Maps2XPlane

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,…

Milan Malpensa Airport for X-Plane

Windsock Simulations’ conversion of David Rosenfeld’s Milan Malpensa Airport is now available from publisher Aerosoft. Milan Malpensa XP features a highly detailed recreation of the second largest airport in Italy for X-Plane. Key Features: Accurate models of all buildings, the tower, and terminals 1 and 2; Apron with exact ground markings; Detailed 0,50 m/px ground textures; Orthophoto of the…

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…