Banks Peninsula

[happytraveller]

And the second flight, down and around the Banks Peninsula. This time, the Beech Turbine Duke. Due to the weather in CCh, this was not flown with real world weather this time!!











Now for the question. Do you think that all these screenshots look too green? I keep wanting to turn the green saturation down, and for me, there is too much green, almost a green tint over all the land. What do you think, ok or too much green? Off to Tekapo next to try out that area, but it will be interesting to see how Otago looks in summer. Certainly Rob got it 100% right with the RealNZ scenery. But so far, my first impressions are that the greens are too strong. I will also experiment with the different seasons.

Too much green or ok?

smooth landings.

[deeknow]

I dunno about it being too green, there's certainly a few bright green hues that look out of place. The thing I dislike the most is the autogen trees, they dotn look right, definately not natural NZ colours. In the forum posts the Orbx guys mentioned they were gonna alter the trees before release but looks like they havent.

On the plus side, the surface detail, farmland, hedge-rows etc do look very nice.

[toprob]

Actually their Banks Peninsula isn't bad in summer, this was the first thing I checked out, because one of their preview screenshots showed the view I see out my window here in Lyttelton, the south side of the harbour normally has a little green growth at the beginning of summer, but the rest of the year it is volcanic rock and dry grass. Their preview screenshot shows a lush green wonderland.

I think the issue is that they have assumed that since most aerial photos are mid-summer, they are at their driest, and the other seasons need to have the greens boosted. This is only really true in a few cases -- mainly pasture land. So there's just too much seasonal variation. Most landclasses here don't get any greener than Orbx's summer variant.

[happytraveller]

After this flight, I changed to Tekapo and Twizel, and also changed the season to autumn instead. Still far too green in my opinion. Normally it is like a brown desert there by summer, yet in Orbx NZSI, it was still green. Even the approaches to Mt. Cook were very green. It will be interesting to see what others think once they get to fly around.

So far, this scenery has not lived up to my hopes, but it is still early days.

Smooth landings.

[Ian Warren]

Its only Green down there cos Harry Head the local hermit grows his grass down there ..... whoops , hang on that was early last century and he was known to be a plane nutter!