Godzone Auckland scenery in FSX

[vonduck1]

Hi guys ...

In an attempt to make NZ a little more bearable until FTX NZ arrives, i bought Auckland scenery as the web page said it was 'usable' with FSX ... I have installed no problem and indeed applied the fix ... are there any other things i should be aware of in trying to run it in FSX? I just noticed that the ground is very blurry ....

Any way of making NZ green as opposed to Arabia?

Thanks guys as always!

Doug

[Adamski]

QUOTE (vonduck1 @ Jun 18 2009, 12:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi guys ...

In an attempt to make NZ a little more bearable until FTX NZ arrives, i bought Auckland scenery as the web page said it was 'usable' with FSX ... I have installed no problem and indeed applied the fix ... are there any other things i should be aware of in trying to run it in FSX? I just noticed that the ground is very blurry ....

You'll probably get an answer from Robin himself on this one. I've had the AKL scenery since my FS2004 days and have been running it for ages in FSX. Though it does have a few issues, it's the best available.

1) You get the odd duplicate roads running under the Harbour Bridge (etc.) - caused by NZTopo (which you should also install).
2) Yes - you do get some pretty ugly "gaps" in the ground - particularly around the airport itself - but the airport itself still looks great.

Being in Auckland myself, I have NZAA as my startup location in FSX and and hoping Robin will get round to re-working it at some stage. I have his NZWN and that is so much better!

The "greening" of NZ has been covered by a fair few threads here, I think. No real easy solution that I've seen ... yet ... but I may have missed it

[Timmo]

The ground is blurry due to the source aerial imagery being fairly low resolution and compiled with the FS2004 SDK.

As for the greening- Have a look here

http://flightsimtopo.freeblog.co.nz/

[vonduck1]

Thanks guys for the suggestions ... will take a looksee and give things a try ...

Cheers

DOug