Lake Scenery....Help!!!

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Spranget

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Ok, for those of you with great travels in FS, does anybody know of any lake scenery (default or otherwise) that depicts the proper populization around it. An example would be Lake Travis in Texas. Although the lake appears to be very accurate, there is little to no homes, marinas or otherwise around it. I am looking for a lake scenery, prefferably a large well known lake in the U.S. (not great lake), that the scenery is acurrately depicted around it. Maybe a resort style area? Any ideas? Maybe a vacation area etc.??? Maybe something someone has put together for themselves using EZ scenery or RWY12 that someone would like to share? I'm desperate here!!! Please let me know.

What would be really cool..... Is a program where one could highlight specific areas and populate them with homes, business districts, large buildings, marinas etc. without having to drop every item individually. If I were computer saavy or had the time, I might give it a shot. Alas, work and family gets in the way again!!! Oh well.... Here's to dreaming! :ernae:
 
I don't know of anything that quite matches just what you're looking for, but if you have the USA Landclass Project by FSGenesis, that helps a lot. It just uses stock generic buildings and such, but in places where people wrote in with corrections for the stock landclass, FSG made he changes and at least you get some buildings in the built up areas, and no buildings or roads where there shouldn't be any.

FSG is gone now, but I know they released their terrain mesh as freeware, so maybe they did the same with the Landclass Project. Check the big download sites, AVsim and FlightSim.

You could do the same sort of thing for the lake of your choice with a program like EZ Landclass. It wouldn't be as good as you could do with a real scenery building program, but it would be a big improvement over the stock lake.

Now that I think about it, I do recall something similar to what you're seeking. I recall that someone did a very nice Lake George, New York scenery for FS2002 that works in FS9, but I had to delete it when I installed corrected waters and shorelines; it was made for the stock scenery and corrected shorelines left all the scenery items in the wrong place in relation to the water. I think the same person did some other upper New York state lakes, too.

Also, for FS9, check out Long Lake/Helms Seaplane Base, Long Lake, NY by Ed 'Geneer' Cox. I don't know if it's authentic (it might be) but authentic or not, it sure has the right look about it.
 
I know what you mean. For all the efforts of talented FS people the world is just a huge place. I can't imagine a global scenery software that could discriminate between a lake in the wilderness and one in a vacation area, populating one and not the other. It seems it will always be a matter of hand-made details mile after mile. Still, the results of that kind of work are beautiful.
 
Mick said:
I don't know of anything that quite matches just what you're looking for, but if you have the USA Landclass Project by FSGenesis, that helps a lot. It just uses stock generic buildings and such, but in places where people wrote in with corrections for the stock landclass, FSG made he changes and at least you get some buildings in the built up areas, and no buildings or roads where there shouldn't be any.

FSG is gone now, but I know they released their terrain mesh as freeware, so maybe they did the same with the Landclass Project. Check the big download sites, AVsim and FlightSim.
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I didn't know they were gone... in fact, by the looks of the email I got this morning, they are very much alive :wavey:.

The USA Landclass (and everything else) is on sale for the next three days -20% off - and the USA Landclass is free if you buy the FS9 mesh bundle ($49.95)
http://www.fsgenesis.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT

Rob
 
The only opne I have is for Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. Not totally accurate and if you have FSGenesis' 38-meter DEM mesh, some objects may look strange.

FS2004 Scenery--Smith Mountain Lake
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FS2004 Scenery--Smith Mountain Lake, with its two private seaports VA48 and 7VA7, has the most summer fresh water traffic in Virginia (VA). Another distinction besides a very popular vacation lake is American Electric Powers' hydro-electric dam. The dam facilities recycles the water, used by the hydro generators during the day, back up into the lake from the river and lake below. There has been several Virginia record fish caught on charter trips on the lake and it is considered to be the cleanest lake in the east. By R. Connolly.[/SIZE]

Caz
 
Thanks fellas. I have the FSG terrain mesh already and being that it's Christmas, money is too short to go and buy the landclass. However, I did not think of that and I will check out the New York lakes.

As far as a program, I was thinking of something that one could use, similar to RWY12, but instead of placing buildings, one would be placing invisible boundary markers. Once the markers are set on all perimeters of the area to be populated, one could choose from a library of autogen, business, residential, commercial, or large buildings as found in a city. It could be the same autogen as used in default FS. Not sure how to make such a program but it would be cool.
 
The lake that i sail in
is bare in fs9
i have played around trying to make it
somewhat inhabited
but im not that good at designing
H
 
Is this the sort of thing your looking for? If it is you can have it, but it is fictitious.
 
It's two big downloads over at Avsim and it's in Germany but you might, lots of AI and eyecandy - windsurfers, paddlewheeler, liner, sailboats and lots of aircraft, D0-24, Ju-52 float, Goose plus many structures around the shore. I enjoy it a lot

This fictional Water-Airport located at "Lake Forggensee" in the beautiful Allgaeu (Bavaria, South-Germany) near Schloss Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau is a very nice place to explore the Alps. All previously used FSE elements in version 1 have been replaced by EZ-Scenery objects, therefore no Payware AddOn is required. Enjoy!

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This AI-Package contains several pretty nice Airplanes: Grumman-Albatross HU16, Grumman-Goose G21, Dornier Do-24K, Junkers Ju-52 and a Bell-47G2 Helicopter on floats, performing "Touch and Goes" on Water-Runway 21 as well as various beautiful Boats/Ships and two good looking female windsurfer cruising back and force at the lake. All the attached Planes/Ships have been created by well known designers (see briefing). My part was just to prepare them for AI-Use where it was necesarry in order to work with the Forggensee Scenery V2 Part 1. There is some amazing traffic on the lake, have a look and have fun! [/FONT]

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srgalahad said:
I didn't know they [FSGenesis] were gone... in fact, by the looks of the email I got this morning, they are very much alive ... Rob
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Excellent news!!!

I know I read that FSGenesis had folder their tent. In fact, I think I read about it here at the Outhouse.

I'm really happy to find that the reports of their demise were greatly exaggerated!

(Or maybe they were gone and now they're back...???)

I fondly recall when they were developing the USA Landclass Project. They solicited user input, and I sent in several corrections of areas I'm familiar with here in Western Massachusetts and upstate New York. I was happy to have them disappear some suburban neighborhoods that MS put in wilderness areas in the Quabbin Reservoir reservation here in Western Mass., and in the "forever wild" part of Adirondack Park by Lake George NY.

There were a couple items I didn't mention because I thought they were much too small to ask for in such an enormous project. Well, someone else from in or near Easthampton must have also been writing in, because the corrections I didn't suggest got made anyway. One of them was so small as to add two little buildings at a particular intersection over on the rural side of town!
 
Terry said:
Is this the sort of thing your looking for? If it is you can have it, but it is fictitious.
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Terry, where is this? Although it is not exactly what I mean, I may be very interested! Let me know.
 
Transload also has a very nice Bush Outpost in Canada. It's on the shore of Quesnel Lake, 15 NM from CAX5 on a mag. heading of 84°. The outpost includes hangars with radio operated doors, along with several cabins. There's a windsock or two, but they're non-functional. If you want to gauge the wind, just check the smoke coming out of a few of the cabin chimneys. There's also a few other goodies scattered along the lake. You can get the scenery from our Scenery page, along with a couple of required texture pack down at the bottom. The d/l for the Bush Outpost is about halfway down the page.
 
I'll have to agree with Tom, the TVA Bush scenery is excellent offering from land to water action and helo action.
 
Thanks fellas again. That bush scenery looks good Tom. I will have to add that to the list. That willwork great for my Carenado 206 and my Maule!!!

Hey, as I was going through lakes in FS, I checked the Seattle area. I couldn't help but notice Lake Sammamish is above that area around it??? Not supposed to be like that and I am pretty sure it was not before I installed FSG terrain mesh for the northwest. I may have to remove that. It just does not look right. Any other ways to fix it?
 
Maule - yes. C206??? Not likely!:isadizzy: Both hard runways are only 2300' with trees WAY to close to both ends!

And as for the lake, it looks like most of the easter shore looks correct, but the ends and the western side are above ground.
 
I like Micheal Carr's "Hank's Place" which is located to the SE of Juneau AK near the Canadian border. Nice place for flying contraband in and out of. Nevermind the rangers at the station, for a round at the saloon they'll usually look the other way.
 
I think the best floatplane bases available with good scenery is Glacier Bay V.2. There are also a couple dozen third party addons for this area which makes the whole area really nice for short hops.
 
Spranget said:
Terry, where is this? Although it is not exactly what I mean, I may be very interested! Let me know.
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It's Woods Canyon lake in Az. It didn't dawn on me until after I posted it that I had UT running when I made it. If I turn off UT the lake is gone. So if you have UT let me know.
 
Terry said:
It's Woods Canyon lake in Az. It didn't dawn on me until after I posted it that I had UT running when I made it. If I turn off UT the lake is gone. So if you have UT let me know.
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I don't but thanks anyways. I will continue my search in default FS as there are many lakes and I am bound to find something. Lake Sammamish is a good example. It is a properly (although not very realistic) poulated lake area but is is also in a high population area. There must be more lakes in the U.S. that are populated in a similar way. Just need to find them. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone!
 
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