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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: infus1on on June 16, 2011, 05:48:23 am

Title: Will other scenery get the Zurich treatment?
Post by: infus1on on June 16, 2011, 05:48:23 am

Great news about the updates to LSZH. Will any of FSDreamteam's other airports get the Zurich treatment. KJFK and KORD would be great to see with the same techniques. Thanks in advance.

Mike K

Title: Re: Will other scenery get the Zurich treatment?
Post by: virtuali on June 16, 2011, 10:25:19 am

Yes, of course, it was already said in another thread.

KORD will be the next one, since the airport was upgraded too. We are going in chronological order, updating our oldest sceneries first. Zurich had to be the first, both because it was our first released scenery, and because the real world airport changed.

Title: Re: Will other scenery get the Zurich treatment?
Post by: global express on June 16, 2011, 01:18:39 pm

Simbio kindly replied to the message I sent him last month, confirming that Geneva will be updated after the Hawaiian airports have been finished - great news!  ;D

Title: Re: Will other scenery get the Zurich treatment?
Post by: AA777-200ER on June 16, 2011, 08:54:23 pm

A quickie question on your texturing method for Zurich & Chicago...current texture resolution (Dallas) or higher resolutions like LAX?

Thanks, Darryl

PS...like your competitive nature against the bigger developer!!!  ;D

Title: Re: Will other scenery get the Zurich treatment?
Post by: virtuali on June 16, 2011, 09:22:27 pm

Quote from: AA777-200ER on June 16, 2011, 08:54:23 pm

A quickie question on your texturing method for Zurich & Chicago...current texture resolution (Dallas) or higher resolutions like LAX?

KLAX doesn't have higher resolution compared to KDFW, it's more stratified with more complex materials, and it uses 4096x4096 textures, but much less in number, which is more efficient than using many 1024x1024. What really makes KLAX better, it's the 3d modeling and the shadowing, but none of this applies to Zurich and Chicago updates, which will cover just the ground (apart for the obvious new Terminal B at Zurich).

Title: Re: Will other scenery get the Zurich treatment?
Post by: Brian S on June 17, 2011, 12:28:59 am

Does this mean the ground textures with the updated airports will work with DX10?

Title: Re: Will other scenery get the Zurich treatment?
Post by: virtuali on June 17, 2011, 12:54:14 am

Quote from: sssummer on June 17, 2011, 12:28:59 am

Does this mean the ground textures with the updated airports will work with DX10?

Yes, like at KDFW (and KLAX)

Title: Re: Will other scenery get the Zurich treatment?
Post by: commissioner on June 17, 2011, 01:06:41 am

Will the updates be for FS9 or FSX?

Title: Re: Will other scenery get the Zurich treatment?
Post by: virtuali on June 17, 2011, 01:13:02 am

Like Zurich, the airport update for KORD will be for FS9 and FSX, but the graphic update with DX10 ground with shaders will be FSX only, since none of it applies to FS9.

Title: Re: Will other scenery get the Zurich treatment?
Post by: Brian S on June 17, 2011, 11:48:31 pm

Quote from: virtuali on June 17, 2011, 12:54:14 am

Quote from: sssummer on June 17, 2011, 12:28:59 am

Does this mean the ground textures with the updated airports will work with DX10?

Yes, like at KDFW (and KLAX)

Good news!   ;D

Title: Re: Will other scenery get the Zurich treatment?
Post by: infus1on on June 18, 2011, 04:50:35 am

Well, I certainly appreciate the answer and I am really excited to see the enhancement of the airports. I have no problem with the performance of any of your products (and I own almost every one of your airports) but I do look forward to a visual update that resembles the quality of KDFW which is one of my favorite airports.