To veryone contributing to this fantastic project: thank you very much! Of course especially tonywob but also Pilotbalu for generating and uploading the w2xp beta sceneries. I feel I'd like to contribute and that is whiy I started to edit some of the OSM data of the area where I live. Also I downloaded switzerland_beta2 und switzerland_beta3.1 from simheaven and tested/compared these while flying in the area of central switzerland. This is what I found: Visually beta3 is a big leap forward. I especially like the streets with walkways and parked cars and also the general appearence of the streets at night. The fences, walls and playgrounds add to the plausibility of the scenery. I also like that there are less blue facades and the wrong textures on some of the flat roofs have been corrected. I don't like at all that in beta3 there is a lot fast food restaurants all over the place. I suppose they appear everywhere a building has been tagged in OSM as a restaurant. But they look wrong in this area. And according to this post they are very high in polygons using up a lot of fps. With beta2 I could fly at an acceptable FPS between 18-25 (world detail distance very high). But with beta3 my FPS drops to 14-20 (with world detail distance set to just low). Plus I get drops down to FPS 1-3 when I quickliy change the direction on view. it seems my setup (iMac 27" 3.4 GHz intel Cor i7, 12 GB RAM 1333 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB) can't handle beta3 in combination with HD-Mesh 2 and Simheaven Photoscenery ZL 17. I hope a future release of w2xp will possibly be performance friendlier again. Anyway: w2xp is a great project that ads enourmously to the plausibility of (european) scenery! Thany you for this
