Ver 5.1

Tweaked incorrect Lexington building and West Tower. Thanks to s44rgg for spotting!

Ver 5.0

Tidied up a couple of minor issues:
Metropolitan Cathedral spires
St Georges Hall textures

Added:
More Pier Head buildings inc Riba North
Albert Dock and Pumphouse
Stanley Docks and Victoria clock tower

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Liverpool Hand Crafted Scenery v 4.0

I have taken on this project with spas3man with three objectives :

1. Optimising the files and textures. I have managed to half the file size and greatly reduce the texture drawcalls for the scenery, hopefully helping with any potential FPS issues.

2. Adding night lighting. I have created ambient night lighting and added some emissive texturing to some buildings.

3. Spas3man having exhausted 3DWarehouse, any missing buildings need creating from scratch. I intend to create as many significant omissions as possible. In this version :

Lime Street station
Mersey Ferries building
Pier Head quays
Lexington apartments
Plaza 1821 apartments

Also added some shipping!

Already scheduled for future versions : other Pier Head buildings, Albert Dock

I have also corrected the modelLib issue and utilised the correct naming convention.

Whilst photogrammetry/map importing can cover large areas in fair detail, this method utilises the optimised default autogen for most "ordinary" buildings and enables higher detail for the "landmarks" whilst being more efficient on file sizes and having better FPS.

Skell300

Thank you for the work, makes the city come to life.

2 years ago

Winkerwato

Hi Skell300.

I Have your sightseeing - greaterliverpool, does this version 5,1 affect or clash in any way.

Cheers Eric

3 years ago

ROBBIE92

Thanks for this, I really enjoyed my sightseeing trip over Liverpool.

dunebor

Almost 5 stars, as someone who had visited Liverpool a few years ago I was not happy with the World Update 3 as it didn't show the 2 cathedrals correctly and the Liverpool Radio Tower mast was missing, great to see these looking like they should. 4.5 stars as the Liverpool 'Eye' close to the Albert Docks is still missing, otherwaise a great update.

Grumpysanta

Hi, Could you possibly put in Liscard flats? i made the Fort and lighthouse a couple of years back for FSX.

https://www.facebook.com/tranquils.treatment/photos/1068638896498501

thank you

Tranquil

Fanastic as always, how about a moving "ferry cross the Mersey?" there's a challenge 😊

hitch15864

Brilliant work makes it worthwhile flying over Liverpool now. Any chance of putting the Big Red Cranes in at the mouth of the Mersey. Thanks for your Great work.

Tigger65

Flying from the new Manchester via Barton over Woodvale round to Warton and eventually home to Blackpool - its boss.......

freddielaker2

Hi, this looks great. Will it play nicely with Orbx UK central, which has some enhanced buildings and POIs in Liverpool? Thanks.

Download my "Liverpool POIs hand-crafted for Orbx GB" mod rather than this one. I have excluded the models that Orbx have put in. Check out my other Orbx friendly mods too!

skell300

rocky

Will now CTD if used.! Please update. Thanks.

VegasBill

Hi Eric

Shouldn't do - completely separate areas.

Thanks for doing this. I was thinking this morning as I work in 3D modelling, I should probably do some of the more prominent buildings for Liverpool. So you saved me a job. My only suggestions/comments would be the orientation of Lexington. It needs rotating 90 degrees from where it's at. And across the Road, Liverpools tallest Beetham West has lost the lower 5 'tall office floors'. It makes it look a bit stumpy and no longer as tall as in real life.

Besides those 2, great work!

Thanks for the heads up. Tweaked and uploaded.

s44rgg

Does this replace the Update 3 Liver Building or compliment it?

No, this doesn't replace the Asobo Liver Building.

mcallisterw

Check out my Greater Liverpool POIs : https://flightsim.to/file/10261/greater-liverpool-pois-custom-built

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Fantastic mod! I wanted city centre landmarks without having to have that big photoreal mod installed. Keep up the good work!

FrontSideBus

Is it just me that I find all the main large buildings are hovering off the ground. Especially the cathedrals. Any idea what could be causing this?

Hi. Done a few flights and not seeing this problem. All buildings are "snapped to the ground" in the SDK so shouldn't get any floating. Thoughts are conflict with another mod you have in the area or maybe something amiss in the cache (clear the cache and see?)

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Testchamber

Thanks for that. Would you believe the cranes in Bootle are what I'm working on at the moment? Great minds!

Thanks for the upload. I'm not clear whether this is a replacement for one or more sceneries that you and Spas3man have worked on. If so, could you link them, so I don't have duplicates. Thanks.
Edit. I've found it. It it's this one,https://flightsim.to/file/8679/liverpool-hand-crafted-scenery, which downloads as "spas3man-liverpool_L2bWx.zip"

Hi. This is the next version of spas3man's original mod. I am taking it forward, adding in my two penn'rth and uploading. So delete any original Liverpool Hand Crafted Scenery files - the latest version number is this (Ver 4).

flipside

hello a question, we already have the city of liverpool in almost complete photogrammetry uploaded by another user, what different things we can highlight in this project? thanks in advance

Some people don’t like photogrammetry. The file sizes are huge, the FPS can be very low and some of us think it looks bad. This is for people who prefer hand crafted mods. There are fewer unique buildings but they look better than the photogrammetry equivalents. If you prefer photogrammetry, please use the other mod.

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