Is this normal when updating UK and in general with an important contributor developer as Orbx?
Why they have not close contact with the developer to solve this before the update?
This great simulator will be perfect with better communication with customers and developers.
From Known Issues 1.13.16.0
For users having the “Landmarks London City Pack by Orbx” bundle, the new enhanced scenery with the United Kingdom & Ireland update seems to create conflicts that prevent users from seeing the scenery quality expected. Workaround: Uninstall the “Landmarks London City Pack” until an update is available.
"We would like to provide you with an update on the recently released Microsoft World Update: United Kingdom, and how it affects our Orbx Landmarks London City Pack product.
The Microsoft update includes all new photogrammetry for central London, along with several dozen new custom models of landmarks, like London Eye and Buckingham Palace.
What does that mean for our customers that have purchased and installed the Orbx Landmarks London City Pack product?
In its current form, Landmarks London conflicts with the Microsoft update due to overlapping landmark buildings and our terraforming files. Thus, you will see duplicate buildings, as well as missing areas of photogrammetry buildings, among other inconsistencies.
We are currently working on a separate pack which will be fully compatible with the Microsoft World Update: UK. This will be free for customers who have previously purchased the London City pack.
Once this pack is released (in a week or less in Orbx Central and possibly a little longer on the MS Marketplace as we are dependent on their approval queue), there will be two products: one for the non-UK update and one for the UK update. You will then be able to activate one or the other, depending on whether you have the UK update running or not.
In addition, we are planning a comprehensive content update in a few weeks’ time to add some exciting new landmarks to both packs.
If purchasing the pack as a new customer, you will be able to choose either product, though both will be included in the same price, ie. you can get both, pay once, and decide which one you want to run.
In the meantime, if you want to deactivate the Orbx London pack, you can do one of the following:
If installed via OrbxDirect, uninstall in Orbx Central; or
Uninstall inside MSFS from Profile>Content Manager (search for 'London")"
I think @TropicoE asks how far the photogrammetry extends in London. I did a quick flight across town yesterday and it’s as far as just beyond Paddington Station in the west and Stratford/Olympic Park in the East. I didn’t check out how far north or south it extends.
It looks like it is only the central section that is photogrammetry, from Greenwich all the way along to about Kew with all the major landmarks and buildings along the way.
Having said that though I took off from Biggin Hill and the AI autogen there is really nice. The houses below looked very realistic from a sensible height, and I live in the area in RL. PRU hospital is quite a distinctive shape and was instantly recognisable.
The gist is this: If you have the UK PG installed, delete their package - for now. An update is coming that will be compatible. Two versions will be available, one for people running the UK package and those not.
It has been updated and now it fits the photogrammetry with no issue. For now it’s only the version on Orbx direct but they’re working to do the same with the official marketplace version.
The problem with this specific update is that London wasn’t ready until the last moment. Its photogrammetry was the whole reason why the update was delayed twice. So I’m positive MS didn’t have a version to give Orbx to work on a compatibility patch in advance.
I have a feeling with the next update and Paris it’s gonna be better.
Is it actually worth it? Asobo added around 30 handcrafted landmarks around London alone. So, does ORBX’s make any difference. I wanted to get the ORBX one and then I saw how much work was done by Asobo and I begun to wonder if it is worth it. I have read that because Asobo added so many landmarks that were in the package, ORBX is going to expand their package even further.
Photogrammetry + Landmarks combo usually makes the most immersive and beautiful experience in MSFS, so I am a huge fan of getting Landmarks in cities covered by photogrammetry.
It depends really. Orbx’s has a lot of landmarks that aren’t including in Asobo’s update, and they’re going to add more in an update to their package (of course they want it to be worth purchasing still).
For instance, the skyscrapers right on the approach to London City are all modeled in Orbx’s package (while most of them are poxy photogrammetry in MS’s version), and there are nice touches like Belfast anchored in the Thames.
Considering that the price isn’t high, and that it’s going to get even more content, I’m happy to have it.
I’ve just had to do a full re-install and afterwards noticed that there was an update (v1.1.0) which I’m just downloading now in the Content Manager. Will check it out later.
Is Orbrx london update out on the Market place…I Ioad it up press version and it still stays the old version ( I uninstalled it from Market place)…b4 uk update version 1.1.0 nov 27th
just two discussions over at ORBX forums. Seems to be out for customers who bought it directly with them. Asobo / Microsoft seem to take their time to upload a fix already provided by ORBX.
So, seems like I have to buy my next addons directly there…
