Yesterday’s Press Release from openVFR announced their coverage of Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun, for Microsoft FSX and L-M Prepar3D. “Japan is a land of striking scenic beauty. The total area of Japan is around 300,000 sq km. First time visitors are impressed by its greenness and its spectacular mountains. Seventy…
Released a few days ago, openVFR Autogen is a new package, based around downloadable country packs, which provides 3d objects to terrain – as the name implies – derived from the positions provided by the OpenStreetMap project. 13 European countries and 1 African are covered in the initial tranche of…
A new press release from freeware scenery team “openVFR” has been received today, detailing a number of new sceneries that have been released. “Last week the openVFR team finished the development of some new Scenery AddOns for Microsoft Flightsimulator X. After the new release of openVFR Germany now you can…
If you click on the image to the left of this text, it will (hopefully, unless your browser objects) expand to show the current world coverage (as of 11/11) provided by Openstreetmap sourced FSX scenery “OpenVFR”. As part of this development cycle, the team’s spokesperson announces in a press release,…
The landclass is one of the best ways to improve an extra large scenery (state, country or even contient) with low impact on framerates. openVFR developers are working at it after Europe, and the first part of USA. They have now more US states available for purchase, as you can…
First off, happy holidays. 🙂 We hope this time of the year has given you time to enjoy family, friends and of course diving into virtual flying. Well, as a last message for this year we are very happy to announce that we have launched our first countries for North…
The guys at openVFR wanted to apply to North America what they did for Europe. Now they cover other areas upon the community suggestions. “We are very happy to announce that we have launched our first countries for North America in openVFR. Just visit the product websites (Terrain / Objects)…
After hundreds or even thousands of virtual flights, you have the right to use your simulator, also, for a refreshing time of fantasy. OpenVFR comes with a suggestion to feed your imagination : “Tired of flying the same old VFR routes all night long? Well – then we have something…
“From September 2010 the openVFR crew will start selling its VFR scenery addons for Microsoft Flight Simulator X worldwide. We are looking forward to open our scenery products for a wider public from now on.”
OpenVFR has launched their own custom mesh for Europe. Markus from OpenVFR states: “The openVFR mesh represents a significant improvement from previous SRTM3 meshes, you might have used before. It allows a 75m grid resolution with a vertical error of less than 16m for Europe”.