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P3D v4 VFR Mallorca

MatthiasKNU

MatthiasKNU

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Hello everybody!

First of all, I'm sorry.
I just needed a little vacation, after millions of square kilometers of photo scenery in Africa.
What could be more logical than a holiday in the beautiful Mediterranean Sea!
So that's how I started working on Mallorca.

I have to say first, I'm not a friend of double development. Nevertheless, I have started a double development.
No, I am not talking about LEPA, the international airport of Mallorca. But from the island themselves.
I was sure that I could create a better photo scenery than the one Aerosoft Mallorca has to offer.
After JustSim also recently released an up-to-date version of LEPA that came without photoscenery, I started to create Mallorca at the end of May, beginning of June.

Well, and today, after more than 1000 hours, I am able to present the project here!

First of all, will it be Freeware? YES!
And not only that, since all the data I have used allow the release, I can also offer the scenery for free download.

Some of you may say, well, a photo scenery is nothing new. Not even of Mallorca.
Mine's new. It is not only a photo scenery, but a full scenery package.

So, what's to be expected? First: 25 GB data. That would have been smaller possible, too, yeah. But not in this quality.

Here is a small feature list:
- 0,5 m/px photoscenery for the entire island, adapted to ORBX openLC colors (LOD17)
- 3 hand-coloured seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer)
- Night ground textures
- High resolution mesh, based on LIDAR-Data (LOD13) (The most accurate mesh currently available uses only LOD10!)
- Exact differentiation of tree species based on CORINE data with a resolution of 25 m/px
- "Light" sceneries of all airfields in Mallorca except LEPA inculding Aerodrom de Binissalem, Son Bonet, Vilafranca de Bonany, Porto Cristo, Ses Salines and LLucmajor
- LESB Son Bonet with 7 cm/px imagery
- Accurate placed VFR Objects like powerpoles, antennamasts, windturbines or lighthouses
- More than 25 mio. autogen trees
- Extremly dense autogen vegetation
- More than 200.000 autogen buildings
- Use of P3D default objects only for maximum compatibility
- Config tool to customize options according to your needs
- Compatible with ORBX-sceneries, Aerosoft Mallorca Professional and JustSim Palma de Mallorca
- P3Dv4.5 native for best performance

And what does the whole thing look like in the sim? Take a look!
Natural park S'Albufera:
2019-8-29_12-6-2-895y2kk4.jpg


Near Alcudia:
2019-8-29_12-6-35-858h6kjh.jpg


Serra de Tramuntana:
2019-8-29_12-14-51-91e7kr2.jpg


Approaching Palma de Mallorca (in the background the Puig de Randa is visible with its antennas):
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And the 3 Seasons:
preview_seasonsjujwt.jpg


Okay. Okay. I think I've written enough for today!
:D
 
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:santahat: Do you know what ?
All my grandparents are born on Menorca (Mahon), the minus island at the north of Mallorca so I will be very very very happy to try it and fly over my grandparents' island :wave:

Thank you very much ;)
 
Thanks!

@Lagaffe First Africa, now Mallorca... Good times for you! ;)
... I'd like to show three more pictures:
Northwest of Palma:
2019-8-29_17-48-0-1nmktz.jpg


S'Indioteria/Palma de Mallorca:
2019-8-30_17-15-36-98nhj8e.jpg


Palma from the east:
2019-8-30_17-18-2-314l0jpy.jpg
 
The road shown on the first image is well known to me: I took it several times during my travels on this island, especially during my last trip where I visited "the caves of Xuroï". These are caves arranged on the side of a cliff and used as a nightclub :p
 
Oh, great!
I have never been to the north/west of Mallorca, does it look like it should?
 
Yes, it is.
The green of trees is perhaps too much but it is as I remenber.
 
Thank you!
Yes, indeed, the trees should be a little bit more dark...
Anyway these are the ORBX trees, and I don't want to make big changes in those...
 
it is great
I have only one suggestion
use the vector data that you got with shp2vec and make some cars running around :)

(a small question: where did you get that 7cm per pixel image, I'm just surprised :O )
 
This is very, very impressive. It is also really needed despite the payware devlopments for the airport. Well done, and thanks for sharing your great work.
 
Matthias, beautiful work as always! Is there a plan for a photoscenery that is at a lower resolution? Say, 1m/px? 25GB is a lot of sp[ace for a place that I probably won't be flying to very much, but would love to have for those times that I do fly there!
 
Thank you all!

I am think about creating road and ship traffic, yes. But I still have to learn how to do that! ;)
The 7 cm/px imagery is from Google (referring to the Fair-Use-Concept).

Currently only Mallorca is planned, to be honest, I don't think that I will create Ibiza and Menorca as well... Sorry!
Also, I am not planning to create a version with lower resolution.
As far as I know, there is already a photoscenery available with lower resolution:
http://www.airhispania.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2506
So it would not make sense, to create a second photoscenery. Also - believe me - the higher resolution scenery looks hundred times better :cool:
 
MatthiasKNU said:
Thank you all!

I am think about creating road and ship traffic, yes. But I still have to learn how to do that! ;)
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Hi Matthias,

to create ship traffic I can help you. A complete guide on how to create shipping traffic can be found HERE (English and Deutsch). If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
 
Matthias, I just saw the pictures of Mallorca that you're creating, and it looks stunning. I do own Aerosofts version(s), but yours look way better. Do you also make your own version of LEPA, or will it be possible to use Aerosofts (just the airport) which in fact looks quite good?
I have been to Mallorca 4 times, and also recognize some of the places in your photos. Will it be possible to see some pictures of the Cap Formentor area, please?
 
Jlunddk said:
will it be possible to use Aerosofts (just the airport) which in fact looks quite good?
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From the first post of this thread:

- Compatible with ORBX-sceneries, Aerosoft Mallorca Professional and JustSim Palma de Mallorca
 
Fischkopp said:
Hi Matthias,
to create ship traffic I can help you. A complete guide on how to create shipping traffic can be found HERE (English and Deutsch). If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
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Thank you very much, as soon as I'm ready, I'll be pretty sure to get back to that offer!

Jlunddk said:
Matthias, I just saw the pictures of Mallorca that you're creating, and it looks stunning. I do own Aerosofts version(s), but yours look way better. Do you also make your own version of LEPA, or will it be possible to use Aerosofts (just the airport) which in fact looks quite good?
I have been to Mallorca 4 times, and also recognize some of the places in your photos. Will it be possible to see some pictures of the Cap Formentor area, please?
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As I said, I won't create a third version of LEPA. Not because I just don't want to have a third version, but simply because I don't have any talent in modeling.
But I adapt my scenery so that it fits without problems with LEPA by Aerosoft and with LEPA by JustSim/DigitalDesign.

In the meantime, a lot has definitely happened.

First, I have implemented the road traffic, which is moving on all major roads on Mallorca:
2019-9-5_11-43-25-8400qjua.jpg


Then there was the request of a picture of Cap Formentor:
2019-9-5_11-44-30-5917fk60.jpg


2019-9-5_11-45-10-195m6ka7.jpg


And, since it's slowly getting autumn - in the sim the trees are already orange again - today I have a picture of the night lighting of Mallorca with me:
2019-9-5_12-0-26-175y0jol.jpg
 
Wow, very nice work with a configurator, I wasn't expecting that. BTW. Are the Airfields LE57, LE58 etc. private airstrips? I don't recall seeing any private airstrips anywhere, and if so, why the possibility to turn them on/off?
 
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