It's not the plane or sky you should be looking at in this pic. Its the ground scenery  !

I was exploring a website and I found this link to PC aviator direct, that offered ultra realistic looking Ground Textures for FS9!

I don't know if anyone is familiar with it, but it is called Mega Scenery USA 2004 from PC aviator direct. This is their link:

http://www.megascenery.com/title-lax.htm

Check out the video. It will have you thinking is this a really the game or a live video  ! Then to prove it is the game they take you into the virtual cockpit and give you an outside veiw to show you that it indeed the game. They claim to use actual Satelite imagery to give the dramatic realism this program offers.

Their are many more pics for you to check out at the site! I think this makes as real as it gets an understatement. It can't get any more real unless they put your body in the plane and send you up!

The only bummer is this program comes in Volumes for certain areas of Fs9 and doesn't work on all the ground textures in the game. But who cares! The first Volume is LA and San Diego. If they come out with New York and Florida I will be happy. But they said they are doing all States!

p.s. : just took note the pic isn't coming out, don't know why I used the correct spelling and checked it twice and used capital letters for JPG and it won't come out, just check out the website for tons of pics anyhow! You will be impressed!

I resized it too, your right thats stunning! Is it payware? If so this should be in the payware screenshots forum..... naughty boy!

Jeez! Did ya have to show that, now i want it!

Why ain't the default scenery like that?

Great shot.

hmm....as far as i can see it,those textures are just some kind of relief stuff.
i wouldn't buy it,i'd rather wait for the release of V2 of the free relief textures for FS.

the free relief textures were just released on avsim....gotta check 'em out now. 

The problem with the "megascenery" is you have to be at a substantial altitude to get the effect.
Also, if you fly out out the covered area, you are in for a bit of a jolting scenery change.
I tried the demo but really didn`t like it.

As for the freeware "relief"  ground textures, they make the ground textures seem out of focus/out of place to me. The effect is way out of scale. Furrows in fields seem 10 feet deep even at high altitude, for example.
The "relief" autogen textures make the buildings look kind of primitive, hand drawn, rough textured even when they shouldn`t be.

Of course, they`re just my opinions and you are free to tell me I must be blind and should hand in my medical. 

Bird man or Mav316  ???

Very good shot and yes, that piece of work does look realistic. You must have some good OS to run FS2004 at full settings and have these great pictures, very nice indeed !

I just can't wait for volume 3 of Megascenery, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA!  HOME BABY!!  Now my hometown will actually exist in the game!  MS kinda left it out.  Haha I want to see my house in flight sim!  8)  I don't think Megascenery is something you can truely appreciate unless you live in, or are extremely familiar with the area.  

Sorry I have been away guys, New York just got hit with a monster blizzard and I have been at work and home sleeping since I posted this.

This is a payware addon scenery, Thats a screen shot I took from their website, though I still think my PC can handle that level of detail with ease. I had to share this with everyone when I saw it. It blew me away and when I saw the video at the site, I just said I have to get this! I can't wait until they make a NEW YORK version!

Has anyone actually gone to the website and seen the video and how detailed it looks. At one point it looks like a live video and not a game! 

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Yean I have tried the Southern California version, but I do not currently have it installed as my computer crashed about a month ago.  It works great.  Performance is if anything, a little better with Megascenery!  Many have reported that, and while I don't think it's a huge difference, I do agree, it runs just as well, if not SLIGHTLY smoother than the default mesh.  However, it is true you do have to be at a somewhat substantial altitude to get the true effect...but can't the same be said about the default mesh??

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This is exactly why I cannot wait for the Northern California Megascenery release.  In adition to it being my "home", most of my flight simming consists of Southwest Airlines California and Nevada routes.  It is hard to deal with the transition visually from Megascenery to default as you leave the covered area, but it will be a lot better having both the departure and arrival areas covered for doing Nor Cal to So Cal routes or vice versa.

Yeah the default LA area is very boring.  Since its such a heavily populated area, the default textures are so redundant that it just looks like some huge light brownish carpet layed across all of southern California.

Silver1SWA

Spot on with your comment - if I saw scenery for my area in Scotland I would be right in there - elsewhere, although I might admire, I would not buy.

I do not have any hang ups on paying for good s/ware products - its just that there are soooooo many and one has to curtail it.

regard

IanR

PC Aviator just announced a release date of January 4, for MegaScenery 2 : New York! At first the title alone made me want to go out and buy it! But the screenshots weren't as impressive and the LA and Sandieago area. Simply put it looks like the default scenery with little or no real improvements. I will have to see if they release a video click of the New york area in use before I go buy this.

Well darnit Mav, ya got me lickin my chops for this!
But I geuss ya gotta get me back for droolin ya with my FD3 thread. 8)

Well I geuss im gonna have to jump on the bandwagon, and go for it, especially now tha I've got another of Flight 1's products........the Cessna 310 Twin! And what a beauty she is and with the text-o-matic pepaint installer utility, config-o-matic as well. Im lovin this babe!
So I know they got the good stuff!
Here's a shot or two of my 310 :
At Oxnard:

In flight over Cali.

At my enhanced Pancho's airstrip

As the "Songbird" at the Flying Crown Ranch(Sky King)

"Out of the clear blue of the western skies comes.......Sky King!" 8)

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I remember when I said this and now I am disappointed at what they created!

did ya happen to look at the MEGA SCENERY NEW YORK tread I started. Those pics look worst then the default textures, even at night and they want my $40 bucks for that! I don't think so, they can do a whole lot better then that!

That is brilliant! I'm gonna buy myself some of that!