Scott Armstrong Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Well, the files have all been sent to Ed for final packaging, so NCA SP1 should be headed your way shortly The fixes and improvements are too numerous to count, but here are some screen shots to show you some of the new features to look forward to! Note that these are just my additions to SP1; Holger and Chris also have their share of fixes to airports and terrain features. Many marina and boat objects have been added throughout the region, including San Francisco Bay, the Delta, and numerous reservoirs: Additional ships and piers have been added to their real locations in San Francisco Bay and the Delta: Numerous landclass updates around the San Francisco Bay area, improving detail and accuracy. Shown here is Vallejo: Custom power plant objects added to the Antioch area: Moss Landing and Elkhorn Slough recreated in Photorealistic detail, with custom autogen, power plant model, and marinas: Landclass around Sacramento substantially improved, with the California capital building added as well as Riverfront Park: Detail added to various parts of the Central Valley. Pictured is the town of Red Bluff: Landclass improvements and detail added to a huge portion of the coastline, from the northern NCA border down south to Gualala. Shown here is the Eureka/Humboldt area: Major detail and landclass refinements to southern Oregon and the northernmost portion of California (from Redding on up). Shown here is Grant's Pass, Oregon: Fields and hills near near Medford, OR: Ashland, OR: Hills near Klamath Falls, Oregon: Improved landclass around Mammoth, CA: And lastly, here is a sneak preview of the upcoming Cityscape San Francisco! Note that this is NOT INCLUDED in SP1; this is a preview pic only, just to whet your appetite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnandbank Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Awesome, what else can one say! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twsimfan Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 The improvements looks great! (Did the traffic tunnels get buried under the taxiways at Oakland?) As for the Cityscape San Francisco.... consider my appetite whetted... been whetted for some time now. Thanks for the peek, Tom Wunder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonman Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Stunning and simply amazing! What a great update! Thank You very much for sharing this superb preview here with us Scott! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockliffe Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 And lastly, here is a sneak preview of the upcoming Cityscape San Francisco! Note that this is NOT INCLUDED in SP1; this is a preview pic only, just to whet your appetite I thought SF Cityscape was included in Northern California anyway. It looks very detailed as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriLa Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Very impressive! A small remark: coastlines cutting through industrial areas in screenshot #1 and #3 don't look so nice. Is it possible to switch of the windparks in the control panel? My frames will be much better without these huge areas of windparks. Cheers, Fritz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnR Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Yet another thing to look forward to!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabnz Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greybeard Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Nice job, looking forward to the release. Cheers, Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sun_king_135 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 When could Cityscape San Francisco find its way to our hard drives? I am so satisfied with your products and love them altogether. Any recommendations towards the sale at flightsimstore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripcord Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I am so satisfied with your products and love them altogether. Any recommendations towards the sale at flightsimstore? Find an FTX region you like and scoop a few airports. Try to restrain yourself a little but this is a helluva sale, might not get another chance at these prices. You will wish you had bought more. If you are like me, you buy this stuff like crack candy. Many marina and boat objects have been added throughout the region, including San Francisco Bay, the Delta, and numerous reservoirs: Scott, thanks for sharing these. Is that top shot over there in Oakland/Alameda? I was going to ask about the coast guard base there but I started to look closely at this first shot and began to wonder if maybe that was it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddler Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Looks great. Thanks to all involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartolomeus Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Wow...awesome, looking forward! Marko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jocko Flocko Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 You dudes rock! I'm really looking forward to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDX Flyer Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 What was your best scenery area to date is just going to get better. Am so impressed with what you guys are doing. Couple this with Night Environment California and you have (in my opinion) something way better that photoscenery. My heart is a-flutter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breeze Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Thank you for the update for Moss Landing and Elkhorn Slough! It really adds immensely to the Monterey Bay area. Super work guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Sandmann Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Hi guys, Did the traffic tunnels get buried under the taxiways at Oakland? Tom, yes they have. Is it possible to switch of the windparks in the control panel? My frames will be much better without these huge areas of windparks. Fritz, the regions don't have control panels but I've altered the coding of the windfarm files so people now have a couple of options for dealing with them. Here's the excerpt from the SP1 user manual: Please note – deactivating windfarm placement files: Some NCA users have reported issues with lowered frame rates or display stuttering when flying in southcentral NCA between Antioch and Stockton. This could be caused by the high density of turbines (>5,500 objects) in the 30 windfarms of the Rio Vista and Altamont Pass areas. With this service pack we've changed the file coding giving you two options to address local frame rate issues related to the windfarms: 1) In your FSX/P3D scenery display menu, move the Scenery Complexity slider to one setting left of full right, to “Very Denseâ€; this will prevent any windfarm turbine from displaying and can be done during a flight. 2) If you permanently want to disable the windfarm placement files navigate to \ORBX\FTX_NA\FTX_NA_NCA05_SCENERY\scenery, sort the folder by name, and locate the files: FTX_NCA_objects_windfarms_CA_PLC_addtl_static1.BGL ↠contains a random 30% of all turbines FTX_NCA_objects_windfarms_CA_PLC_addtl_static2.BGL ↠contains another random 30% of turbines FTX_NCA_objects_windfarms_CA_PLC_addtl_animated.BGL ↠contains remaining 40% of turbines using models with spinning rotors Renaming their .bgl extension to .OFF will deactivate the corresponding turbines. You can experiment with deactivating one or more of those files. Note that the file FTX_NCA_objects_windfarms_CA_PLC.BGL places only one small windfarm northeast of Redding (Hatchet Ridge) and won't cause any issues. Cheers, Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FILOU Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Very nice!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Looks like a good reason to fly another round in California...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horizonair2475 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Gosh, I'm speechless!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twsimfan Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Hi guys, Tom, yes they have. Fritz, the regions don't have control panels but I've altered the coding of the windfarm files so people now have a couple of options for dealing with them. Here's the excerpt from the SP1 user manual: Cheers, Holger Thanks for burying those tunnels Holger! A small issue I'll admit but it was kind of annoying to have to taxi through them. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabby Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Outstanding! Can't wait. C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuisong Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Well, the files have all been sent to Ed for final packaging, so NCA SP1 should be headed your way shortly The fixes and improvements are too numerous to count, but here are some screen shots to show you some of the new features to look forward to! Note that these are just my additions to SP1; Holger and Chris also have their share of fixes to airports and terrain features. NCA is so good I didn't think a patch would come so soon. Thanks for the preview shots, great work. It looks like I just might have to re-fly all my trips to date I hope it is not too late to mention this and maybe get the items below fixed in this patch. CA09 Round Mountain and 6OR6 Wonder, are both unusable due to the terrain (no reasonably smooth area to land on) OG17 has a flashing tree on the runway (maybe caused by my setup) I must say though that all the other small strips I have visited (mainly in the northern half so far) are done very well. Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamJSS Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Looks nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rexbo47 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 These look great! Did they add boats to Pillar Point Harbor (Half Moon Bay) also? It sure looks naked without them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Culley44 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 great pics, just installed northern cali warming up for sp1, gonna have to find a good single engine piper to look at the scenery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freezer41 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Yeah good spotting. Scott, thanks for sharing these. Is that top shot over there in Oakland/Alameda? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas_LOLW Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Very nice indeed…however I am bit concerned with the performance in the bay area, which is already with the current version on the limit. I have a decent system (4.5 MHz, 780Ti) but still suffer from a significant framerate drop when I fly over San Francisco area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan King Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Great shots! Just to be clear, is cityscape SF going to be included for NCA users? Or will we need to purchase it separately? I was under the impression it was going to be part of SP1, bit I understand if things change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexczarn Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Geez that looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lovell Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Great shots! Just to be clear, is cityscape SF going to be included for NCA users? Or will we need to purchase it separately? I was under the impression it was going to be part of SP1, bit I understand if things change. As far as I am aware SF City Scape will be a freeware, much like Portland was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argharg Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Nice ! Keep on the good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan King Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 As far as I am aware SF City Scape will be a freeware, much like Portland was That was my understanding as well, but some of the verbiage confused me here and I wanted to be certain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDX Flyer Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 As far as I am aware SF City Scape will be a freeware, much like Portland was If it is half as good as Portland was, I will be more than happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrownCityMisfit Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Thank you for adding more value to an outstanding product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medx421 Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Well, the files have all been sent to Ed for final packaging, so NCA SP1 should be headed your way shortly Was I wrong to think this would be a day or two out? Can't take the prrreeeesssuuurrrreeee :banghead: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilottj Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Great stuff! Is Half Moon Bay KHAF nearing completion too? Cheers TJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockStarofRust Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Posted some screens of Moss Landing just north of Monterey! http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/80878-ftx-nca-sp1moss-landing-nice/ What an exciting and detailed update! THANK you! Also thank you for the windfarm option, improved FPS is always a bonus! Go ORBX! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaronKen Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Pleased and thanks for the update to NCA, it's much appreciated; however I am a little surprised that though some golf courses were added here and there they are still lacking in some areas. Please consider using a better source for golf courses in a future update. When flying VFR I look for them and when they are missing it's a bit disappointing. Also, very much looking forward to the SF cityscape addon; any chance that the UC Berkley campus will be included in the area? It's currently not represented in NCA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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