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MSFS20 Hamilton Island (YBHM)

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Introducing Hamilton Island, your gateway to discover the Whitsundays. YBHM is approximately 900km north of Brisbane and 500km south of Cairns, with short direct flights from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Cairns.

More previews soon :)

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Nice, is it a custom WaterMask? :)

I loved this Airport on FSX with the AAA Addon, any plans making all Whitesundays airports? :)
 
Thanks!

I'm still experimenting with the options for watermasking actually, pictured is exposed imagery. No plans for all the Whitsunday airports at the moment, just Hamilton/Dent Island and I'll improve Whitehaven beach.
 
This looks great. Nice work.

By the way, i'm just wondering if you had any pointers on the water masking process you could share as I'm struggling with this. I can build my project but when I check the scenery in the editor it tells me "Biome not found" and I have been trying to reverse engineer the issue with some luck but I'm sure that I'm missing something, any chance for a sample water masking package for me to compare with?
 
Just picked up Aldinga and decided to grab Southport because of your generosity. I am looking forward to this one now.
 
Development Update – Hamilton Island (YBHM) for MSFS

With the release of Lord Howe Island right around the corner we are excited to say that Hamilton Island will be the next release! Just have a look at how amazing the Island looks with watermasking! Hamilton and Dent Island are covered by 1m DEM data along with a 7.5cm Orthoimage

Behind the scenes we have been busy and have a number of assets ready for placement, you can expect to see more Hamilton Island previews in the near future.
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I'm also interested in the watermasking. All sceneries that I know use some workarounds to give the illusion of a watermask, like semitransparent textures placed a few inches above the water surface, which looks good from above but isn't suitable for e.g. water landings with a seaplane. So if you found a proper way to create real watermasks like in the old FSX days it would be great if you shared your experience.
 
We didn't use a work around as MS recently added water masking for the Whitsundays, this along with our 7.5cm imagery produces some amazing results :)
 
Good news, the area is so beautiful and the water masks will surely improve an already fantastic scenery. Sad though that Asobo / MS don't let developers create their own water masks, my Tonga Islands sceneries are surrounded by beautiful coral reefs that unfortunately are hidden beneath the water and the only way to make them show up is to completely remove the water surrounding the islands. I guess it would take years for Asobo to create water masks for every tiny island on the planet....
 
Absolute paradise for helicopter lovers! From our detailed rendition of the Hamilton Island Air Hangar to a nearby helipad at Qualia, you might even find some places to discover offshore
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Development is in full swing and we cant wait to show you more of our most detailed product to date!

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As an extension of Hamilton Island, we decided to release Reefworld/Heart Reef separately from Hamilton Island so we could add more detail and offer something extra for helicopter lovers.

You'll find Reefworld around 39nm offshore NE from Hamilton.

Checkout the trailer by Avlads

 
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We have released Reefworld - Great Barrier Reef - Checkout the trailer by Avlads and you can grab the product from here
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Hi, really nice work. Please have a look at this thread and edit the post and consider putting product links in your sig instead.

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Hi, really nice work. Please have a look at this thread and edit the post and consider putting product links in your sig instead.

www.fsdeveloper.com

What can you post in the showroom?

FSDeveloper is a community for developers. The showroom is meant to show what you are working on to other developers. So feel free to post updates of what you are creating at the moment or show some screenshots when your project is finihsed. FSDeveloper is not targeted at end users, so we do...
www.fsdeveloper.com www.fsdeveloper.com
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Thank you! No problem, post edited.
 
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