I have seen lots of videos of people flying VR around New York and the videos look amazing. But when I fly around New York, it looks OK but not that great.

Is there a New York addon that some of you are using that makes New York look considerably better?

Hi Rob, 

I don't do VR, but I believe you mean New York City Times by SamScene3D: https://samscene.com/products/new-york-city-times-for-msfs

This one also helps: https://secure.simmarket.com/rkbridger-all-29-new-york-bridges.phtml

+1 for Samscene, but I don't think the RKBridger addon works well with the latest update with double bridges in one or two places.

I hope he updates it as his bridges look pretty good otherwise.

Edited July 19, 2025Jul 19 by cianpars

Samscene 3D, definitely.

It appears they now offer two versions V1 and V2 for MSFS2020 and MSFS2024, respectively.

I have V1 in MSFS2020, but I've yet to try porting it into MSFS2024. If I have to buy V2, then so be it - no quibbles, it's that good.

Samscene NY in 2020...

Worth every penny imo.

MSFS2020 SU16beta + Samscene

Wich ones are the reals? 

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/official-real-vs-sim-screenshots/240581/538

Edited July 19, 2025Jul 19 by LIML2020

Is there anything in the sim that needs to be disabled before using the Samscene scenery?

16 minutes ago, Rob G said:

Is there anything in the sim that needs to be disabled before using the Samscene scenery?

With V1 in MSFS2020 - not in my experience. I installed it, activated it with Add On Linker, and everything looks fine. 

Some of those really tall and slender buildings make me dizzy just looking at them 

Edited July 19, 2025Jul 19 by Christopher Low

Maybe I am not flying in the right spot. I bought and added the Samscene addon (V2), but I am flying around NY city and I don't think it looks that good. Am I doing something wrong?

24 minutes ago, Rob G said:

Maybe I am not flying in the right spot. I bought and added the Samscene addon (V2), but I am flying around NY city and I don't think it looks that good. Am I doing something wrong?

That's a really difficult question to answer. Are you flying around Manhattan? Can you take some screen shots?

2 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

That's a really difficult question to answer. Are you flying around Manhattan? Can you take some screen shots?

Here's one. I am still learning how to take screenshots.

Is the area around central park to far from downtown Manhattan?

https://imgur.com/a/X460Kpg

 

 

 

Edited July 19, 2025Jul 19 by Rob G

52 minutes ago, Rob G said:

Here's one. I am still learning how to take screenshots.

Is the area around central park to far from downtown Manhattan?

https://imgur.com/a/X460Kpg

Don't worry. I can make videos but I don't know how to take screenies😃

Central park is....trees. What is downtown like? That's where Samscene really shines...

My experience of it, in MSFS2020; money well spent, in my opinion ( both scenery and aircraft ).

Edited July 19, 2025Jul 19 by Paul K

13 minutes ago, DD_Arthur said:

Don't worry. I can make videos but I don't know how to take screenies😃

Central park is....trees. What is downtown like? That's where Samscene really shines...

I know Central Park is trees. However, I have seen video where the building bordering the park, at least on one side, look really good, but I don't see buildings on either side of the park looking good. Nothing I am getting looks like the videos I have seen. I have no problem what the issue could be. Is there some conflict between photogrammetry and the addon? Do I need to do anything with the package order to make this right?

I see I accidentally forgot to put in a tag. My system in on SU3 Beta.