Simviation Forum - Confused about REX, FEX, GEX, UTX & FTX

Jan 21^st, 2011 at 12:41pm

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I've been reading up on all these add-ons. But I can't figure out how they inter-relate.

The most common combination I find is FTX & REX.

Anyone care to elaborate?

Thanks for your time,
Joe

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Reply #1 - Jan 23^rd, 2011 at 9:22am

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Ground Environment X (GEXn) – Landclass Textures – Desert, mountain, low lands, wet lands, vegetation, rocks, etc.

Ultimate Terrain X (UTX) – Roads, railroads, rail yards, coastlines, rivers, streams, lakes, cemeteries, golf courses.

FS Genesis – Terrain mesh, accurate detailed terrain, renders mountains high, valleys low, ravines, mountain peaks, etc.

Flight Environment X (FEX) – Water, sky, clouds.

REX – Water, sky, clouds.

SceneryTech - Landclass, ice/snow in the Arctic Circle, sand in the desert, cities where cities should be, etc.

MegaSceneryX – Defines itself

MegaSceneryEarth – Same as MegaSceneryX – new name

Full Terrain Experience (FTX) – Superb scenery for Australia, this is not photo scenery, but it looks great and is highly accurate from what I have read.

I have all the above except REX and that is because I have FEX. REX provides features that FEX does not, get the one that sounds best to you. FSX looks fantastic with the above, I will say that after you get your new PC built you really should get a calibration package for your monitor. A properly calibrated monitor really brings out the best of FSX terrain.

I used this on my Asus VW266H TN panel and it worked great.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/496186-REG/X_Rite_XRCE_EZ_I1D2_EZ_Color_wi...

I use this on my current Viesonic VP2655wb IPS panel and this looks even better than the VW266H did.
http://www.integrated-color.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ICC&Prod...

If you decide to get one of the above calibration pakages let me know which one and I will PM you some calibration instructions that are better than what comes with the unit.

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Reply #2 - Jan 23^rd, 2011 at 10:57pm

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Skittles wrote on Jan 21^st, 2011 at 12:41pm:

I've been reading up on all these add-ons. But I can't figure out how they inter-relate.

The most common combination I find is FTX & REX.

Anyone care to elaborate?

Thanks for your time,
Joe

I have REX; GEX US, Canada, & Europe; UTX US & Europe; FTX AU Blue, US PNW, PFJ, & NRM.

I love them all, except I set UTX or GEX, can't remember which, to display photoreal cars and that was a mistake. I can't fix it due to current problems with my setup. REX is great for clouds and water, GEX for ground

textures, UTX for roads, etc. FTX is awesome ground scenery, and includes many, many airport upgrades, buildings, etc. I wish FTX was available globally. And every one of these works fine with all the others, no conflicts

other than runway lights, which is an easy fix explained in the FTX manual. I highly recommend all of them. I don't have any of the mega scenery but I have seen some very nice screenshots by people who have it. Don't

know about any possible conflicts.

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Reply #3 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 12:22am

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That's more info than I hoped. Thanks. If I get software with overlapping features, can I set which get rendering priority?

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Reply #4 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 12:35am

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That seems to be a steep price for color management... is that for a multi-monitor display?

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Reply #5 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 9:43am

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I do not have multi monitors so I can not say how well it would work.

You can join the support forums at Integrated-Color (ColorEyes Pro) and ask.

It will have to do with how you have the monitors hooked up. If you are driving all monitors through one GPU output then the answer is no.

I think that hardware like TH2G takes one GPU output and then splits it for multiple monitors.

If you have a GPU with two outputs and are driving one monitor off of each output then I think that there is a way to do it.

As far as the cost, look at it this way, people spend $2,000 or more on a PC and monitor, but they balk at spending $200 to calibrate the display of their $2,000+ system. To me that does not make a lot of sense. When I first calibrated my Asus VW266H I could not believe the difference, I had never seen colors and scenery look so good! Also the $200 you spend now you will be able to use for years.

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Reply #6 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 3:35pm

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idahosurge wrote on Jan 24^th, 2011 at 9:43am:

As far as the cost, look at it this way, people spend $2,000 or more on a PC and monitor, but they balk at spending $200 to calibrate the display of their $2,000+ system. To me that does not make a lot of sense. When I first calibrated my Asus VW266H I could not believe the difference, I had never seen colors and scenery look so good! Also the $200 you spend now you will be able to use for years.

Well, I have no idea how much difference it would make and it's just that my first thought was $200 seems to be a lot just for color management. I've ever even considered color management before, but I'll look into it.

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