Jarrad Marshall from Orbx has today posted new screenshots of TrueEarth Netherlands for FSX, P3D, Aerofly FS2 and X-Plane 11. As hinted by numerous alpha-stage screenshots, Orbx have officially announced TrueEarth Netherlands.

Here is a short intro to TrueEarth Netherlands from Jarrad;

TrueEarth is the name that we will be giving to our new line of photoreal region products. An ORBX TrueEarth scenery will combine the best features found in existing Region products, with the added benefit of full photoreal terrain. Many of the components found in TrueEarth packages are a natural evolution from our existing lines; for example we are leveraging CityScene technology found in CityScene Gold Coast, expert GIS technology found in our latest Regions, advanced night lighting from ORBX Global Base and openLC, propitiatory autogen techniques previously seen at Innsbruck, Berlin (GEN) and Munich (GES), and many more. TrueEarth regions will also sit alongside landclass-based regions; both types of Regions will be continued to be developed into the future. As John has already mentioned in other discussions, several other TrueEarth titles are currently in production for locations in Europe and the United States.

Also attached in the post is a full feature list for TrueEarth Netherlands. Keep in mind that not all features can be carried over to X-Plane, namely FTX Global/OpenLC support.

• The entirety of Netherlands depicted in complete detail!

• 85,000km2 of photoreal terrain at 1m resolution (nb the same resolution as traditional landclass textures)

• Complete seasonal variation: 5 hand-coloured seasons!

• Full 3D night lighting and night ground textures

• 43 updated airports, including 18 not found in the default scenery.

• CityScene building technology for all major cities, towns, villages and urban areas. CityScene tech improves on traditional autogen by adding unusual footprints, higher detail (roof details etc) and better long-range visibility

• Incredibly dense autogen vegetation. Far superior to automated OSM technology, our agn is compiled from multiple data sets, and hand-edited to ensure maximum fidelity, accuracy and density.

• Beautifully edited terrain textures - colourised, edited, cleaned up. Blemishes such as cloud cover, water sun glare, seamlines, discolouration and some vehicle footprints have been removed. Colour palettes have been edited to match ORBX Global texture sets.

• Custom-painted rural variations, including tulip fields during spring

• Ultra HD mesh at 5m resolution. Netherlands may be flat, but incredible details such as tailings dumps, sand dunes and even highway overpass ramps are visible

• Accurate road, waterway, bridges, transmission line and other vector/GIS components. Road AI traffic also included to regular Region standards

• Beautiful custom building textures for all autogen buildings

• Hundreds of custom landmarks and POI

• Traditional Dutch windmills

• Major churches and cathedrals custom modelled

• Custom models for all major TV and radio masts

• Many major bridges custom designed

• Custom ship models unique to Netherlands

• Thousands of hand-placed wind turbines, refineries, harbours and other library objects

• Hand-edited and colourised water textures, including complete watermasking

• Fully compatible with neighboring regions (GES, GEN), ORBX Global and OpenLC Europe

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Later in the thread John Venema, CEO of Orbx, confirmed that TrueEarth Netherlands will come to XP, though after the P3D, FSX and Aerofly FS2 versions - however, X-Plane will get TrueEarth England before any other flight sim platform!

Jarrad goes on to say that no release date will be given, however the price of Orbx TrueEarth Netherlands will be US$42 / £30 / €34. You can find the post on the Orbx forums here or the official Orbx Facebook page here. Feel free to have a look at a selection of images from the scenery below!

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