
Description
Vienna City Landmark Pack - v1.9
Vienna calling!
This is my updated rendition of Austria's capital city. As bing map data is not sufficient enough across Austria, the ingame version of Vienna does not give a good representation of this wonderful european city.
Hopefully my scenery pack provides for a better experience landing and taking of at LOWW (Vienna International Airport).
Features
This scenery pack contains many landmarks and well known buildings from Vienna, Austria.
Currently there are more than 50 landmarks in the pack, featuring:
* St. Stephen's Cathedral
* Schloss Schönbrunn
* UNO City
* Buildings along the "Ring"
* Vienna Riesenrad
* DC Tower
* Donauturm
* Ernst Happel Stadium
and many more... (For full list, click here!)
Issues
As I am a beginner at working with both, Blender and Microsoft's SDK, there are some problems regarding this pack. Please don't be harsh as I will try fixing it, however, feel free to comment on any issues or glitches you might find down in the comments!
Ongoing issues:
* 3D models optimized in last update, but still room for improvement (app. 5 fps decrease!)
* No night lighting on models
Development
Bucket list on what I am currently working:
* Night lights
* Further 3D Model improvements
3D Models I already have, which are waiting to be put into the game:
* A lower res model of the whole inner town
* Karl Marx Hof
Planned:
* Kraftwerk Freudenau
* WU
* Seestadt
* Bridges over Danube
* Habsburgerwarte on Hermannskogel
* Wiener Pforte
* Silo at at the Danube River
How to install?
As per usual just unzip the download with WinRAR or a similar software and copy it into your Community-folder. If you struggle with this, please refer to one of the many great tutorials out there.
Please enjoy and stay tuned for updates on this pack!
changes v1.8:
* Performance Improvements: Changed LODs to refine them. There should be less impact on your GPU, if you are farther away and can see multiple landmarks at once.
* Added models: Pyramide Voesendorf, Pfarrkirche Donaustadt, Sternwarte Türkenschanze.
I truly apologize for the multitude of updates. This will be the last one for some time however. Next step is to figure out proper night lighting of all models and to refine all models in Vienna's center. This will take quite some time.
v1.7 changes:
* Added POIs: Point of Interest markers for all important Landmarks. You can switch them on/off in the game's menu.
* Added a better version of Vienna Riesenrad
* Added some wildlife in and around Vienna.
* Improved fps performance slightly. Still work in progress!
v1.6 changes:
* Improved performance slightly above inner city limits further.
Added more buildings:
* Stadtbahn / Metro Stations along U6
* Volkstheater
* Justizpalast
* Rossauer Kaserne
* Transmission Tower on Exelber
* A few more Trams - Can you spot them?
v1.5 changes:
* Improved performance slightly above inner city limits. Models have a lower tri count now. Still not optimal.
Added more buildings:
* Church on Leopoldsberg
* TU Vienna - Chemical Faculty
* Missing buildings of Arsenal
* A few buildings of Vienna Expo
* Several Vienna Trams - Can you spot them?
v1.4 changes:
- Added night lights! These is the first iteration of external lights (flood lights and ambient night lights). Emittive lights (windows etc.) still need to be done! However, the landmarks are not completely dark anymore. VFR now possible during night!
- Added more buildings:
* Arenbergpark Flak Towers
* Powerplant Donaustadt
* Arsenal
* St. Othmar Church (The generic building was really tall and ugly!)
* Several Vienna Trams - Can you spot them?
For a full list of buildings contained in the pack, please read the description!
v1.3 changes:
- Complete refix of texture color balance. Many thanks to Archer374 for your outstanding help with this topic. 3D models will fit seemlessly into the generic scenery now.
- Added following new landmarks:
* Naschmarkt
* Generali Stadium
* Residential Highrise Kundratstr. 6
* Wien Energie Building Erdberg
* All Highrises near Schwedenplatz
* Church on Steinhof
* Water Tower Favoriten
v1.2 changes:
- Hotfix of Kahlenberg model issue.
v1.1 changes:
- Added more landmarks: Vienna Riesenrad now included. More than 50 unique, highly detailed 3D models in total now!
- Refined some glitches regarding Techgate/UNO City model.
- Optimized LOD draw distance.
v1.0 changes:
- New LODs - This pack is not consuming tons of framerates and GPU% anymore!
- Complete rework of all 3D models and their textures - Reduced rough edges and glitches to a minimum.
- Color corrected all models for a better fit within MSFS Bing maps.
- Added new buildings resulting in a total of almost 50 unique, highly detailed 3D models and numerous buildings within those.
- The Tower of LOWW (Vienna International) and OMV industries will NOT return to this pack, due to issues regarding the market place addon of Orbx's LOWW.
Therefore this pack is COMPATIBLE WITH ORBX LOWW (Vienna International Airport)!
This is now the first beta version! Please stay tuned for further updates and improvements!
Comments(246)
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Log Inover 4 years ago
Servus. I lived in Vienna (note my username) and this is a nice mod, but it needs Vienna's classic red trams for greater realism.
over 4 years ago
there are some along the Gürtel, didnt you spot them?
Anyways this mod is kind of overhauled with asobo's Photogrammetry in place now.
over 4 years ago
Thanks, I'll look for them there. I lived near the Gurtel back in the day.
almost 5 years ago
Hi Troglodytus.
While WU6 seems to make your Vienna project obsolete in reality some of the handcrafted scenerey (eg. Stephansdom, Stadion) are rather poorly done and do not mirror the real buildings. My question would be: is it possible to just use single objects of your package to replace the handcrafted ones? Thank you!
almost 5 years ago
Hello :)
Thanks very much for commenting, always good to read your comments.
You are right, (fortunately) this pack has become obsolete and Vienna`s photogrammetry can finally be streamed, thus saving space on everyones hard drive.
You are right, the handcrafted objects are not perfect. I have not planned to release singular POIs in photogrammetry, however, I could provide you the objects that you could place yourself in the simulator? Have you ever tried/worked with the SDK?
Please send me a private message, if you want any further info :)
almost 5 years ago
servus Captain!
are you going to adapt some of your great work for WU6?
almost 5 years ago
Servus!
unfortunately I did not have time yet to test and experiment with WU6.
just had a short flight above Vienna and it looked really good.
i suspect this mod will be legacy from now on.
almost 5 years ago
I keep running into your scenery for every corner of Europe. Thank you so much for your work!
almost 5 years ago
Thank you! Glad you appreciate it :) Will send you a personal message!
about 5 years ago
about 5 years ago
about 5 years ago
So far, this project has been deprecated since my last update, soley due to the fact, that I was working on V2.0.
I think most of the important landmarks are in it, so the task is to improve the performance. I spent weeks/months on this, but there is no feasible way to adjust or remesh the google earth models, that allows a lower poly mesh.
So for the moment, the only way is to completely remodel everything by hand, which I simply cannot be asked to do by myself 😁
I am hoping Microsofts move to DirectX12 in Summer 2021 will reduce the FPS impact of my scenery a lot.
Thanks again, I am glad that many people are enjoying it 😊
about 5 years ago
about 5 years ago
Thank you!
about 5 years ago
about 5 years ago
Vienna Landmark Pack - v1.9
Enhance your Vienna flying experience with over 50 landmarks including St. Stephens Cathedral and Schloss Schönbrunn. Explore key sites like UNO City and Vienna Riesenrad in this detailed city rendition. Stay updated on ongoing improvements for night lighting and 3D models. Download now for a better LOWW (Vienna International Airport) adventure!
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changes v1.8: * Performance Improvements: Changed LODs to refine them. There should be less impact on your GPU, if you are farther away and can see multiple landmarks at once. * Added models: Pyramide Voesendorf, Pfarrkirche Donaustadt, Sternwarte Türkenschanze. I truly apologize for the multitude of updates. This will be the last one for some time however. Next step is to figure out proper night lighting of all models and to refine all models in Vienna's center. This will take quite some time.
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over 3 years ago
merci de France, je continue le périple. Superbe