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  1. D'Urville Island is still glitching as of 26th November 2021 (version 1.0.1) Any progress here team?
  2. Thanks chaps- I certainly can recommend winding the sim calendar back to mid winter and sprinkling a few meters of snow on the ground here, then taking an early morning flight yourselves. Magical conditions!
  3. Superb lighting- love the motion blur flyby shot. Really captures the moment!
  4. Climbing over the beautiful snow dusted Mackenzie Country landscape (NZ Mesh) in the Pilatus PC-6 (Milviz):
  5. Todays mission was a mountain party resupply run- departing from Tekapo in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, flying up the lake to a snowfield landing on the Tasman Glacier, and then returning to Tekapo. My aircraft of choice was the brilliant Milviz PC-6 from Orbx Central, using the variant fitted with skis. The scenery of course is Orbx's NZ Mesh, accented with a light dusting of snow to bring out the contours of the landscape. I’ll let the screenshots tell the story:
  6. Good news guys- your latest patch for the NA Alaska mesh fixed the PAJN runway issue on my system!
  7. G'day Holger- thanks for the acknowledgment and the explanation. I'm a long time fan of your work and very impressed with Auckland overall! PC Pilot magazine will be publishing my review of this addon in their next issue. Hopefully NZ gets selected for a world update one day in the future and we get those building levels corrected. Look forward to seeing any updates to the Auckland scenery with wakes in the future. Cheers!
  8. @John Dow have a walk around Auckland City in Google Maps street view and you wont find a single 2 story building in the entire downtown area. The above MSFS screenshots show dozens of these, evening lining the cities main street (Queen Street). What I am trying to explain is that from personal experience- having flown over the city on countless scenic flights over the last 10 years, the cityscape does not reflect the structure height of what exists here.
  9. Hi team, As an Auckland resident I am highly impressed with the Auckland City Landmarks addon you have made, however do have some feedback. The generic CBD buildings that have not been modelled in detail are far too low, resulting in quite a hollow feeling to the city center. If you take a comparison look between this screenshot from MSFS and a Google Earth render, you'll notice the majority of the commercial buildings lining the major streets in the city center are approximately 10 stories high rather than 2 stories high as shown in the sim. I feel like even the default MSFS scenery had these heights correct? From Google Earth: Is this something that could be adjusted with some simple coding? It would be also good to see every boat in the harbour with a wake trail. This is what the harbour typically appears like from above:
  10. How cool are the skywalk and skyjump easter eggs! I did this many years ago myself!
  11. Absolutely amazing screenshots! You are a master of the art! I wonder if the Skytower lights up different colors depending on what date is set in the sim? IRL it changes its scheme quite frequently to show support for various causes.
  12. Thanks Anna, and great work @Holger Sandmann. I've been a fan of your work for a long time and it's no surprise you are behind this scenery. I'll be providing an in depth review of the scenery in an upcoming issue of PC Pilot, so keep your eyes peeled for that!
  13. As a local who has flown over Auckland countless times IRL, I’ve been looking forward to this one all year and am certainly not disappointed! It’s great to finally see recognisable 3D counterparts of all the CBD buildings replace those ugly generic autogen tower blocks. The skyline of the city centre is pretty unique, and it looks fantastic in the sim early morning or evening with the PBR texturing. I’m stoked with how much detail was given to the harbors too- with Westhaven Marina, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere actually visible now and 3D boats moored at the jetties, as well as animated boat traffic on the Waitamata. A huge photoreal groundplate stretches nearly the entire width of the city with higher res ground textures replacing the Bing maps data. It includes watermasking of the many estuaries and bays (all be it at very low tide) and is a huge improvement from default. Great job Orbx team- this one will undoubtedly give me countless hours of entertainment!
  14. Thanks all- wasn't sure if they came across as a bit too cartoony or not. Can't beat the shape of those big round radial powerplants though!
  15. Could you provide a link to this Luminar skies you speak of please? I don't think I have come across it!
  16. I was thrilled to see a Kiwi repaint included Aeroplane Heaven’s Lockheed Electra 10-A new release on Orbx Direct. Today I took ZK-AFD of Union Airways on a regional hop, from Invercargill (NZNV) at the far south end of New Zealand’s South Island, along the Catlins Coast, up to Taeiri (NZTI)- a grass airfield that served as the city of Dunedin’s primary airfield until the 1960’s. Real world weather was pretty gloomy today, with showers of rain and the surface wind blowing 35 knots at both takeoff and landing. Luckily I managed to time my arrival with a break in the clouds and bright sunlight upon touchdown at Taeiri.
  17. Gorgeous! Any post processing here, or maybe an in game filter for those colours?
  18. Very artistic set- nice work!
  19. Cool shots and perfect location for the Porter! There are some more real world kiwi PC6 liveries available for the Milviz aircraft here too: https://flightsim.to/profile/kcgb/uploads
  20. Love that golden hour perspectives.
  21. Many good memories of flying here in the FSX days- might need to go check it out in MSFS!
  22. Wow those night shots are phenomenal- might have to get that scenery myself!
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