I’m releasing a couple of small updates to my ortho pack. Both of these affect the upper region of the South Island.
Flight Simulation
Queenstown Airport
There’s quite a nice Queenstown Airport on the Global Scenery Gateway. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work too well with my ortho package because the airport is set to flatten the surrounding area.
Cleaning up Lake Rotoiti
Trevor rightly pointed out that Lake Rotoiti is mostly white or full of digital noise instead of looking like a lake. This was caused by reflections off the water and light bouncing and artefacting in the lens. I ignored it… Read More ›
Golden Bay Patch
Good news! Despite my best(ish) efforts, a small tile needs reworking in beta 3. I’ve quickly patched this little tile and uploaded the texture files. Simply copy over the texture files of -41+173 with these new files.
Heading to Westport
Working with my spare time in photoshop I’ve not really had time to do any flying in X-Plane recently. So, I opened up FSEconomy and took a job taking some passengers from Nelson to Westport.
Early Access! South Island beta release
Hurray! Early access! As a reward for seeing this post you get some download links! Below are links to my initial release of the South Island Ortho. Please test it out and report back on any major issues you have…. Read More ›
New global scenery airports
I’ve put together a few more custom scenery airports and sent them to the gateway. These align with the ortho-scenery better, or like Taupo, didn’t have any buildings at all. Have a look below: Napier Taupo Hastings Download them here. Unzip… Read More ›
Tile see ya later!
Good news! I’ve finished the last significant tile for the South Island. I have 3 more small corners to do and I can begin fixing and cleaning it up for release. The bottom of the South Island is pretty much,… Read More ›
Off script
Releasing the scenery with JPGs saves about 40% of the bandwidth to download the package. Originally this seemed like a good idea, but packaging up the .DDS files, checking everything is there, and writing the script batch file isn’t too… Read More ›
The Wall in the north (of Southland)
A quick update as I’ve not completed the second to last row of tiles in the South Island. It’s really good to hit that east coast! I was surprised by this tile though. The elevation file has a huge number… Read More ›
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