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Enjoying a flight in the Alps of Switzerland in the Panthera with ground textures from Simheaven level 17.

Enjoying the superb new realistic clouds in V9 with one of Michael's awesome 767 series.

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Why won't leave the things as they are now? Why should a Linux or Apple box be better than a Windows one? Why should win any of them. For the sake of future operating systems improvments just let the things as they are. They are improving each other people...! As well as the fight AMD vs Nvidia vs Intel should also exist. Get rid one of them and the innovations will freeze! Also, choosing the right OS or hardware platform is nothing more in these days than a matter of personal taste and needs. Me for example, I would not go away from Windows for gaming and general usage. Also I would never buy an Apple product, and I would use any UX flavour just for dedicated tasks (like servers, gaming servers also, or raw computing).

Why complain about it?

Having looked at the 3D information inside OSM, it's actually much more advanced than can be handled with facades alone, e.g. The Fernsehturm in Berlin, consists of several cylinder buildings, which start at different levels (i.e. min-height tag). Since facades can be offset from the ground, the 3D effect falls over with buildings like this. The effect isn't bad, but it could be much much better. Additionally, other buildings have domed roofs, sharp roofs, etc, none of these can be rendered as a facade. After stabilising what's currently in the application, I might put it on the list for the program to actually generate a proper 3D model based on this information. The .obj file would just use a simple repeating texture, but it would still look much better than the default facades

Live preview Oh BTW all these shots are with HDR off.......

OK here are a few themes I have in the works, some are mild tweaks and some are pretty extreme......I hope you enjoy:

You could always get the X-Plane Remote app...