I started with a plan to clean up Ireland's iconic Dingle Peninsula... then I got carried away. In the end, this mod covers southwest Ireland along a line running from approximately Banna-Abbeyfeale-Killarney-Skibbereen-Cork, as shown in red on the screenshot. What does it do? Firstly, it removes autogen trees from places where there are no trees in real life, such as cliffs, farm fields, and car parks, as well as places where there is vegetation, but it's in the form of knee-high shrubs. The AI goes way overboard planting trees, and I drove myself to the brink of insanity removing as many as was reasonably possible. Secondly, the AI also goes overboard with large office and industrial buildings. Farm buildings are generally low, flat steel structures that look exactly like hangars, yet get interpreted by the AI as five-plus-story office buildings, so I set about replacing all of those with hangars. The exception to this is in County Cork, where about 95% of farm buildings never got generated at all, and I've done my best to add those. Rows of terrace houses in towns often get turned into long, skinny industrial buildings, so I've replaced those with stock houses. I also added castles, lighthouses, and other appropriate buildings. I'm not particularly good at 3D modeling, and I don't enjoy it whatsoever, so all buildings are stock, so don't expect everything to look exactly as it does in real life. My guiding principle here was to make a fair representation, not an exact recreation: i.e., if there's supposed to be a house, I put a house there; if it's supposed to be a hotel, I used something that looks like a hotel. Just like when the AI gets autogen right, it may not look exactly like the real thing, but at least it looks appropriate. I also added boats wherever I saw boats in the satellite imagery. These come from:

Superspud's Static Boats 3D Model Library

https://flightsim.to/file/27907/static-boat-3d-model-library

Dave's Seaplane Base Object Library

https://flightsim.to/file/5806/fisherman-dave-s-seaplane-base-object-library

Lastly, if you want to find Fungie the Dolphin, you'll also need Dave's 3D Animals Library

https://flightsim.to/file/6841/dave-s-3d-animals-library

Besides these libraries, I also used buildings from World Updates 2-9.

I've also made photogrammetry of Tralee, because it was such a mess that I couldn't fix it otherwise, so check that out if you're interested. https://flightsim.to/file/32653/tralee-photogrammetry

Update 1.1: Expanded to cover Skibbereen and the surrounding area.

Update 1.2: Expanded north and east of Tralee to cover Banna, Ardfert, Currow, Castleisland, and Abbeyfeale, among others; cleared more ugly vegetation from the area between Tralee and Killarney; and spruced up Whiddy Island oil terminal, which you see from the pattern at EIBN if you have that. https://flightsim.to/file/7804/eibn-bantry

Update 1.3: Expanded east from Skibbereen to Cork City. I didn't do anything with Cork City itself, as vizipok already did a photogrammetry mod for that: https://flightsim.to/file/33472/cork-city I'm aware that there are gaps east and west of Bandon (mostly east), but I'm going away for a few weeks and wanted to post what I've done so far. I plan to resume work and fill in those gaps eventually. Oh, and I removed the freakish glowing airliner that Bing radioactively burned into a hillside in Kerry.

Update 1.4: Minor improvements around Cork city and the area to the west of Bandon, mainly adding and replacing more buildings, and fixing some ugly coastline teraforming.

Update 1.5: More teraforming fixes around Cork city, for which Bing apparently has really garbage elevation data, because it turned beaches and sandbanks into cliffs. There still remain cracks between terrain tiles in places, but this bug appears in many parts of the world, and I hope (perhaps naively) that Asobo will fix it soon. Currently, it's fully compatible with vizipok's Cork photogrammetry, but if you're using EnjoyItFly's version, there will be a gap between the photogrammetry tiles and the surrounding terrain on the northeast edge of the city. That's an issue which EnjoyItFly will have to fix, because I can't override their terraforming.

Update 1.6: Now compatible with World Update 17. I deleted a lot of stuff around Cork which was conflicting with the new photogrammetry, and also my substitute Ross Castle, now that Asobo have modeled it properly and it's no longer an apartment tower.

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Southwest Ireland Enhancement

Enhances southwestern Ireland, mostly by replacing (extremely) inaccurate autogen buildings and removing about a million inaccurately-placed trees.

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