Hello. For long time ago we had a Scenery design group in Finland called FISD, Finnish Scenery Designers. We used to release many sceneries just before Christmas... maybe I still have this schedule in my mind, or simply I want to have things ready for holidays. I don't know, but there are now 5 new sceneries uploaded for Finland.
Big thanks to Arno for very good tools for creating scenery!!
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Finland Base Pack version 2
* North Finland (region)
* South Finland (region)
* Flight obstacle data for Finland V2
* Tampere City Photoscenery
At first.... Lapland scenery that I released last year called
"Postcards from Lapland" has got some improvements, and it's called now
North Finland. This is a region scenery with land class, correct lakes and rivers, land use polygons, custom textures for wetlands, 2m mesh for selected areas, utility lines with electric masts, roads (bigger roads with skirting) and some custom objects. I have been studying Blender so I created this kind of "lodge" or fireplace, that are quite common here.
I thought if I make a lamp in Blender where the fire is, so it will light this up.... so I ended up with this result in the flight sim:
So. There are hundreds of fireplaces in Lapland, modelled using the above model or something else.
For the first time the north Finland has a elevation data that's resolution is 2m. I included all the parts that are available at this time. Saana, close to Kilpisjärvi looks absolutely stunning with photo scenery and 2m mesh.
Thanks to 29Palms scenery design and their configurator program, we are now enable for example to freeze the lakes and choose the combination of the scenery parts that work. So you customize at your will until the scenery works for you.
Kari Reinisalo releases the similar addon for
South Finland, so now the whole country is covered with detailed terrain.
Then,
Finland Base Pack. It got an update to version 2. The 10m mesh for Finland, now corrected from previous version and it includes some general scenery parts for whole country. And of course again.... 29Palms configurator!!
Finland flight obstacle data scenery now has windmills, the biggest chimneys and masts for Finland, but I combined the Finnish lighthouse and seamarks into this scenery. (Where it fits perfectly) I also added some traffic signs.... Yes. Road traffic signs in their real life positions.... Thinking about helicopter pilots mainly. It's basically quite useless and crazy, but somehow fun to do.
Again.... 29Palms gets the sincere thanks for their configurator where you can switch on and off the seamarks, lighthouses, traffic signs etc.
Tampere.... the third biggest city in Finland, situated in a beautiful spot between two lakes.
Tampere City Photoscenery adds the city and airport area photo scenery with autogen and some custom landmarks. Tampere city provided night lighting data that has correct locations and different light types. There are thousands of lights placed so it may be have an effect for the performance.... but guess what... 29Palms... etc.
So... Happy holidays, welcome to the virtual Finland that has never before looked so good and accurate as now. I'll let you know when the sceneries are online at FSNordic.net File Library.
Oh... These are created for FSX, but I think they work in P3D too.