POI Billboards of Hungary
Now the VFR dream comes true!
Now it is possible to have a detailed information on the area seen 1000 feet below you, injected directly into the scenery!
This upload will add POIs as “POI Billboards” - MSFS static scenery objects, for a given country/area, brought to you by 3DSpotters Team.
Here is Hungary with 39407 POI points.
Refer to the included maps.
You may turn ON/OFF each part independently.
Please also check our "POI Billboards of" series for other countries.
This is a new generation of “PBof”:
- a new POIOSM2FS Tool was used,
- a new workflow is in place - the OSM data is now taken directly from OSM .osm.pbf files, from Geofabrik Download Server: http://download.geofabrik.de/index.html
- new categories od POI are added: motorways (highways & trunks), fuel stations, fire stations, helipads and some other (prisons -beware!).
To install
Drop the scenery folder from ZIP to the Community folder or (preferably) use any of good MSFS Addon Linkers.
A Technology
POI Billboards (PB), that you will download here, are based on a completely different mechanism than Microsoft/Asobo built-in POI’s. That way you will get thousands (and I mean thousands) of billboard signs scattered all over the country, based on OpenStreetMap (OSM) information, supplied by OSM contributors, with minimal to non-existent FPS hit. You can see a lot of information at once: cities, towns, villages, attractions, train stations, temples, lakes, rivers, island and so on (assuming you have good eyes and paused the simulator). POI Billboards were designed to provide this information to the simmer, while not obscuring the landscape too much and keeping FPS high (well, you will judge).
We would like to make it clear - with this solution:
- you can not turn PB ON/OFF in-flight - only before MSFS start up,
- PB text size and so on are “hardcoded” - these are static not dynamic objects,
- scenery POIs are as they are - it is not possible to turn on some types of PB and some not. Please consider this BEFORE clicking stars on-site :)
HOW-TO
=> minimize MSFS loading times:
The only possible using scenery drawback could be extended MSFS loading time, so to minimize the time try the usual ways:
turn OFF Windows File Indexing feature on the disk,
switch ON only the scenery you will really fly VFR in a minute,
keep your sceneries on SSD disks, preferably on M.2 ones,
do the same with all other sceneries/aircrafts/liveries :)
=> minimize scenery size on a disk:
turn ON Windows File Compression feature on the disk; it should have advantage to give you 40% disk space gain and processing overhead should not be high on the other side.
Credits
Credits go to:
OpenStreetMap Authors & Contributors at: https://www.openstreetmap.org
Overpass-Turbo service at: https://overpass-turbo.eu/
WinHour, member of 3DSpotters team, for JAVA POIOSM2FS software tool at: https://github.com/Winhour/POIOSM2FS-Converter
For additional information please refer to docs/files saved on this (first) scenery main folder (when unzipped to Community or elsewhere).
Fantasztikus! Köszönöm! 😊
3 years ago
Thank you; work is underway on a second generation of POIs, which are even more detailed but less "disturbing" the landscape.
"Fantastic! Thanks! 😊"
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Köszönöm; a POI-k második generációján dolgoznak, amelyek még részletesebbek, de kevésbé "zavarják" a tájat.
"Fantasztikus! Köszönöm! 😊"
3 years ago
RipPipPip
dibzs
Ha csak ez a kiegészítő fagyasztja le a játékot mi a teendő?
3 years ago
Hey guys please speak English!
"If only this add-on freezes the game, what should I do?"
Well, it does not "freeze" actually. MSFS scans EVERY file each time it starts and there are possibly hundreds of thousands files.
What can you do? What do you call "this addon"?
If you copied MORE THEN ONE POI Billboards directories to Community then you have a problem. Please leave ONLY ONE there.
If you want to fly elsewhere then you exchange one scenery to another and not have TWO of them at once in Community folder.
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Hé srácok, kérem, beszéljenek angolul!
"Ha csak ez a kiegészítő fagyasztja le a játékot, mit tegyek?"
Nos, valójában nem is fagy le. Az MSFS MINDEN fájlt megvizsgál minden indításkor, és több százezer fájl található.
Amit megtehetsz? Mit nevezel "ennek az addonnak"?
Ha TÖBB EGY POI óriásplakát könyvtárat másolt a Közösségbe, akkor problémája van. Kérjük, hagyjon ott CSAK EGYET.
Ha máshová akarsz repülni, akkor kicseréled az egyik díszletet a másikra, és nem lesz egyszerre KETTŐ a Közösségi mappában.
3 years ago
RipPipPip
atigrincs
3 years ago
Thank you Captain!
Köszönöm, ellenőrizte Szlovákiát is? :)
3 years ago
RipPipPip
CaptJohnCoPPickles
Thank You!
3 years ago
And You welcome! :)
3 years ago
RipPipPip
Vizipok