Special vegetation/ XREF-trees for the outback in Australia

    Unfortunately, the default trees of FS2 don't really fit into the landscape of the Australian outback.

    For this reason I have tried to create special User-XREF-trees which fit better into the landscape based on texture templates resp. free tree-models from 3DWarehouse.

    This may looks like this:

    Due to the poor OSM data, the trees have to be placed manually. For this reason, I only plan to implement this for individual areas and only around the airports.

    The following additional sceneries for Australia are in preparation:

    - Mount Isa Mining Town (2 tiles)

    - Darwin West-extension of the scenery by IJ0BUZ (12 additional tiles)

    - Ayer Rock Extended (covering 9 tiles)

    I will first upload these without the trees, but only as a photo scenery.

    Do you like it?

    If there is enough interest from the community I will try to share these special trees. The installation in the user-folder will not be that easy, this is more for experienced users or if the instructions are followed exactly.

    Looking forward to your feedback!

    Christophe

    Enthusiast and experienced creator of enhanced Aerofly FS Sceneries and Mods. Enjoy! 8)

    Thank you for your posive feedback and interest. :thumbup:

    I will therefore continue with the development and upload the special vegetation before the end of August.

    The next area for Australia, Mount Isa, will follow very soon, but first as mentioned without special trees.

    Enthusiast and experienced creator of enhanced Aerofly FS Sceneries and Mods. Enjoy! 8)

    As I have made good progress with photographic tree recognition, especially as it relates to shrubs, I will be able to cover a larger area with the special vegetation than originally intended.

    The southwest extension of Darwin NT as an addition to the scenery of @IJ0BUZ covering 12 tiles is almost finished. The coverage with vegetation will be over 60%.

    Start testing soon ...

    Enthusiast and experienced creator of enhanced Aerofly FS Sceneries and Mods. Enjoy! 8)

    Before getting started with special-vegetation, it is important to first familiarize yourself with how it works with special XREF-trees, cause it works different to the user sceneries.

    Unlike a user scenery, the installation is not done in the user "addons" folder but in the user "scenery" folder. What makes the installation a bit more difficult is the fact that a "plant" folder in the user "scenery" folder is not complementary but replaces all trees completely. Also, basically all sceneries are affected.

    Important

    • For this reason the user has to make first a copy of his "plant" folder from the "scenery" folder of his original installation into his user “scenery” folder (not to be mistaken with the “addons\scenery”-folder!), so that the trees are being kept for all sceneries. Only then the special XREF-trees should be copied into the user scenery plant folder.
    • Please note that if the plant directory is empty, not only all are trees missing, but Aerofly FS2 will crash unless there is at least one XREF tree file of each default tree type ([broadleaf], [conifer], [palm] & [shrub]) in the "plant"-folder. If it has only one tree model each, just the diversity in the vegetation is missing, but FS2 works otherwise.
    • If there are problems or you don't want to use additional vegetation - and this is the good news - then all you need to do is to delete the User-Scenery-Plant folder or disable it by renaming it. So everything will be as before.
    • And please never install the extra vegetation in the original installation folder of FS2 due to the integrity of the installation!

    One more preview

    Hope that these explanations are clear for you so far.

    A more detailed description of the installation will be added together with the Upload of the special XREF-trees library very soon.

    Kindest regards,

    Christophe

    Enthusiast and experienced creator of enhanced Aerofly FS Sceneries and Mods. Enjoy! 8)

    Edited once, last by chrispriv (September 12, 2021 at 9:52 PM).

    Ingenius idea: New tree types for AFS2.

    They elevate the program to a complete new level.

    Thank you very much for your effords Christophe!

    As I struggled a bit with the installation I would like to add an additional comment:

    The tree extension consists of two elements:

    - Additional tree models *.ttx (in ..\scenery\plants

    - Tree placements *.toc in addons\scenery\..


    Additional tree models *.ttx (in ..\scenery\plants:

    Tree placements *.toc in addons\scenery\.. :

    Cheers, Thomas


    Edited 5 times, last by TomSimMuc (September 13, 2021 at 10:58 AM).