News about Svalbard4XPlane!

Exciting news, I make a good progress with the development of my Svalbard Mesh for X-Plane. Besides the summer version, which I presented a few weeks ago, the development of the winter version is also almost finished: There are just a few details to add and the internal beta phase can begin. I’ll keep you…

Svalbard4XPlane is coming soon!

I’m proud to present to you my newest creation: Svalbard4XPlane – A Custom Base Mesh Scenery for X-Plane. The mesh will represent the Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean with a very detailed terrain model and in a photorealistic look, even it is not a orthophoto-mesh. My Svalbard Base Mesh will be bundled together with…

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…

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,…

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…

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],…

Get Antarctica4XPlane Part 2!

The second part of my Antarctica Base Mesh for X-Plane is now available! The Terrain Mesh covers the Victoria Land and the northern parts of the Transantarctic Mountains. In addition to the Mesh Scenery, I’m proud to announce, that Paolo will shortly release a bunch of Research Base Station Sceneries.  You’ll find the download links for my Base…

Antarctica4XPlane: Part 2 is coming!

One year after the start of the project and four months after the Release of Part 1, I’m proud to announce that Part 2 of my Antarctica Terrain Mesh Scenery for X-Plane is almost ready to release. Part 2 of Antarctica4XPlane covers the Victoria Land and the northern parts of the Transantarctic Mountains including McMurdo Dry…

AX4P: 1.000 downloads reached!

I’m proud to announce that Part 1 of Antarctica4XPlane has reached 1.000 downloads – a big thank you to all supporters! I’m really interested in – who of those, who downloaded the Antarctica Base Mesh Scenery – regularly fly over X-Plane’s lost continent. It would be helpful if you give me some feedback: Let me know…