Orbx announces FTX Global to be released in 2013!

[ak416]

So for someone running FSX Gold with ZERO scenery addons is this a one stop answer?

In a word, yes. Orbx is great at making their products very accessible. Everything comes with installers and is easy to set up, all the work is done for you. The products they make are also top notch, so with this covering the entire world, and now including landclass, the only thing you might want is mesh. This is assuming that Orbx's LC is of the same standards as their other products, of course, which I'm sure it will be.

Once FTXG is released, I as well as many, many others will be experimenting Im sure, to find what suits them best. The fact they are releasing these products in "layers" is really intriguing, as it allows for use of their textures without their LC/mesh, like their current regions. Given some of the other products out there, I wouldnt be surprised if certain configurations look better than current Orbx regions now.

[Vidken]

Getting it all from one place should help out the major downside of FSX multiplayer being an abstracted experience where everybody is essentially flying a different flight simulator while just happening to share position data on a server. Having mismatched scenery among a group of pilots is pretty discouraging. It makes it feel much less like a shared adventure.

[jj2414]

, the only thing you might want is mesh. This is assuming that Orbx's LC is of the same standards as their other products, of course, which I'm sure it will be.

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Can you explain "mesh" for a newb?

[Waterman981]

Mesh very simply is elevation data.

It will come in different resolutions. I have a bunch of the mesh from FSGenesis. North America is in 10 meter resolution. This means each elevation datapoint is 10 meters apart. Some of the default mesh in Africa is 612M resolution! So the lower the number, the more cliffs will look like cliffs and not like gently rolling hills.

Here's a post I made about mesh on the old forum that Kalo moved over: http://msflights.net/forum/showthrea...highlight=mesh

[ak416]

Spot on^

Now that FTX Global has entered the beta phase, new batches of screenshots are being posted over at the Orbx forum every few hours. I'm just going to post links to the posts instead of new screenshots for now.

FTX Global "The Good Ol USA"

FTX Global "Sweet Home Chicago"

FTX Global "Views From Japan"

FTX Global "Cairo and the Himalayas"

FTX Global "Johannesburg"

FTX Global "Around Switzerland"

FTX Global "From the Algarve, Portugal (P3D)"

FTX Global "From Biarritz to Perpignan"

[Storm]

Take. My. Money.

This is going to be the longest five weeks in simulation history.

[jj2414]

Looks like I started with FSX at the right time. So far it's only cost me 30 bucks. 100 bucks will take care of the whole world.

[Vidken]

This is the first time I considered buying a scenery package for FSX. I wasn't excited about the concept of buying a small scenery area and then having 99% of the group flights take place elsewhere. The fun of FSX is being able to fly anywhere. Being restricted to small chunks of nice looking areas while the rest of the planet looked like vomit wasn't particularly optimal.

[checesar]

I love ORBX Scenery. I can't wait to buy FTX Global!

[Waterman981]

Pushed back to July 15th. Nice post explaining what they are doing: http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/top...ate-june-2013/

And LOTS of SWEET screenshots! CBB7 and ENNK look outstanding!
Another Orbx Airplane! Vans RV4!

And just because... more exclamation points!!!!

[Waterman981]

Very soon now! The product page is up: http://www.fullterrain.com/product_ftxglobal.html

Hope ya'll saved up your pennies!

[Waterman981]

What does FTX Global include?

• ...
• 3D lights with FTX Day/Night Mode support
• ...

Not any more!

So for release we will have a fully automatic new 3D lighting system, and you won't need to use the FTX Day and FTX Night apps to disable the lights during the day anymore.

http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/top...m/#entry563319

Also... FTX Global will be released on SATURDAY! (Friday afternoon/night in US?!?) It's almost here! I'm just about done getting my new SSD install done, and this will finish it off!

[Waterman981]

I know I announced it in Teamspeak, but for everyone else...

FTX Global has been released!

http://www.flightsimstore.com/produc...oducts_id=2542

(56% done with my download at ~1.3 MB/s )

[jj2414]

Well it is definitely green! Phoenix isn't this green even in January.

They claim the lighting doesn't effect FPS ...it knocked 10 out of mine. It was enough to shut it off.

Overall it does look better but I don't think it is worth the 100 bucks.

[Waterman981]

Remember, if you don't have landclass to say what type of texture to put down, it's just using the FSX default.

But yeah, I fly around my hometown and it's a lot greener than real life, especially with the summer textures.