be putting people on staff to continually upgrade it. Think of this: if every Orbx customer purchased it there would be sufficient level of funding for further detailed regions, airports and new projects we've always wanted to do. Orbx is stifled by its inability to grow and build more content and this is the vehicle with which we can fund our growth moving forward. Here's the debut sneak peek shot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanTenner Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Well, my answer to the opening question would be that I go whereever Orbx is taking me For sure I would love to see Germany with special Orbx-treatment because it is known terrain for me but I am very happy with what I got till now. This way I got to see regions which were quite unfamiliar to me. But Orbx treatment even if to a smaller degree than those other regions sound awesome. Of course it is alot of money but I think it ll be worth it. I am really looking forward to this EDIT: While I was writing JV uploaded this shot. That indeed looks promising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wroblewski Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Sounds fair enough, if it includes continual updates and improvements to justify the price, then it will be worth it. I've often used the AUS region for example and thought that some of the textures would look good in areas like Spain and Southern Italy. John if you don't mind answering now rather than the announcement, how will this work with something like UTX which places roads etc. Can we still have correct road placements with another package but have the OrbX textures and autogen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Yes you can. Think of it as GEX on steroids. We only provide replacement textures with out own autogen buildings and trees and 3D lights (in the landclass textures, not roads) and then we'll add key airports to the package in the form of patches. So there is nothing to stop you adding other landclass or vector data addons to use with our textures. Couple of more sneakies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wroblewski Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 That's brilliant, and the screenies look great. Looking forward to trying this ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughp Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Big news indeed, this is what a lot of us have been waiting for, the 95% of the world thats been default-ugly finally covered in FTX texture goodness. Especially welcome in the desert areas like SW USA, where you just get the same texture everywhere now. And anywhere with mountains is going to look a million times better. I remember paying $199 for AUS SP3 and it was worth it- can't see how this wouldn't be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COBS Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I want all or Ireland, both Eire and Ulster, as an extension to the UK, then Switzerland, Germany and Austria +1 Not only would that give us a physical flight continuity from the UK , but also it would give ORBX a massive commercial success . I think the UK sales volume has indicated where the interest lies . Cheers Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansRoaming Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Love the new global announcement but seriously if you consider it a 'subscription' then why not go for a subscription model as this will smooth out your cash flow as well as make it more attractive to purchasers by moving it down the long tail. For regions I'd like to see: PNG Central and South America Middle East through to the Himalayan Plateau and surrounding region. South East Asia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 This is not a subscription model. It's a single product that will be continually updated and enhanced. Some more: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom C Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Oh man, that shot of Cork look stunning Jon, more so that I live less than 30 miles from the place and see it every day. Where was the first shot though? Can't quite figure it out. Does this mean then that Ireland is off the radar for full FTX treatment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansRoaming Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 The subscription model was just a suggestion so that as your installed base grows so would your cash flow as opposed to just being funded by new purchases, works for CCP and Eve Online for example. Looks fantastic and no matter how you'll be funding it I'll be buying it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.