Germany in AeroflyFS2

pmb · June 8, 2019 at 1:33 AM

I am not sure everyone is aware of the service our friend IZ0JUB (Michael) is doing to the German (and beyond) AeroflyFS2 community right now. Over at flight-sim.org you can find the first tiles of his Germany North scenery comprising complete ortho scenery as well as cultivation.

Here are two shots:

Graal-Mueritz

and Rostock-Warnemuende

He did even some color-corrections given the original imagery is quite poor (as I observed in my own attempts).

Be prepared you will need some disk space, a very rough estimate provides close to 200 tiles, around 0.5GB each, for the whole of Germany, but that's the way it is with photo scenery. For me, a dream would come true seeing my home country represented in AeroflyFS2 in this quality.

Moreover, adding the already completed packages like Italy or commercially available products like The Netherlands, this will give a HUGE space for flying in Central Europe. And don't forget there are a high number of FSCloudPort airports available to add.

Once more, a million thanks, Michael!

Kind regards, Michael (II)

HerveF · June 8, 2019 at 1:59 AM

Great Job ! Thank you very much

y905 · June 9, 2019 at 11:13 AM

awesome thanks for the info

kai503 · June 9, 2019 at 11:18 PM

Also from my side a million thanks to Michael @IZ0JUB for this great work and Michael (II) for pointing it out!

Germany is my second home country and my favorit place to fly in real and in the sim. I always wanted to have it in FS2 and did some work for South Germany, but simply don't have the time for scenery development anymore.

I just downloaded the first three tiles and made a short flight along the baltic coast. Just wonderful! I will certainly continue building up Germany as it comes to flight-sim.

Thanks again for all your work, Michael!

Best Regards,

Kai

pmb · June 10, 2019 at 12:45 PM

Great, Michael. I'll replace the tiles on my list after they're all online.

Thanks and keep on the good work, Michael (II)

pmb · June 10, 2019 at 1:43 PM

Quote from IZ0JUB

On re making Part 1 it would not make "Level 9". I have tried several times now but every time I process the tile in "AeroScenery" it skips "Level 9", its most odd?
It would be of interest if another simmer could try the same thing. The other tiles are processing OK.

I already had made this (map_09_8780_ae00 - right?) before and just looked it up, but level 9 is missing as well (while a few neighbours have it). Obvisouly, there seems to be a real issue with the source.

Kind regards, Michael (II)

Lucky1960 · June 10, 2019 at 3:10 PM

Fantastic work! Thank you!

Quote from pmb

Moreover, adding the already completed packages like Italy

Wow! Where can I find the Italian scenery? In flight-sim.org I see the Cultivation, but not the photo sceneries.

Hichecker · June 10, 2019 at 3:17 PM

What a great job - thank you for this. A dream of mine becomes true

pmb · June 10, 2019 at 3:52 PM

Quote from Lucky1960

Fantastic work! Thank you!
Wow! Where can I find the Italian scenery? In flight-sim.org I see the Cultivation, but not the photo sceneries.

Italy is only cultivation indeed. You will have to do the Ortho scenery by yourself, at least for now. However, while making Ortho scenery is time-consuming, it is more straightforward using AeroScenery than Cultivation requiring sophisticated scripts.

Kind regards, Michael

Lucky1960 · June 10, 2019 at 4:03 PM

Thank you for the clarification. When I will have finished my southern France area, I will redo the Tuscany Region with the right settings (0.01 degrees).

Quote from pmb

it is more straightforward using AeroScenery than Cultivation requiring sophisticated scripts.

That's for sure.

ApfelFlieger · June 13, 2019 at 5:21 PM

I support IZ0JUB. A small group is currently working intensively on making photoscenes, cultivation and airfields available in northern Germany and Denmark. Not everything is perfect, but it is so that it can be fun to fly. I would find it a pity, if this would fail now because of too bad images.

Tschüss, Michael (III)

pmb · June 13, 2019 at 5:39 PM

AeroScenery is on GitHub so someone being able could make a fork. However, I guess there are not more than 2 or 3 people around here with the abilties to integrate Arcgis.

An alternative idea would be to exploit Ortho4XP, that's what the X-Planers use. It supports a wide range of sources, including Arcgis and many more. There has been a derivative available producing output for Prepar3d since a year or so. So, it might be easier to add AeroflyFS2 as an output channel than modify AeroScenery for Arcgis.

Just an idea, but in both cases it would require a hardcore programmer, I think.

Kind regards, Michael (II)

ApfelFlieger · June 13, 2019 at 6:19 PM

If I'm right, are all programs for Windows computers, or is there software for Mac computers?

Tschüss, Michael (III)

MartinM · June 13, 2019 at 8:06 PM

swiss ortho are best from swiss gov. freely available with a little almost invisible watermark. would be great if this would be in aeroscenery too. o4xp does have it.

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