New Zealand FSX Texture Experiment

[nzcoaster]

Hi all

I've just done a simple test and like what I see

Firstly I have NZ 20metre mesh and NZlandclass installed fromGeographx which is great in FS9 and FSX however we all Know the bland textureset that FSX uses for NZ even with the FS9 NZ Landclass so I thought I would make a backup of my texture dir (the big one (Scenery\World\Texture) and then copy all my FS9 textures from the same place in FS9 and overwrite the FSX ones

The results were amazing although a mix of high and low rez textures I like it , Now if only I could workout which FSX hi rez textures of Green Hills and Trees I could use to give it a boost. Hmm

Give it a try if your game just make a backup of your orginal textures first
Heres some screen shots of Wellington to show contrast

FS9_FSX

[JonARNZ]

Looks good, I know a few people are doing this as a way around the current desert scape in FSX, your intial tests are very encouraging.

I would be interested to see the Christchurch area, this is particularly bland, as are the southern alps, any chance of some screenies from those areas?

[nzcoaster]

sure I'll post some in a jippy

Greg

[nzcoaster]

Should be there now

Mixture of various seasons mostly summer A few Winter alps and a spring

Cheers Greg

[kiwiarcher]

Well done, look much better, keep up the good work.

Rob

[JonARNZ]

Thanks for that Greg, quite a contrast and improvement over X default. Have you figured out what textures do what yet?

[ChrisL]

I'm still using FS2002 Pro and am looking at getting a newer FS. Based on this thread it would appear that FS2004 has better scenery rendering than FSX. Is that true? Isn't FSX newer than FS2004 though?

[Adamski]

QUOTE (nzcoaster @ Dec 28 2006, 01:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Give it a try if your game just make a backup of your orginal textures first
Heres some screen shots of Wellington to show contrast

FS9_FSX

I get this ...

Oops... there's nothing to see here. Either you do not have access to these photos, or they don't exist at this web address. Please contact the owner directly to gain access.

Is it a private gallery?

[AlisterC]

This post is over two years old, it's likely the original gallery is long gone.
Chris, first things first, what sort of computer specs do you have? If you are running FS2002 at present you may find your computer not up to the ability to run FSX anyway, so be careful before you spend your money. Perhaps try the FSX demo: http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimul.../downloads.html

Remember the actual game will probably run better as you can apply some patches from Microsoft.

Which is 'better' is as much a personal opinion than fact in many cases, like the Ford vs Holden battle - and this forum prefers not to have FS2004 vs FSX arguments. Personally - I think FSX is better at rendering the world scenery (it's the newer game, so it should be right?), especially viewed into the distance. However, FS2004 is slightly greener in colour vs FSX which has been labelled by many as a 'desert', and perhaps that is more to your tastes. View some screenshots, and see what you think looks best to you.. there are plenty in this forum

[toprob]

The original post is 2 years old (yesterday) so it makes sense that the linked images no longer exist.

ChrisL -- I think the issue was that people were comparing a FS2004 laden with years of addons and improvements, with the straight-out-of-the-box FSX. If you were to replace the FSX ground textures with FS2004 textures, you would give up one of the best things about FSX -- high resolution ground textures.

[ChrisL]

QUOTE (Albatross @ Dec 29 2008, 03:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Chris, first things first, what sort of computer specs do you have? If you are running FS2002 at present you may find your computer not up to the ability to run FSX anyway, so be careful before you spend your money. Perhaps try the FSX demo: http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimul.../downloads.html

Well it would be nice if it can run on my laptop which runs at 2GHz, has 512Mb RAM and 32Mb radeon 7500 integrated graphics. I know it's not fantastic and the graphics adapter is going to be limiting but the RAM would be an easy upgrade.

I have a desktop with a p4 2.6GHz and 512Mb RAM and 256MB Nvidia 6800 AGP card. Also have a 3GHz hyperthreading machine in the pipeline. I'm always messing about with hardware so I'll take care of any shortcomings in that area as needed.

I notice only fs2004 and fsx get mentioned in this forum. Is there any reason why the scenery downloads available can't be used with fs2002?

[toprob]

QUOTE (ChrisL @ Dec 29 2008, 04:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I notice only fs2004 and fsx get mentioned in this forum. Is there any reason why the scenery downloads available can't be used with fs2002?

Normally any new sim has some degree of backward compatibility, but almost no forward compatibility. That means that most modern techniques just won't work in an older sim, because the rules have been changed.

FS2004 is considered a classic; FS2002 was considered a dog:)