Hovesenderen / Hovemasten - By VALROK

"Hovesenderen" ("The Hove-broadcaster") or the "Hove-mast" is a Danish TV/radio broadcasting-tower near the town of Hove, located in the eastern part of Zealand, Denmark. With its towering 320 meters in height it is one of the main landmarks, when flying into or around Roskilde (EKRK) or the outskirts of Copenhagen!

It's been a couple of years since I made this addition to the Danish scenery from scratch, but due to the limitations of the MSFS SDK/render-engine, regarding custom lighting, I chose not to upload it - until now.

The initial version was extremely detailed with performance loss as a result. I have reduced the complexity of the model in a way that this will now not use any resources whilst still being high quality. My rendition of the tower is roughly 95% accurate as is, in regards to the different transmitting-equipment on the tower itself, and I believe it is a vital part of the VFR-experience when flying around the Copenhagen area.

Have a nice flight!

/ VALROK

Please leave some feedback - especially if there is something I could improve!

Installation:

• DELETE the old "vr-hove-mod"-folder from your community-folder
• Unzip the main file: "Hovesenderen VR"
• Read the text-file: "README"
• Drag and drop the unzipped folder: "vr-hove-mod" into your "community"-folder of MSFS
  
  
  

Changelog:

V1.22

• Changed file-structure, omitting the version-identifier in the name of main-folder to make it easier for people with automatic add-on manager.
• Cleaned up some floating terraforming-mistakes made by Asobo around the tower.

V1.21

• Increased intensity of the anti-collision lights on the tower (further viewdistance)
• Added an object-exclusion zone around the tower to prevent possible future issues with intoduced data around the tower.

V1.2

• Completely redone the package as an "airport" to enable the work-around for the anti-collision lights being visible from a somewhat realistic distance - don't worry, it's not an active airport and not visible as such
• Added "light-row" as anti-collision lights
• Removed the custom anti-collision lights on the tower itself, as there appear to be no way to sync the lights (do let me know if you know how to do this beside using the "phase" setting - which didn't do anything in this case)
• Added minor texture-fixes to the roof of the photogrammetry-generated building.

V1.1

• A few minor tweaks to the object (new materials to the antennas)
• Improved overall visual quality of the top of the tower
• Added a minor work-around to limited rendering of flashing anti-collision lights (still not able to render more than around 1 km due to engine limitations)

V1.0

Initial release.

• Includes the custom-built transmission-tower of "Hovesenderen" and some fixes to the landscaping and random roads and lights around it. I have not included the custom-built building, as this really isn't needed anymore with the newest update to Scandinavia.

Known "issues":

• None that I know of since the rework with the added "light-row" as anti-collision lights. Note: The lighting in the game is not realistic; thus it is still limited how far away you can see the lights. I will continue to test different options to enhance the visibility of the anti-collision lights.

Note: You may, of course, not transfer, distribute or alter any files within or use any files for your own creations without prior written approval by me.