Maps2XPlane

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…

Porto Airport for X-Plane

I have the pleasure to announce, that Rui Silva released under the brand Área77 Simulations his first scenery package for the flight simulator X-Plane: It features the Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport a.k.a. Porto Airport. But that’s not all: Also landmarks in the neighborhood of the airport as well as two heliports are included in the scenery package. Key…

Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport for X-Plane

The home airport of Aerosoft can now be explored in X-Plane with Paderborn XP! The highly detailed recreation of the Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport and its surroundings was developed by Stairport Sceneries and features a custom edited terrain mesh by Maps2XPlane. The Paderborn region is covered by an extended orthophoto and at the airport itself you can…

Minor Update for Faroes4XPlane

Due the Extensive update of Faroes4XPlane last month received such fantastic feedback, we decided to prepare a further (minor) update with some fixes and additions: added some previously missing power-line-segments (on land) added (over-water) power-line-segments between the islands placed dozens of additional church- and lighthouse-objects fixed the sea traffic network to avoid floating boats/ships Faroes4XPlane is…

Extensive Update of Faroes4XPlane

With its launch last December, our region-based scenery package #Faroes4XPlane received amazing critics. Reason enough for us, to invest even more efforts to improve and extend our rendition of the Faroe Islands for X-Plane. Based on the feedbacks we got, the Main Objectives for an update were quite clear: Vegetation, Autogen, Landmarks, Harbors and Marine Traffic. In more detail,…

A tool to edit X-Plane Meshes: Add-on DSF-to-GIS

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. During the development of the tool to…

Munich Airport for X-Plane

With the Munich Airport, ShortFinal Design a.k.a MisterX6 released his first European Airport for X-Plane 11. Like with the previous products, also this scenery package is full with details – it will take days to explore all of them. Take a look at the impressive feature list as well as the stunning snapshots: Accurate models for all buildings with…

Krabi Outback Mesh and Scenery

After the release of the Phi Phi Islands and the Poda Group Islands, Stefan a.k.a. monoblau continued the Krabi4XPlane project and released now an extensive scenery package for the mainland, called Krabi Outback Adventures. Without revealing too much, your visit of the Krabi outback will definitely be an adventure. So much things to explore, but see yourself:…

Antarctica4XPlane: Annual scenery update

We’re in the mid of this years Antarctica season! A great opportunity for the annual update Antarctica4XPlane. First of all, I’m very happy that Aerosoft offered me the option to host my freeware mesh sceneries, covering the Antarctic continent. This means, that not only the download links changed, but also that the various forum threads related…

Faroes4XPlane is released now!

After the award-winning sceneries #Antarctica4XPlane and #Svalbard4XPlane, I’m proud to announce, that Faroes4XPlane is available now! The scenery package features a X-Plane rendition of the Faroe Islands archipelago as well as the Vágar Airport and eight helipads, which are spread over the islands. You can expect a stunning landscape (about 1.400 square kilometers of custom…

Genoa Airport for X-Plane

Stairport Sceneries in cooperation with GayaSimulation released today their Genoa Airport “Cristoforo Colombo”. The scenery package for X-Plane features not only a realistic rendition of the airport, but also makes use of Stairport’s brand-new SAM plug-in. Key Features: Well-detailed, accurate and high-quality renders of Genoa airport; High resolution photoreal coverage of 187 km²; Custom models for the city and the harbors of Genoa;…