U.S. CityScape News?

[Preston Martin]

This should be a pretty simple one.  I am new to X-Plane 10, and the cities suck, as we all know.  Do any of you know, or have heard rumors of any products coming to market (Ie DRZEWIECKI DESIGN, or LimeSim etc.) to rectify this situation?  Another fleeting thought I had was......Would it be possible to convert the Seattle map from Take on Helicopters, for use in X-Plane?  -Woog

[andydckent]

The Miami City 2012 scenery b Drzewiecki Design can be quite easily converted to work in x-plane. I managed to do it with the FS2004 version. You need to install on windows first and fool the installer into thinking you have fs9 installed. Then I converted the city and two other airports (already have good kmia) with FS2XP. Finally I deleted the photo scenery on the package with overlay editor as simheaven one was higher quality.

 

Here is a photo:

 

http://forums.x-pilot.com/topic/595-what-did-you-fly-today/?p=72744

[andydckent]

There was also this for Seattle http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=15392

[Preston Martin]

Hey Andy, have you been able to remove the trees through the central Kent/Auburn valley, In relation the to SimHeaven scenery?  I want to build this area up with warehouses, and fix Auburn Municipal....

Edited April 12, 2014 by Preston Martin

[andydckent]

I haven't installed the simheaven files for seattle yet but I'd imagine you could quite easily import s50 auburn municipal into WED or Overlay Editor and create a forest exclusion zone around the offending trees.  That should work as long as the s50 scenery is loaded above the simheaven scenery on the test list in the custom scenery file.

[Preston Martin]

So buildings used in the above Seattle scenery are a sample pulled from Trimble/Google Warehouse.  This is good to know the source as the scenery is not complete, and hasn't been worked on in a while.  Sounds like it could be a fun project.

[Preston Martin]

Fumbling around with Sketchup now.  Trying to convert more Seattle buildings to usable files for X-Plane.  I have the Pluggin sketchup2Xplane, not sure if I put it in the right folder.......Advice welcome!  -Woog

[azpilot]

I also wish LimeSim or Drzewiecki Design would make a some metropolitan US cities.  I do not want to mess around with converting FSX scenery and in my opinion this is one place where X Plane 10 needs a lot of work.  

 

Would like to see Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York, Miami, Denver, and Detroit.

[JohnMAXX]

 I think its a huge effort, many have already contributed to this cause.....

 

Some sort of repository with the sole purpose of brining accurate skylines to X-Plane should be created in my opinion...

 

2 cents deposited.....

[psanker]

OpenSceneryX for skylines sounds like a brilliant idea!

[Preston Martin]

Even just the basic cities like The other sim has would be fine with me.......

[gthomas]

You need to install on windows first

 

You can install on a Mac using Crossover from http://codeweavers.com

[qdavweb]

World2xplane is not bad at modelling basic cityscapes if the osm 3d building data is there. Chicago and new York are 2 examples of cities with some decent osm building data. You can use f4map to visualize the osm 3d buildings, and world2xplane to create the scenery if you like.