[ESSA Stockholm-Arlanda V2. A brief update on the progress.]

G'day everyone,

 

For those of you not following our project progress page at Facebook I figured it was a good time to make a brief update post.

If you are not unfamiliar with the page and is interested in the progress of this project I recommend checking it out. I aim to share something weekly and it's a nice way for me to keep in touch with all of you!

 

Here is a link if you want to check it out:

Click here to go to the project page

 

As for the progress:

 

First of all I want to share that Jetstream Designs joined me earlier this fall on this project. I assume most of you are familiar with his work (he got a lot of his work on the Orbx store that I really recommend checking out). He has made incredible sceneries such as Paris-Orly, Toulouse, Nantes, Linate, the list goes on. An incredible talent that share my view on visuals and quality and is bringing a lot to the table.  

 

Regarding the construction progress we are moving forward quickly at the moment. The more time consuming tasks like the terminal areas are locking in on almost one pier per week now with T5A/B/F probably finishing up before end of this month, which leaves work with T2 & T4 before that whole complex is ready. A lot of the airside buildings are at a late stage in the process. I spent quite a bit of time on some new custom GSE items earlier this fall that will be introduced at ESSA and some were introduced in the ESMS update recently released. We got quite a bit left on landside things and the less noticeable building objects, which should be a quick turn around in comparsion to the other things we are working on. 

 

The ground is finishing up and we landed incredible ortho imagery that combined with the updated high-res mesh and our new ground texture set is really a huge difference (in our humble opinion at least!) to the current offerings. I hope to showcase that in the next few weeks.

 

I know a few of you are wondering about the P3D and X-Plane version, those will be looked at once this is complete and released and as long as there is a market for it at that point they will be converted.

 

Here are some screenshots from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, please note it's all a work in progress with a lot of objects missing, and things might change.

 

Hope you enjoy!

Cheers,

Marcus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ESGG Gothenburg update...?]

16 minutes ago, Bakern said:

Nice Marcus.

And hopefully an option to disable Static Aircraft.

Yes  

if you read the list again you see it says “optional statics”

 

 

[Update on what I've been up to lately]

Here are some new GSE for ESSA.

Best place to keep an eye on the project is the project page on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077462715941

 

Cheers,

Marcus

[ESGG Gothenburg update...?]

Thanks Nick for stepping in,

Yep a great update is being worked on to update the main changes that has occured since the release like the new terminal and the hotel being finished.

Will also include animated airside traffic, moving jetways, optional statics, new GSE and new ground textures and updated interiors for parts of the terminal.

 

Many assets are being shared with the ESSA v2 project I'm working on so it might be a bit longer before it is finished.

 

[Update on what I've been up to lately]

21 hours ago, Flyer2022 said:

The new ground textures are nothing but marvelous. The old textures were already great but now it looks even better. Only wish MSFS' SDK could make it possible for the Developers to choose between the concrete slab and asphalt textures, and not just applying the default asphalt texture everywhere regardless of the material underneath  - this would really be icing on top of the cake. 

Regarding the pushback trucks at Frölunda I now found the same issue happening at the grass strip adjacent next to Visby airport as well. 

I was also wondering, since you are currently working on the Landvetter's new terminal, are the observations noted by Swezam back in 2020 being implemented? 
Perhaps it may sound like the nitpicking for some but I think those observations were well described and thoroughly researched in the aim to bring the terminal closer to its real life look. I think such a great airport deserves to be as realistic as possible. 

And finally, I hope that the converts of Scandinavian Mountains Airport and Kiruna are coming along nicely - it is not that like we could forget about them either. 

 

Yes some of that can for sure be adjusted. Thanks for pointing that out, forgot about that feedback!

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18 minutes ago, Flyer2022 said:

P.S. I noticed that both ESSB and ESSV got the default file named "ModelLib.bgl" that can potentially cause the Sim issues, and is now recommended to be renamed to a unique name. Was it left there by mistake?

Havent heard about that. Havent had any reports of sim issues with any of my products either. ModelLib is not a default file, its the whole unique object library for my products but i assume you mean the naming and not the content. What ive heard and adjusted is the path naming which is unique to avoid scenery file mix ups. So if i would remove that file that would effectively remove all content in my sceneries. 
 

edit: see now you referred to the name. I can have a look at that if it causes issues but i would assume that would be related to the path as well in that case which is already dealt with so not sure how that would be an issue.

[Introducing LEAS Asturias Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator!]

1 minute ago, Er!k said:

Thanks for the explanation. Probably Su10 messed something up then. Anyway the airport is great! Just departed at dawn to Girona and a great take-off on 29 towards the east!

 

Sounds epic

[Introducing LEAS Asturias Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator!]

4 minutes ago, Er!k said:

From what I remember you have two properties of a parking, don't know the right terms:

- Parking name (Gate, Parking etc.)

- Parking type (GATE SMALL, GATE MEDIUM, RAMP_GA LARGE etc.)

 

If the name is set to GATE + number ATC says 'Taxi to gate XXX'. If this is set to parking ATC will refer to General Aviation.

 

That is how it is set up. You can't add an animated jetway to a spot if it is not labeled as GATE.

 

I think the problem being the airline labels. Right now there are airline codes for two of the normal parking I just noticed, must have put the codes on the wrong spots for some reason, I can adjust that in a patch to direct them to the gates.

 

But just to be clear, all jetways are GATES, all other parkings are RAMP. ATC should still direct them to a specific parking, why it is not doing that I have no clue.

[Introducing LEAS Asturias Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator!]

30 minutes ago, Er!k said:

Already departing here! What a nice surprise! @Marcus Nyberg Another aircraft landed and asked ATC to park, but ATC says 'Taxi to GA parking' instead of gate XXX. Can this be fixed in an update?

 

 

 

Nice!

We can set airline codes for the gates, might direct the AI there instead. With my testing when they said taxi to general aviation parking they parked at the gates though. Plus there isn't any general aviation parking really, there are just none-gate parkings. The general aviation parking is the area in the east corner of the tarmac (AG01-AG08) but as it interferes with parking 09 they are not enabled in the scenery.

 

Still a bit confused about the logics of the built in ATC and AI system.

[Update on what I've been up to lately]

35 minutes ago, RobinC said:

Any new updates on ESSA? How is the development going?

 

 

Progressing well! Everything is on a bigger scale so it takes a bit further before we can have more comprehensive in-sim previews. I use ESGG as a playground as they share many assets but those ground textures were made for Arlanda if you missed the caption. Hopefully we can show some more in-sim screens from Arlanda soon. And we have been previewing stuff for ESSA a few times the last couple weeks, if you missed that, including from the sim.

 

[Introducing LEAS Asturias Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator!]

11 hours ago, jllozanocues said:

There is only one scenery of Seville airport, I know it but it´s  an old version and I was looking for your quality standard as a designer, I got ESMS Malmo, ESGG Gothenburg and ESSB Stockholm Bromma, and now waiting for LEAS Asturias. Many thanks

That is very kind of you. Who knows, might happen some day if we get good references

 

[Introducing LEAS Asturias Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator!]

On 10/8/2022 at 5:17 PM, mikee said:

Super news Marcus ! Looking forward

Bilbao next ??

have been looking at Bilbao but that one needs quite some work to bring to today’s standards so sometime but not this year

[Introducing LEAS Asturias Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator!]

6 hours ago, jllozanocues said:

Amazing shots!, I wish someday any developer interested in making Seville airport! Waiting to get this one asap

Seville would have been a nice one but think there is a version already and heard about other devs invested in it

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On 10/7/2022 at 8:35 PM, Neil said:

Hi Marcus

 

Thanks for the recent work (Malmo and Bromma). The addition of a config tool for static aircraft, is the solution many were looking for. I look forward to seeing more of your work in your expanding MSFS portfolio. You are bringing great value to Orbx and flightsimulation.

 

Neil

 

Thanks Neil that is very very kind of you to say

 

On 10/9/2022 at 1:33 PM, AnotherFeffe said:

WOW Marcus! ESSA is really coming together in an amazing way. This is your best work to date. Any chance ESGG will get some upgrades to this level of detail as well? Or is the update just to open the new terminal? 

Yes! ESGG is getting a similar update to ESMS.

 

A little teaser coming here! Here are some of the new ground textures for ESGG (last one is the current look of them), same ones we are using for ESSA

 

 

 

 

And current look:

 

 

Quite an improvement if I may say so! Quite proud to be honest!

 

[Andorra airport-LESU]

Take a ride to LESO, that's the coolest airport in Europe and just a short trip from LESU

 

[Introducing LEAS Asturias Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator!]

6 hours ago, carlosqr said:

Looks very nice indeed and not done by others which is even nicer

 
Thanks Carlos!

 

16 hours ago, Nicky Bird said:

This will be a day one purchase for me! I loved the p3d version and have been waiting ever since transitioning to msfs! Love this and I can’t wait! 

Thank you Nick, that makes me very happy to hear

 

16 hours ago, MasonDominique said:

Great news ! Another Orbx airport !

Can we expect full GSX jetways compatibility ?

 

best

Dom Mason

 

thanks! To be honest I haven’t tried it with GSX but the jetways are made according to the SDK so I assume they will work fine. If there are GSX issues I’m sure we can have a look at that. Need to get GSX myself i think  

 

[Introducing LEAS Asturias Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator!]

16 hours ago, Astur said:

Greetings! First of all, congrats to @Marcus Nyberg for his impressive work. I am a pilot who flies regularly to LEAS and I wanted to point out some innacuracies of the airport that I hope can be corrected before launch.

 

First of all, the light poles are now painted red and white:

 

 

Also, the head of the runway 11 it is completely free of obstacles and has no vegetation

 

 

Another thing is that the east side of the general aviation parkings (The grass zone) is more elevated IRL. You can't barely see the tail of the planes when they taxi to the holding point of the 29, just the top tip (only if it's a 737). I can provide video of that area in private. They also revamped the entire airport lightning a few months ago, i may have a video of that, have to check.

 

If more photos or videos are needed, I can provide them, you just need to ask! I hope this helped, I can't wait to fly there also in the sim

Thanks again for all information, i will address the things brought up in this post!

[Introducing LEAS Asturias Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator!]

8 hours ago, Socata said:

What an illusion it makes me to have the airport of my state in MSFS and looking at the captures I see that the walkways are in transparent glass and the flags of my country, my community and Europe in the P3d version were never there and the dark gates were never updated, but I am very happy about this great news, I am even beginning to believe that my airport photos that I sent to Orbx were worth it. It's possible.....

 

Im sorry if i didnt take action if you contacted me! The flags should have been added for sure, that was a miss on my end. Hope this new version will cover what you initially missed.

 

Check your email, ive sent you a message!

[Oh Canada]

Beautiful!!

[Update on what I've been up to lately]

2 hours ago, Maelmoor said:

Just wanted to say thanks @Marcus Nyberg for the Bromma update! Now it feels perfect, really appreciate the support and adding the interior, it's done to a fantastic standard too!

 

Glad to hear you enjoy it  thanks!

 

2 hours ago, WebMaximus said:

 

Sounds great and can't wait to find the time checking out the new update myself. Bromma is only a 15 mins drive from where I live. So always very cool to fly in and out of Bromma and recognize all things down on the ground 

 

Guess I'll see for myself when I try it out but has the ICA Maxi building next to the airport been finished now also in the scenery in the same way it has IRL?

 

Oh, no, sorry, nothing has been added outside the airport so the construction etc is still as in previous version sadly.

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3 hours ago, Flyer2022 said:

The new update looks amazing! 
I only wonder if there's really a pushback truck and crew at Frölunda in rea life, I think no  
Maybe it is possible to remove the ground services?

 

Haha that's funny.. we removed pushbacks from Bromma as we were informed by airport management they don't do that, seems like our ground equipment ended up at Frölunda instead. We will address that.

 

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Thanks guys!  

[Update on what I've been up to lately]

Thanks guys!

No ETA sorry, for the few I share my estimates with they just zoom out when I say something nowadays, it's totally depending on how well it goes each day and I tend to change the ETA 5 every day, back and forth back and forth

 

Here is the new jetway for T5F! I'm very proud of how well it turned out (and it got agressive LOD's so don't worry about performance).

 

 

 

[Update on what I've been up to lately]

Slowly inserting our assets in the sim

Can warmly recommend this hotel if ever staying at Arlanda over night. Just a minutes walk from the departure hall, great breakfast and nice rooms and a very nice lounge.

 

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1 hour ago, WebMaximus said:

How is ESSA coming along?

 

I really miss a good scenery for ESSA in MSFS.

 

Slowly moving foward

It will be a while though.