Hello folks, 

 

This is my first time creating scenery in MSFS. I have imported some of the important landmarks city of Dusseldorf in Germany from Google Maps into MSFS. You can download it from here: 

 

Some photos:

 

 

Edited September 6, 20205 yr by omarsmak30

Looks like it'll need some colour correction work, but definitely a good start!

It'll be interesting to see what response Asobo/Microsoft have, if any, to the proliferation of freeware that is essentially just people importing Google Maps data into MSFS, lol.

13 hours ago, Scottoest said:

Looks like it'll need some colour correction work, but definitely a good start!

It'll be interesting to see what response Asobo/Microsoft have, if any, to the proliferation of freeware that is essentially just people importing Google Maps data into MSFS, lol.

Indeed, Google Maps covers a lot of photogrammetry cities/areas comparing to Bing so yeah 😛. Now you can notice there is explosion of sceneries for MSFS that being imported from Google Maps, I think another reason is that the Scenery Editor in MSFS is very good in my opinion and you can see the results immediately comparing how I used to it in FSX. 

That is amazing! Thanks for your work. I would love to do something like this for cities in Asia! Like Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Hanoi, Phuket, Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Okinawa, Manila, etc. Is there a tutorial on how to do this and is it relatively a difficult task, or can pretty much anyone do this?

17 minutes ago, captain420 said:

That is amazing! Thanks for your work. I would love to do something like this for cities in Asia! Like Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Hanoi, Phuket, Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Okinawa, Manila, etc. Is there a tutorial on how to do this and is it relatively a difficult task, or can pretty much anyone do this?

To be fair, it is actually easy. I had close to zero background on scenery design and turned out to be fine :).  What matters is, if the city has photogrammetry data in Google Maps.

I have followed this excellent video tutorial:  

 

 

Also this video tutorial shows how to add the lighting to the buildings:

 

Edited September 7, 20205 yr by omarsmak30

This looks great. Thanks. Hopefully more and more people will learn how to do this and continue to add POI's all over the world. 

To let anyone contribute to the project, I am opening source the project files in github https://github.com/omarsmak/Dusseldorf-City-MSFS . Enjoy!

this is a brilliant MS strategy to get google maps' data for free... have the users do it for htem.

I don't understand why you like this. All these google maps imports are totally not matching in the current autogen. The colors are way off.

It looks better yes, but you can see the difference between google and bing buildings from a mile away.

You don't like it? Don't install it.
Very simple!

1 minute ago, David Roch said:

You don't like it? Don't install it.
Very simple!

Yes,but that was not my intention with the statement. No need for you unnecessary comment. 

I mean there is a lot of room for improvement.

28 minutes ago, Hoppala29 said:

I don't understand why you like this. All these google maps imports are totally not matching in the current autogen. The colors are way off.

It looks better yes, but you can see the difference between google and bing buildings from a mile away.

sure is not perfect, especially for a newbie like me 🙂 . The github is repo is posted above and you are welcome to provide a PR to improve the textures as I have no idea how do it. 

52 minutes ago, Hoppala29 said:

I don't understand why you like this. All these google maps imports are totally not matching in the current autogen. The colors are way off.

It looks better yes, but you can see the difference between google and bing buildings from a mile away.

Then go and make your own, rather than whining about someone’s first attempt at a free scenery. 

 

Edited September 7, 20205 yr by 2reds2whites

59 minutes ago, Hoppala29 said:

I mean there is a lot of room for improvement.

Coming from where this hobby has been in the last few decades, this is a paradigm shift in the ability to create and enhance scenery.

I'm wondering how long you've been in the hobby to make a comment such as this?

"A lot of room for improvement"? Really?  Compared to what?  If you're basing this comment on previous versions of the sim, then I can only assume that you mean this in the sense that theoretically, until we get holo-decks (as in Star Trek Next Gen), then there will ALWAYS be room for improvement.

As the OP mentioned, he is very new to this, and the fact we can (as simmers) can do this at all without extensive coding experience is quite frankly the most amazing thing that has happened in the flight-simming world to my knowledge.

If you're coming from the X-box, console or otherwise "gaming" community, where we see graphics details resembling life-like more and more, and basing your comment from that community, then that comparison has no merit here.

To make improvements as you described, you'd have to have extensive knowledge in model building, and if not building from scratch, have the ability to edit an existing model if its not locked down.  Maybe that comes later or others in the background are already doing this and will open a new sub-community where they freely share their models in a library for all to use.

As others may also reply....if its not up to your standards, why bother complaining about it...why don't you become part of the solution instead of the problem? 😉

 

BTW I entirely forgot to thank the OP!

Excellent job @omarsmak30!   Please keep on.....I hope you stay inspired to keep up the work you've done....I know its very addicting when you see what you've done in the sim for the 1st time. 🙂

 

 

 

Edited September 7, 20205 yr by Steve Dra
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43 minutes ago, 2reds2whites said:

Then go and make your own, rather than whining about someone’s first attempt at a free scenery. 

 

Nobody is whining about anything. Why everyone is always feeling so attacked? You can say something which is not "mainstream" and not be attacked for it 🙂 It's not like we are all in the US.

I'm not talking about OP's room for improvement but rather, getting the google images fitting in the current sim better overall (not just this scenary).

Edited September 7, 20205 yr by Hoppala29