Most Photographed House

Inspired by the most photographed house of Madagascar, a new building found it's way into the scenery.




Here's the original:

Forests Update

I've overworked the forests. For X-Plane 9 users, I added forest exclusion regions around the airfields, so the runways should be clear of XP9 trees.

I also recommend this mini-update for XP8.x users, because I've worked on the forests too.
You'll find the update on the download page.

Work will go on

I started to flatten the terrain around the next 5 airfields:

• FM17 - Isoanala
• FM18 - Jangany
• FMMP - Ambongalava
• FMMW - Andriamena
• FMNB - Ankaizina

The problem with the flattening is, that the terrain is changed by this action. So I have to try to keep this changes in a very small range. Flattening rises the surrounding terrain until the runway doesn't float above it anymore.

For testing the changes, I use Propsman's great Landrover AP. With the landrover, I can easily drive slalom along the runway and over the runway edges.

Anyhow, it means much trial and error for me - and countless restarts of X-Plane.

Update Version 1.1 Released

Today, I released the version 1.1 of the Madagascar Bush Airfields. There are 5 new airfields:

 

FM05 - Ampanavoana

FM07 - Ankilivalo

FM09 - Berenty

FM13 - Fiadanana

FM16 - Isalo

 

But that's not all! There are many new objects, new forest definitions and animations.

Objects optimized

I went thru the whole objects library today and tried to optimize the file size. Therefor I removed doublesided surfaces that were not necessary, searched for hidden surfaces to delete and so on.

Finally I saved several hundred kilobytes. 

It seems that the export scripts of Blender are more efficient than the plugin for AC3D. I was able to save about the half file size of some objects. The only case, where I kept the AC3D objects were objects with animation and objects where I had to use ATTR_no_blend (for example: trees objects).

All in all the whole package decreased in file size, so it's time to fill the gap with new additional objects. ;-)

Briefing page added

Today, I added the "Briefing" page to this website. You'll find some missions there.

New hangars

Yesterday, Bob Feaver sent me some hangar objects. I've already placed some of them in the scenery.  Thanks Bob!