MegaSceneryEarth Cities UltraRes - Meh...

[DAL1850 51]

MSE has just released the first of their MegaSceneryEarth Cities - UltraRes. You be your own judge, but I was underwhelmed. The biggest visible difference is largely seasonal (these are clearly late autumn or possibly early spring and devoid of foliage). It's redeeming quality may be uniformity and the water - the banding is largely gone. Might be good for the immediate city, the cape, and the islands around Martha's Vineyard. For my own setup, I may just cherry-pick the BGL's I want.

 

Anyway, here are some screenies:

 

Before UltraRes (MSE NH / MA 2.0):

 

http://btfy.me/c28t4p (Merrimack River near NH border)

 

http://btfy.me/k6qjx9 (Martha's Vinyard)

 

After Boston UltraRes:

 

http://btfy.me/jcdp2q

 

http://btfy.me/pdy2xb

 

I should also add, these sceneries have monster load times.

 

That said, I will probably get NYC if they do it right as Long Island is a hot mess in MSE NY 2.0 (they really ought to be giving this area away for free to existing NY 2.0 customers IMO, Long Island is that bad):

 

http://btfy.me/6rbc89

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[DAL1850 51]

I think this showcases the better aspects of the scenery. Here the improvement in visual fidelity is a no-brainer.

 

Boston Downtown (MSE 2.0):

 

http://btfy.me/7rfc3x

 

Boston Downtown (UltraRes)

 

http://btfy.me/48qxmd

 

(Open these URLs side-by-side tabs in your browser and flip between them to really see the "pop")

 

For the curious, the scenery boundary along the top of the image is FlyTampa Boston's photoscenery (which I need to disable).

[Manny 1,293]

FlyTampa Boston's photoscenery (which I need to disable).

 

How do you disable Fly Tampa Boston's photoscenery? do you know photoscenery file name FT uses?

 

I'd like to figure out the photoscenry file used by Aerosoft's citisceneries..Chicago and San Francisco. so when I get the meg acity for scenery for those two I want to disable the photoscenery of the areosoft cities and use just their buildings.

[DAL1850 51]

Under:

 

Addon Scenery\FlyTampa-Boston\scenery

 

Rename boston_photo*.bgl to *.bak

[PCAviator 37]

MSE has just released the first of their MegaSceneryEarth Cities - UltraRes. You be your own judge, but I was underwhelmed. The biggest visible difference is largely seasonal (these are clearly late autumn or possibly early spring and devoid of foliage). It's redeeming quality may be uniformity and the water - the banding is largely gone. Might be good for the immediate city, the cape, and the islands around Martha's Vineyard. For my own setup, I may just cherry-pick the BGL's I want.

 

Anyway, here are some screenies:

 

Before UltraRes (MSE NH / MA 2.0):

 

http://btfy.me/c28t4p (Merrimack River near NH border)

 

http://btfy.me/k6qjx9 (Martha's Vinyard)

 

After Boston UltraRes:

 

http://btfy.me/jcdp2q

 

http://btfy.me/pdy2xb

 

I should also add, these sceneries have monster load times.

 

That said, I will probably get NYC if they do it right as Long Island is a hot mess in MSE NY 2.0 (they really ought to be giving this area away for free to existing NY 2.0 customers IMO, Long Island is that bad):

 

http://btfy.me/6rbc89

 

Fair comments. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say.

The Ultra-Res is more color consistent, and on closer look you can see the resolution upgrade with the Ultra-Res package when flicking back and forth between your before and after screens.

 

Thanks for posting your thoughts.

[TheGrunt 44]

I also bought yesterday Boston along with the Massachusetts and took short flight around the Boston city centre and I liked it a lot. Is it worth the price? One have to judge it by themselves. I don't regret buying this at least for the discount price. I didn't notice that big increase in the loading times and flight was extremey smooth in P3D. I only have those sceneries + meshes activated which I use in the flight, though.

[Manny 1,293]

Under:

 

Addon Scenery\FlyTampa-Boston\scenery

 

Rename boston_photo*.bgl to *.bak

 

Thank you