I wanted to shed some light on some of the scenery available in X-plane 10 because I believe there is a lot more than folks realize and want to make sure everyone is aware. As new stuff comes out perhaps it can be added to this thread.
Base platform should be X-plane 10 Global
Free Aerosoft Airports included:
EBBR, EDDH,EDDK,EDDM,EDDS,EDDT,EDDV,EDLP,EGBB,EGKK,EGLL,EGPF,EGSS,EGDW,LEBL, LEMP, LFMN,LFPG,LFPO,LPFR,LSGG
Others included free: KSEA, innsbruk
Available Excellent Payware airports:
Wilmington Int'l
KSEA
KSFO
KLGA
KMIA
KMDW
KPAE
KTOA
KJFK
KPWT
KBFI
KRNT
PAKT
CYVR
Excellent Payware Scenery I have and can vouch for:
REALSCENERY - Florida, Tennessee, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Island of Oahu
Cities - Tucson, Reno/Carson City, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle
Other Areas - Western Canada (Final Frontier), Canadian Rockies, and Alaskan Panhandle (inside passage) which is great for Bush flying. Rest of Alaska including major airports like Anchorage coming in 2013.
Other payware I don't have yet but on my list:
New Zealand
UK Photoscenery
Hamburg
Amsterdam
Toulouse
Zurich
Lugano
Keflavic
Now note that this is not an exhaustive list but merely the main stuff I know about to date. In addition, there have been a lot of conversions of FSX scenery to X-Plane and are made regularly freely available at X-Plane.org by user community. There is also information on how to do this on the site.
As you can see, X-Plane 10 is certainly not lacking in good scenery. Obviously no where near as much as FSX but version 10 is relatively new yet by comparison and will take time. Yes, I am very optimistic of its future.
If anyone has more recommended scenery I didn't list or can comment on any scenery above that I listed as not purchased yet please add to the thread.
Thank you,
Scott
Hi Scott
Got the Amsterdam scenery a few days ago from the x-plane org store, it is very very good.
Anthony
Scott, I agree in small numbers your right there is great scenery for X plane, and you know I'm a huge fan of it and I would through FSX in the bin tomorrow if I could!
My concern is the developers are not developing for X plane and those that are are definitely the minority! I mean your list is all American pretty much! I have tried Lugano which is an aerosoft product and its awesome! I'm annoyed with aerosoft as they openly said to the public that they were getting on board with xplane but take a look at their previews forum! Everything they are developing is FSX!
I'm not moaning im just a bit upset really as I absolutely love xplane it's truly amazing and FSX is only close to it because of the scenery but I just don't think the developers will ever be brave enough to ditch FSX and let's be honest why would they as they won't make any money out of xplane! I have seen the financial results myself. Plus developing for an ever changing sim is never ideal!
I have had a go at the fs2xplane program too and it doesn't work and needs the sloping runways turned off too and that's one thing I want to have turned on in xplane.
Anyway it's night time here so I'm off for some xplane flying!
Good thread this Scott will be a good resource!
Great thread Scott. I agree XP scenery is a little light on at the moment compared to FSX but as your list testifies, there is an increasing amount being developed. I believe in the "100th Monkey" principle, as more users come on board and jump up n down or even start developing for themselves (XP has a pretty comprehensive environment editor), commercial developers will see it as a cash cow. Where that tipping point will be (the 101st Monkey) who knows but it will come. Besides, XP10 takes advantage of all the current GPU power and shader technology that FSX is totally oblivious too due to its age. Keen developers should see this as a tasty challenge :)
Now, to build another 2 PC's!
Ken.
JUST RELEASED TODAY ------ Chicago O'hare International - ORD!!!! ;D ;D ;D
Oh ye of little faith.... :P
Scott
http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=437 (http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=437)
Quote from: XOrionFE on January 01, 2013, 09:01:24 AM
Oh ye of little faith.... :P
http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=437 (http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=437)
Still little faith here in Europe though :( :( :(
Anyway, Happy New Year to you Scott :)
David
Quote from: fordgt40 on January 01, 2013, 09:22:00 AM
Anyway, Happy New Year to you Scott :)
David
Happy New Year David!!!
Scott
One for Nat...
YSSY
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=16986 (http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=16986)
YPAD
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=17893 (http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=17893)
Rhys B
Chicago O'hare International -KORD is out and fantastic
http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=437 (http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=437)
Scott
Thanks Rhys! (and Scott)
Whats funny is that ORBX never made these airports for FSX.... :o
Nat
Helsinki Malmi Airport - EFHF
http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=408 (http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=408)
You see, they are building European Airports :-)
Scott
Scott,
You say Innsbruck is free in xp10? I don't have any scenery for Innsbruck?
Quote from: rhysb on January 23, 2013, 11:44:43 PM
Scott,
You say Innsbruck is free in xp10? I don't have any scenery for Innsbruck?
It should be in there. I believe it is actually one of the demo areas so maybe comes with the demo? Are you using X-Plane 10 Global? Make sure you installed that area of the world.
Yeah Scott, fully installed with all the world scenery, strange?
Quote from: rhysb on January 24, 2013, 09:45:00 AM
Yeah Scott, fully installed with all the world scenery, strange?
Yes it is one of the demos and does need to be downloaded....
Bob,
You got the link?
I will have to look around. Been a while since I installed and set anything up. Will let you know.
Quote from: XOrionFE on December 31, 2012, 04:48:43 AM
I wanted to shed some light on some of the scenery available in X-plane 10 because I believe there is a lot more than folks realize and want to make sure everyone is aware. As new stuff comes out perhaps it can be added to this thread.
Base platform should be X-plane 10 Global
Free Aerosoft Airports included:
EBBR, EDDH,EDDK,EDDM,EDDS,EDDT,EDDV,EDLP,EGBB,EGKK,EGLL,EGPF,EGSS,EGDW,LEBL, LEMP, LFMN,LFPG,LFPO,LPFR,LSGG
Others included free: KSEA, innsbruk
Available Excellent Payware airports:
Wilmington Int'l
KSEA
KSFO
KLGA
KMIA
KMDW
KPAE
KTOA
KJFK
KPWT
KBFI
KRNT
PAKT
CYVR
Excellent Payware Scenery I have and can vouch for:
REALSCENERY - Florida, Tennessee, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Island of Oahu
Cities - Tucson, Reno/Carson City, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle
Other Areas - Western Canada (Final Frontier), Canadian Rockies, and Alaskan Panhandle (inside passage) which is great for Bush flying. Rest of Alaska including major airports like Anchorage coming in 2013.
Other payware I don't have yet but on my list:
New Zealand
UK Photoscenery
Hamburg
Amsterdam
Toulouse
Zurich
Lugano
Keflavic
Now note that this is not an exhaustive list but merely the main stuff I know about to date. In addition, there have been a lot of conversions of FSX scenery to X-Plane and are made regularly freely available at X-Plane.org by user community. There is also information on how to do this on the site.
As you can see, X-Plane 10 is certainly not lacking in good scenery. Obviously no where near as much as FSX but version 10 is relatively new yet by comparison and will take time. Yes, I am very optimistic of its future.
If anyone has more recommended scenery I didn't list or can comment on any scenery above that I listed as not purchased yet please add to the thread.
Thank you,
Scott
Hi just found this for NZ:
http://www.alpilotx.net/downloads/x-plane-10-new-zealand-pro/ (http://www.alpilotx.net/downloads/x-plane-10-new-zealand-pro/)
It's getting better all the time in terms of content - sadly the patent troll UNILOC has wrapped its tentacles around Laminar Research and is squeezing.
Do what you can to support LR since XP and FightGear are the only computer flight sims left for us enthusiasts.
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GDay Scott...I mean Mr. XP :)
Just to clarify...are the airports below included in XP10 Global DVD?
Nat
QuoteBase platform should be X-plane 10 Global
Free Aerosoft Airports included:
EBBR, EDDH,EDDK,EDDM,EDDS,EDDT,EDDV,EDLP,EGBB,EGKK,EGLL,EGPF,EGSS,EGDW,LEBL, LEMP, LFMN,LFPG,LFPO,LPFR,LSGG
Others included free: KSEA, innsbruk
yes, although KSEA and Innsbruk come from the demo
Thanks Scott.
Wish the Demo lasted longer...nightmare trying to get 4 copies of it running long enough to even take off :o
Nat
make sure under "Operations and Warnings" menu you set the Startup to start each flight with engines running. Oh, also download and install the x737 aircraft model but make sure that you delete the plugin for it because you dont want that interfering with Sim-A.
In your rendering set to start full screen.
This should help you in your testing so you dont have to fiddle around starting things.
In case you missed this Aerosoft just released X-Plane scenery for Frankfurt-Hahn!
http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=446 (http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=446)
Who says X-Plane has no future??? :)
Scott
Scott...Im still confused.
I ordered Global Edition direct, but I have a feeling it Doesn't include all those
European airports like LFMN? Can I get them elsewhere?
Sorry...waiting for the DVD's to arrive! :o
Nat
Quote from: melnato on February 02, 2013, 01:29:29 PM
Scott...Im still confused.
I ordered Global Edition direct, but I have a feeling it Doesn't include all those
European airports like LFMN? Can I get them elsewhere?
Sorry...waiting for the DVD's to arrive! :o
Nat
I think they come in from an update to 10.10 once you have it installed. If not anymore then let me know and I will send the files. They should be there though.
See review here:
http://xsimreviews.com/2012/01/02/aerosofts-airport-scenery-and-a-plausible-world-in-xp10-part-i/ (http://xsimreviews.com/2012/01/02/aerosofts-airport-scenery-and-a-plausible-world-in-xp10-part-i/)
Scott
Thanks Scott,
Ill leave you alone till I get my discs.
Set up one Visual PC + Server last night...interesting :)
Nat
Nat,
Yes it will install all of these airports when you run the updater to get it all up to date. Also I know my copy of xplane10 actually came with a separate disc with the aerosoft airports on.
Just a few more European sceneries to add. It's looking good for France
Firstly the FranceVFR team who make awesome scenery for FSX have switched to xplane too! Their new site can be found here http://www.xpfrance.com/en/ (http://www.xpfrance.com/en/) terrain mesh is released but looks like all their FSX sceneries and photo VFR is to follow.
Secondly just downloaded and installed LFOB which is a Paris airport used by the low costs and its an awesome scenery! Up there with the best payware stuff
LFOB http://xpfr.org/?body=scene_accueil&sc=-1 (http://xpfr.org/?body=scene_accueil&sc=-1)
Thanks
Rhys B
For freeware this looks immense!!
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=18721 (http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=18721)
Hey Rhys
Whats the your last link to? I keep getting errors.
Thanks for the previous links also mate.
Heres a nice freeware, maybe too small for 737's but fun to try and get one in ;)
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=18715 (http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=18715)
Nat
Holy s#*t...check NZCH Christchurch out!
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=15673 (http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=15673)
Nat
Nat,
The link has been taken down I think.
Those sceneries look awesome for freeware!!
I think I have found the mother of all freeware sites though!!!!
http://simheaven.de/ (http://simheaven.de/) is a site that is all freeware! ZL 17 photo sceneries which are constantly updated and OSM data to go over it.
I have installed most of the alps and its awesome! I would pay £100's for this and it's all free!!!
Rhys,
Thanks for the link,i've been caughtup in this xplane thing as well. Had trouble accepting
it but persevered,d/l some of the free softaware and now starting to believe it going somewhere. I'm a bit confused, oSM sceneries and Photo Sceneries, whats the difference
and i gather you use both. Could you please explain.
Thanks
Les
The Photo sceneries are the VFR photoreal textures that drape over the mesh.
As far as the OSM sceneries its fairly easy to explain: Xplane uses open street map (OSM) to generate its buildings and roads. As OSM is a real time updated database that determines where and what type of roads and buildings are all over the world. This is updated constantly so every month there is more detail in this so to update this in xplane keeps more detail being added.
So you have the base layer which is the photo texture then the OSM layer is above this so where the photo scenery shows a road in the sim the OSM data will place that road on it with the traffic etc,
Hope that makes sense :)
Thanks,describes it perfectly.
Les
And the OSM scenery is really impressive.
check this:
Osm2xp Montpellier - part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DSb4LN2jK8#ws)
Or this one !
Perfect placement of buildings, roads and railways.
check the night scene at 4:25.
Time for a new computer for the VFR flights:
X-Plane 10 Ultra High Quality Scenery (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ZC94HCtcg#ws)
Stef
Damn...nice videos Stef!
Wish they covered Australia with OSM2xp
Nat
Nat,
It is bud. OSM2xp is the conversion program. Australia is on open street map so it can be done, you just need the photo scenery.
I suggest trying simheaven.de in my above post that should give you everything
Rhys b
Thanks Rhys...man this is a tweakers heaven! :idiot:
Nat
Www.simheaven.com (http://www.simheaven.com) has released the latest 2013 OSM data! I have downloaded Europe and man this improves the default scenery in xplane!
Stumbled across this guys Xplane airports covering USA and Hawaii:
http://fred-e.net/x-plane-sceneries/ (http://fred-e.net/x-plane-sceneries/)
Nat