| Ultimate
Terrain X - USA DVD Edition for FSX |
Flight
One Software, in cooperation with Scenery Solutions,
is excited to bring you the ultimate in terrain
add-ons for FSX...
Ultimate Terrain X - USA Edition has been designed
from the ground up to take advantage of the new
technologies in FSX, and provide you with the most
superior and complete large terrain environment to
date. As always, we use only the highest quality
commercial source data in our products.
Ultimate Terrain X will take your FSX terrain
environment to new levels not seen before in a PC
Flight Simulator.
Roads, Rivers, Streams, Bridges, Landclass, Waterclass,
and more is packed into Ultimate Terrain X.
The
FSX roads are a big improvement over FS9 (FS2004).
However, Ultimate Terrain X takes the roads one step
further, by providing all the available road types
from the DMTI Spatial commercial data set, instead of
just highways and most major roads.
The Ultimate Terrain X road textures are also very
high resolution, matching the 1 meter landclass
textures currently in FSX. Plus, the Ultimate Terrain
X road texture types can be custom configured.
Having improved road textures is nice. But what really
make our roads stand out, is the attention to detail,
using road encasements and custom ground polygons for
the interchange areas. This can make a huge difference
in the urban road appearances as you will see.
For many of the roads and highways that crosses a
water feature in Ultimate Terrain X, a 3D extrusion
bridge is displayed.
If you like the look of the moving road traffic in FSX,
you will love the moving traffic in Ultimate Terrain
X. Ultimate Terrain X greatly expands the moving
traffic coverage areas in FSX.
We even include dark tunnel entrances for those tunnel
roads that disappear underground.
| Shorelines,
Coastlines, Rivers, Streams |
Anyone
who is familiar with our Ultimate Terrain product for
FS9/FS2004, knows that our products use the absolute
premium commercial water data available for each of
our product regions. This water data is the most
accurate and detailed data available at any cost.
In addition to the standard coastline textures in FSX,
Ultimate Terrain X takes coastlines to a whole new
level, by including higher resolution rocky coastline
textures, sandy beaches, concrete piers, freshwater
dams, and man-made breakers. The coastline textures
blend the edges of the water bodies with the land.
All oceanic coastlines have been classified by hand to
give them a more appropriate look.
In the major metropolitan areas, FSX improved the body
accuracy and details compared to FS9/FS2004. But
outside of the metropolitan areas, there are still
major missing water features and/or inaccurately
positioned features. Ultimate Terrain X will add
detailed water features throughout the entire covered
region.
In addition to the quality source data, we have now
enhanced our water features by adding more variety to
the coastlines. Also, we have provided multiple
waterclass options that will change the water color
associated with lakes, rivers and oceans.
Ultimate Terrain X also takes advantage of our new
"Radial Elevation Theory" algorithm, which
allows for nicely channeled rivers that cut right
through areas of extreme elevation changes. This new
algorithm virtually eliminates the sloping water
problems that are common with terrain hugging rivers.
Ultimate
Terrain X dramatically improves the accuracy of cities
in FSX. All metro areas with a population over 100k
have accurate landclass based on high resolution
satellite images. Smaller city landclass is still
based on our proprietary "Synthetic Landclass"
generation system, which generates urban landclass
based on recent commercial data sources. Both methods
provide superior landclass representations of all
urban area.
Waterclass
options are a unique feature of Ultimate Terrain X
that controls the coloring and style of the water
features for various locations around the world.
Ultimate Terrain enhances the default FSX water by
providing 4 different waterclass choices:
Blue water tint
Plankton/Algae bloom tint
Muddy water tint
Muddy water with Plankton bloom tint.
Water colors can vary dramatically between seasons.
And, many users have different opinions on how their
water environment should look. So, Ultimate Terrain X
gives you the multiple options.
Of
course railroads are well covered in Ultimate Terrain
X. We improve the look of railroads using higher
resolution textures, railroad track encasement
textures, railyard ground textures, and tunnel
entrances.
A 3D bridge object is also placed where many of the
railroad tracks cross water.
If
you purchased our previous Ultimate Terrain products,
you know that our night lighting is a unique feature
in this hobby.
Ultimate Terrain X night lighting consists of points
of light that represent things like street lights,
intersection lights, and vehicle lights.
In Ultimate Terrain X, the night lighting has been
created with three things in mind:
Provide brighter lights against the very bright FSX
background.Prevent autogen reduction.Eliminate the
occasional "floating light" situation from
differing mesh products.
Ultimate
Terrain X includes custom ground textures for
specialized areas (note that these are specialized
textures and not general texture replacements like our
Ground Environment product). These ground textures
differ from landclass, because they take on the exact
size and shape of the terrain feature in the real
world.
In FSX, special ground textures are already used for
city parks and golf courses, but in addition to the
parks and golf courses, Ultimate Terrain X provides
many other ground polygon features that are unique to
Ultimate Terrain X.
Beaches
Glaciers
Cemeteries
Highway Interchanges
Tunnel Entrances
Railroad Yards
Small Islands
Parking Lots
Grassy, Forest, or Concrete areas for landmark
features.
Detailed forest ground textures used extensively
throughout urban areas.
Object Repositioning
To make sure that the current custom FSX objects line
up with the Ultimate Terrain X scenery, we have
repositioned many objects to better align with the
Ultimate Terrain X road and water features. This
includes things like buildings, ships, docks, and
custom bridge objects (i.e. the Golden Gate Bridge).
Ultimate Terrain Setup ToolWe know that a great number
of Flight Simulator enthusiasts like to tweak their
environments to meet their own personal expectations
and needs. As a result, Ultimate Terrain X was
designed from the ground up, to provide a near total
configurable environment.
Advanced users will marvel at the fact that they can
have different textures assigned to nearly every
Ultimate Terrain feature. For example, you can change
the sizes of things like stream widths, road widths
and coastline widths using the new Ultimate Terrain X
Setup Tool.
The new setup tool also allows novice users to get up
and running quickly and the advanced user to have
unprecidented configurability over their Ultimate
Terrain environment.
| FS
Compatibility / System Requirements |
Flight
Simulator XDVD Drive1.6 Mhz Processor3.6 GB Hard Drive
Space1024 RAM256 MB Video CardWindows XP / Vista
Canadian Price: $
45.95
Approximate US price = $
43.65
For more information please contact:
Flight Plus Software LTD.
388 Plane Tree Drive
London, Ont. Canada N6G 5J4
Harry Zanin
software@flightplus.ca
Phone: Voice - 519-673-0985
Fax: -
519-673-0988
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