ChrisB 11 Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 I know you'd all like to see your own personal favourite areas... and I also know that there are people who say this, that or the other view of Germany is good or bad or not lifelike.The screenshots you see most here show "ideal" VFR conditions and the terrain looks all clean and bright. But...I have flown over the countryside many many times and VFR Germany will be really attractive to you VFR flyers. Over my many years as a helicopter mechanic and engineer I found that Germany is not really that often under a clear blue sky. Even in summer there is a haze layer that makes the countryside look like it's under heavy cloud once you go higher. Of course, as a tech and leftstick flier I got to know Germany more like this......flying down the Kocher river Valley and along the Neckar river towards the Rhine. Even though VFR Germany will bring you beautiful photographic scenery, I am sure that many of you will really enjoy Germany in simulated real weather conditions from a helicopter point of view.But however you fly VFR Germany, you are in for a big treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etien 16 Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 the swartz wald (foret noire) is part of this add-on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasa 921 Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 Does anyone on the VFR Germany Dev team have FSDreamscapes 5m mesh for Germany installed? If so, any comments? I presume that few of the dev team are using FSX default (76m) mesh for the Alps?! FSGlobal2008/FSGenesis both have 19m mesh for the Alps...Yes, I do. But we deliver our own 38m/pix mesh terrain for the German Alps (by Jonathan de Ferranti). But FS dreamscapes certainly doesn't look bad at all neither.Any chance to 3D model parts of the Zugspitizbahn? i.e. the top and bottom stations and the cable towers? That would be really cool! Nope, sorry. The area is too large for so much detail. But there's nothing that couldn't be added with a little freeware addon. Feel free and read the FSX SDKs. GrüsseSascha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidder 7 Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Does anyone on the VFR Germany Dev team have FSDreamscapes 5m mesh for Germany installed? If so, any comments? I presume that few of the dev team are using FSX default (76m) mesh for the Alps?! FSGlobal2008/FSGenesis both have 19m mesh for the Alps...Hi Konrad, here are some pics from the "Zugspitze"-area with FSDreamscape Germany activ. This mesh is absolutely great and works fine with VFR-GER-3.EDIT: the brown colored landscape in the background of my first screenshot is "Austria pro X"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharrow 107 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Hi MarkusThank you for posting these screenshots. Needless to say that it looks really good! Yep, I know the brown of Austria ProX very well. If possible could someone from the Dev team who also has Switzerland ProX installed get some shots over the Bodensee where these 3 (Swiss Pro, Austria Pro & VFR DE South) meet up?On a slightly different topic the VFR DE series does not contain night textures for well documented reasons but it is apparently possible to use UTX EU night lighting. Obviously default FSX roads would not be correct. Any experience with and/or comments about this? Flew along the Dutch border and the edge of VFR DE North and UTX and the roads match up perfectly - very perfectly in fact from what I could see.Konrad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidder 7 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Yep, I know the brown of Austria ProX very well. If possible could someone from the Dev team who also has Switzerland ProX installed get some shots over the Bodensee where these 3 (Swiss Pro, Austria Pro & VFR DE South) meet up?Hi Konrad have a look at VFR-Flightsimmer, where I've posted much more pics, even from the Bodensee-area:http://forum.vfr-flightsimmer.de/viewtopic...sc&start=21One can say that the colors from VFR-Ger 3 to CH pro match very good, but Austria pro looks horrible in this area .On a slightly different topic the VFR DE series does not contain night textures for well documented reasons but it is apparently possible to use UTX EU night lighting. Obviously default FSX roads would not be correct. Any experience with and/or comments about this? Flew along the Dutch border and the edge of VFR DE North and UTX and the roads match up perfectly - very perfectly in fact from what I could see.VFR-Ger 3 and UTX Europe match very good, specialy at night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharrow 107 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Thanks for the link - some great shots there. I am very impressed with the way Swiss Pro blends with VFR DE 3 - is Swiss Pro also at 1.5m per pixel res? Austria is always going to stand out here until someone perhaps updates the whole of Austria ProX with orthophotos. Some of the Austrian cities are already photorealistic but it would sure be nice to have the whole country done for the ultimate Alpine flying experience... VFR Innsbruck will certainly help.Konrad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big-mike 4 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Hallo Markus,hättest Du vielleicht bitte ein oder zwei Bilder von Freiburg für mich?DankeGrussMicha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidder 7 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Freiburg?Okay, here are my last pics from the beta. The finished product should be available next week for downloaders... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big-mike 4 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Hallo Markus,vielen Dank,sieht toll aus.GrussMicha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted January 29, 2009 Aerosoft Share Posted January 29, 2009 I know you'd all like to see your own personal favourite areas... and I also know that there are people who say this, that or the other view of Germany is good or bad or not lifelike.The screenshots you see most here show "ideal" VFR conditions and the terrain looks all clean and bright. But...I have flown over the countryside many many times and VFR Germany will be really attractive to you VFR flyers. Over my many years as a helicopter mechanic and engineer I found that Germany is not really that often under a clear blue sky. Even in summer there is a haze layer that makes the countryside look like it's under heavy cloud once you go higher. Of course, as a tech and leftstick flier I got to know Germany more like this......flying down the Kocher river Valley and along the Neckar river towards the Rhine. Even though VFR Germany will bring you beautiful photographic scenery, I am sure that many of you will really enjoy Germany in simulated real weather conditions from a helicopter point of view.But however you fly VFR Germany, you are in for a big treat.Ahh so true, most of the time the world is rather gray and only things below you got color. I love how FSX handles this, so much better then FS2004. The problem is that most of the simmers are used to a two decades of Disney cartoon style coloration in FS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para 0 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Its so quiet here. That's because you are preparing the release, right? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB 11 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 @ Para...It's "Foehn" in Bavaria - I guess they got lost in the fog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManuelL 71 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Oh boy, just saw it is released. You're killing me. My FSX has 230 GB already. If you continue like this I will have to get another HD soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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