Hi,
  I received PC Aviator's Mega Scenery 2004 New York today. It's well worth it. Everyone who has been mad, dont be. You have to see it for yourself. It places buildings accurately and the elevation data is excellent.  It has updated my home airport amazingly. The satellite imagery is also excellent, but in some places it is placed a little incorrectly, but its very good otherwise!!













I really like it. You can request more images by e-mailing me if you haven't decided on it yet. Thanks.
               Mike Phillips

I'm not impressed at all.  I don't think it is near the quality of Part 1.

Which is what I have been saying!

Hey mike I will take it that the quality of the images looks like it got buffered down by your paint program or photo capture program. But still when you look at Mega Scenery 1. They caught the detail of every major road in the city in detail.

I have a few (4 pics) requests

1. fly low next to the FDR Drive near the under path of the Queensborro bridge take a pic.

2. follow 1st ave uptown to the bronx across the willis ave. bridge and show me a pic of the housing develops in all of the area around!

3. Most important show me a pic of Yankee Stadium. I want to see if they created a new model or just stuck with the default looking model.

4. Take a pic of the Grand Concourse (the main through fare street through the south bronx.

Dude if they don't provide this much detail, I wouldn't be satisfied! How can you find your house if they don't even keep it real with these details of NEW YORK!

I tried to re enact your pics but couldn't find the locations in your pics. So I took a pic of Laguardia with the freeware scenery addon. There are two things I want you to take note of!



In this pic do you notice the parking lot in the background, How about the ATC tower next to the American Airlines Terminals (like the real one). I didn't notice either in your pic there!



On this swoop down of the runway, my intention was to catch a pic of the "Welcome to New York" sign at LaGuardia as in the real airport. Can't feel more homely then that! Is that their in Mega Scenery.

Let me ask you this .. Does your Laguardia have a fence around the airport?  ???! I will take another pic of that for ya.

I couldn't take a landscape pic of NY because I don't have any aircraft that can climb that high to catch that pic! The tomcat got to about 52,000 ft but I couldn't get the whole geography of manhattan in the pic.

Now by all means if Mega Scenery has improved I don't think your screenshots are impressing me. I think you need to up your resolutions and show me something.

Dude if Satelite positoning of objects is the only upgrade for new york you get with MegaScenery2004. I think PCAviator can keep it!

I am having fun with freeware addons that enhance the New York area and provide greater detail! That is what turned me away from it! Hope you enjoy your new Territory!

Mav,

Thank You Silver!
     Now do you get it Mav?
              --Mike

Well Then. Why Did you post here and say how horrible it was when you didnt even know what it was?
     

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I understand that NY is not as exciting as California.  I made my decision based on the pics at the official website for the scenery, and these pics back up what I saw on that site.  The textures are not as clear nor are they as vivid colorwise as the first version.  Take the highways for the biggest example.  They were much more pronounced in the first version and they actually showed a bit of depth in the way they were shaded.  It just looks like this scenery was rushed.

New York

Im just curious...are you sure you have all the display settings the same in both screen shots?  I ask because I noticed you have water effects on in the New York shot, but off in the So Cal shot.  I would think its possible that could effect terrain quality...I dunno, try to keep consistent if you are going to compare.

Oh ok, sorry about that.