This package has been discontinued, as I work to bring an improved and expanded version to market in the near future. I've decided to keep it visible for the time being as a preview. I'm truly grateful to everyone here for your feedback and support over the past several years, but it's brought my craft to the point where each new package represents a gigantic expenditure of time and effort that's not being well supported by the occasional Paypal donation.

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This is a package of hand-modeled recreations of most of the bridges and other structures crossing San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay in the greater San Francisco metropolitan area. Asobo's default scenery packages already cover the Golden Gate Bridge and Oakland Bay Bridge, but there are many major crossings that they still have yet to touch. I have released some of these bridges previously, on an individual basis, but this package combines those previous releases (in thoroughly updated form) into one convenient package, along with several new models that will not be released in any other package. I couldn't be happier with how these models have all turned out across the board, whether it was an earlier model getting ravamped or newly modeling one for this bundle.

Crossings Included (clockwise from south)

• Dumbarton Rail Truss (currently inactive; partially destroyed by fire in 1998)
• Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct Pipeway
• Dumbarton Bridge
• PG&E 220kV lines (parallel to San Mateo Bridge)
• San Mateo Bridge
• Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
• SR-37 Napa River Bridge
• Mare Island Bridge
• Carquinez Bridge (two separate bridges)
• Benicia-Martinez Bridge (three separate bridges)
• Antioch Bridge
• This package also includes my previously-released night-light enhancements for the Golden Gate and Oakland Bay Bridges. Those particular bridge models were created and released by Asobo as part of default scenery and/or World Updates, and are of extremely high quality, really only lacking accurate lighting.

I'm hoping to continue to update this package in the future to add more of the outlying area bridges, high-voltage lines, relevant POI's, etc., but to be honest there just isn't much left to add for the Bay Area proper at this point.

Features

• Detailed hand-modeled recreations of the above-listed bridges, along with their toll plazas (as applicable), with accurate road striping and lighting.
• PBR materials used for most non-painted surfaces.
• LOD models tuned to balance appearance and performance.
• Collision meshes included for most road bridges.
• POI/Landmark markers placed for the major bridges
• Custom night lights applied in Blender; includes roadway lights, accurate marine warning lights, and additional decorative lights (as applicable)
• Some terraforming and vegetation tweaks around the bridge ends, and some water exclusions/corrections as necessary. NOTE: I strongly recommend combining this with mistercoffee1's water corrections for the area for best results
• Some more extensive water/shoreline corrections in Solano and Contra Costa counties around the Vallejo, Benicia, and Antioch bridges

Compatible (and may be visible in screenshots)

• various water correction packages by mistercoffee1 (San Mateo County, San Francisco County, Alameda County, Marin/Napa/Sonoma County)
• Port of Oakland by FreakyD
• KSFO by Flightbeam (payware; highly recommended!)
• KOAK by BMWorld/AMSim (payware)
• San Francisco by Taburet (payware)
• USA Modern Cities Vol. 2 by SamScene3D (payware, also includes Atlanta, Charlotte, and Honolulu; see note below)

Other packages may be compatible, but I have not specifically tested them.

COMPATIBILITY NOTE: If you've purchased SamScene3D's recent "USA Modern Cities Vol. 2" payware addon, please note that that package includes their own rendition of similar night light enhancements for the Bay Bridge (along with other San Francisco landmarks and those of a few other cities), making my own package of lights for that bridge redundant. Fortunately my scenery package was designed to be modular and has separate BGL files for each set of bridge placements; to remove my package of Bay Bridge lights simply remove the file "BayBridgeLights.BGL" from the scenery/world/scenery folder within the package (best practice is to also delete its corresponding entry from the layout.json file in the main package folder, but it seems to work either way). I may include the modified layout.json file in a future update, but I doubt I'll produce two separate versions of this package, since it's such a minor change and the removed file doesn't take up much space anyway compared to the overall package size.

Installation

• Download the ZIP file and extract the "whitearcades-bayareabridges" folder to your Community folder:

For the Microsoft Store version: C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_\LocalCache\Packages\Community
For the Steam version: C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community

Remember to delete all previous packages for the above-listed bridges that may already be in your Community folder.

Size in folder: ~180 MB

How To Donate

If you enjoy this addon or my other scenery addons, please consider using the PayPal link on my profile page to make a donation. I make scenery addons for the fun of it, not specifically looking to monetize my work, but keep in mind that putting these sceneries together requires a significant investment of time, effort, and research, and every bit helps.

 
Other Scenery By Me
(all available on flightsim.to; a much shorter list now that these bridges live in a single package)

Downtown Los Angeles Bridges
Coronado Bridge (and other San Diego area bridges)
Balboa Park (San Diego) vegetation overhaul
Ambassador Bridge

Knott's Berry Farm
Six Flags Magic Mountain
Cedar Point
Kings Island
Six Flags Over Texas
Busch Gardens Williamsburg

Globe Life Park (new Texas Rangers ballpark)