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News about Antarctica4XPlane

It’s been awhile, since my last news about Antarctica4XPlane, my Antarctica Terrain Mesh Scenery for the flight simulator X-Plane. It’s winter on the southernmost continent and due to the darkness and rough weather conditions at this time of the year, almost all antarctic researchers went home for a break. But why not use the opportunities…

Bergen Airport for X-Plane

Today I have the pleasure to announce the release of the Bergen Airport for X-Plane. It was developed by one of my new development partners: Stairport Sceneries. For the realization of their Bergen Airport, I had the opportunity to provide them a high realistic elevation model for the airport area. The primary goal was to…

A tool to edit X-Plane Meshes: The idea and goals

Notice: This is one of the articles in the series of articles describing the chronology of my initiative to aim for a common and official workflow to edit existing X-Plane terrain meshes. A summary about the why and the how can be found in the most recent article. Besides the development of new X-Plane Meshes,…

Prince Edward Islands Adventures

As an add-on for my Prince Edward Islands Mesh, community member Ralph developed and released his Prince Edward Island Adventures Scenery for X-Plane. The Scenery Package contains the SANAP’s Meteorological Station at Marion Island, as well as two fictitious airfields. Details can be found on his download page.

HiRes Digital Elevation Mosaic

In the last few weeks I focused a new project that is somewhat different than the previous ones: This time, I do not develop a final X-Plane Mesh Scenery, but a source for you, to build your own (Photo-)Mesh: A HiRes Digital Elevation Mosaic out of more than a dozen sources (with a resolution of…

Prince Edward Islands Mesh

As announced in November 2016, I’m working on Terrain Meshes for X-Plane covering Subantarctic Islands. Now I’m proud to announce, that I finished the first couple of islands: The Prince Edward Islands. Two sub-antarctic islands in the Indian Ocean, named Marion Island and Prince Edward Island. This terrain mesh is an addition to my Antarctica4XPlane mesh scenery…

New Antarctica Scenery Add-ons

The current season in Antarctica is approaching its peak and it is thus an appropriate time for the release of further research stations: I’m proud to announce that Paolo released two brand-new Research Station Scenery Packages complementing my Antarctica Mesh Scenery. The packages contain amongst others: Comandante Ferraz Station and Machu Picchu Base, McMurdo Station (on the image above), Scott Base and…

Subantarctic Islands Mesh

You’re looking for a stopover on your way to the antarctic continent? Then I have good news for you: I’m working on new Terrain Mesh Sceneries for X-Plane covering Subantarctic Islands. One of the first meshes which will be ready to be released covers the Prince Edward Islands. Two islands in the Indian Ocean, named…

Update of Antarctica4XPlane!

As of today, a new version of Antarctica4XPlane Part 2 is online! This update covers now a much larger area of Victoria Land and the northern parts of the Transantarctic Mountains. Also, this update improves the resolution of the Mesh dramatically: The download-links to this update and all other sceneries can be found in the Antarctic…

A4XP: Work on Elevation Models

I’m working on a mesh update of Antarctica4XPlane Part 2. For this I begun to merge some high resolution elevation models into the current low resolution model. With success, as you can see below: Shown is a digital elevation model of Ross Island [the current DEM on the left and the upcoming on the right],…

Mario Zucchelli Station

Paolo released a new Antarctica Scenery package! It contains the Mario Zucchelli Station, a permanent Italian Research Base, located at the Terra Nova Bay. Nearby you will find the Jang Bogo Station and Enigma Lake, with a challenging Skiway. Have fun exploring!

Signy Research Station

Besides the development of the Antarctica Terrain Mesh for X-Plane, I begun to create first 3d-models and released my first Research Base Scenery: The Signy Research Station, located on Signy Island, a small subantarctic island on the South Orkney Islands, operated by the British Antarctic Survey.