Canary Islands Photo Scenery released at SimMarket

    Quote from HiFlyer

    Perhaps I'm mixing canaries and rutabagas, but how did the Lukla scenery handle these sorts of elevation issues?

    When you create an airport, the runways, taxiways and aprons are given a much higher degree of mesh smoothing than other terrain.

    In the Canary Islands scenery there are no airports, so people are effectively taxiing the plane over what is, to the sim, normal ground.

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    Quote from Fabs79

    If I'm not mistaken Sascha said that he created a custom mesh for the complex Lukla airport terrain. There's a picture of it somewhere in the Lukla development thread

    Yah, the trailers mention "hand edited mesh"

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    Good day all;

    thank you for the encouragement offered for the Canary islands venture;

    it is always exciting to work for a new simulator; it just make the day more interesting.

    just to let you know; I am improving the canary island scene; the airports are now clear of cultivations; and I am asked to add flatten areas at the airports.

    the flatten areas will be set to the existing fscloudport existing canary islands airport scenery; I can not set a different elevation as it will make them unusable

    I will than spend some time to see if is possible to compile sloped runways; it might all end in failure but worth a go.

    the updated canary island will go up in couple of days more or less as soon is completed.

    have a good evening

    ray

    That's an example of excellent customer service. Sure a recommendation in case you intend to add more AeroflyFS2 sceneries.:)

    Kind regards, Michael

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    well for those who like flatten I have bad news because on the next update the mesh resolution will double; this will add more bumps; but of course airports will sit on flatten


    aerofly fs2 work well with high res mesh; now we are going to carve further into the Canary islands terrains; those crucial features characteristic of those islands; walking tracks; roads; and cultivated terraces; bring them out as much as possible

    Edited once, last by abbiati50 (July 10, 2019 at 1:36 AM).

    Quote from abbiati50

    well for those who like flatten I have bad news because on the next update the mesh resolution will double; this will add more bumps; but of course airports will sit on flatten


    aerofly fs2 work well with high res mesh; now we are going to carve further into the Canary islands terrains; those crucial features characteristic of those islands; walking tracks; roads; and cultivated terraces; bring them out as much as possible

    Sounds interesting, I guess I'll have to check this out. Now if someone could create high quality Airports for the Canary Islands that would be great.

    It seems that one of the main airports on the islands, Lanzarote, does not have any buildings on FSCloudPort. If true, is there a way to tell on that site when new items are added or modified? Similar to how we can see the latest submissions on the flight-sim.org filebase?

    This scenery looks great though - I am likely to purchase it.

    Quote from edpatino

    Looks wonderful, Ray!. When do you think it'll be released?.

    Thanks, Ed

    in a couple of days - I would say Friday

    I working flat out on this one - there is an issue on la gomera affecting the eastern side of the islands where the addon mesh do not show; I have to have a look to sort out this if possible; 5 m mesh really look fantastic on aerofly; the terrain engine is really top class ! well done Ipacs !

    Quote from nickhod

    Hi Ray,

    Are you planning on adding airports to the package or offering them as an additional add on?

    Hi Nick;

    I have to be honest; I am terrible in making airports; all my life I done terrains and vectors scenery; and some 3d cities;

    yea; will be nice to have details airports for Canary; I am sure somebody will take the initiative and bring them on

    I would like to improve the base aerofly mesh; next I will attempt to compile whole Italy at 19 m and post a download link on this forum for those who want to download

    Edited once, last by abbiati50 (July 10, 2019 at 8:29 PM).

    Hi Delfin;

    what I was saing is that I do not do airports scenery; somebody along the line one day will eventually do canary islands airports;

    have a good day

    ray

    not sure everybody agree with me - every sim have its strength and weakness; I always asked myself why Ipacs took the route the took; a sim based on photorealistic; and now I understand why; not sure any others of the great simulators out there have potential of terrain rendering such as Aerofly;

    the way the sdk and the sim shape the terrains is just fantastic !! textures stretching on vertical terrains is also limited to just few spots;

    just imagine a bush scenery in Alaska full of trees and rough grounds !!



    Hi Ray:

    Thanks for the recent pics. They look gorgeous!. Eagerly waiting for your update.

    Your appreciations are correct. Aerofly has big strong points or advantages, like graphics engine, terrain engine (as you said), very fluid with normal FPS well above 100 and most importantly, being those FPS constant (so, no stuttering). Also, it's very simple to setup, use and maintain, and very reliable. It's also important to mention that its VR capabilities are top notch in the business.

    The main issue with Aerofly has been in my opinion, the lack of complimentary features like real weather including winds and rain effects, more complex aircraft systems, ATC communications, AI traffic, flight planning, to really be a true and complete flight simulator. So far, if you look at these forums, almost everybody is just talking about the trilogy photo-scenery, geo-conversion & cultivation, so mainly talking about scenery making and viewing, and that's simply not enough (to me!). Even at this point we don't really know if some or just part of the above mentioned features will ever be implemented, since so far IPACS has been reluctant to release a roadmap for AFS2, and all progress, measured by the addition of those features has been extremely slow.

    We also need that more developers jump into the game to produce add-on scenery, aircraft, etc., to complement the sim, as has always been the case with FSX and now P3D and X-Plane. So, I'm really excited by the fact that you like AFS2 and expect you'll be able to stay in and produce more detailed scenery in the future.

    Of course, I can be wrong, but this is my true feeling!.

    Cheers, Ed

    Edited once, last by edpatino (July 11, 2019 at 2:23 AM).