Hi there,
I’m working on a new mod to enhance vegetation and general landscape around famous greek airports, starting with Samos island (and it’s very cool circle-to-land approach) and Skiathos island (and it’s very short runway and jet blasting approach over the sea shore).
It is designed to be used alongside with Bijan’s Seasons enhanced 2024 payware mod which fixes the vegetation globally. Like my other “France south” scenery, I’m enhancing the landscape manually, at a local level, using IRL pictures as references.
Samos approach
With Bijan Seasons 2024
With Bijan’s + my mod (not finished, work in progress)
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I’m definitely interested in it, Greece is something I want to explore. Looks nice from the picture, great work. Can’t wait to see the mod published 
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Olive trees around Skiathos airport
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More details in vegetation at Skiathos island + terrain masking to color correct the aerial
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A few changes around Samos airport… 
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Very interesting!
I am working on a project with a friend in Unreal Engine, not a flight sim and this week actually, we were comparing our Mediterranean ambiance with MSFS 2024 at ground levels.
2024 is a big step vs 2020 in that aspect and I suppose not far from now, it will get to the LOD at ground level that we have in our ground level project.
UE Project:
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That looks gorgeous. May I ask what kind of project it is ?
The mod will be compatible with LGSM Samos airport, from Terrainy Studios (the eletric poles and vegetation are from my mod)
Road texture by Terrainy studio
Road texture corrected with my mod
IRL
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Unfortunately I can’t mention the project but it is certainly not a flight simulator
Hi guys, v.1 will be available on flightsim.to in few minutes ! (edit : it’s online now)
https://flightsim.to/file/86980/greece-landscape-enhancement-better-with-bijan-s-seasons-2024
First of all, keep in mind this mod was designed to be used alongside with the “must have” Bijan’s Seasons enhanced 2024 (payware). You can try without it (it shouldn’t be worse than default) but certain features won’t work correctly.
Please note that this is a work in progress. This first version focuses on two famous greek islands and airports :
LGSM, Samos island (compatible with Terrainy Studio LGSM payware)
LGSK, Skiathos island (compatible with Orbx LGSK payware)
Extract both “zzz-croixpaille-samos-landscape-enhancement” and “zzz-croixpaille-skiathos-landscape-enhancement” in your MSFS 2024 Community folder (the zzz prefix should allow this scenery to load after any other mod for the area).
It features :
Adjusted mediterranean vegetation biomes on the whole islands
Manually place olive tree and fruit trees plantations
Manually placed pines, eucalyptus, cypresses, bushes... to add more variety and match real world
Terrain masking to color correct the aerial images
Details added in Samos : electric poles, car parked, greenhouses, reduced night lighting, better road texture when used with Terrainy Studio LGSM
Let me know if you spot some anomalies or places you’d like to see improved.
Coming in next updates :
Corfu island
Athens surroundings
Enjoy 
Check out my other 2024 enhancement mod as well : https://flightsim.to/file/85707/france-south-landscape-enhancement-and-fixes-designed-for-bijan-s-seasons-2024
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This is only for FS2024, right? Thanks.
I guess so. It was made with MSFS 2024 SDK and uses assets from the new vegetation library. You can still try and see what happens.
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Keeping a close eye on this project. It must be tiring to hand place so many trees, but if you can get most of the olive plantations lined up (Crete coming soon….?), it’ll look amazing.
Just curious about recoloring orthos; bearing in mind the sim colors the orthos for seasons, your work won’t damage the seasons effects?
You mean line up the trees that are already there in Samos and Skiathos ?
I used a mix of 2 techniques
- manually drawing polygons around the fields and fill them up with olive trees (faster to do but olive trees are placed randomly withing the perimeter of the polygon)
- manually placing single trees, and duplicate them to make lines. This looks better but takes a long time to do. And can lead to floating trees when the terrain elevation changes (if you use a 3rd party scenery that tweaks the terrain elevation for instance)
I will do Athens surrounding and Corfu before Crete when time allows.
I did several test with the masking to balance things. I guess those Greek islands are not as affected as other places (like the Alps or eastern Europe) by the seasonal mask. I tried to play with seasons and didn’t see any negative impact on the ground imagery. If you spot something wrong, let me know.
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use osm data tag natural tree, olive tree etc, and make it global solution
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