The NATURAL WORLD started out as a few enhancements done on free ware editors which really set my FS2004 looking good in the days before FSX was around. Then when FSX did arrive I was truly gutted by the poor synthetic look of the FSX scenery plus there was not any computers on the market powerful enough to run FSX. So I decide to finish upgrading my trusty FS9 and released HOWARDS MIX after obtaining all the necessary permissions from the free ware developers that I included in it for trail purposes, which have over the years all been replaced with my own work. But due to my dyslexia the wording in the first write up of HOWARDS MIX was seen as an excuse to accuse and ridicule me on all the main forums, at this point I withdrew support and never released any more updates in the public domain. Although work never stopped over the years on the upgrade, it is now done on a top quality pay ware editor needed to obtain the required quality, gratefully donated by a TNW user.

HOWARDS MIX now rebranded as THE NATURAL WORLD 2019 is by far the best in its class. The new name was chosen because I have tweaked out most of the synthetic look found in even the newer sims, the repeat texture scenario has all but gone with TNW 2019  giving FS9 a real natural look.

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