From: Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://www.megascenery.com/images/ba3n.JPG
> http://www.megascenery.com/images/ba3w.JPG
> http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/gallery/test/VanNuysCA.jpg
Speaking from personal experience,
* I find that omitting horizon haze makes the two MSFS look quite silly.
* The visibility is ridiculously good for both the MSFS examples and it only
looks like that for a couple hours after a really good rain storm has hit.
The FGFS visibility is too good as well, but at least Catalina is merging
into the horizon haze layer and is realtively hard to find/identify.
* The way buildings are added to MSFS looks quite reasonable around downtown.
* The isolated buildings meld in quite nicely in standard MSFS but look
really silly in the enhanced version because the texturing doesn't match.
* The enhanced MSFS scenery looks like the colormap has been modified
and a hyperresolution algorithm has been applied to try to show detail.
This would be fine except that it has made the pixelation really obvious.
* Freeways are really obvious in real life, even in urban areas, and I find
both FGFS and enhanced permit reasonable IFR. Basic MSFS hides freeways.
* They all show the reservoir, but FGFS doesn't apply a texture around the
edge to imply the white zone without vegetation due to changing levels.
* Both the main airports in the field of view are far too easy to see in
FGFS, and you can even see Hawthorne and Long Beach's (?) locations too.
That is definitely wrong; even LAX should be almost invisible from here.
* In terms of bringing out navigational details, basic MSFS doesn't show
the ridge of raised land at all, which is a major terrain landmark.
A couple of years ago, I posted photos corresponding to this screenshot:
http://www.megascenery.com/images/lax/SanDiego6.jpg
If you have them still, you can compare the coloring and notice
just how different it looks. Almost unrecognizable ... I can only
infer the location by the shape of the reservoir and adjacent mountain
and then confirm by the indian casino on the left side of the image.
FGFS has the mountain and reservoir (don't know about the casino offhand).
Amusingly, the other screenshots for San Diego area all appear to have
been selected for being inside the class B airspace (this one is right
on the hairy edge of the airspace and probably only just in the clear).
Maybe they're trying to make it difficult to take comparative photos?
Hope that helps, Erik ...
Alex
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