Hi Res aerial images of the UK and Switzerland are included in the free Europe #2 DLC.
Yes, I have that, and it doesn't look hi-res to me
Hi Res aerial images of the UK and Switzerland are included in the free Europe #2 DLC.
Yes, I have that, and it doesn't look hi-res to me
Strange Machloop looks gorgeous to me
Hi Martin - I think there's a disconnect between what I'm expecting and what I'm seeting. Would you be able to take a screenshot over an easy-to-find area showing a fair amount of ground texture so I can compare with what I'm seeing?
Even the UK images gain resolution if user orthos are installed.
Here a comparison of IPACS orthos and IZ0JUBs Isle of Wight (1m)
AFS4 with IPACS standard cultivation - quite impressive!
AFS2 with user cultivation - and MUCH longer loading time.
Conclusion:
Have the best of both worlds:
AFS4 with user orthos in addition.
Thanks for that, TomSimMuc. I'm seeing the same as your first two, so, as I suspected, what they consider hi-res is very different to what I consider hi-res. In my mind, that second shot (which is what I see), is VERY low-res. Honestly, if I'd know that was the quality of the "hi res" textures, I likely wouldn't have bothered. If we need to use our own textures, what's the point?
But thanks for the clarification. I can now at least stop looking into why I don't have them lol
Thanks for those Martin - I think I've established the problem from Tom's post above, but thanks for the additional comparison. I must've got spoilt from "other sims" but these don't seem hi-res to me. And if we need to provide our own textures, then I really don't think this is for me any more. I'll keep tinkering - I can't help myself, but I'm pretty disappointed so far.
I see the use of the user-images more as can or may and not as must. Already with FS2 I liked to use the user images, why should I not do that with FS4 anymore, since I have them all? In total, I have 1.14 TB.
Conclusion:
Have the best of both worlds:
AFS4 with user orthos in addition.
Yep, totally get that's absolutely fine for those who want to do it. I was after a good out-of-the-box experience, and I'm not getting one, hence my disappointment.
Also depends on the type of flying we're doing - I'm doing low and slow in helo's so every imperfection pops out at me. I'd notice it less having a blast along in a fast yet.
Especially for low altitude helicopter flying (which is also my thing) I find the user images very good, both on FS2 and FS4.
The biggest fail for AFS4 is the inability to generate user object, cultivation and airports at this point. This is a must.
Yes, this is absolutely essential to be able to "expand the world" - and new user experiences.
As I have a lot of splendid sceneries worldwide made by enthousiast makers for AFS2, will there be available a kind of conversion-tool to make these sceneries usuable in AFS4. As I readed in several posts about, I think only the image-files are fully compatible, right?
I have also raised same question to Orbx in their forum for their sublime made Addon's in the past for AFS2.
Considering the relative high priced successor I remain using AFS2 until some of above mentionned sceneries are also available in full usage for AFS4.
Looking forward to any suggestion about, thank you.
At the moment, in my own experience, the images are fully compatible and the elevation should be according to Jet-Pack (IPACS) .
I think only the image-files are fully compatible, right?
Elevation files do work too, but i have some reservation here. I would not use them in areas where there is mesh and cultivation supplied by AFS4. I tested this on the canary islands. I started to see floating objects. If no mesh is supplied, this is certainly a good way to make use of it.
So do we just copy the images folder from the various free sceneries to the images folder in FS4? (Plus elevation if there is any).
So do we just copy the images folder from the various free sceneries to the images folder in FS4? (Plus elevation if there is any).
Thats what i did
Display MoreAFS4 Tenerife with
Taburife's elevation (which indeed are very good for the Canaries)
IZ0JUBs Orthos and
IPACS cultivation
Looks good for me:
Not good for Gomera, Hierro and La Palma airport. Tenerife works.
So do we just copy the images folder from the various free sceneries to the images folder in FS4? (Plus elevation if there is any).
I have all user files on my Mac in the folder
So it is very easy for me to copy images from
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