The MSFS2024 SU4 Beta is amazing me in many ways. For one, dead branches of vegetations are somethings I’d never seen in other flight simulators before.
Click to see the image in 100% but beware that Continue reading
Scenery
901: To Cut the Trees Short
Following is a quick image comparison of two addons that help me reducing oversized trees in MSFS2024. The freeware, Forest Enhancement Mod by badnick578, was downloaded from Flightsim.to. The paid one, Smaller Trees Pro by 4Simmers, was purchased directly from the simulator store.
For bigger pictures, click on the images:
Generally, both addons achieve the goal of shortening vegetations in MSFS2024 without compromising performance.
Personally, the winner goes to Continue reading
882: Changing Shorter Trees Density
The “Shorter Trees” by YankeeMike01 by default increases the tree density to 200%. After playing it for awhile, I prefer to lower it to original 100%.
To make the change is simple. Just copy the “00-asobo_biomes_fallback.xml” from the “vegetation.DEFAULTS” folder, and use it to replace the 200% one in the “vegetation” folder. That will do.
Should you need to go back to the 200% density, simply Continue reading
880: An Enhancement Shouldn’t be Missed
One of the most criticized issues with MSFS2020 is that the trees are oversized and don’t look realistic. There are many different solutions out there. For example, I’ve been using the “Short Height” Vegetation setting in REX AccuSeason Advanced Edition to deal with the issue. It does help a little, but the results are still not ideal.
Until recently, I found an addon in Flightsim.to called “Shorter Trees and Improved Density” by YankeeMike01. I was surprised to find out that it almost perfectly solves the problem of unrealistic oversized trees in MSFS, at least in my case.
Continue reading
825: Bowerman (KHQM) is Back
The freeware Bowerman Airport (KHQM) from Orbx was my “home” base during FSX and P3D simulation times. It was missing in MSFS until vbazillio who revived it a few days ago. It’s pretty well-done and I don’t see any anomaly from it.
For those who love this airport could download the addon from here.
A big thank to vbazillio.
BTW, Continue reading
The Atlantis Lost in History
There are some speculations that this is the Atlantis that lost in history.
Find out where it is in the Discord Channel. Continue reading
718: Scenic Spots Close at Hand
No idea where to fly to today? Here’s the flightspots I ran into this morning which offers suggestions to many scenic places around the world in MSFS.
All you need to do is Continue reading
705: Free Iceland Mesh
In case you are not aware, Orbx has just released a free Iceland Mesh which is compatible with the new World Update 5 for Nordics.
The description says the mesh is 100% self-contained with virtually no noticeable performance impact and changes made to the default contents.
Glad to find this enhancement since the Nordics update, not sure if you agree or not, seems a bit below the standard of what the previous updates offered.
–
News: Zinertek Strikes Back
To those who haven’t decided to choose from Zinertek’s Enhanced Airport Graphics or REX’s Real Global Airport Texture, their headaches should get intensified as version 2.0 of Zinertek Airport Graphics is scheduled to come in a few days on 20 June — a strike back to REX’s airport texture release ?
The company says that there will be new and reworked textures to bring various improvements to the existing version.
Mark the date on your calendar and stay tuned.
Edit: Update to version 2.0 has been postponed to 26 June to ensure the new version won’t cause CTDs with World Update 5, according to Zinertek.
–
FS Times 