Orbx and Salomon Islands WW2

[William Njurmi]

Hello,

Orbx seems to have a lot of nice sceneries for the Papua New Guinea area but do they match with the marvellous Salomon Islands WW2 freeware which I would certainly priorize over Orbx?

[bsk1151]

Hi William,

I don't think that there will be any issues, as ORBX only offers some great looking airstrips and the Port Moresby airport on the PNG mainland. The Salomon Islands are too far away from it. I don't have the freeware Salomon WWII scenery, so I don't know how much of it stretches into the PNG mainland. There were some issues with the equally nice PacSim PNG airstrips and Global Vector, but not the ORBX airstrips (unless they covered the same airstrip). I'm not sure, whether this has been fixed by now. Whenever I flew in the PNG PacSim world, I used to disable Vector in the scenery config and everything was fine

Bernd

[jeansy]

as long as you have your Solomans scenery higher than any FTX addons there should be any problems with Marks scenery

as for FTX PNG scenery, that doesnt include the Solomon Islands, the only thing that could impact is FTX global, that would only be a miss match of landclass textures if there was to be anything

[William Njurmi]

Ok, thank you.

[roger-wilco-66]

It works with FTX Global and Global vector. Actually it looks better :-)

It also profits from third party mesh products. So, if you have say freemeshX, you can deactivate or delete the mesh I have provided in the package. My version has a lower resolution.

The only downside these days is for P3D users, because the taxiways are missing on some old AFCAD style airfields.

Cheers,
Mark

[BendyFlyer]

As a matter of interest there is an excellent freeware for the whole of the Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands X, the group who did it have a freeware/payware site :

https://emeraldscenerydesign.com/solx/

I use it and Orbx Global, they also have some of the little airports done as well. Not sure if it is still freeware.

I think it is excellent and it works fine with the Solomon Islands WW2 stuff without any issues, which is good because I use the Cal Classic 1960's scenery for the airports in that area.

As above, if layered properly you should have no issues with either the scenery or AI traffic that goes with it.

[expat]

Would welcome Mark's views. I have - in P3D4 - your Solomons scenery with FTX Global and Vector, but no other Orbx scenery. Looks absolutely awesome already. Would adding this freeware scenery really add anything? Is the mesh resolution already the same? Perhaps it adds a layer of landclass? NB: I do not have any Open LC.

[roger-wilco-66]

My Solomon version has large areas covered with custom landclass and even waterclass, so if you layer it on top it will override everything that is lower. Same is with mesh, that's why I suggested to de-activate my mesh version if one has a higher res mesh. If I rework the Solomons one day I'll drop the mesh out of the package because FreemeshX or payware meshes are better.

Never tried the other freeware Solomon package. Does it make sense to run them parallel?



[Edit: I had a gander and it seems interesting. I'm almost sure a hybrid version could make sense, but I most likely have to adapt the airfields to it. Also, I used some photoscenery myself like on the Florida islands. I'm gonna have a closer look at it one these days.]



Cheers,
Mark