This is a picturesque landscape located at the foothills of Snowdonia National Park in North Wales.
This scenery covers a large area including Caernarfon town, stretching as far as Llyn Padarn and Llanberis.
Optimized for performance and faster loading times
I have optimized this scenery by baking textures together creating a smaller texture count during loading and flight. For example, where a particular folder may have thousands of texture files, this can become very heavy on PC resources and performance. The more of these photoreal scenery there are, the longer the load times can be.
For this particular scenery, the original texture count of all folders is 20417 textures. After blending/baking the textures together, this has brough the texture count down to 1601 textures. You can imagine the significant improvement this will have on performance and load times!
Credit to Flightsim.to member Thalixte for creating the optimisation tool
https://www.reddit.com/r/FS2020Creation/comments/jhvhq0/new_optimisation_tool_for_google_earth_decoder/
Compatible with EGCK Caernarfon Aiport
This scenery works in perfect harmony with EGCK Caernarfon Aiport developed bt Flightsim.to members Skell300 & Superspud
Download airport here https://flightsim.to/file/3958/egck-caernarfon-with-custom-buildings
Installation
Please see attached instructions enclosed in the zip file
Known Issues
- Some flickering with water textures
- Terrain Terraforming issues where google photogrammetry joins the default scenery
- Water height issues
10 months ago
BritishDragon
Hi John, any chance you can update this at some point? Im not sure if's an Asobo POI or from Orbx Caernarfan airfield which I also have but the photogrammetry castle and POI clash together and the harbour bit next to them contains a lot of ugly photgrammetry blobs. Also, and I'm not sure what is causing it, there are some strange artifacts on the river as you fly over to the Caernarfan but which disappear when you get there. I'm guessing it's a clash either with the UK world update or Orbx's airport here?
I can see you haven't updated her for over a year so maybe that's why? I'd love to have it fully working as its a night and day improvement of the village overall.
2 years ago
Hey Kevin...
Yeah sure, this one has been on my radar for a remake...this was one of my first sceneries and has old tech and basic optimizations.. I'll churn out a V2 at some point this quarter
2 years ago
John_Lovell
KevinBrook
Truly breathtaking! amazing work!
3 years ago
Tanqueray10
really appreciate people doing this for us north walians how do you create photogrammetry yourself? say if i wanted to for llandudno to rhyl including colwyn bay old colwyn etc etc?
3 years ago
luckydayz89
Wonderful visuals and great performance down to 800ft which is really about the best altitude for a sightseeing trip. The best scenery I've seen so far!. Nothing more to say, so here's a short video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0_k8IJsHiE System: Intel i5, Geforce RTX2060 Super.
3 years ago
PaulHolmes
3 years ago
krisfire
Looking forward to the re works of this and Weymouth.
3 years ago
3 years ago
John_Lovell
rivereveal
I easily manage 30 in daylight, but dusk and dawn my GPU hits 99 and FPS tanks...to mid 20s. At night it hits 95 percent and 27 fps
But....VERY nice although currently may be removed until I upgrade from my 1080 to a 3080 !
FUN FACT... the water by the docks and castle when in the Icon, are like walls .... at least they stop you !
3 years ago
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John_Lovell
Gabe777
3 years ago
transbaconist
3 years ago
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John_Lovell
dredward
3 years ago
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John_Lovell
ryanfoulkes
3 years ago
RGolbourn
4 years ago
coltsr2
4 years ago
FrontSideBus
4 years ago
Wynthorpe