USA Ground Textures for FSX

Wow, I checked their website and it looks very impressive. Thanks Dave. Great screenshots. I'm tempted to buy this.

Looks like B1900D works for FSX too?

Why do you need FSX USA Ground Textures now that you have UT? Does not UT cover the ground textures too?

Thanks Dave.

Naresh

Modified Ground Textures for the USA:

With these textures I have tried to solve three problems, in the first place, to deal with the 'desert' problem that so many people have complained of, secondly, to deal with the winter textures and thirdly and finally to deal with the autumn textures. With regard to the 'desert' problem, I have modified the default textures in tone and colour to try, so far as is possible, to reduce or eliminate the barren brown colour of the default textures. The result is that mountainous areas now no longer look as if they are covered with sand! In addition, since I found the drab washed-out fawn colour of the winter textures utterly unrealistic I modified those, too, in an attempt to make winter look more like winter! Finally, I thought that many of the autumn textures were too orange so I desaturated them a little as well as making one or two other little changes.

So far as the USA textures are concerned, my biggest difficulty was with the large number of non-field textures: there are, for example, textures to represent many different types of desert terrain, bare desert, semi-desert sage, semi-desert shrubs and the list goes on. I do not live in the US so I have no direct experience of what such landscapes looks like. I relied in part on Google Earth to get some impression of the appearance of the types of various terrain but there are obvious difficulties and problems with this. The satellite photographs are affected by, amongst other things, dirt in the atmosphere as well as by the way the images have been processed and coloured. It might well be, therefore, that in some cases the textures do not provide an accurate representation of the landscapes they are supposed to be representations of.

Part of the readme file

Dave<br /><br /><!-- editby --><br /><br /><em>edited by: daveraine, Sep 28, 2007 - 02:26 AM</em><!-- end editby -->

Dave,

I downloaded all the 16 textures for USA and Europe from AVSIM. Thanks alot. Looks promising. I will report back when I install them.

Naresh

Jerry,
No differance in frame rates when using UT for FSX.

Dave

Well, not for me.

It adds ground vehicles traffic to urban roads as well. Now the FSX world has been so lively. I have disabled traffic on urban roads. Less performance when enabled.

Not to mention the night life. Wow, just amazing. I have UT USA for FS9 too and this FSX version is more complex.

Thanks Dave for recommending this add-on. It is money well spent.

Info on UTX:
<a href="www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=utxusa">www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=utxusa

Naresh