September 14, 20205 yr Commercial Member I posted Oakville downtown area before, now this is Mississauga downtown. Very close to CYYZ - Toronto Pearson International Airport. Toronto has photogrammetry in MSFS, and Toronto Island CYTZ is a custom airport, but photogrammetry ends outside of Toronto proper, and starts again around Burlington and Hamilton area. Many important Greater Toronto Area VFR landmarks and POI are left to autogen. I've decided to correct that as much as I can, importing and editing Google photogrammetry, as well as fix some glaring terrain errors, such as a huge and long weird "aqueduct" type ridge with a river on top. The areas I'm working on are: Mississauga downtown bildings and condos (see photos), very close to where the Pearson airport is and clearly visible on every arrival and departure, Some distinctive areas on Toronto lakeshore beyond photogrammetry area, Oakville Downtown, Oakville Trafalgar Hospital area with a helipad, and two major GA airports in the area: Downsview CYZD and Burlington Executive Airport CZBA. Buildings are cut off from the rest of the imported mesh, so all roads and trees and minor buildings are from default autogen and satellite imagery. Careful batch texture color correction, together with contrast and brightness correction is leading to good blending of custom and autogen. I'm aiming for making the whole GTA area comfortable for VFR flights and authentic CYYZ approaches and departures, and make local GA flights more enjoyable. So far I've done Oakville downtown and now Missisauga downtown. Meshes optimized and heavily edited, textures color corrected to blend with autogen building. I left textures unbaked, as all my experiments with baking textures according to guides keep ending up with inferior look and much larger file size with the same FPS hit as hundreds of texture files. 8192x8192 baked texture look very pixelated with this scenery size, and 16384x16384 produces packages that are 3 times larger, and still have weird artifacts. Edited September 14, 20205 yr by romandesign CYYJ Victoria International Airport [BC Canada] CYOW Ottawa International Airport [Ontario Canada] CYOO Oshawa Executive Airport [Ontario Canada] CYKZ Toronto Buttonville Municipal Airport [Ontario Canada] Helicopters Vancouver Island Heliports and Seaplane Bases [BC Canada] CNC3 Brampton-Caledon Airport [Ontario Canada] Available now at FlightSimulation.RomanDesign.ca +4 Free Scenery Packs My Hard Sci-Fi novels and audiobooks: RomanLando.com
September 14, 20205 yr Are these files available somewhere? Thanks I9-13900K, RTX 4090, Reverb G2, Simrig Motion platform
September 14, 20205 yr This looks great! Are you planning to make this available? MSFS 2024. Primary Planes: Black Square TBM850, Duke, Baron, Caravan; A2A Comanche; FSReborn Phenom; Fexix A321; PMDG 737-7, 777: Utilities: Active Sky (Passive Mode); BATC, FSLTL.
September 14, 20205 yr Great work! 👍 Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind). I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio. Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's. Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.
September 14, 20205 yr Vancouver has the same problem. Only downtown Vancouver and a little outside of downtown has photogrammetry. The rest of metro Vancouver doesn't have photogrammetry. Actually, most Canadian cities don't have much photogrammetry. While CYVR (Vancouver International Airport) looks decent given that it was not handcrafted, it would be cool if a 3rd party did a detailed and handcrafted version of CYVR. i5-12400, RTX 3060 Ti, 32 GB RAM
September 14, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, abrams_tank said: Vancouver has the same problem. Only downtown Vancouver and a little outside of downtown has photogrammetry. The rest of metro Vancouver doesn't have photogrammetry. Actually, most Canadian cities don't have much photogrammetry. While CYVR (Vancouver International Airport) looks decent given that it was not handcrafted, it would be cool if a 3rd party did a detailed and handcrafted version of CYVR. I think FSimStudios is working on CYVR (maybe including some enhancements of the city). Which would be great. Kind regards, Michael Intel i7-13700K / AsRock Z790 / Crucial 32 GB DDR 5 / ASUS RTX 4080OC 16GB / BeQuiet ATX 1000W / WD m.2 NVMe 2TB (System) / WD m.2 NVMe 4 TB (MSFS) / WD HDD 10 TB / XTOP+Saitek hardware panel / LG 34UM95 3440 x 1440 / HP Reverb 1 (2160x2160 per eye) / Win 11
September 14, 20205 yr Looks great! Following with interest. [email protected] - ROG Strix Z790-E - 2X16Gb G.Skill Trident DDR5 6400 CL32 - MSI RTX 4090 Suprim X - WD SN850X 2 TB M.2 - XPG S70 Blade 2 TB M.2 - MSI A1000G PCIE5 1000 W 80+ Gold PSU - Liam Li 011 Dynamic Razer case - 58" Panasonic TC-58AX800U 4K - Pico 4 VR HMD - WinWing HOTAS Orion2 MAX - ProFlight Pedals - TrackIR 5 - W11 Pro (Passmark:12574, CPU:63110-Single:4785, GPU:50688)
September 14, 20205 yr This looks awesome! Wondering if you will tackle the CN Tower. It looks blurry/melting with the photogramy. Nice job, though!
September 14, 20205 yr Looks fantastic, will look forward to it when released. Just love the enthusiasm for the scenery in MFS at the moment, there is some fantastic stuff coming out. FS PC - AMD7900X3D / MSI RTX 4090 24gb / 32gb Ram / Varjo Aero / Bravo Quadrant / Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog / Yoke / TPR Pedals UK Skytours - http://www.ukskytours.co.uk
September 14, 20205 yr Look up the Yosemite thread to see how to do LODs and not mess up everyones framerate.
September 14, 20205 yr Awesome, Looking forward to trying this Great work, thank you Richard i7-12700K | Noctua NH-D15S Black Version | MSI Pro Z690 - A | 32 GB DDR4 3600 | Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 | 1TB WD Blue NMVe (MSFS 2020) | 500 GB WD Black Gen 4 NVMe | 4TB WD Black Conventional | Fractal Design Torrent Case | Seasonic 1000W Gold Plus PSU | Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke | Honeycomb Throttle | Airbus Side Stick | Virpil Rudder Pedals | Sony X90K 55 Inch TV |
September 14, 20205 yr 4 hours ago, pmb said: I think FSimStudios is working on CYVR (maybe including some enhancements of the city). Which would be great. Kind regards, Michael Oh, that's good. Edmonton International airport (CYEG) looks really ugly in MSFS and it's not close to the real airport. I see FSimStudios did a good job with CYEG for X-Plane so hopefully, they do a great job for CYVR too! i5-12400, RTX 3060 Ti, 32 GB RAM
September 14, 20205 yr 6 hours ago, abrams_tank said: . Actually, most Canadian cities don't have much photogrammetry. I guess I'm lucky. I'm out in the 'burbs in the Ottawa area and I can see my house.
September 14, 20205 yr Fabulous, thanks for doing this. It’s interesting that there would be such a big gap in the photogrammetry data in between two areas that are covered. Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
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