01/11/21 I'm aware this scenery needs updated. The scenery will still appear in the sim ok but I know the traffic no longer works and the night lighting no longer works properly. I haven't abondoned it. I'm just waiting for the sim to settle down a bit. I don't want to put a lot of work into fixing it for yet another sim update to break things.
This is my first version of the city of Edinburgh I've been working on this past week. Like all old historic cities that don't have telemetary data flight sim 2020 really doesn't do it justice currently so I thought it would be an obvious choice to bring over from Google maps.
The sceney here is a good chunk of Edinburgh and includes Arthurs Seat, the extinct volcano which Edinburgh surrounds. Sadly it doesn't feature much of Leith or Portobello but I might bring those in as a future project. The scnery was grabbed in very high detail from Google maps as I wanted it to be as photorealistic as possible in the sim. As such its a large file, almost 2GB unpacked, so you may expereince big FPS drops depending on the power of your graphics card.
There are a few known rough edges. I'm still on a big learning curve with the SDK and if I'd known at the start what I know now I would have done things a little differently. Edinburgh is a very hilly city so it was difficult getting the scnery boundery to merge seamlessly with the default scenery. I've hidden the join in most cases but its not as good as it could be. I may re-do it from scratch at somepoint. The main thing is its much, much better than the current in game version of the city.
Interstingly Google must have photographed the city in August during the world famous Edinburgh festival as the festival is clearly visible in various locations. See if you spot them. Also, during the festival Edinburgh castle is lit up in different colours so I've replicated that here too. For some reason the clip distance of the coloured lights isn't great though so you have to get close to the castle to see them. If anyone knows how to sort this please get in touch and I'll update it.
Enjoy!
how do you get the red and green lights on edinburgh castle? I only have white lights
2 years ago
The lights have sadly stopped working since one of the last sim updates. I'm going to try to update the scenery soon but I'm just waiting for the sim to settle down a bit. Each time Asobo release an update it seems to break something and there's another sim update due this month.
2 years ago
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onlyforbrian
Works great, Asobos version is Abismol. Also the Floating castle, there is a fix mod on here.great Work.
3 years ago
Thanks. I'm going to update the scenery soon but I'm waiting until things settle down with the sim first. There's a lot of bugs at the moment with the sim and the SDK.
3 years ago
Mobias
CaptainFisher
Hi!
It seems to work already after SU5, BUT the castle seemed to be modified by Asobo. I now miss the arena, it looks different...
And there ist still no traffic in the city. I saw the cars driving beneath your texture. Do you have time to care about it? I still love this city for ever!
3 years ago
Hi there. Yeah I am going to start doing a new version of the Edinburgh scenery. Get it looking a bit better and get the night lighting fixed. Hopefully I'll get it done over the next few weeks.
3 years ago
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Olli
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europix
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msharwood
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rizaldo02
3 years ago
msharwood
Great job, 5 stars, love this down, i was there on honey moon...
Need little more lights at night. Anything possible?
Thx for your work!
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Olli
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msharwood
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TommyvercettyGT
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leoliu813
Amazing work though, very impressive
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