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    Beschreibung

    MSFS DarkStreets is a lightweight scenery package that enhances the night flying experience by excluding street lights outside of urban areas.

    If you want to help out with ideas, testing, contributions, or just hang out with a bunch of sim nerds, feel free to join the project Discord!
    https://discord.gg/aSgwX7VA

    Full Earth Coverage:
    AF - Africa
    AS - Asia (RU, KZ, Central and Eastern CN, MM, N Part of SE Asia, KR, KP, JP, TW)
    EU - Europe (EU, Eastern Europe, NW Middle East)
    ME - Middle East (SA, IR, AF, PK, YE, OM, AE, Central Asia, IN, NP, Western CN)
    NA - North America (US, CA, MX, Central America, Caribbean)
    OC - Oceania (S part of SE Asia, ID, PH, MY, PG, AU, NZ, Pacific islands)
    SA - South America

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    !IMPORTANT!
    2024 SU5 has improved the light exclusion polygons LOD issue. Unfortunately there's nothing I can do to make it the same as 2020. Tools like DynamicLOD can help if you have the computer to power through TLODs 600-800.


    Developed for the flightsim community using Claude.ai, Python, ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, mapshaper.org, and FOSS data sources including:
    Copernicus - Europe's eyes on Earth (GHSL - Global Human Settlement Layer)
    NASA Black Marble (VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite)
    NaturalEarth
    NightEarth.com (Reference only)

    Over 320,000 exclusion polygons were programmatically generated from the satellite data sources using different data manipulation and filtering techniques.

    Installation:
    1. Delete old versions of kiwikat-darkstreets
    2. Unzip and throw the 'kiwikat-darkstreets-XX' folders (containing ContentInfo, Scenery, json, etc.) into your sim's Community folder for each region you wish to use


    Special thanks to @ryanbatc and the testing team for their efforts and listening to me ramble on about the project!

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    timot75

    24 days ago

    hello nice work
    is there a way you can use the same script to fix AIRPORTS APRON NIGHT LIGHTING
    Add light poles to all major airport aprons like real life
    ramp/gate lighting: placing light poles where aircraft actually stop for parking
    this issue has already been reported since msfs2020 but was never fixed
    A solution I can think of here, is by assigning floodlight to every parking/gate layout in the airport. So all heavy and large parking stands are lit. It can also be set to a specific type of parking. For sample a Ramp GA Small wouldn’t have floodlights, but anything else would
    a solution would be to make a script file to add a floodlight object to every parking spot so that in can be easily applied as a batch to all AI-generated airports as the parking spot objects are pretty much standardised across all of it without updating them one by one. (at least for all major and medium airport or regional airport)
    tell me what you think about this project
    best regards
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    kiwikatAuthor

    16 days ago

    I actually did this for my personal sim already but there are some complications around configuring scenery on users' computers with how the current SDK tools are distributed. I may revisit it again in the future.
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    Westhawk

    about 1 month ago

    Fantastic mod. How did all the brains at Asobo believe that all the lit rural roads was realistic. Thanks for fixing their error.
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    ballingerfrance

    about 1 month ago

    Realistically, this is only compatible with FS2020 as FS2024's ongoing LOD problems compromise the usefulness of this utility. Great for FS2020 users though!
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    kiwikatAuthor

    about 1 month ago

    If you need it to be a perfect experience and you only fly airliners, I suppose that is fair. Otherwise it still works decently well in SU5. I am disappointed by what seems like a regression in SU5 prod patch. I am seeing issues that were not present in the beta. I posted some of my findings in the asobo dev forum- not sure there's much else I can do though.
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    about 1 month ago

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    qvwnMadness

    about 1 month ago

    Must have for me. Absolute great for night flights! Thank you so much!!
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    aniiran

    about 1 month ago

    Very nice, much more realistic looking at night!
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    jcoops

    about 1 month ago

    It looks good. The only issue is when I pan left or right, the lights are there and then I can see them disappear. Is there any way to get rid of them all around me and not just when I pan?
    Also I can still see them in the distant at FL300
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    kiwikatAuthor

    about 1 month ago

    What is your TLOD set at? Do you have a good computer? Two different things are happening here-

    I have only noticed the panning thing happening when my computer has been bogged down more than normal and the sim is loading scenery slower than normal. Otherwise it shouldn't happen, and isn't an issue with the mod per se.

    At FL300 though even with an external LOD tool bumped all the way to 800 you'll still see the lights pop out at the horizon. There's nothing I can do about that unfortunately- ask asobo to extend exclusion polygons farther than what they did in SU5. In addition, we're bumping into the baked in lights at that distance, and there's REALLY nothing I can do about that.
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    kiwikatAuthor

    about 1 month ago

    Doing some more research tonight- it can also pop in/out when you've been tabbed out of the sim for a while. It doesn't seem to load the exclusion polygons while you are tabbed out. I was working on a screenshot for a report for Asobo and I noticed when I came back into the sim, there were lights everywhere again until the scenery reloaded.
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    jcoops

    about 1 month ago

    I beleive I know what it is. I have off-screen Pre-Cache Terrain set to Medium. I need this set that way to mitigate the dreaded GPU VRAM popup. I have a 3080 and i9 10K but I also have a 4K screen. Worked fine in 2020 but in 2024 by VRAM is getting killed. I think if I set the pre-cache terrain to ultra it will reduce the pop when I pan.
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    GoneFlyin

    about 1 month ago

    Couple of new ones. Can I assume Ca is Canada? PAC is Pacific Islands? Au is Australia? Love this mod, thanks so much for the effort you put into this. I want to give you 5 stars but Im not given any option to give them. Why would they make it so difficult to show appreciation?
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    kiwikatAuthor

    about 1 month ago

    A picture above shows the different areas and how they are labeled. If you’re installing it as an update from the previous version make sure to delete the old folders first, do not simply do an overwrite.
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    GoneFlyin

    about 1 month ago

    Ah yea, when all else fails rtfm, lol. Thanks mate, happy landings.
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    Nekzuris

    about 1 month ago

    Is there any performance impact from installing every region?
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    survive0968

    about 2 months ago

    Looks phenomenal at night.
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    telliefly

    about 1 month ago

    would you say it definitely helps in SU5? what is your LOD set to?
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    kiwikatAuthor

    about 1 month ago

    They did nothing in SU5 to make this mod unnecessary, and actually improved the loading distance for the exclusion polygons. It still isn't perfect but it is way better than before SU5.
    MSFS 2020MSFS 2024

    MSFS DarkStreets

    MSFS DarkStreets is a scenery package designed to enhance night flying by removing street lights in non-urban areas across the world. Developed using various geographic information systems, this add-on focuses on programmatic generation of exclusion polygons, with additional support for user requests for improvements.

    Downloads9K
    Version1.0.0
    Dateigröße104.44 MB
    VeröffentlichtVor 4 Monaten
    AktualisiertVor 4 Monaten
    kiwikat

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    1 Addons • 35 Follower

    Nutzerbewertungen

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    More Information

    Simulator
    MSFS2020/24
    KategorieScenery Enhancements
    Sub-CategoryNight Lighting
    ICAONULL

    Versionsgeschichte

    1.0.0 - Full project rework! DarkStreets now covers the entire Earth with over 320,000 polygons. By utilizing satellite imagery products, precision has been increased and many of the accuracy issues with OSM and other data sources are eliminated. See description and screenshot for coverage details. DELETE ALL OLD DARKSTREETS FILES BEFORE INSTALLING!

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