John Venema Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Welcome to FTX North America! The majestic volcanic peaks of the North Cascades ranges will be presented in fully seasonal colour-corrected 1m orthoimagery photoreal above the treelines. All glaciers, rocks, lava flows, ravines, and, in the case of Mt. Saint Helens, the pyroclastic flow, will be photoreal. Get ready for the FTX region which will redefine what 'beautiful' means, particularly at tree-top height, low and slow like real bush flyers do it This is another christmas gift to you all, and we'll begin to reveal the full landscapes in the new year. Enjoy! Merry Christmas everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostlp Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Can we pre-pay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnip Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Beautiful. Just Beautiful. This thing is gonna rock! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solareagle Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 My oh my. Doing photoreal above the treeline is quite ingenius. My magic eight ball tells me this will be the best seller yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penzoil3 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 DROOL!!! Want it, will pre-pay, WANT IT!! Beautiful work, love it. Thanks, but you're a big tease ! Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solareagle Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Does this Orthoimagery come from the USGS EROS? I ask becuase the EROS Data Center is about 10 minutes from where I live in South Dakota. I've never taken the tour there but I hear it's pretty sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhockey21 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Looks amazing, I didn't think you guys were this far along on this project, its a major undertaking, I applaud your guys persistence. And hope you guys model my house right! Cant wait to buy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heiko Glatthorn Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 That first shot just cracked me up... Can't wait to lay my hands on ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan2 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Ready and waiting for my overseas trip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ollyau Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Looks good! Still upset I can't help with the beta testing . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Webb Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Stunning work guys looking good another winner no doubt cheers Iain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jankees Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Wow, I can almost use these for my geology classes! Great stuff!! Have you ever considered doing an NZ blue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxter Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Amazing, those are outrageously good... Stunning even. The boundary between FTX NA and FSX default will be even more stark than what we experience with the boundary between AUBlue and and the Non AURed, AURed. Cheers and thanks for posting, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukester Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Someone pick me up off the floor please, that is simply stunning. I wasn't to sure if I could be enticed to by scenery outside of AUS but after seeing this I am already saving in earnest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lozanojl1 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 UUuummmmm Good news Clear day, soft winds and a little GA aircraft... The perfect ingredients for flying around them Thanks for this present Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ja-durant Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Beautiful.Love it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony31 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 It's funny you post these screenshots today because earlier I was thinking about megasceneryearth. I thought the MSE screen pics looked great on mountains but was less impressive on flat country and I was wondering if there was a way to combine the two. Use PR were it makes a difference and use LC and textures where it doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Baumanis Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 If this one doesn't top the sales charts, then I'll eat my hat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithrin Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Nice to see the most prominent geographic landmarks getting some photoreal attention! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex330 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Just :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty073 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Bring it on even if i dont venture out of OZ much i will just buy it to support Orbx. Looks stunning though. Sorry Megascenery Earth you have just lost my vote. Hang on they never had my vote. Oh well wheres my beer Shane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimshot Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Just spectacular Looking forward to more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolb Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Looks amazing, where is the prepay button? Keep up the great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Mason Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triton Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Bring it on... really looking forward to seeing how this one develops. All the best for 2009 Maurice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Sandmann Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Hi guys, glad to hear you like the previews. More to come in the New Year. I just wanted to point out two small "issues" with our previews. One is that the captions for Mount Baker are misspelled Mount Barker and the other is that our current base mesh files don't yet include the more recent airborne laser elevation data for Mount Saint Helens, meaning the steadily growing dome in the crater's center - see http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/ - isn't visible in my preview shot. The source imagery for the mountains are 1-m resolution airphoto mosaics of the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). I believe MegaSceneryEarth uses the same images but they are challenged by the fact that they are covering entire states, which pretty much precludes detailed color corrections let alone seasonal variants. For example, my raw image subset for Mt Rainier alone is >2GB (the final FSX scenery file is much smaller) just about the upper limit of what Photoshop can handle for image processing without driving one nuts waiting for file caching to keep up. Merry Christmas all! Cheers, Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnip Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 LOL Never caught the "Barker" slip. Funny stuff. Hey Holger, seems as if you have hit a nerve with these shots. I STILL stand by my prediction that PNW will be ORBX best seller. Mark my words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ollyau Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 LOL Never caught the "Barker" slip. Funny stuff. Hey Holger, seems as if you have hit a nerve with these shots. I STILL stand by my prediction that PNW will be ORBX best seller. Mark my words. Yep, I agree, PNW will probably be a best seller ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 due to sheer number of simmers in USA, it stands to reason that PNW WILL be the best seller for ORBX. Looks great, yet another thing to look forward to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxpax444 Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Looking good guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I assume you guys are going to make it so good that we can fly a bellyflopper around the rim of the volcana like in the videos on the St Helens website and it will look almost identical, and also, i would love to see spirit lake look like it really does with the tree debris all through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahaka Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Its great to see you have blended some photoreal scenery with the landclass, it really gives mountains, especially volcanoes, a whole new dimension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ja-durant Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 I am just deleting all my 'mega scenery' products.Come on Orbx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter Dog Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 And with the exception of the beautiful OZx Grand Canyon, I will then have another place to fly other than home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldpropfan Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Wow , this is going to be great, can't wait to see more shots as you develop the various new textures. Any idea how large the coverage area will be and will you be including the "dry side" for those of us that live in central/eastern Washington and Oregon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Sandmann Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Hi Al, our PNW coverage area is shown in this thread: http://orbxsystems.com/forums/index.php?topic=7117.0 The dry parts of the Pacific Northwest will have to be a different FT package for the same reason we split Australia into four parts: climate. As you know the landscapes of eastern Washington and Oregon (as well as the dry interior of BC) look very different from the wet side of the Cascade Ranges and thus require an entirely different set of ground textures. Cheers, Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldpropfan Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Thank you Holger, missed that thread. Understand the texture issue and figured that might be the case but I was hoping :'(. Huge coverage area though, guess I'll have to dig out my webbed feet and go over to the "wet side" . Looking forward to when this goes up for pre-sale, I use most of the sceneries you put out for FS9 so I know this'll be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreigndevil Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Wonderful! FTX NA BLUE PNW is going to rock! Excellent scenery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solareagle Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 More! More! More! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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