Haha 😄👍🏽 thanks mate

Mamu82,  author of Project Lifts and Power Lines and Solar Farms, is back at it again!   This time he's come up with a way to procedurally generate the sunken boats and docks in MSFS.

https://flightsim.to/file/38499/mamudesign-marinas

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MAMUDESIGN MARINAS - Boats and Piers in the World 

Marinas is a global scenery that place static boats and piers in marinas, sea, lakes and rivers, covering entire countries, data driven by Open Street Map Data Basic

breackwater implentation is also included

Actual coverage includes: North America (Canada and USA) Central America (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua) All the Carribeans (Cuba, Bahamas, Jamaica, Haiti, Republica Dominicana, porto Rico, Guadalupa, Dominica, Antigua and so on ) Western Europe (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Great Britain and Ireland, Suisse, Germany, Benelux, Poland, Austria) Eastern Europe (balkans region) Northern Europe (Danmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) Australia and New Zealand

 

KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS PACKAGE IS "AUTOGENERATED" VIA A LOT OF ALGORITHMS.

While most of the time the algorithm works fine, this package cannot be better than manually created scenery ( like other boats packages: Project Costline-Italy, Vessels by SeaFront Simulation or Sunken Boats by Bjian)

The purpose of this addon is to provide a GLOBAL coverage

The package is gonna be loaded in the sim hierarchy at low level, so any other package more advanced/manually created will be able to exclude mine in their area

  FEATURING:

- boat piers in the coutries included in the coverage 

- boats surrounding the piers

- 30ish new boats models

- random  static  boats placed nearby marinas (the marinas are defined by leisure=marina tag in Open Street Map)

Per se, this package shouldn't have any big compatiblity issue with other boats packages,

of course if an Airport Package has created a Marina in the vicinity of the Airport, or you have specific boats packages in the area, they will overlap. Is up to the other devs sharing compatibility patches (i can created those for them, but I need their scenes to work with)

KNOWN ISSUE:

- The placing algorithm for piers and static boats rely on piers drawn as LINES, piers drawn as polygon are likely to have uncorrect implementation. If there is someone that can create the centerline of those polygons, will be much appreciated!

- Boats are placed in every pier according that the "mooring" tag in Open Street Map is not "no" or "commercial/industrial". Open Street Map has great potential, but requires the data to be complete in order to grant the maximum possible realism. I encourage you to explore the Open Street Map world and add as much data as possible in the places you are familiar with!

- sometimes you can see boats that can't really fit or maneuver in that pier, I'm working on that!

INSTALLATION

Unzip in community and fly everywehere theres a marina, you gonna see boats!

The package as been compiled with SU10 latest beta, should work in SU9 without issues

COPYRIGHT NOTICE:

All the boat models in this package come from freely availble sources on the internet 

Most of them are thanks to superspud library @flightsim.to, I have further optimized them to obtain the required lods for bulk placement
(i'm trying to retrive all the licences!)

- This work is based on "Boat" (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/boat-24a92fce6f284fc5adfe05d5e84de2f4) by alextex3d (https://sketchfab.com/alex3dt) licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 
- This work is based on "Gabarre (freight river boat)" (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/gabarre-freight-river-boat-2dc4f3fb8e884b74af4d3674895a35fe) by massive-graphisme (https://sketchfab.com/massive-graphisme) licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- This work is based on "Small Wooden Boat" (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/small-wooden-boat-b6d5e398382a4f72b22a898f071a194f) by Thomas Kole (https://sketchfab.com/ThomasKole) licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- This work is based on "Swamp Boat" (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/swamp-boat-4bb3cd708c0a4034bd3923234f7b6ab3) by Thunder (https://sketchfab.com/thunderpwn) licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- This work is based on "boat" (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/boat-aeafab09fd9c457ca7efab7a5acac37d) by buffajuffa (https://sketchfab.com/buffajuffa) licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- This work is based on "Boat" (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/boat-dc676eac5985450a9271f9b31eb47778) by Firdaus Sahak (https://sketchfab.com/firdaussahak) licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- This work is based on "Zodiak Speed Boat" (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/zodiak-speed-boat-74430c54914e4aa3b80b2a07140df900) by BlueMesh (https://sketchfab.com/VapTor) licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
- This work is based on "Tow Boat" (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/tow-boat-86939cf48b914951aa3c6ed2bc8bb446) by BoatUS Foundation (https://sketchfab.com/boatusfoundation) licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- This work is based on "Small Boat [LOWPOLY]" (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/small-boat-lowpoly-031d7f217eec437bb658e1298521c631) by BlueMesh (https://sketchfab.com/VapTor) licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- This work is based on "hw_detail_damage_boat" (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/hw-detail-damage-boat-f0a9ea8b3cb243069efbd3b9baf863f3) by urbanhighenergy (https://sketchfab.com/urbanhighenergy) licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- https://grabcad.com/library/sail-yacht-2 by Giuseppe Spinelli
- Valentina Canniello, urbanhighenergy, P.F., Piil60, hclakmal519, Giuseppe Spinelli, alask  

REVIEWS

https://flightnews24.de/2022/08/24/kostenlose-erweiterung-mamudesign-marinas/

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/mamudesign-marinas-boats-and-piers-in-the-world/538277

I have to send Mamu a few bucks.   I love his mods.  

If you identify a pier in the wrong area you can fix it yourself.

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From the mod description;

Boats are placed in every pier according that the “mooring” tag in Open Street Map is not “no” or “commercial/industrial”.

So log in to OSM, and tag that with mooring = no

Here's the man, himself.  In case anyone is curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Tz89qipkw

 

I did the same, he definitely deserves it.

Thanks for the heads up, btw. Another outstanding mod.

Edited August 25, 20223 yr by Ohmsquare

u gotta get this, totally awsome, fantastic great work, got it for Free at flightsim.to  I checked out Brighton, Florida, Rivera, and France, Nice.  This covers the world basically.  No frames hit as well. Best free addon I have ever seen, and I have been flying for over 20 yrs.

4 hours ago, Waldo Pepper said:

I have to send Mamu a few bucks.   I love his mods.  

If you identify a pier in the wrong area you can fix it yourself.

Here's the man, himself.  In case anyone is curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Tz89qipkw

 

Some piers are tagged Mooring = Ferry 😉

On 8/24/2022 at 9:28 AM, mamu82 said:

i have pushed to osm the required fixes 😉, (will remove boats and piers manually while the data is ingested by my source), 

Hi, I am looking at OSM, and the Cowichan Bay freighter loading dock is indeed tagged as Commercial, but the boats still show up... Do I need to wait for an "update"?  😉

On 8/23/2022 at 2:43 AM, mamu82 said:

 

You get it, and thanks for your understanding !

 

That's how the thing works, 

with enough data the placing can be one-to-one with real life, otherwise something odd can happen

About the first screenshot, i have and idea to solve that situation, can you please share me the location? Thanks again for the review!

I think this add-on is no-brainer and makes a huge difference... thanks for your efforts. It's mind-boggling to me that Microsoft didn't invest in this kind of development for the core sim. But sure glad you did it. I was so tired of seeing sunken docks and boats.  There are boats showing up where they shouldn't but that pales in comparison to the mess that existed before this mod! 

Cheers!
-Chris.

Nice find, Waldo, great work from Mamu! 

@Waldo Pepper

Since the same topic was posted on Monday I merged yours to it since it also has some other info.

What a magnificent job again a BIG THANK YOU SIR !
I don't want to go off topic, but I seem to have heard MS/ASOBO talk at some point about doing a complete overhaul of the MSFS water? I don't know if I dreamed it or not? But I think they will rework the water in the simulation... When I don't know.

This guy deserves a medal.  Or more usefully, can we highlight his work to Asobo in some way so that he gets a job or commission with them? 

He is certainly getting a donation from me.  This is a game changer.  It looks like the Canary Islands might be covered as well, if so, he gets an even bigger donation!

Edit:  Have you seen all the other work he does?  Moving tractor that actually cuts the grass, trains, powerlines etc.  Amazing!  I didn't even know half this stuff was possible.
Seriously, Asobo need to talk to him.  He is moving the sim on by years just on his own.

14 hours ago, Sunshine13 said:

u gotta get this, totally awsome, fantastic great work, got it for Free at flightsim.to  I checked out Brighton, Florida, Rivera, and France, Nice.  This covers the world basically.  No frames hit as well. Best free addon I have ever seen, and I have been flying for over 20 yrs.

Ohh crikey my favourite area is the French/Italian Riviera, will have to check this mod out there later on👍🏽

36 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

This guy deserves a medal.  Or more usefully, can we highlight his work to Asobo in some way so that he gets a job or commission with them? 

He is certainly getting a donation from me.  This is a game changer.  It looks like the canary Islands might be covered as well, if so, he gets an even bigger donation!

Edit:  Have you seen all the other work he does?  Moving tractor that actually cuts the grass, trains, powerlines etc.  Amazing!  I didn't even know half this stuff was possible.
Seriously, Asobo need to talk to him.  He is moving the sim on by years just on his own.

His Project Lifts is incredible!  I have taken a chopper to the top and landed just to sit and admire his work in action...  I mean seriously incredible work he is doing!!  

If you haven't seen Project Lifts check that one out too...