Please note that I use Rex Accuseason and although this will not affect the scenery objects, it will make the scenes more vibrant and will have improved the foliage etc. Flights started in the early afternoon with partial cloud cover.
Also I should acknowledge that I refer to Little Navmap here sometimes as Navimap. That's me getting tongue tied between Navmap and Navigraph. it's pretty obvious that we are looking at Navmap though!
This review was carried out on Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10850K CPU @ 3.60GHz, 64GB RAM, RTX 3080, 4k. The Orbx product required a shift from Ultra to High-End in order to guarantee smooth frame-rate (but bear in mind that OBS - Open Broadcast System was also running concurrently).
Later on in this review I refer to an early review of Orbx London City Scenery for MSFS2020, posted by Gripper Sim, in which he raised quesitons about whther Orbx had repurposed older Flight Simulator objects from Flight Simulator 1996 or 2000; 'ORBX London City Pack London Butchered?!' This can be found at • Flight Simulator 2020 ... These issues were corrected in the aftermath by Orbx.
I question whether some older sim objects are present within the GB North Pack, whilst others have been refreshed or designed from new. What do you think?
0:00 Introduction - Excellent product with some shortfalls.
1:00 Discovering Points of Interest using Orbx Central - its not obvious.
1:50 Shortfalls of Orbx - no separate list of POI's.
2:12 Convoluted Method 1 to make a list of the POI's.
2:52 The 'buried' KML file and importing this in to Little Navmap (or Google Maps).
3:40 'User Guide' button in Orbx Central is broken.
3:55 I want to know precisely what I am paying for - users deserve a bit more.
4:19 Aberdeen Little Navmap flight plan.
5:56 Aberdeen Orbx and Non-Orbx side-by-side & observations.
10:14 Edinburgh Orbx and Non-Orbx flight plan.
10:37 Edinburgh Orbx and Non-Orbx side-by-side & observations.
17:18 Inverness Orbix fly around (no comparison) - range of objects.u
20:38 Fly over of Loch Leven Castle showing overly dark textures & wikipedia image comparison.
20:51 Reference to Gripper Sim's review of Orbx London City Pack and the use of sim objects from Flight Simulator 1996 or 2000.
23:05 Fly over of Campell Castle, as above.
24:31 'Roads and Joins' Illustrating where the scenery is not seamless (which may be a MSFS2020 issue).
25:00 Summing up. An excellent but not perfect product, with some shortfalls that could be remedied easily (improvements to the Orbx Central App, providing a detailed list of POI's, drawing attention to what is there already (i.e the KML file), and other shortfalls such as the poor texture and colour quality of what look like older models of architectural objects such as castles.
4 авг 2024
