Orbx TrueEarth for Xplane is available!

[majorbyte]

I've just purchased the Southern England version, can't wait to try it out

[John W]

Here is a link to check it out.
https://orbxdirect.com/product/gbr-south-xp11?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Release&utm_campaign=GB%20South%20XP&utm_source=OrbxDirect+Customers&utm_campaign=cee916de4b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_13_12_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d196806e9b-cee916de4b-210929025

Give us an update on it and how it affects the fps please.

[🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉]

Would advise holding off purchasing for now. I find myself along with many others have downloaded and installed it, only for it not to work. First impressions are not good.

[SurfinGremlin]

Installed succesfully for me, 3 hard drives in my system. Takes a while though.

My thoughts are:

If you've already got high ZL ortho and GB Pro, consider the purchase carefully. You'll get lower resolution ortho, but more appropriate auto gen objects and placement. It also seems to run better with more objects. Colouration is good, possibly a little too light especially on the beaches. Of course the tiles are nicely masked as well, so the coast looks quite nice (cliff textures are mostly wrong all around Cornwall though).

[John W]

My first installation failed to load due to an error not being able to find a file. I went online and discovered you need to have the latest version of FTX Central installed, which it did but after I had installed the scenery. After uninstalling and reinstalling everything is working. Checking it out now.

I don't have ortho scenery. Too much trouble for me and I don't want to purchase more hard drive space at the present time. I also don't like ortho because it doesn't work with my TerraMaxx which generates seasonal textures. I suspected that this ORBX scenery would not work with it either and confirmed that a little while ago. One of the big let downs is the lack of seasons in XP11 (at lease for me).

To get descent fps with the ORBX scenery I have turned xEnviro off and am using the default XP11 weather. With xEnviro on I am getting about 22-25 fps. Unfortunately the haze created by the default weather ruins the scenery, makes everything fuzzy. I like the level of detail in the scenery and the terrain is more natural than the default XP11 scenery.

So overall I am very satisfied with how the scenery looks compared to the default scenery. Since the scenery is a bit pricey, in the future I will wait for it to go on sale before making any future purchases. For me the cost is too high for the amount of scenery you get compared to FTX scenery for FSX. But then again with FSX you have to purchase Vector, Open LC for your area and then specialized scenery like the True Earth Great Britain South. So it may be awash.

Now all I need to do is wait for xEnviro to eventually provide seasonal textures (which is supposed to work on all scenery, even ortho). In the mean time if I want to fly in this scenery area in Winter I will have to disable it in xOrganizer.

[PvWolf666]

Hmmm, I have a 4 gig HD filled with Ortho, so may not bother. Mine is all zl16, except for the UK which is zl17. I thought it was gonna be an good price and an essential purchase, but for just Southern England its a no. I expected the whole of the uk for that price, or at least the whole of England. I live in the north and that is my base when flying in the UK

[John W]

Originally posted by PvWolf666:

Hmmm, I have a 4 gig HD filled with Ortho, so may not bother. Mine is all zl16, except for the UK which is zl17. I thought it was gonna be an good price and an essential purchase, but for just Southern England its a no. I expected the whole of the uk for that price, or at least the whole of England. I live in the north and that is my base when flying in the UK

Remember that the ORBX scenery is more than just the underlying textures, it's buildings, trees, improved roadways, etc.

I would be interested in hearing how much disk space the equivalent textures would take up using ortho compared to the 126.37G of disk space required for the ORBX scenery.

[🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉]

Originally posted by SnottyGremlin:

Installed succesfully for me, 3 hard drives in my system. Takes a while though.

My thoughts are:

If you've already got high ZL ortho and GB Pro, consider the purchase carefully. You'll get lower resolution ortho, but more appropriate auto gen objects and placement. It also seems to run better with more objects. Colouration is good, possibly a little too light especially on the beaches. Of course the tiles are nicely masked as well, so the coast looks quite nice (cliff textures are mostly wrong all around Cornwall though).

OK, might not be that then. The bugs in FTX Central don't help one bit either.

[Pemalu]

A couple of bigot bits after downloading - forget the hassle of Ortho - ORBX is a game changer. Probably won’t work with terra max seasonal stuff unless someone tells me different?

[robbio71]

I was using GB Pro with ZL17 Ortho before and I'm blown away by the Orbx TE Scenery. The colour matching and incredibly accurate and dense placement of trees are absolute highlights and I also get better framerates with Orbx. Textures look better to my eyes (I use VR) mainly because of the consistency. I'm very happy with my purchase. I spent £15 on Elstree a year ago so £33 for all this is a no brainer.

Also some of the problems people are reporting are due to incorrect scenery order. At first I thought London was poor because I had very blocky generic objects where landmarks should be but once I sorted out the order everything was correct and looking awesome.

[PvWolf666]

I'll wait for the whole of England. As I say, I fly out of the North so I'll most likely rarely use it atm

[Paul Blythe]

Installed and working fine, impressed with the ortho & auto gen... Did disable GB Pro & X-Europe, plus deleted all the corresponding ortho4xp tiles first.

Pricing is no different to FTX England, Scotland & Wales, they're just splitting GB up differently this time. I'm happy that it'll be covering the IOM also.

[🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉]

In all my years of computing, this is by far the most stressful software I have ever had to download and install. Glad it worked for you guys, but at this point I'm leaning towards asking for a refund because it's wasting too much of my time.

[floydcox]

Same here, the program downloads 25gb of something then says converting or some such but completes in about 5 mins, then all i get is the missing files message and xplane 11 closes.

[John W]

Originally posted by floydcox:

Same here, the program downloads 25gb of something then says converting or some such but completes in about 5 mins, then all i get is the missing files message and xplane 11 closes.

Do you have the latest version of FTX Central installed? My version is 3.3.1.4.

[John W]

I was doing some sight seeing and can't seem to find Big Ben and the Ferris Wheel shown in the images on the ORBX Direct site. I have my world objects set to max and can't find them. Any hints?