France VFR

[Wynthorpe]

Came across this over at AVSIM last week, not seen it mentioned here at all though. Its the FRANCEVFR Scenery for Normandie, its only daytime and one season, but the amount of custom objects and autogen is unreal, looks very nice to me.

http://www.vfrnetwork.com/forums/index.php...vfr-disponible/

[Ian Warren]

I was looking at scenery like .. pre Xmas .. course after watching 'Band of Brothers' much required ... then return to NZ for other stuff .

[Timmo]

Wow looks pretty good alright- Anyone know how they did all that placement?

[Nzeddy]

Sounds like some automatic autogen placement tool.

http://www.vfrnetwork.com/forums/index.php...-3d-automation/

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Nzeddy @ Mar 12 2012,12:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Sounds like some automatic autogen placement tool.

Well Robin said that to me months back ... puts me out off a job , but then can spend time enjoying the scenery

[Ian Warren]

Got the other week but been too busy to fly. Took it for a quick spin with JF's C47 out of Le Havre - Octeville Airport LFOH to do some sight seeing.

A few things from my perspective
1. I've been there and it looked pretty much as I recall it, dont have any VFR charts, but the road map seemed to relflect what I was seeing.
2. You will not see any of the beahes from Overloard (D-Day) as this Region is NE or Upper Normandy, not lower, but I'm sure there would have more than one or two RAF C-47s over Le Havre on 5-6 June

What the mannual says about it...

QUOTE

Ground textures from 0.85 to 1 meter / pixel resolution from IGN aerial photography
reworked for an optimal visual rendition in Flight Simulator X® (summer only).
• Dedicated mesh with high definition 4.75 meters (LOD13).
• Lakes and rivers with navigable waters fitting the texture.
• Transparency management of the seabed on the entire scene.
• Semi-detailed airports including flatten platform correction.
• Obstacles and VFR landmarks modeled on the entire scene including the official SIA database
(antennas, towers, water towers, wind turbines, various constructions ...).
• Hundreds of thousands of objects and notable buildings integrated into the environment
(churches, power plants, silos, castles, industrial tanks, bridges, tolls, cranes, boats,
streetlights, road signs ...).
• Integration of 3D Automation® technology allowing multi-million buildings and realistic
vegetation areas fitting geographic specs.
• Extremely dense and optimized vegetation coverage using a custom rendering module
controlled by artificial intelligence (AI).
• Autogen buildings including additional specific and optimized 3D variations.
• Geo-referenced data for maximum compatibility with future add-ons installed on the same
area.
• Development process 100% Microsoft ® SDK specifications compliant, ensuring maximum
compatibility with new releases.[/quote]











Pont de Normandie



Note I haven't got my settings at recomended settings they are quite a bit lower so LOD doesn't look as good as it could

Last edited by zkcav on Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Ian Warren]

Paul , did you have a , or could you put up a map showing the size off the general region .

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE

Paul , did you have a , or could you put up a map showing the size off the general region .[/quote] Sure, sourced from France VFR

Here are the Regions to put in perspective



This is the area covered

[Ian Warren]

Thanks Paul , to put it in perspective , about the same size as RealNZ Auckland and Coromandel put together , and i guess the other regions are getting worked on , with us in New Zealand changing regions due to Orbx hi-jacking the NZ textures , we now use French AGN texture plates .

Be interesting to see it fully blown , as you said you loose a lot reducing settings but still good to see the size and what to offer ... you could quiet have a D-day invasion

[zkcav]

Doing some work on the PC next week - SLI a second GTX580 and O/C them both, so might be able to handle the settings for my gig. Post some more shot then