Thankfully, HSimulators once again steps into the breach with their Antarctica Mega Scenery XP12. Exploring beyond latitude seventy-four north or sixty south reveals a desolate void, filled not by the expected expanse of ice and snow but by featureless, open water. Despite its vast expanse, spanning over 5.5 million square miles and including the South Pole itself, Antarctica is practically non-existent in the default X-Plane landscape.Īs I previously highlighted in my review of HSimulators' Grand Arctic XP12, the default installation of X-Plane, unfortunately, offers only sparse coverage of the world's polar regions. The Antarctic, a desolate, icy wilderness at the southernmost part of the globe, has, much like its northern counterpart, been largely overlooked in the world of flight simulation. As we embark on this new journey, let's turn our compasses southward this time, to the other forgotten extreme of our planet: Antarctica. I am both thrilled and privileged to return once more to share with you my insights and impressions on the newest addition to the X-Plane 12 scenery library: Antarctica Mega Scenery XP12 by HSimulators. Personally, I did not find myself constantly looking around at the FPS counter while flying VFR around some of the most densely packed areas of the scenery.Scenery Review: Antarctica Mega Scenery XP12 by HSimulators Different people will take this in different ways - some view a 5 frame deficit as nothing to be worried about. Simply flying around London in the Aerobask Robin lost maybe 5 frames. On the whole, FPS rates were pretty good for a package of such size. The million dollar question: what is the FPS drop? I’d expect to have around 30 fps smooth in X-Plane on high settings outside of any very complex scenery areas.Īll tests were conducted on HIGH objects settings unless otherwise specified. I use a medium-spec rig consisting of an i5 7600, GTX 1060 6GB and 16GB of RAM. Performanceīefore I proceed any further on the topic of performance, I’ll quickly outline my PC specs and X-Plane 11 settings to avoid any confusion. It appears to "cut off" for about 20 metres. Currently FTX Central is only available for Windows, however, TrueEarth does support macOS and Linux platforms.Ī small bug with the access road to Stonehenge. FTX Central allows the user to install and update all of their Orbx products directly from one place, from one app. InstallationĪs with all Orbx products, X-Plane and otherwise, FTX Central makes it easy. Today, I will have a look at Orbx’s first such offering for X-Plane: TrueEarth Great Britain South. Since their dissolution a few years back in 2015, Orbx acquired their assets recently back in August which the team will utilise and gave it a new breath of life in future Orbx products (that, in addition to refreshing the released Earth Simulations products and making it available across MSFS/ESP platforms, Aerofly FS2, and of course X-Plane 11). These type of region specific detailed scenery was pioneered by the folks at Earth Simulations in the MSFS world. Instead of bucking the photo-scenery trend like the FTX series, Orbx introduced TrueEarth, which rides the orthoimagery wave and integrates high-quality, colour-corrected aerial imagery into its scenery packages. Something like the FTX series in X-Plane would be unlikely to sell very well due to the prevalence of Ortho4XP, a free tool that allows users to create photo-scenery for personal use. "I don't think that a product such as FTX Global would sell well in an X-Plane environment, escpecially with the prevalence of the freeware tool Ortho4XP."
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