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    Frankfurt City compatibility

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator Support Forum

    Posted

    9 minutes ago, Holger Sandmann said:

    Hi guys,

     

    Fulvio, the update for Paris -- compatibility with World Update IV -- has been on Orbx Central since May 14th and on the MS Marketplace since May 21st. Or do you mean something else?

     

    For the most part, yes. There are several models that aren't ours, but all of ours have been optimized with LODs for better performance. As mentioned though, there are additional custom models and enhancements included with the original Frankfurt Landmarks that will be made available in our update, which entered testing today.

     

    Cheers, Holger

    No, no, Orbx Paris; thanks for the update; of course I missed it! 

         Fulvio

    Frankfurt City compatibility

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator Support Forum

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Holger Sandmann said:

    Hi all,

     

    we are working on an update for Landmarks Frankfurt to be released soon. While many of the custom buildings are now directly integrated into the photogrammetry version of Frankfurt delivered with World Update 6, there are many more features specific to Landmarks Frankfurt that we want our current customers to retain and enjoy. Those include custom trains and boats, improvements to vegetation and night lighting, as well as a few POIs outside of the city.

     

    In the meantime, please remove Landmarks Frankfurt from your Community folder as the current version is not compatible.

     

    Cheers, Holger

    Hi Holger, just done it as soon as I installed the VI update; sorry for asking, and Paris is compatible now?

         Fulvio

    Welcome to Niš! Constantine the Great Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator

    in Orbx Preview Announcements, Screenshots and Videos

    Posted

    40 minutes ago, Rasha Tucakov said:

    Who knows?! Maybe those will enter the to do list. There are so many interesting airports in our part of Europe and only 24h in a day. The only thing I can promise is that I'll try to work harder to produce as many god quality addons as I can but lets just work step by step. FS2020 is great new sim platform and it will blossom with new addons in the future for sure. I'm so excited to be part of that.
    Cheers man! 

    Look Rasha, despite lots of bugs, MSFS is a giant step - a canyon gap -, if comapred to P3D; and since the very first flights, I can't even imagine to get back to any previous sim. Of course I miss a lot my beloved military jets or good civilian liners (PMDG etc, MilViz etc.), but the landscapes, the railways, the roads, the night colours are so absolutely stunning...

       Thanks for your asnwer, Rasha, & regards,

            Fuilvio

            

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    Welcome to Niš! Constantine the Great Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator

    in Orbx Preview Announcements, Screenshots and Videos

    Posted

    13 hours ago, Rasha Tucakov said:

    I'm so happy that someone is sharing my passion for east European airports.

    LYBE is currently under big reconstruction in real life and it will be one of the focus projects as soon as reconstructing ends and airport get some stable form. Be sure I'll continue working on Balkan, Adriatic and East European airports for FS2020 in the future. 
    Cheers.

    Great news,Rasha. Well done, and let's look forward for future Balkan airports (Bucharest, Sofia etc. etc.).

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    Neil Hill is no longer with us

    in The Neil Hill Memorial Lounge

    Posted

    On 11/14/2018 at 8:02 PM, Holger Sandmann said:

    Dear all,

     

    I'm very sorry to have to let you know that our colleague and friend Neil Hill passed away on Nov 12th in Lynwood, WA, from complications with MDS, a blood illness. According to his daughter his final days were peaceful, with his family by his side. He was 80 years old. 

     

    As you may or may not know Neil was our ultimate "airport enhancement machine", tirelessly working on transforming the lifeless and often incorrect default airports into much more realistic renditions. We don't have a full tally of his work for Orbx but we're talking many thousands of airports for the FTX Regions alone. And when he wasn't working on the payware commitments he completed yet more content for the ever-growing FTX Global Airport freeware package.

     

    In short, if you're visiting any of our FTX Region or freeware airports you're looking at Neil's work. 

     

    Neil first approached me in February 2009 after learning that I was working on a small FSX landscape project covering the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. In his email he wrote "... I would like to let you know I would VERY MUCH like to help in reworking the airports. [...] I am retired so I have plenty of time". I gladly accepted his offer. The Olympics project later morphed into Orbx's FTX Pacific Northwest and included more than 400 airports enhanced by Neil, not a bad start...

     

    And so it continued: with each new FTX Region I would send him a spreadsheet of all airports within the coverage area and he'd start pumping out the airfields by the dozen, usually finishing well ahead of deadlines and asking us for more ;-) 

     

    Put another way, without Neil's initiative it's quite likely that the Orbx Regions would not have included greatly enhanced default airports, at least not every single one within a given Region.

     

    Neil was assisted by other Region team members but he certainly laid the foundations for this particular component and his energy never waned. Even during his last months, being in and out of hospital, he kept on working on our current project, Australia v2, and managed to complete more than 600 airfields and airstrips, with the last batch submitted at the end of October. Judging by his file's date stamps the final airport he worked on was YIFY, Iffley, a small airstrip in Queensland.


    We'll miss you, Neil, rest in peace.


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    If you have stories or photos of Neil that you'd like to share with the community feel free to do so in this thread.


    For the entire Orbx family,

    Holger 

     

    P.S. An online obituary has been posted at http://www.whidbeymemorial.com/book-of-memories/3661404/Hill-Neil/obituary.php

    There will be a memorial service for Neil on December 14th, at 6:30 PM, at the Alderwood Baptist Church in Lynnwood, WA. 

    :-[

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