Sunrise over a new scenery

After the award winning sceneries Antarctica4XPlane and Svalbard4XPlane I’m proud to announce that I’m working together with a new partner on a brand new payware scenery package for the X-Plane flight simulator. The partner I could win for this ambitious project is Albert Ràfols, the developer of the great SpainUHD scenery. What can you expect? Well, without […]

Poda Group Islands Mesh and Scenery

After the release of the Phi Phi Islands, Stefan a.k.a. monoblau continued the Krabi4XPlane project and invites us now to the Poda Group Islands. If you already liked his previous scenery package, you’ll now definitively fall in love: Stefan’s semi-fictive Poda Group Island scenery package for X-Plane including a custom terrain mesh by Maps2XPlane is available at x-plane.org.

A tool to edit X-Plane Meshes: What’s new and next?

In continuation to the two articles about the idea and goals, and the current state of the development of a new X-Plane tool to edit existing terrain meshes, here is another status report: Some of the most renowned X-Plane add-on designers could already benefit from the services, which I can offer with my new mesh edit […]

Antarctica4XPlane at the POLAR2018

What a great opportunity: Antarctica4XPlane will be present at the POLAR2018, which will take place in Davos, Switzerland from 15 – 26 June 2018. The POLAR2018 conference is a joint event from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research SCAR and the International Arctic Science Committee IASC. On Monday 18th June 2018, during the Polar Educators International PEI side […]

Heard Island and McDonald Islands Mesh

Now the time has come, the subantarctic adventure can continue: I’m pleased to announce that I have released my newest terrain mesh for X-Plane: Heard Island and McDonald Islands. The subantarctic volcanic group is Australian external territory and among the most remote places on Earth: Get your copy of the scenery package and start your subantarctic adventure […]

Phi Phi Islands Mesh and Scenery

Welcome to the Paradise! Stefan a.k.a “monoblau” released his first scenery package for X-Plane: Contained are fictive versions of Bamboo Island and Mosquito Island as well as two bonus islands near Krabi. And that’s not all: The scenery package features a Custom X-Plane Mesh by Maps2XPlane covering the Phi Phi Islands. Get prepared and start your […]

A tool to edit X-Plane Meshes: Current project status

In the last couple of weeks, numerous inquiries reached me, asking about the current state of the development of my tool to the edit existing X-Plane terrain meshes. In summary I can say: The development of the core features is finished and the tool proved itself already in various payware (e.g. recently released Aspen XP) and […]

Prince Edward Islands Mesh Update

The announced update of the Prince Edward Islands Mesh is now available. The terrain mesh for X-Plane covers two Subantarctic Islands in the Indian Ocean: Marion Island and Prince Edward Island. The update features a slightly better elevation model and enhanced and more varied texturing: Here’s the download link. In addition to mesh scenery I suggest as […]

Svalbard4XPlane Sightseeing

In the last couple of weeks, I toured around Svalbard4XPlane and enjoyed the scenic landscape. The about 61.000 square kilometers of terrain mesh are covered with two texture sets: one for a summer- and one for a winter-representation of the landscape. And here is now a selection of snapshots I made. Shown is a winter- […]

Antarctica Earth Orbit Textures

What really annoys me when flying over Antarctica4XPlane, is that the virtual horizon is so close. I feel like, that the earth is flat. X-Plane would have a solution for that, but this solution is simply not “activated” for high latitudes. To make it short, a suitable virtual horizon is in development, which will enhance your polar […]