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    Personally, I can imagine ORBX might switch to photo-based IF the sales for the initial products will be good. NL should be a trial balloon. Australia has been due for a remake anyway, well possible they might do it photo-based for AFS2, P3D and XP. It probably comes down to the question of availability of affordable satellite imagery. I think there is for NZ, but I don't know about AUS.

    Plus this all will take time, although I could imagine photo-based scenery being less labor intense than landclass, even more, as they have some assets (POIs, buildings etc.) already available. Not sure about this, though.

    Kind regards

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    was Australia the first Orbx scenery?

    Yes, I believe the company was called Oz scenery or something back then?

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    Yes, HiFlyer is completely right. They were called Ozx once and started with freeware. The freeware departement is still active under the old name.

    Amazingly, I find their (landclass based) Australia still a remarkably good scenery (without having ever been there, aside two stopovers).

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    Jak61,

    you are completely right. This question has to be spread over the German forums. I noticed only few German flight simmers in the international OrbX forum, although I suppose the German flight sim market is not a small one.

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    Hi Jakob,

    now I have read your comment and appreciate your support.

    Unfortunately the post of JV doesn't sounds very convincing:

    "If this happens at all it will be for AFS2, summer season only."


    Regards

    Rodeo

    Proud member and initiator of the Apollo50 team.
    Fly to Hawaii and feel happy.

    Like I stated on the ORBx forum, if they have access to high quality photoreal scenery of Germany, it would be a MASSIVE wasted opportunity if they listen to the negative nancies. In short, if you want detailed scenery for low and slow VFR flight, then high resolution photoreal with 3D objects and autogen is the ONLY solution.

    There's a point here that is important. If some existing companies have access to photos, but decide not to use them because AFS2 might be seen as a small part of their overall business model, would they license or sub-license the photos to a company that will support AFS2? I'd certainly be willing to look into starting an AFS2 addon company. I did it before in the MSFS world. I think the platform has a massive future.

    - Kenneth