Came out to look exactly was advertised... with amazing quality!

Dave, have you been able to tell any difference in the performance in areas with many trees? GEX Europe is supposed to have a partial fix for that issue. Please let us know.

Great quality stuff there Nick. 

Interesting!
While I admit it looks a lot better than default, I must say it doesn't look as good as FTX Australia.
I think I'll stay down under for now...

Sorry Nick, but I live in Europe, and it doesn't look like what I see in the pics at all....
I've been in Australia a lot too, and that does look like FTX,
hence my reservations...

Ah Nick, no matter how good something is, there's always someone with negative comments, "just for the sake of" and not necessarily "positive feedback" but just to be critical.  Your "stuff" is great and your reputation is beyond reproach.....
Great stuff
Ed

oh boy, I am doing something else.
There are three forums I regularly place contributions, and this is one of them, and indeed, you found one of the others. Over and over indeed...
On both, I see announcements for the product, and I give my opinion on the product, same as everybody else. Mine is different though...
I am a geologist, and make part of my money by looking at the countryside. Within FS, I thus like my scenery to be as real as possible. In this, I may be a bit more critical than others, but that's the way it is. I'd love the whole world in hi-res photoreal, but that just can't be done. Enter GEX and similar products.

In both threads, lots of people tell how good it looks, and even I say it looks better than default.
It just doesn't look convincing to me, too much like a computer simulation. For instance, there are too many fir trees, in general, the houses seem to big and too randomly placed, I do not like the colours, the textures in the screenshots are too grainy, and there are a few more things like that, in short, I am not convinced.
I know there is a 30day money back guarantee, but I still have not seen a convincing screenshot, so I see no need (yet) to try the 30 days. I'll keep following it though.

"fanboy thread crapping" seems a bit harsh for an honest opinion. I have had quite a bit of criticism on some of my paintwork, some nonsensical, some justified. The last has helped me to improve, the first has always been ignored. But you always wonder WHY they don't like it, and that leads to improvement too. Maybe I should have told more about what it is exactly that I don't like, sorry, I didn't.

But no worries Nick, I'll stay out of your hair, and wish you every bit of (well deserved) succes with it.
Should you want a more detailed version of my criticism, please send me a pm, OK?

NickN wrote on Nov 26^th, 2009 at 12:13pm:


Nick, I paint aircraft, I know nothing about making ground textures. I do buy ground scenery now and then, for my enjoyment, to enhance the reality of the sim. I know GEX is not photoreal, so I don't compare it to say FranceVFR, or mazzokan's stuff. FTX is, to me anyway, a replacement of the default ground textures with their own, and I thought GEX was too, so I compared those two. Was that so wrong?

NickN wrote on Nov 26^th, 2009 at 12:13pm:


I have been posting repaints all over the internet, always under my own name. You can find my e-mail with all my paints too, and my picture is on the outhouse. So you can't accuse me of hiding behind different names or playing games, I resent that accusation. This was my honest opinion, expressed on two forums where people know me, and where I have been posting for years. I do not favor any company. I paint what I like, and I buy what I like, and so far, nobody has ever paid me anything for any of my repaints. I have been offered models with the request to do a few paintjobs, but only do them if I like the model. If somebody brings out an (in my view) ugly Mosquito or Mustang, I say so. If somebody brings out a hugely overpriced (but good looking) Mustang, I say so too. If somebody has the roundels inverted of their new aircraft...you get the idea.
It is probably better not to, but I just can't keep my mouth shut....
Ok, I'll try again.

unknown wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2009 at 12:18pm:



From the Arctic circle (a little above) to southern Greece and Spain and with SceneryTech Landclass, parts of Russia



It also replaces trees and a lot of mountain terrian in North America too.