kelvinr

Hi all, Firstly, apologies for the delay in responding. I am no longer supporting the Freeware product. However, the great news is I have been developing this scenery to an unprecedented level of detail and is available via my web store. Https://aotearoa-creations.com All the info you need is there as well as the link to my discord to keep up to date when new releases are available. The current version is unmatched in detail going far beyond my Freeware version which only uses the default biomes whereas my payware scenery is far more granular, meaning you'll see better variations to match NZ as best as possible. Best Regards, Aotearoa-Creations Dev!

Hey all, My new and updated vegetation and water scenery addon for New Zealand is now available! More info about this here: https://aotearoa-creations.com/1800-2/?v=8e3eb2c69a18 Website here: https://aotearoa-creations.com/?v=8e3eb2c69a18 For those wanting "as real as it gets" experience in the Southern Hemisphere, then this is the only product of its scale, covering the entire country of vegetation based on real world locally sourced data to give not only variety but also, true colours, height, densities, and localities of particular species where they exist in the real world. The scenery uses default vegetation assets but have been carefully selected to represent New Zealand vegetation as best as possible. Additionally, Canals, Lagoons, Lakes, Ponds, and Chatham Island Rivers, have been added along with Shoreline flattening around the country.

Hello fellow simmers, Update available and New comparison screenshots added. If you would like to see something specific, pop on over to my discord. https://gumroad.com/l/nz-flora-and-water Cheers, SpritelyNZ

The sim is limited to only a few water types but I have altered the brightness as this is the only variable available for the water. Textures haven't been touched but I'll look into this further.

Cheers Brendon! There's no conflicts with orbx scenery. Unfortunately, I haven't designed the ships and are not part of my scenery so I wouldn't be much help there.

The only impact is loading time once in the Sim, this adds 38 seconds to the loading but once loaded there's no impact, in fact I found that it improved by 1 or 2 fps.

Yes, works great.

Thanks for the feedback. I will be getting some more pics for comparison shots. Orbx is selling their latest elevation mesh for the same price so my thinking was to sell at the same as I'm more trying to keep up with the market rate and for $12.99 NZD this is cheap enough for those who get pocket money right the way through to those who are earning from working. Remember, my scenery covers the entire country and having payware means I explicitly invest time into making improvements so you don't just get the who country of vegetation, you get free updates for life when they are made available. Cheers, SpritelyNZ

My scenery should take precedence as I have set priorities on the layers used. There is a work around, you can go into your Bijan Biomes.xml and comment or remove the following regions from it which will mean that biomes.xml will not interfere with my scenery, this gives you the best of both worlds. Supporters who buy my scenery will also be able to get changes made by sending me feedback (ideally in my discord https://discord.gg/c9NrEbhkSs) but when you purchase you'll have an email you can submit feedback to. 167 Chatham Island temperate forests 169 Fiordland temperate forests 170 Nelson Coast temperate forests 171 New Zealand North Island temperate forests 172 New Zealand South Island temperate forests 173 Northland temperate kauri forests 175 Richmond temperate forests 174 Rakiura Island temperate forests 180 Westland temperate forests 190 Canterbury-Otago tussock grasslands 194 New Zealand South Island montane grasslands https://gumroad.com/l/nz-flora-and-water

Hey, yes I have an it works flawlessly. Because the elevation mesh is simply that, my vevegation will still be in the same places but with a better representation of terrain height which only makes my scenery pop even more.

Hello, Thanks for you interest. I've had real world issues this week so comparison shots were delayed but my next task is to get more of these so hold tight, I'll post when they're viewable. I do have a new version which extends the number of rivers especially, the freeware version has some issues but it was really a prototype while I was understanding the limits of the sdk. The payware version is a complete overhaul of my freeware and fixes a whole lot of areas re vegetation and water bodies. https://gumroad.com/l/nz-flora-and-water Thanks

I've been working on this new scenery but unlike my freeware scenery at flightsim.to, this will be payware. Don't worry, though, the cost won't be much so hopefully more people will like to use it. So here's some latest screenshots:https://imgur.com/a/MhI5MHM and here's a link to my discord where you can ask questions or chat, or whatever happens happens 🙂https://discord.gg/mHwGkwHf I will be releasing my scenery at the cost of $12.99. Remember, it covers the entire country of New Zealand and alot of work has been put in to try and represent it in the best way possible. You can purchase here: https://gum.co/nz-flora-and-water

Hmm not sure. Give it a go and see what happens. I haven't tried it myself.

Hmm, ok, send over the screen shots in my discord. I'm currently working on an improved version so I'm confident that texture issues will be sorted but who knows in the early cycle of the SDK.

I haven't tried it but I'm interested to see any anomalies. I have increased the priority of the layers so they take precedence but I'm still curious. Come over to my discord and you can report it there. https://discord.gg/uNTjhy6b

Hey Mike, thanks so much. I hope it lives up to your expectations 😜. Nothing is perfect, although I try to aim high, there no doubt will be some things to sort out but I'm ahead of the game and currently working on the next major release.

Fortunately for me I don't believe this is my scenery as I did alot of testing to optimize performance. The best way is for you to send me a saved game file for me to test where you get the fps drops. You can send in my discord https://discord.gg/uNTjhy6b

Nice, I did my training there, too. So this package is the entire country, North to South and everywhere in between.

Cheers, yeah I'm extremely impressed with the lean file sizes. If I did this project for prepar3d, it would be a huge file for the vegetation, ~15gb would be average size for the autogen.

There's too much to write, so i'll link you straight to my scenery and you can read the blurb there. EDIT: this is for MSFS 2020, just to clarify. Link works, just retried it. https://flightsim.to/d/spritelynz/spritelynzstudio-truenewzealand-v1-0 Cheers, SpritelyNZ

So you confirm that you started all this without actually looking at the file I actually uploaded online? Are you kidding me?

This is very much how Bijan operates, he's assuming so much here and not fact checking. I am in the process of getting the file reinstated by flightsim.to so you can see its not his work. This is so ridiculous and he is not very adept in fact checking rather make claims based on information that is not pertinent to his claim.

File has been removed by Flightsim.to claiming it is "allegedly" stolen. Not removed by me, in fact I have a case open with them to reinstate the file and I will continue to push this until my name is cleared. Bijan, you need to not rely on the email and actually look at the file which I'm going to send you in an email. You will see the time stamped files so there's no need to try and tell me that I've edited files in any way which is also the reason I'm trying to get the file reinstated at flightsim.to.

Oh for goodness sake Bijan. That's all irrelevant!! Download the file from Flightsim.to called TrueTreesNZ check it and come back with your verdict, this is all you will be getting from me here until you go and do that. So off you go, get the file and actually check it rather than go over things that have no bearing on the actual fact that the file I sent you with my work is not the same file I uploaded online.