New scenery in progress... Faro on hold...

Sometimes my head starts wandering and I loose focus on the task at hand. Faro has been put on hold, however there is some good news. I have been working very hard these last days on a new mega project that is currently 50% complete. It will be bigger than Lisbon and feature many more custom objects and better photoscenery. Faro will still be released first and the new project shortly afterwards. I will announce the new scenery in a couple of weeks with many screenshots and a better and more exact date of when to expect release.

I'm sorry to all of you anxious for the Faro scenery, but trust me when I say this new project will be worth the wait. Thank you all for your comments!

All the best,
Andreas Bachmann
Latin Enhance

Faro is still creeping along...

Ok, a one man team (if you can call one man a team) still needs his vacation time. It's that part of the year, and Faro has almost crawled to a stop for the last few weeks. Also, since I do have a full time job, a wife, three favorite hobbies, paragliding, kitesurfing and of course flightsimulators, things need to get prioritized and unfortunately scenery creation is not on the top of my list lately. Fortunately though, since I travel A LOT when working, there are many many hours of airport transfer time that is utilized for scenery creation.

I will be posting some more shots soon. In the meantime, enjoy the summer while it lasts!

Best regards,
Andreas Bachmann
Latin Enhance

Faro is getting some detail...

Ok, so the city of Faro itself is 99% complete and although extremely detailed, I get stable 30 FPS with my 3 year old pc, so this should not be an issue for most of you. I have tried to apply some different density settings to the buildings so that you will be able to reduce the scenery slider if you are suffering with your machine.

Work has now started on the city of Olhão, east of Faro and the city is extremely dense in real life, so placing all the buildings will certainly take some time. Its currently about 30% complete. After that there is some autogen surrounding the cities and placing traffic as well as some clutter scenery to make the reagion really come alive.

After all this is complete the photosceneries will get their final adjustments to line up the photo tiles exactly and some color matching. This scenery is highly recommended used together with FTX Global. It looks fantastic!

I have done so many flights from Lisbon to Faro that I have lost count! It's such a pleasure to fly between the two cities. I really hope I can release this soon, however, I think you will find it was worth the wait. I hope so anyways...

Enough talk... let's see some screenshots...

Faro in all its glory!

The resorts and golf courses on final approach...

Beach life!

 City of Olhão, as you can see there is still a lot of work to be done here...

Coverage area of Faro...

3 shots from Faro...

Still very very early stages of development...

Landclass fix available in the download section

Ok, so here is a temporary fix for the strip of city landclass just north of the photoscenery. Just download this file - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZJFXGqhP0wTi1NSk5oYTl3Y3M/view?usp=sharing - and drop it in your LE Lisbon City/scenery folder and overwrite when promted. This will unfortunately change some of the different landclass files and replace it with a more simple one, however this was the only way to quickly solve this problem. I have already started to make a completely new file with detailed landclass to fit better with the surrounding photoscenery and this will be uploaded to simmarket.com as a new installer since there was clearly a big fault with the original scenery. I will also make the new landclass available in the download section for those of you who don't want to wait for simmarket.com to update the installer.

I do apologize for this and I promise that this will be improved in a short time.

Meanwhile please install this temporary fix and enjoy your scenery.

Thank you and regards,
Andreas B.
Latin Enhance

Please comment any faults or suggestions here... Updates/patches comming soon!

I appreciate feedback and in fact it is important to point out faults with the scenery so this can be fixed in a downloadable patch later on. Unfortunately I can't pick up every single fault with the scenery and therefore it is critical that you give your feedback when you find something wrong or something that could be done differently. Also I am open to suggestions for a future update. All updates and fix patches will be available in the download section as soon as possible. In the future there will be made a full downloadable service pack with all the fixes in one installation including any updates or changes done to the scenery. Please use this post to comment any faults or suggestions.

Best regards,
Andreas B.
Latin Enhance 

Scenery is released!

I am happy to announce that the scenery has been released and ready for purchase and download at simmarket.com. Here is a direct link:

http://secure.simmarket.com/latin-enhance_lisbon-city-for-fsx.phtml

Go buy it and enjoy!

Best regards,
A.Bachmann