Really enjoying this scenery. ORBX did a fantastic job. Yes, the airports are only minimally improved, but the overall experience is very good. The low level detailing feels better than ortho…so there’s that.
Here you can see where it looks like they used some 3D data, hand placed objects, and ortho all together. So you get some artifacts around the dam that look a little bloby…sort of like when you use Google Earth in VR. But it really works well with a good mix of techniques…
THIS IS NOT ALL ORBX SCENERY - so don’t judge the ORBX scenery on the quality of this. This is Drzewieicki (sp? as usual) Design Seattle Airports. After much testing, I feel that if you have the horsepower, using the DD scenery with ORBX PNW is a really good combination. I love the details of the airports with this package. You get Sea-Tac (KSEA), Paine Field (KPAE), Boeing Field (KBFI), Renton Municiple (KREN), and Auburn (S50)…which does make it a pretty good value. Combined with DD Seattle City, and you have the region covered.
I spent some of my internet down time searching on my phone for some third party airports to populate ORBX Washington. Here is the list I compiled (all freeware). Keep in mind, these are user created, of varying quality, and some fields may be included in the X-Plane “Lego brick” database that adopts user creations. So - your mileage may vary, AND you will definitely need all the common libraries to make these usable. All of these should be placed above the ORBX scenery in the scenery.cfg loading order.
Hope this helps some people get Washington State populated. If I’ve missed any important ones, let me know!
Happy to do it. Just be aware, some of those sceneries might throw up some errors here and there (I just click OK and move on) since the X-Plane library situation (by add-on makers) is a bit of a mess. I’m working down the list now - 3W5, KTCM, and 21W so far I’ve looked at and they look great.
Ranger Creek is a nice little strip carved out of the woods…
Olympic Field (WA45) looks interesting with a parallel runway and sealane…but it has trees on the runway in XP11. Probably fixable with WED and putting an exclusion zone…
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