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    We Love VFR - Region 1 - Image 2

    Description

    Using MSFS2024? 90% of We Love VFR is already there!

    Antennas, towers, masts, smoke stacks, cooling towers and radar domes were added to the default scenery of MSFS2024 thanks to our partnership with OrbX and Asobo!

    Join our discord for support and the latest updates »

    Do you like flying VFR and watching the World below you? Do you sometimes feel that something is missing? We Love VFR is here to help you. We Love VFR is a free add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator that adds thousands of new VFR-friendly objects. In this version, you get communication, radio, and tv antennas, chimneys, cooling towers, radar domes, construction cranes, and satellite/radio telescope dishes. I have plans for many more.

    What's new in this update?
    • Reworked handling of construction cranes. Now we include only sites older than one year, but not older than 4. Also, verified all cranes near runways.
    • Added more accurate data for Austria with verified all smokestacks and all other objects over 100 m.
    • Added some more crosses in the Alps.
    • Fixed one of the smaller chimneys' LOD issue.
    • Incorporated data correction requests made by users.
    Looking for America? Download Region 2 here » 
    Region 3 (Asia, Middle East, Australia and Oceania) is here » What does We Love VFR include?
    • Over 150 000 objects were placed in region 1.
    • Coverage of all Europe, Africa, and part of the Middle East.
    • In this version mobile communication, tv, and radio antennas, chimneys, cooling towers, flare stacks, large and mountain top crosses, radar domes, construction cranes, and satellite/radio telescope dishes.
    • Smoke and steam effects for chimneys and cooling towers - wide and temperature dependant
    • Puffin AI* - correct placement and appearance of objects**
    • Included detailed obstacle data from 30 countries (list below)
    • Over 100 custom models
    • Lower spec PC friendly
    • Much more planned
    Need power lines and ski lifts?

    Be sure to check out fantastic add-ons by mamu82 like the latest Powerlines and Solar Farms! With We Love VFR and his add-ons you basically get a full VFR package for a great price of $0 ;)

    How to install it?

    Find your „Community” directory and just copy "a-puf-we-love-vfr-region1" there. That’s it. That’s it. If you’re updating my addon, remove the old version before installing the new one.
    If you have a conflicting addon refer to the included ReadMe file.

    If you don't like smoke effects, or they somehow kill your fps, first of all, report it here or on discord, but then you can download the "no effects" version of this add-on.

    Warning: To get satellite dishes/radio telescopes you need to have installed "USA Points of Interest" by Asobo, from the official World Update USA. It's available in the marketplace for free.

    It's not a beta anymore but I don't have much time for testing so...

    ...don't be mad if you see any errors, just report them to me so I can fix them ;) If you see an object that you know but its appearance, join our discord and report it there. I'll try to add/fix it for the next version. You can also join our beta testers team.

    Countries with upgraded data (other countries use OSM data and manually added data from wiki or users):

    Albania, Armenia, Bahrain, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Croatia, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Gabon, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauretania, Montenegro, Niger, Poland, Portugal, Rwanda, Serbia, Spain, Slovenia, Togo

    Note to creators: Because of fs.to ToS BS (so many abbreviations!), and me modifying files with every update I've removed consent on using my assets in other add-ons. This doesn't mean I don't want you to use them! Just contact me and I will provide you with source files and assistance :) I'll try to prepare the separate library soon, to make everything compatible forever (I must change ALL GUIDs in one region for compatibility reasons, so it may break some sceneries). The library won't be available at flightsim.to, so check my discord for links. I'm sorry for any inconvenience.

    Known Issues:

    • in very rare cases there might be an office building instead of a chimney (I don't mean cooling towers, these are not implemented in the mod at all... yet). Same with the office building in place of the demolished cooling tower. This is a case of mismatched data between Asobo and OSM and has to be fixed manually. Report it in the comments or in discord.
    • most of my objects are switched off on photogrammetry to avoid conflicts. Unfortunately, photogrammetry boundaries are sometimes different than real photogrammetry coverage. Because of that objects that are close to photogrammetry areas might not appear at all. If you find an object like this, just report it to me so I can switch it on.


    *Not really AI. Just quite complex conditions, but AI sounds a lot better.
    **Depends on data availability.

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    13 days ago

    I love this addon but unfortunately it injects a couple of enormous and unavoidable cranes right in the middle of the Eilat airfield (LLET)

    about 2 months ago

    The powerlines and solar farms addon you recommended is no longer listed. :(

    3 months ago

    Fantastic addon! Thank you

    3 months ago

    Is there any reason to get this with MSFS2024?

    6 months ago

    Trying this again after the new update MS2020 seem to work okay Thankyou

    about 1 year ago

    Is the wenvoe mast included (cardiff)

    about 1 year ago

    Weltklasse! Ich kann jetzt meine Lieblingsorte in der Eifel auf FS 2020 richtig sehen. (z.B.: Radioteleskop in Bad Münstereifel-Echweiler)

    about 1 year ago

    How about a recompile with the latest SDK?

    over 1 year ago

    Is it still working for FS2020, or...? It seems a bit abandoned, but maybe nothing more needed in terms of fixes etc?

    over 1 year ago

    Is it working with 2024?

    over 1 year ago

    The 90% of the content of We Love VFR was integrated into the base sim with MSFS2024. So there is no need to install it, as antennas, chimneys, cooling towers, radar domes and TARS are already there!

    over 1 year ago

    Anyway to add smoke in 2024 to the smoke stacks?

    about 1 year ago

    Unfortunately I would say 40%. 2020 with this addon looks way better than native 2024.

    over 1 year ago

    dużo zmienia super sprawa!

    over 1 year ago

    Excellent mod, kudos and respect to the developer.
    However, I have a small remark. Many objects have LODs, but they lack a proper LOD for situations when the object's size on the screen is about 0.5% or something like that. Just as an example, ConstructionCrane2_Yellow at LOD 2\2 has 7 textures taking up 3.844MB of memory and 15 drawcalls. And there’s a small issue with those 15 drawcalls. As I understand, multiple objects are counted by the game engine as the cost of one, but this is true with a small exception. Drawcalls are counted for EACH! object, and when you have 50 ConstructionCrane2_Yellow on the screen, it adds up to 750 drawcalls. This can be seen in the statistics profiler.

    It's not a problem when you don’t have any heavy scenery installed, but in the case of complex scenery, or if there’s a nearby city with lots of landmarks, for example, this can already impact performance. I see your message about collaborating with Asobo and OrbX, so I really hope this won’t be an issue in the new simulator 2024. For instance, Asobo’s props are designed so that something like PowerTower1, which is often placed in large quantities along power lines, has only one material/texture and therefore only one drawcall at the final LOD, meaning that even with a large number of active occurrences, it doesn’t significantly increase the overall load.

    over 1 year ago

    Hi. Some of my old objects were too heavy. That's true. I went through construction cranes and optimised them all, but I don't know if these model made it into region 1. Region 2 got them for sure. We are working on optimising models for MSFS2024, which has different LOD handling, so don't worry ;)

    over 1 year ago

    How well this mod (region 1) works with the free orbx Hungary vfr package?

    https://orbxdirect.com/product/hungaryvfr-landmarks-msfs

    https://orbxdirect.com/product/hungaryvfr-airports-msfs

    Thank you!

    over 1 year ago

    is it compatible with the latest WU?

    over 1 year ago

    It may conflict with some of new POIs. Due to my collab with Asobo and OrbX I currently can't update it. Mostly because we made a lot of work in other aspects of We Love VFR to integrate it into the sim. I know there are some nice people that release compatibility packs for We Love VFR so you might look for these.

    over 1 year ago

    rgr, wasn't aware of such compatibility packs.
    will look for it.
    Also looking forward to your 2024 work mate, very excited for it!
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    MSFS 2020MSFS 2024

    We Love VFR - Region 1

    Do you like flying VFR and watching the World below you? Do you sometimes feel that something is missing? We Love VFR is here to help you. Here you'll find thousands of antennas, masts, smoke stacks, construction cranes, radar domes, sat dishes and more!

    Downloads177K
    Version0.6.2
    File Size73.12 MB
    Published5 years ago
    Updated3 years ago

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    Version History

    Compatibility update for WU Italy. Added user's requests. Small adjustments around LOWI.

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