Leo2789
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Hello everyone,
As I have finally got this project organized, I felt it was time to share with the community 'what's cooking' here in my FS9!
Portugal VFR will be an extremely complete and detailed scenery aimed at the 'low & slow' flying fans, that will cover the entire mainland Portugal territory.
This scenery will use the stupendous scenery "Portugal Terrain" by Luis Sá as a 'canvas' of sorts, which you can freely get at this link: https://www.ptsim.com/index.php/downloads1
My scenery will NOT work properly if you don't install Portugal Terrain first (but that will be covered in the installation manual too).
Planned scenery features to be included are as follows:
- Every airfield, airstrip and Air Base that exists in mainland Portugal, even some which have been closed in the last 30 years but that are still discernible in satellite imagery and on location somewhat, with 148 Civil airfields & airstrips + 11 Military Airfields (2 of them being joint Civil-Military use). The 3 major International airports LPPT, LPPR & LPFR might be included but are NOT a priority, as there are already a lot of great renditions, payware and freeware. All of the airfields will all have accurate taxiways, aprons and terminals/building placements, using official charts info & satellite imagery for this. Also many Heliports/Helipads I could find information on, with a total of 156. Terminals & buildings will be photorealistic/realistic models for the maximum number of airfields/heliports possible, with a few other Portuguese scenery developers sharing their creations with this project or helping build new ones.
- Portugal doesn't have water runways/aerodromes, but for all of you seaplane fans like me, I will create a total of 32 Seaplane bases, all fictional, 23 on dams/reservoirs and 9 in river mouths around the country.
- 42 Lighthouses on the coast, all faithful recreations of the real deal, many of which with photo textures. Models for these are created by me, sourced from 3rd parties or a combination of both. They will also be complete with lights at night which recreate (to the best of my abilities with FX editing) the real life lights of each lighthouse. An update on radio navaids around the country will also be made, with the additon of new stations such as VORs & DMEs.
- Lots of landmarks & buildings in the cities of Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra & Faro (Portugal's biggest cities) as well as many other around the country in other cities, towns and villages. These will include Castles, Palaces, Cathedrals, Monasteries, Hotels, 'famous' Office Buildings, Churches, Bridges, and many other buildings. Landmarks outside cities will also be added, with the occasional distinguishable or relevant for VFR approaches church/cathedral, water tanks, and even the Air Force's mainland 3 Radar stations represented!
An important part of these landmarks will be a great amount of Medieval Castles, Towers & Renaissance Fortresses scattered throughout the country, as many as possible with photoreal textures and accurate models, for a total of 160.
- All (and I mean ALL) Wind farms in the Portuguese mainland (exactly 2,624 individual windmills as per my latest research). Other miscellaneous obstacles such as antennae, masts and comm towers will also be added.
- Towns, villages or rural terrain close to an important landmark or an airfield will also be more accurately mapped than they were in 'Portugal Terrain' where I feel necessary.
- Harbours and marinas will also be given 'life' with the addition of port infrastructures and ships/sailboats static objects.
- Infrastructure such as powerplants, and other major industrial areas will also be rendered, together with new Motorways built since the creation of 'Portugal Terrain', as well as adding major regional roads missing.
- Official Aerodrome Charts will be included in the package, but more importantly I will create and include fictional charts for every single airfield in the scenery!
- I'm considering (as of Aug '20) creating a pack of flights with the purpose of showcasing the scenery, more on this later should I decide to pursue it..
It is indeed a MEGA project, and will probably take me a long time to complete as I am doing it all alone, but I am fully committed to it!
I also need help by anyone who has enough experience with Gmax or SketchUp, and might be interested in designing some buildings for the project! Most of what I need are castles. I will also post a thread in the 'Project recruiting' section.
And perhaps most important of all: It will be COMPLETELY FREEWARE!
Hope you are all excited as I am!
This thread will be updated regularly with news and developments on this project!
Also this first post gets edited from time to time if a significant change regarding the information above occurs along the project!
As I have finally got this project organized, I felt it was time to share with the community 'what's cooking' here in my FS9!
Portugal VFR will be an extremely complete and detailed scenery aimed at the 'low & slow' flying fans, that will cover the entire mainland Portugal territory.
This scenery will use the stupendous scenery "Portugal Terrain" by Luis Sá as a 'canvas' of sorts, which you can freely get at this link: https://www.ptsim.com/index.php/downloads1
My scenery will NOT work properly if you don't install Portugal Terrain first (but that will be covered in the installation manual too).
Planned scenery features to be included are as follows:
- Every airfield, airstrip and Air Base that exists in mainland Portugal, even some which have been closed in the last 30 years but that are still discernible in satellite imagery and on location somewhat, with 148 Civil airfields & airstrips + 11 Military Airfields (2 of them being joint Civil-Military use). The 3 major International airports LPPT, LPPR & LPFR might be included but are NOT a priority, as there are already a lot of great renditions, payware and freeware. All of the airfields will all have accurate taxiways, aprons and terminals/building placements, using official charts info & satellite imagery for this. Also many Heliports/Helipads I could find information on, with a total of 156. Terminals & buildings will be photorealistic/realistic models for the maximum number of airfields/heliports possible, with a few other Portuguese scenery developers sharing their creations with this project or helping build new ones.
- Portugal doesn't have water runways/aerodromes, but for all of you seaplane fans like me, I will create a total of 32 Seaplane bases, all fictional, 23 on dams/reservoirs and 9 in river mouths around the country.
- 42 Lighthouses on the coast, all faithful recreations of the real deal, many of which with photo textures. Models for these are created by me, sourced from 3rd parties or a combination of both. They will also be complete with lights at night which recreate (to the best of my abilities with FX editing) the real life lights of each lighthouse. An update on radio navaids around the country will also be made, with the additon of new stations such as VORs & DMEs.
- Lots of landmarks & buildings in the cities of Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra & Faro (Portugal's biggest cities) as well as many other around the country in other cities, towns and villages. These will include Castles, Palaces, Cathedrals, Monasteries, Hotels, 'famous' Office Buildings, Churches, Bridges, and many other buildings. Landmarks outside cities will also be added, with the occasional distinguishable or relevant for VFR approaches church/cathedral, water tanks, and even the Air Force's mainland 3 Radar stations represented!
An important part of these landmarks will be a great amount of Medieval Castles, Towers & Renaissance Fortresses scattered throughout the country, as many as possible with photoreal textures and accurate models, for a total of 160.
- All (and I mean ALL) Wind farms in the Portuguese mainland (exactly 2,624 individual windmills as per my latest research). Other miscellaneous obstacles such as antennae, masts and comm towers will also be added.
- Towns, villages or rural terrain close to an important landmark or an airfield will also be more accurately mapped than they were in 'Portugal Terrain' where I feel necessary.
- Harbours and marinas will also be given 'life' with the addition of port infrastructures and ships/sailboats static objects.
- Infrastructure such as powerplants, and other major industrial areas will also be rendered, together with new Motorways built since the creation of 'Portugal Terrain', as well as adding major regional roads missing.
- Official Aerodrome Charts will be included in the package, but more importantly I will create and include fictional charts for every single airfield in the scenery!
- I'm considering (as of Aug '20) creating a pack of flights with the purpose of showcasing the scenery, more on this later should I decide to pursue it..
It is indeed a MEGA project, and will probably take me a long time to complete as I am doing it all alone, but I am fully committed to it!
I also need help by anyone who has enough experience with Gmax or SketchUp, and might be interested in designing some buildings for the project! Most of what I need are castles. I will also post a thread in the 'Project recruiting' section.
And perhaps most important of all: It will be COMPLETELY FREEWARE!
Hope you are all excited as I am!
This thread will be updated regularly with news and developments on this project!
Also this first post gets edited from time to time if a significant change regarding the information above occurs along the project!
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