Now that it’s official, let’s take a closer look at the latest scenery package penned by Maps2XPlane in collaboration with Albert Ràfols: We devoted ourselves to develop a rendering of the Society Islands for X-Plane: In a first step we focus on the Leeward Islands: Bora Bora, Raiatea & Tahaa, Huahine, Maupiti and Tupai –…
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In memoriam Nino Villari
With great sadness I have to inform you, that Antonio ‘Nino’ Villari passed away on 25th November 2020 in the age of 72. With Nino we not only lost the initiator and coordinator of the Antarctica4XPlane development, but also a wonderful, humorous and fun-loving person. * * * Matthias: “I met Nino on 17th April…
Seychelles4XPlane Sightseeing
Since its release at the beginning of this year, Seychelles4XPlane received amazing reviews from the user base, as well as from renowned scenery reviewers – see the summarization of various reviews in the last posting. What is always emphasized is that there’s “[…] so much to explore across the entire archipelago and so much to…
Reviews of Seychelles4XPlane
With the release of Seychelles4XPlane – our most recent and so far most extensive scenery package for X-Plane – we received amazing feedback from our customers, and also renowned reviewers. Here’s a summarization about what independent reviewers have to say: Thanks to all our customers and the reviewers for the extensive feedback! If you have reviewed…
Seychelles4XPlane is released now!
It is my pleasure to inform you that Seychelles4XPlane is now available from our publisher Aerosoft. Our newest scenery package for the flight simulator X-Plane features a detailed rendition of the 115-island archipelago of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean: One of Maps2XPlane’s most extensive and complete X-Plane add-on, developed in cooperation with Albert Ràfols. Wether you…
Seychelles4XPlane – The Airfields
After informing you in the previous posting about the two largest airports – the Seychelles International Airport and the regional Praslin Island Airport – let’s today have a closer look at the thirteen additional airfields which will be included in the Seychelles4XPlane scenery package: The thirteen additional landing sites are spread over the smaller islands of the…
Seychelles4XPlane – The Airports
In the last couple of postings in the development blog we talked quite a lot about The Landscape and The Helipads. Now it is finally the time to inform you about the airports which will be part of the Seychelles4XPlane scenery package. First, let’s have a closer look at the two largest airports – out of…
Faroes4XPlane – Four Seasons
About a year ago we successfully released our popular Faroes4XPlane scenery package, featuring the archipelago of the Faroe Islands, high up in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, between Iceland, Norway, and Great Britain. If you haven’t enjoyed Faroe Islands XP so far, a reminder that the extensive scenery package features not only a custom terrain mesh, country specific…
Seychelles4XPlane – The Helipads
Like the previous scenery packages, Seychelles4XPlane will not be just a conventional airport scenery. It’s very important to us, that our sceneries offer a complete experience for all kind of flight simulation enthusiasts: That means also for the Seychelles4XPlane scenery package – in addition to detailed airport renditions – not only to feature a realistic landscape, but…
The Landscape of Seychelles4XPlane
After the announcement of our new scenery package Seychelles4XPlane, let’s now take a closer look at some key features, starting with the landscape: Our Seychelles scenery package for the flight simulator X-Plane will be shipped with a custom terrain mesh, which features the entire 115-island archipelago in the Indian Ocean, and will be covered with a generic,…
Work in progress – Seychelles4XPlane
It’s time to inform you about our plans for our upcoming X-Plane scenery covering the Seychelles, an archipelago country in the Indian Ocean: Like the previous scenery packages #Svalbard4XPlane and #Faroes4XPlane, our new scenery package #Seychelles4XPlane will not feature just a single airport: You can look forward to a photo-realistic custom terrain mesh covering the entire…
Editing X-Plane Meshes: Implications and Limitations
More and more developers of X-Plane add-ons decide to bundle custom-edited terrain meshes with their scenery packages. However, many of these developers aren’t aware of the implications which come with the edit and re-distribution of existing terrain meshes. In this context, Andras Fabian a.k.a alpilotx – the author of the fantastic HD and UHD Meshes – wrote…
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