While looking for data to manually edit french forest in SDK, I came across this map, from official french geographical agency. It uses a data pack that is open source and can be downloaded in a .gpkg file and used freely, even for commercial purposes.
Would that be possible to use this kind of data to make a nearly perfect reproduction of forests in the sim ?
By the way, can you see on this map the large pink triangle in south-west of France ? This is Landes region. It’s covered with Pinus Pinaster and would need some love.
Checked out Vancouver, BC in 1.2 - I personally do not prefer having the PG buildings removed. Despite the trees looking better, overall the visuals were too patchy with the mix of PG and AG.
IMO PG blobs that can be removed should, but not if they will remove a building, with priority for the area surrounding handcrafted POIs (like Eiffel tower etc).
The non-pg vegetation changes and updates seem to have a much bigger impact overall.
First, I’m very glad you’re back. Picked up both Seasons 2024 and Earth FX; very happy to give a worthy developer my money!
This is just a bit of an FYI: I noticed that (at least for me) in the SimMarket app, if you browse and filter by platform for 2024, Seasons 2024 does not appear at all in the product lists. It comes up if you search for it, and it certainly appears that you have the right tags on it, but it apparently is considered “MS2024 compatible”, and compatible-only apps will, it appears, ONLY display for the 2020 platform. (Where it’s currently the most popular add-on, mind you!)
I’m guessing that this is the SimMarket “slot” for the prior MSFS20 Seasons, just with a new name, a new version, and the new description with all the 2024 changes, which would be why it’s still showing up as a MSFS2020 product. I think that at the very least it should be considered both a 2020 and 2024 product, as it IS specifically tailored and upgraded for 2024.
I think you should probably get SimMarket to change/fix this, as I think you might lose customers if people looking for 2024 add-ons don’t check the 2020 category. (I certainly didn’t - I just filter on 2024 and see what’s there.) And that would be a shame for sure…
I’m seriously considering to get this add-on, however I’d love to see a video comparison, or even review of a neutral person for it. Especially for regions that have gotten the “jungle treatment” in 2024, like the Canaries, Balearics or Greek Islands.
Hello, I will be releasing today on flightsim.to my little mod (with lot of work) to correct and enhance Bijan’s seasons in south of France (see in this thread above for before/after screenshots)
it was made with a huge polygon so the trees in town are a bit overgrown, as the polygon doesn’t differenciate towns and forests. I had to manually clean some of the main ones but there still some work to do.
Larzac et autres Grands Causses du massif central (Less trees, more pines)
