X-Plane 10 HD Mesh Scenery Set 2 released

// April 18th, 2012 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

After the quite successful first release of the X-Plane 10 HD Mesh Scenery, I have added a few new regions to the download section. I hope you will enjoy them too:

Iceland
Scandinavia
UK/Ireland
East Europe
Madagascar
Hawaii
New Zealand
A 5×10 degree area in the USA (around Texas)

You can see a lot of new screenshots here: X-Plane 10 HD Mesh 2

IMPORTANT: the old scenery tiles did not change, so you don’t need to re-download what you already have!

The image will bring you directly to my download page (or use the download menu on the top):

Help me to get more storage space at Minus.com!

// April 16th, 2012 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Minus.com has kind of a “bonus” program, trough which one can earn more storage space! its very simple. You sign up at minus.com by using the affiliate link below. Each new user will give me on more GByte! This then gives me space to provide you more free downloads in the future!

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X-Plane 10 HD Mesh Scenery released (experimental)!

// March 13th, 2012 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized

I have just made available the experimental X-Plane 10 HD Mesh Scenery. It covers these regions (screenshots are in the gallery):

European Alps and Pyrenees (and all land in between)
USA West (Rockies, Grand Canyon … you name it)
Alaska
Canada West

PLEASE: READ ALL THE INFORMATION ON THE DOWNLOAD PAGE BEFORE YOU START! There are quite some things to consider, before you start testing this scenery. I am in no way liable if you blow up your machine!

The image will bring you directly to my download page (or download menu on the top):

New screenshots added – Alaska HD

// March 10th, 2012 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized

I just wanted to try, how Alaska (hmm, why Alaska … ) looks with the experimental HD mesh. You can check it out in the new screenshot gallery:

With this “Alaska HD” scenery, the same things apply as with my previous post. The mesh is an experimental, higher resolution scenery but it uses exactly the same artwork as the default Global Scenery (so, its just a “Global Scenery on steroids”). And forests are made – again just for experiments – a little bit more dense. Everything else is … well … just X-Plane 10 !

New screenshots added – some scenery experiments

// March 4th, 2012 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I have added a bunch of new screenshots (more might follow), showing some experimental stuff I am trying in X-Plane 10. In those shots, you can see things like:

- higher resolutions base mesh (and thus also even more accurate landuse placement)
- higher density forests (tweaked the default)
- new, experimental tree lines along roads and farms added in

(and some airport scenery is from X-Plnane.it or X-Plane.hu)

You can see them here:

Website relaunch

// February 1st, 2012 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

After many years and the arrival of X-plane 10, it was time for a little overhaul. For one, I wanted to update to a more modern CMS (replaces my aged Joomla with WordPress) and for the other, I am planning to introduce some new content over the coming weeks / months.

The aged forest scenery for X-Plane 8 / 9 is now more or less out of service (especially as the USA pulled the plug on Megaupload, where the big scenery files were hosted). Still, you will find the old documentation and old artwork files in the download and FAQ section. Should you also need the old scenery, I might try to find a way to re-upload it somewhere (but I have no plans to do it pro-actively now).

But stay tuned for some new experiments / content for X-Plane 10.

For example, scenery developers might check out my little DSF-to-GML script, which transforms the DSF base triangle mesh to the generic GML format, which then can be visualized in any modern GIS software (like QGIS).