I have used x-plane in the past, however it failed to run properly on my current computer so I gave up on it.

My guess is that wellington will look pretty un-wellington-ish in default X-plane - default x-plane is from what I remember very basic, for example there are no airport buildings at all. It has the capacity to produce astonishing results, but for that you need some pretty heavy-duty scenery add-ons - which are available, but with a even heavier-duty price tag.

I could try getting it (X-plane) up and running again on my new rig which arrives soon...

hsvfan wrote on Jan 24^th, 2008 at 2:50am:


Not expert on that sort of thing.... all I can tell you from memory is that it uses a set of repeating textures that produce annoying patterns on the ground.

nope not anymore guys, Austin and his team started making Global Scenery since V8 and they're now on V9. All taken from sattelite data etc.











There's Manchester, NH. Only one airport has buildings in Xplane 8 and 9 (the default airport) because Austin just doesn't have enough manpower at Laminar to add buildings to more airports at the moment. They don't have seasonal textures yet either, but promised it was coming soon. However, many add on developers design airports for it. Also they have some really nice reflective water which is a big feature for V9 (can't run it on my laptop) another feature is full 3d cockpits for some planes, and now a few airplane add-on makers are starting to pick up. Theres also 3d clouds and autogen buildings and such, don't have them in the shots here though. I'll take some soon. Getting 27 FPS+ in case your wondering.

to see the whole feature list+extra shots go to
http://www.x-plane.com/beta

for even more shots go to x-plane.org, and then go to the screenshots forum and look in the newer topics in "What plane did you fly today" (it's a sticky) and any of the ones in the thread: X plane 9 beta screenshots

and finally, www.global-scenery.org has some nice shots of V8 global scenery, but it's not as good as V9.

I'll take shots of your hometown soon. 

I think V8 was 30m, and V9 has been improved according to austin, and you can certainly notice it in several areas.

Thanks Captain T38 those shoots are great
While you are up flying  you couldn't head north to Upper Hutt and take a couple  of shoot 

Thanks heaps for the screens so far, its making X plane look very tempting

Cheers

Rhys

Wow...Cloud shadows!! I was hoping FSX would have that...Shame it doesn't

CaptainT38, make sure you put the next images as a bunch of links...Otherwise, the 600KB limit will be busted...I don't wanna see these shots gone to waste

at Innsbruck, Austria (LOWI), no doubt, and at a few other places too, such as the alps and the grand canyon. Not the whole world, however, even though most of it has been improved since V8

However it's  very possible the global mesh is 7m, and I don't really have much authority to say whether it is or not 

edit: just found a very nice video uploaded yesterday. This is X plane 9 at the Balearic Islands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqdJSPu-DvQ

I like the water textures...Look really nice