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Hello

 

I am buying X-plane 11 now from x plane website but would like to know beforehand if I buy it from the site does it include the addons that come with steam or aerosoft's version ?

Thank you

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Hi,

Don't buy from Steam, buy directly from Laminar Research : X-plane 11 Digital Download, in the top right corner of that page :

http://www.x-plane.com/desktop/buy-it/

It includes the whole world and everything that can be bought through Steam can be bought from the respective developers websites too.

-You will directly support Laminar Research (I'm not part of the team, I'm just a normal user)

-You will receive final and/or beta updates earlier

-You won't have a 5Gb program in between, adding more layers and more possibilities to encounter malfunctions

-You will understand better the structure of the Simulateur, which is always an asset if you want to install addons properly.

-THE website for third party addons is X-plane.org anyway. Starting from there, you can reach almost everything.

Just look for "Steam" on this forum if you want to read more about it.

Welcome to X-plane community :)
commented by (12 points)
Hi Amelingu and thank you

one last question before buying can you please tell me I've been reading about the ortho photo scenery and to honest I haven't read much about it yet but I have a grasp of how it works as I tried something similar in fsx some years ago and I think this works more or less the same way.

What I'd like to know is, if I want only the photo scenery of, say the UK, does this mean many gb's in size and does this photo scenery also include night scenery, I mean lights, road traffic, etc ?

Thank you

Edit: Brought it from that link, thank you.
commented by (3.5k points)
I don't know how photosceneries work on FSX, but you should consider 2Gb per tile (1°X1° of lat lon) for a zoom level 16. That's a lot of storage for a whole country. Only one season is generally treated, even though the possibility of modeling seasons is now implemented in x-plane. Night textures are not used for terrain, X-plane renders the scenes by night with a technology called HDR instead.

One good thing to know is that you do not need to have your photosceneries installed on the same drive as X-plane : In "Custom scenery" folder, you can palce shortcuts instead of the actual scenery package. But we are getting out of subject on this thread ;)
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Great, thank you

 

Looking forward this sim looks really amazing
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