XPLANE 11 SCENERY VS FLIGHTGEAR SIMULATOR

I'm convinced the Shuttle beats the crap out of any other simulator in terms of realism (with the exception of NASA's original simulators of course, though NASA's old fixed base sim will now run FG.). FlightGear has a seamless, continuous oblate ellipsoid world available for you to explore.

XPLANE 11 SCENERY VS FLIGHTGEAR INSTALL

I've looked at vanilla FG install default location against vanilla FSX demo, default location, and that FG wins flat out with the Hawaii scenery - the caribbean in FSX wasn't all so detailed without addons.īut it's also very easy to make FG look bad - you just fly FSX tand take a screenshot when you're really really impressed, then you fire up FG at the same location, and chances are it'll look nothing like that.Īs for FDMs and planes, same thing. So what is a fair comparison? Default location against default location? Carefully selected location against carefully selected location? Random location against random location?

and if the other flightsim happens to have a good scenery definition there. If you're really lucky, someone did an OSMCity run for the same scenery - then you can enjoy moving cars, detailed cities and all other goodies.Īt that level, FG certainly measures up against FSX scenery with payware addons (at least from what I've seen on FSWeekend on he rigs of the other simmers) - and in addition usually has much better weather and atmosphere visuals (there's not much XPlane on FSWeekend for some reason., so I can't really say).īut of course, if you pick a random location on the planet, FG might look pretty crappy - coarse landclasses, non-matching terrain textures, wrong vegetation. But if someone comes to me and tries to claim that its flight model, avionics and system modelling in general is as good as Prepar3D, Xplane 11 etc, that’s absolutely false and I’m going to call them out on it. which again takes everything to a different order of magnitude. If you play MSFS 2020 to enjoy the breath-taking scenery, take part in group flights on Twitch etc etc, don’t let anyone stop you. If you're in addition in a region where I've recently been interested in flying (Hawaii, Norway, Canary Islands.) there's bound to be custom landclass textures, overlay shader definitions, custom vegetation. if you're in a region that's covered by CORINE data, the landclass resolution is easily a factor 10 better than elsewhere, roads and rivers are perfectly aligned with the terrain and landclass boundaries are rarely straight and look more natural. FG looks rather different dependent on where you are.

Xplane 11 scenery vs flightgear