Are we going to get this scenery before we all drown in drool 
OAHU for AFS2 in development - Share our excitement!
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I don't think there is any download coming - these are all just screen grabs from Google Earth
(Only kidding - when can we get our mits on it?!)
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Yes psionmark, you catched us with our Google Earth photo trick
And I think you guessed, why IPACS never publishes a release date...
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Tom,
I think psionmark catched us.
How can we go on with other niiice screenshots now?
This was the original image, only slightly reworked....
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Floral Greetigs from Hawaii
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Great! Hope to land there in a month or so....
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I can't wait for this to come out, it looks spectacular but if you're at the point where you're painting specific buildings you're loosing revenue. This sim only has a finite life span and the longer you wait fine tuning for perfection reduces the amount of time that people pay to play it before they move along to the next sim. This is the overall problem with this sim is that developers are seeking granular perfection and missing the opportunities to move on and grow the overall platform.
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That search for perfection gave us the best performing graphics engine and the most realistic flying heli out there!
I use Xplane 11, DCS, Fly Inside and Aerofly FS 2 but 70% of my simtime is in Aerofly's R22.
To me every platform has its limitations and we have all of them to choose from whenever we want, I don't mind waiting while appreciating what we already have....
And OAHU is freeware made by talented users of this platform, it's not an IPACS release....
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if you're at the point where you're painting specific buildings you're loosing revenue
Indeed we care a lot about detail and colors in our upcoming freeware.
So we split up Oahu into different zones, to represent areas with colored, red, white, grey or grey-brown houses according to the reality.
(Pictures as usual work in progress)
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Thanks to Phils tip RE: Addition of static gliders for FSCloudPort
it was easy to add some gliders to Dillingham Airfield/ Oahu
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to much spoiler.
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as a student pilot flying r22's here on Oahu i am very excited to practice on this when this comes out!! let me know if I can help in some way.
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One of our team members floated a thought to get us out of our doldrums while we wait for the final orthos to be completed. The suggestion is for us to consider flipping our release schedule on its head and starting from the bottom. Because our original goal was to build scenery for the island of Oahu with the Honolulu Cityscape and famous beaches and the many airports including the biggie, Honolulu International we always thought that should be the first package out the gate. As it turns out, the orthos for Oahu are of the poorest quality from all sources and they do not play well together and therefore, are taking the most time to clean up.
Speaking of orthos, those for Kauai were much more manageable and are complete as of late today. We are still gathering thoughts and everyone has not checked in to see the daily news so it is a little early for announcements. But, my money goes with the flip. We will know by the weekend.
Should we release Kauai first, we will also include the neighboring forbidden island of Niihau. This is the small private island with only a helipad and a very small Navy radar site but, some very nice beaches. Kauai is promoted as the "garden Isle" and is the second oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands (after Niihau) and probably has the least number of tourist for such a large island. This one is for the nature lovers, and lovers in general.
You might want to check out the sights of Kauai just in case we go down that path. June may be the best month to visit Kauai, but, the sights do not change, no matter when you choose to visit. We have a magnificent little private airport on the North coast at Princeville; a huge, very well done military base on the Southwest corner known as Barking Sands. (That should create some research in how these places are named). The Na Pali coast on the west side of the island has almost no cultivation due to the sheer changes in elevation, but, has breath taking views from the air and from the water. The word canyon doesn't seem enough to describe the immense gorges in the landscape here. Some say that Waimea Canyon rivals the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It is greener, for sure. Kauai's Mount Waialeale is the wettest spot on earth (some say the 2nd wettest spot).
We also have a full featured commercial airport at Lihue with plenty of custom scenery close by. Those rotary wing pilots will have a ball checking out the sights and we have catered to the utility of the helicopter by building some very interesting sites to takeoff and land to stretch your legs and enjoy the sights like a tourist from unique lookout spots.
You can download some travel brochures and booklets and start becoming familiar with the lay of the land or just review the sights online. Google Kauai, Kauai terrain, Kauai scenery, Kauai Na Pali, Kauai North Shore, Kauai Island. Well, you get the idea.
And for those that may not know, this is the place Jurassic Park was filmed.
Aloha.
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That would be..... very welcome !
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Nice pics but I am starting to think that by the time this scenery is released MSFS 2020 will have made it redundant.
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Nice pics but I am starting to think that by the time this scenery is released MSFS 2020 will have made it redundant.
MFS2020 has a long ways to go to make this scenery redundant. Their scenery source is one of those three that I mentioned above, but, ours has so much more love, attention and creativity.
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Nice pics but I am starting to think that by the time this scenery is released MSFS 2020 will have made it redundant.
MUHAHAHHAHA - in which year with which VR-Performance???!!
And I don't understand: Why shouldn't I fly the FS2 just because there is something else at some point? I still play old MAME ROMs like PacMan or Donkey Kong, even though I have much newer PC games! Got it
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Thank you guys. Just as I was about to abandon FS 2, I spotted this...
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IMHO FS 2020's scenery solution is good for adding procedural/AI detail where there's not much detail in general, but POIs, especially airports will still need a grade of input even detailed sources like google earth doesn't provide (e.g. side walls or smaller details for side of buildings).
I had to watch countless hours of tourist videos to get even a rough idea how airport buildings look like. I highly doubt MS will provide DLC grade of airport or POI fidelity as vanilla content.
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Princeville is a small private airport on the North Shore of Kauai that caters to both fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft. This would be a good place to start your exploration of the island, maybe as soon as this weekend.
