Brilliant tutorial, despite me being a Coventry City fan and it hurting to hear Villa Park mentioned so much! For my own reference I made a list of timestamps so I can get to the pertinent parts of the video in future: 2:04 - Install SDK 3:15 - Set Up Folders & update XML 10:00 - Shopping list & Tools installation 12:48 - Start Renderdoc & inject into Chrome 16:17 - Capture model into Renderdoc 18:36 - Launch Blender & enable addons 19:32 - Import model to Blender and remove unwanted geometry 24:53 - Export from Blender to gftf to PackageSources/modellib (create textures folder) 26:10 - Blender export settings 28:00 - Update XML to 1.1 style 29:35 - Open FS2020 & locate area with dev camera 30:28 - Open Project Editor in FS2020 31:05 - Build Package 31:14 - Open Scenery Editor 31:32 - Load scene into editor 32:06 - Remove existing model from scene using polygon - ctrl-click to add points 33:08 - Show properties for polygon - exclude all 33:45 - Add model object to scene 34:05 - Scale object to 48.5x 34:20 - Rotate & translate into place, uncheck 'snap to ground' to move on Y-axis 38:05 - Enable terraforming for polygon if needed 40:50 - Save Scenery to packasgesources/scene as shape & scene files 41:30 - Build Package again 42:15 - Close scenery editor (reverts to default model) 42:31 - Exit FS2020. locate files in project/packages & copy to Community folder 43:26 - Launch FS2020 to establish location of Community folder 45:41 - Observe results Thanks so much for this.
I'm re-working my notes on the process and I have the following corrections to the above = at 24.53 the folder to create is 'texture' NOT 'textures' (getting this wrong gives you an all white model in FS2020) and the file type is 'gltf', not 'gftf' (but that's just my bad typing). Looking at the comments, it appears that the output xml (at 28:00) no longer needs to be updated, as an update to the file export add-on for Blender has rectified this. (I haven't tested that myself yet)
2 days ago I started rebuilding the whole city I live in, with google maps 3d data , it is just so addicting and pretty incredible to have tools like this right now. Your video will help a lot of new peeps interested in injecting superdetailed and realistic data into the sim. Also, you didn't bake the textures or make any uv manipulation of your data, which is good if you don't want any degradation of the original 3d data.
Yeah I didn't want to delve too deeply into textures and blender functionality here. This is more of a "how to do the end to end" guide (which is still almost an hour!) I didn't want it to be a "how to blender tutorial" there are plenty of those on youtube that are way better than I could do :p
@@FlyingTheston Yeap, I figured. :P Sometimes keeping it simple is the best way to explain things. Something that everyone should know, is that when you export an almost raw, unfiltered/non manipulated 3d model like you did with it's original textures, you can get the best quality possible. All the video tutorials available on UA-cam have the process of baking as a "golden standard", when injecting google maps 3d data. But for smaller scale projects (like certain landmarks or buildings) i would definitely prefer the simplified process you showed in your video. For city chunks (as an example) with millions of vertices , the fastest way is to follow the uv mapping and baking process in Blender. It all depends on what you want to achieve.
@@JonAnderMB So the easiest way to do it is just capture regions of the city and then add them all together in blender. but i dont think this technique yields the best result. i think its better to take key buildings and then add them to the existing auto gen scenery to blend it all in together
@@FlyingTheston Ok, this is what I-m trying to do: I've created a main project "Mycity" and inside, I'm trying to generate multiple packages> one for each "key" building... however, after I move it to the community folder, I see no building replaced for what I edited... :( - Probably got to research a bit more....
when selecting vertices in edit mode, if you turn on "toggle x-ray" button to the left of the wireframe/textured mode buttons, then when you select the vertices it will select through the model instead of having to do multiple passes for each object.
FYI: if you select X-ray mode when you go into edit mode then you will select all of the vertices at one time. By default, you only select the ones you can see. :)
I really hope that people find a repository for things like this. Start putting them into packs that the community as a whole can start referencing and using. This was a great tutorial. Really surprised to see you only have 174 subscribers. I would bet with this video already at 26k views your going to be growing pretty quickly with cool content like this.
@@gregkendall3559This is a great community that has really grown with this new launch. Excited for what were going to see. Looking forward to some study sims'
indeed, i have noticed that many places that are missing in the game is because the satellite pictures in Bing have clouds in them, for example, most of my home city in Panama, Central America appears to be covered by clouds, so i guess the game doesnt know how to handle that, in contrast, google maps data of my country doesnt have any clouds covering anything.
Absolutely brilliant buddy, i spend 8 hours yesterday in blender, i managed to capture what i wanted and baked it like in other videos i watched but you have took me to the next step, god must have answered my prayers, this video is made by the people for the people, if google bring it down shame on them. at this strange time in the world everyone needs to give a bit of love even google lol. Thanks, can you do a video for night time also sometime when convenient and maybe lighting of the night seen. awesome video.
Thank you. Following your tutorial I managed to import Lisboa's Christ King monument landmark, replacing the odd skyscrapper, and replace the default unrealistic lisbon bridge with a Golden Gate model until there's something closer to the real bridge. The world is the limit.
@Rui Salgueiro estou a tentar criar o convento de Mafra, mas quando chego à parte no developer , no Inspector , faço o load tudo ok mas quando vou aos objects não aparece o meu objecto, onde será que falhei?
The reason why you have to select the verts (points) multiple times in Blender is because it only selects the visible verts. If you hit z on your keyboard it should go to wireframe mode, then if you select your verts again it should select them all in one go.
I finally got the hang of it, thanks to your excellent tutorial. I've been cranking out all the landmarks that make my small city recognizable from the air (which were missing or nothing like the real thing) at the rate of about one every 15 minutes. It's that moment in every simmer's experience when I can now spend more time tweaking than flying LOL. Thanks again for the effort.
To anyone encountering issues with render doc and import into blender: You need RD version 1.9 (not 1.10) that you can find here in the previous builds : renderdoc.org/builds You need Blender 2.83 (not 2.90) that you can find here : www.blender.org/download/lts/
The easiest way in Blender:- Select all (A) Go to Edit mode (TAB) Make sure X-ray is on (Box on a box, top right of screen) Select circle select tool (C) Hold down SHIFT and paint area you want to keep. Press Esc to exit circle select. Press Delete and pick vertices. Tab back to Object Mode and Export as usual.
That is really neat that you can see the stadium from all sides, not just the side that you used to grab it from Google Maps. Your plane's shadow on the stadium as you flew by was an added bonus!
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I can see some awkwardness between Google and Microsoft as everyone starts releasing mods like this.
@@letsseeif Actually google maps is way inferior to apple maps, not only does apple maps have more cities and suburbs modelled in even less popular places of the earth, their detail on these models are way higher. (there is currently one tool to do it, but the only issue is, is you need some files from osx to do it)
@@luciano_trivelli I know that, and I was comparing the detail of models ripped from google vs apple, meaning more people should have a look at apple maps if they are missing areas in their suburb.
Brilliant!! In FS9 and FSX I spent just as much time downloading and creating real world aircraft and liveries, re-modelling airports so all the gates were correct and building an actual real world airline schedule to improve the experience as I did flying. I can see this becoming my new obsession to build the areas a regularly fly with the right landmarks.
Incredible video mate. Got me so much further than the others and well paced. Snag I've hit is around min 32, I click myscene, load in editor and then when I search for my project in objects it returns nothing. Have I mislabelled something in the xmls? Pretty sure I've followed every step.
Make sure your path doesn't contain any diacritic (íáýščě). That's what fixed it for me. So just relocate the files before you try to load them in the sim.
When you want to delete all of the vertices when selected, go into wire frame view (top right where the view with textures was selected). In that view you can select and delete all vertices.
22:21 - if you see the object rendered it means the stuff you select will only apply to the stuff you can see, if you press the transparent option ( the sphere with the grid ) it makes it transparent and you can select whatever you want and delete it all.
As a Supporter of the Pride of the midlands, one of the first things I flew over was Villa park and was royally disappointed with the default version. Will definitely give this a try. I may also replace the the blue noses stadium with some random cow shed!! 🤣🤣
I'm downloading this video before it gets taken down. Hopefully it doesn't because this could help a lot of people. So much variety and life can be added to the game with this.
"it's about 1.3 gig in size and should take no longer than 5 minutes to download" *Me, with a crappy 1mbps DSL connection:* well hopefully it will be done by tomorrow morning. 😂😭
Thank you for turning my home teams Stadium from a brick wall into a proper exact image. The effort that was put into the original flight sim one was a disgrace 😂😂
Whew.... after watching this, I was both exhausted and exhilarated at same time. Really great tutorial. At root, it's really a quite simple process, but with a bazillion steps. But then I m really good at following step-by-step instructions. It inspires me to dig into the downtown area of my hometown in Indiana, which looks nothing like the real thing. Besides, it seems the nature of flight simmers is to enjoy tweaking as much, if not more sometimes, as flying. Thanks again for the the stupendous effort.
has anything changed from last update or something? I followed this tutorial to the T, and it is not loading my building in objects. It had actually worked for me before.
Tremendous tutorial. Long, yes, but necessary to be so for us block heads. Wonderful how you led us through on all details. Sure, being 74 and jelly-brained, I had to back up and retrace, but it's all there. Most tutorials rush through too fast for us old folks to follow. I could pause this and go back and recheck. Thank you very much, I learned quite a bit in that 48 minutes plus the time spent repeat watching. I shall more than likely return also. would like to see more from you. Me 'at's off to you.
I followed every step twice and when i search in scenery 31:52 my object doesn't show up. any idea why? (EDIT I FOUND OUT WHY, drag and highlight the object in blender before exporting it. Pressing a created the bug.)
I think I exported correctly out of Blender, I double checked my .xml files but still no luck, my object never appears in the object list. What else could I try?
As someone who grew up in the 70s and 80s about 1 mile from Villa park and wanting to learn about MSFS scenery this is perfect. All I need to do now is find a way of adding in the 'A' & 'V' floodlights that used to be there and could be seen when driving back from spaghetti junction on a winters evening :-)
Does not work for me :/ I have tried for 6 hours now. When trying to load it in the Editor even tho I can select and load it in the Project Editor. And it doesn't get found through the Object search.
I had the same problem! And now it's solved. When you edit your xml at this step with adding 1.1 version, delete the "/" after the 1.1. Now your model will be found :)
What a great tutorial, no you are not great with Blender but you learned enough to get Villa Park in and out. I would suggest taking more care of what angle you choose to grab it from google maps first, and as others have said, in Blender by changing your view to wireframe you will delete all polygons/vertices in your selection. This will make clearing up your imported model so much easier. But good on you mucka, never thought I would be proud of a Villan - well done mate. I am from the same area-ish but a Utd fan (well it was Utd or Wolves when I started going to games with my Dad some 55 years ago :))
From another commenter: I had the same problem! And now it's solved. When you edit your xml at this step with adding 1.1 version, delete the "/" after the 1.1. Now your model will be found :)
Thanks for combining all tutorials into one - a great help... Nvertheless I´m stuck at loading the scene in the editor. When I click Load in Editor my object wont show up in the scenery list. Any idea how to fix that? Thx in advance...
Paulo Costa There are two possible causes: 1. When you retyped the .XML file you left an extra ‘\’ in. 2. When you exported the Blender object you didn’t save it to the correct folders. The model should be in the ‘(myscene)model’ folder and the textures in the ‘texture’ folder one level up. If you can’t see your scene in the Objects list it’s because the program doesn’t know where to find it.
Thx for this nice video.. Sorry 28:00 i dont understand what i have to do...I stuck there, how you you set that box with the negative sing inside in line 2 ? and the follow-up line in line 3 ?
strange, followed the guide step by step but really can't find my "object" in the objects library as shown at 31:53. made it 4 times so far but still doesn't show out.
I have exactly the same issue. However, if I already move the scenery into the community folder, the model shows up under "objects" and I can place it. But then, I can save the project and scenery as many times I want, the model never shows up in the sim, only when I reload the project. As soon as I exit the project tool, it disappears and the default model reappears...
@@FlyingTheston Hi there, followed really strictly the tutorial, done it step by step all seems to be exactely as your tutorial, copied the package in the community folder but no joy ... building doesn't appear ! I done it 5 or 6 time so far .. no way to show the building.
Amazing tutorial this is fantastic work I’m so fascinated keep up the good work. If I may ask so this is only possible if google is in 3D mode because I tried to search some areas of interest but only show 2D top down view, will there be a work around ?
Wow! That‘s amazing....though I‘m stuck at 13:23 and onwards...your command prompt is completely empty, mine has „Windows 10 - Copyright“ and stuff in it and when I type in this specific console command to set the parameter it won‘t accept it. Further on, when I open Chrome there is no ID appearing, Cjrome just shows up normally. :( Do you have an idea what I did wrong? I would be glad if you could help me.
@@Orovcol just be sure not to have any google page opened ! made the same mistake ..then opened firefox to follow the guide and closed all the google windows ... blank screen + pid !
Thanks it worked out, but unfortunately my location is not covered by 3D Scenery and I can‘t import it. Maybe there is another possibility to import airport buildings into Blender....
Press Shift+s to go into wire mode, now when you select back vertices also get selected and it's much easier to delete all of the vertices at ones. Great video though. Might give this a go in the near future. Love blender and love msfs so.. should be fun
i hade the same issue just make sure that in /PackageSources/modelLib/"yourprojectname" there is an xml file and it's named the same as the other 2. If it isn't there you can just create one as he shows in the video.
I'm not getting the object either. I have the xml file in modelLib/"yourprojectnameModel"/ ... ie "yourprojectname.xml", but I'm not sure it is edited exactly right. Theston's notepad++ has some red dots look like a floating period before ie(
I figured it out my issue!!! YAY!! LoL. Assuming- like me, you entered the DOS commands in manually....? What I did wrong was when typing the "RENDERDOC" I actually manually entered "RENDERCOCK". Basically what my long explanation is saying is: if you entered the DOS strings manually.. double-check the typing within those DOS strings.
Well i''ve manage to follow every step, save, but when I load up the sim, my scenery doesn't show up. I've tried several times closely not to miss any step, witch I didn't but when I load the sim I can't see anything besides the autogenerated buildings... any help?
Make sure you close your project in flight sim, then reopen it, build the package, then open your scenery in the scenery editor otherwise your models won't get built and wont show up
@@FlyingTheston How do I reopen what I did? I can't find option to load it as it was saved, in the correct scale, coordinates, etc, etc... I always need to do everything from the beggining (not the blender part of course)
For all of you, having problems finding their object in the Objects-Window (Scenery): - Make sure, you have generated a GUID within Blender while Exporting the Model. MSFS -> Generate GUID! - Take the (SDK\Samples\SimpleScenery\PackageSources\modelLib\SampleMyBox\SampleMyBox.xml) as a template in your modLib folder and get the GUID from the file, generated by the exporter and paste it into the template file (SampleMyBox.xml) - Delete the generated XML file and rename the template file to your project name This worked for me! Good luck!
After several failed attempts I typed this all up in a Word document which is available to anyone who wants it. I then successfully completed all the steps but when I copied the folder into the Community folder in FS2020 my scenery doesn’t appear in the game. Anyone else had this problem?
Same here! Everything seemed fine, I saved the scenery in the editor, the files were there, but after copying them, it didn't show up. I have scenery from other creators in the same folder and they work just fine :/ Tips, anyone?
@@ias2423 Yeah, so for the steam version, you have to go to the game folder (you can just "browse local files" straight from steam) and then it's /In-game installation/Community
@@HiSpeedz I was using Blender 2.9, so I uninstalled it and downloaded Blender 2.83 and then tried again processing the RenderDoc capture in 2,83. Still nothing visible in the game. There's probably something blindingly obvious that we're doing wrong as other folk seem to get it to work. I wish I could figure out what it is!
Thank you so much for your How To Guide. It really helped me get started to understand more of MSFS SDK. Already tested with two buildings in Oslo. I really hope you can make more videos like this, perhaps how to renew an airport? Have a good one.
I cant get this to work, when importing to blender it says it's an invalid RDC file I did everything exactly as shown, any ideas? edit: after some googling I managed to get it to work. I used these specific versions of blender and renderdoc.. Blender 3.82 and renderdoc 1.6 (I think renderdoc was the culprit as the version I originally downloaded was V1.10 which was exporting the RCD file plus an extra folder with a lot of data in it)
@@doppelT_066 It seems to work right up until v1.10, so the latest working version seems to be v1.9. Grab the Portable versions so you don't have to install anything to try them out. To be fair, I think the plug-in is at fault, it needs updating for the latest version of RenderDoc.
@@memkiii thank you. I'll try that. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get my first custom scene into the sim. Import / export in Blender seems to work, the process of setting up a project in MSFS works, placing my objects in 3D works as descibed, i can inject (but with many error messages) and save everything, all files are in the community folder but when I fly where the new houses should be, nothing shows up. I'm pretty sure that there is something wrong in one of my XMLs. I'll try again with v1.9
This really is a fantastic tutorial. I have been trying to get this working for two weeks and have finally succeeded. Have now added about 10 sceneries successfully to MSFS. The secret is that you must follow Flying Theston's instructions to the letter! Some things I got wrong that may help others:- You must have a good image to import in to Blender. If not the scene will NOT appear in the objects list even though everything else is correct and Blender imported it! Don't forget to remove the '/' when updating xml to version 1.1. You build the package TWICE, immediately on opening the project in MSFS and again after positioning your scene and saving it. You must save it to the scenery folder, not the default folder that appears first when you click 'save'. Hope this helps.
Im wondering if im having issue you mentioned. But how in the world are you suppose to tell if you have a good enough image or not? Cause second time i tried this, thats what happened, got to add in the scenery, but doesnt show up in the objects/scenery list. Also what '/' are you referring to removing? i dont remember anything in the video about that.
@@cowboylightning7245 It is easy to miss in the video, but after you have exported from blender & depending on what version of the export addon you are using, the xml in modelLib has to be updated to version 1.1. When you do this there is a '/' at the end of the line containing the guid that has to be removed. There are examples of how the xml should look like in other peeps comments. All of the rdc files that work for me are between 40 and 50 Mb, if that helps.
i figured out what happened. that last xml you edited when you changed it to 1.1 and you went to that last line and took out the / i didnt catch that. once i did the same it fixed everything
Ok, Sorted now.There is no character to be placed there. I had a problem with it not showing in the sim but it was due to me not updating the xml version correctly to 1.1.
i seemed to do everything right but when i tried importing it into msfs it wouldnt do anything. Something is wrong with the file i think. Also, i never saw the Package, and the PackageInt folder, have i done something wrong?
This is all very complex, but I appreciate your very detailed and patient explanation which turn this video into a very good tutorial. I can not wait to start doing some work of my own. Thanks.
I was able to make a stadium in my city, now I feel like adding more objects... Does every object have to be made separately, like in the video above, or is there a way to create a "landmark package"?
This is really hilarious. For a game that was praised to have everything included especially with regard to scenery and now Google data is being imported to replace MS Bing data. hahaha.
This is quiet literally how ORBX makes its content except they use another software called "Spear". Not allowed to get into much detail but its a better flushed out version of the SDK. They have been using google maps for years so I doubt youll get in trouble. This is the biggest secret Microsoft and Orbx doesnt want you to know
erm They manualy make buildings and do alot of their own photography. Go looks at airports that have zero building available like ORBX popham then come back
@@Battl3field ORBX scout team uses a combination of Google maps, photos and/or hand drawn data (when the previous methods are not viable or needs additional touch up). The method they use to create the content is literally the same, just a different software. Also, Ive seen ORBX work craft first hand, in development, in the flesh.... 😉 While youre not wrong in some ways, bigger cities (like London City) already have tons or reference photos, eliminating the need to do it in person. There are websites that even provide FREE stock footage. By using google, they most likely reduced their workload by 50% (which is only a good thing). What this guy was able to do in this video, can be done in 10 mins and at higher quality, as they are more experienced and have a QC team
Excellent tutorial, just what I was looking for. Since bing maps has somewhat dated scans of the earth, where I live a few notable VFR checkpoints are not there. Apple Park to name one, so kudos to your and your mates!
It's brilliant, bling is good from a distance i flew over my house wasn't quite the same but the road was kind of accurate, this is a good idea but quite a bit of work for a chunk of scenery.
I just worked out you can take out all land around the object you want on blender just leaving the buildings you want by firstly in object mode click a square near the building so it's orange then put it into edit mode click on one of the points in the black wire and then press delete key and then choose delete vertices that way you can delete right up close to the building taking away a more refined area leaving the building intact takes a while but wouldn't have to mess with blending in carparks etc
Yes, in blender you can toggle X-Ray mode when in Edit mode to select all points (even those behind other points). I forgot how to do it in the video though :D
cost in hours vs benefit seems quite high, especially for anyone who has never used blender, next time I'm really bored and have a day or two to spare :) I used to make scenery objects in SketchUp for FSX, and I thought that was time consuming. Thanks for outlining all the steps in any regard. A nice resource.
Brilliant mate - a Villa fan living in New Zealand - I just had to try and see if I could do this - took me a while but I got there eventually! Thanks for the great video
To select all vertecies you can press the button on the upper right side where the shading optionds are (so also the verrcies behind tje other ones and the ones which are facing a other direction will be selected. Since this is a very complex model/scan with thousands of poligons, din't you have any problems with rendering?
Well I have to say it's took a real Brummy to do this sort of thing. I downloaded and installed all your files from flightsim.to and I am totally blown away by your work. I thought I would like to have a go at this myself but after seeing this tutorial I realized it was way over my head. I used to dabble with the old X-Plane World Editor but this is just another level. I am in ore of your skills and well done doesn't begin to cover it. Thank you for making our UK experience even better than Microsoft. I think that they are very American orientated but that's another story. I have left a message in the website with a request for Tamworth and Lichfield to be created as there are some interesting buildings in and castles in both towns. I would love to hear from you to see if that is possible. Having just downloaded the new Airbus H135 Helicopter it's made the site seeing so much better as I am a VFR pilot. Again another huge strike for the developers and Microsoft should sit up and take notice of the UK flight community. Thank you again and keep up the great work!!
Great lesson thank you very much. Am having a go at this. Noticed a few Wind Turbines that should not be there. How can I remove/delete these? Using a polygon around them does not seems to work unlike 3D buildings. cheers
exclusion rectangles and polygons did not seem to remove wind turbines in SDK version 0.5.3, but the latest sdk is now out 0.6.0 and maybe its fixed in there?
What a brilliant tutorial, don't think any West Brom fans will like this hahaha. Thank you for all that knowledge, I'm going to do the Emirates Stadium.
@@notlegal99 would de almost impossible, think of all the space the Google data would take up on your pc, you could stream it but then they guy would have to host it all on his own server assuming Google doesn't shut down the op that would be difficult. Other option would Abe a deal with Google but that seems unlikely too
Thank you very much, for sharing your knowledge with us. Best explanation for using this tools. Very helpful. Stay healthy and have a nice christmas. Greetings from Germany
Thank you Theston, took me a couple tries (no fault of yours video's are great) and I got it finally. So thanks again for this video and your other tutorials.
Great tutorial man! I've added the beautiful Moses Mabidha 2010 FIFA World Cup stadium to the sim & it looks incredible! Question though, do i create a NEW project/system directory for each new stadium i want to render? Because I have no issues creating the first one, but as soon as I create a new one using a subdirectory things go completely wrong and my previous stadium shows up, but with the MSFS generated building underneath it!? Thanks for any/all help!
Brilliant tutorial, despite me being a Coventry City fan and it hurting to hear Villa Park mentioned so much!
For my own reference I made a list of timestamps so I can get to the pertinent parts of the video in future:
2:04 - Install SDK
3:15 - Set Up Folders & update XML
10:00 - Shopping list & Tools installation
12:48 - Start Renderdoc & inject into Chrome
16:17 - Capture model into Renderdoc
18:36 - Launch Blender & enable addons
19:32 - Import model to Blender and remove unwanted geometry
24:53 - Export from Blender to gftf to PackageSources/modellib (create textures folder)
26:10 - Blender export settings
28:00 - Update XML to 1.1 style
29:35 - Open FS2020 & locate area with dev camera
30:28 - Open Project Editor in FS2020
31:05 - Build Package
31:14 - Open Scenery Editor
31:32 - Load scene into editor
32:06 - Remove existing model from scene using polygon - ctrl-click to add points
33:08 - Show properties for polygon - exclude all
33:45 - Add model object to scene
34:05 - Scale object to 48.5x
34:20 - Rotate & translate into place, uncheck 'snap to ground' to move on Y-axis
38:05 - Enable terraforming for polygon if needed
40:50 - Save Scenery to packasgesources/scene as shape & scene files
41:30 - Build Package again
42:15 - Close scenery editor (reverts to default model)
42:31 - Exit FS2020. locate files in project/packages & copy to Community folder
43:26 - Launch FS2020 to establish location of Community folder
45:41 - Observe results
Thanks so much for this.
I thought that I detected a brummie accent.
Thanks for the time stamps i'll add them to the description!
pmsl up the Villa.. still remember the day at Villa park, when we sent you down .. 3.2
I'm re-working my notes on the process and I have the following corrections to the above = at 24.53 the folder to create is 'texture' NOT 'textures' (getting this wrong gives you an all white model in FS2020) and the file type is 'gltf', not 'gftf' (but that's just my bad typing).
Looking at the comments, it appears that the output xml (at 28:00) no longer needs to be updated, as an update to the file export add-on for Blender has rectified this. (I haven't tested that myself yet)
The fact that it’s not that difficult to do this is amazing. Can’t wait for what the community will make in a few months.
Its almost as if it was designed to do this ;) Not that MS are endorsing said actions.
Not that difficult? I was just thinking this looked near impossible for me to be able to do it.
wdym, its wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too difficult, i guess they don't know what 'easy' means
@@zino_ actually it got way easier now, someone made a mod that does most of this automatically
@@JAYZ999 the same idiot also doesn't know how to explain
2 days ago I started rebuilding the whole city I live in, with google maps 3d data , it is just so addicting and pretty incredible to have tools like this right now. Your video will help a lot of new peeps interested in injecting superdetailed and realistic data into the sim. Also, you didn't bake the textures or make any uv manipulation of your data, which is good if you don't want any degradation of the original 3d data.
Yeah I didn't want to delve too deeply into textures and blender functionality here. This is more of a "how to do the end to end" guide (which is still almost an hour!) I didn't want it to be a "how to blender tutorial" there are plenty of those on youtube that are way better than I could do :p
@@FlyingTheston Yeap, I figured. :P Sometimes keeping it simple is the best way to explain things. Something that everyone should know, is that when you export an almost raw, unfiltered/non manipulated 3d model like you did with it's original textures, you can get the best quality possible. All the video tutorials available on UA-cam have the process of baking as a "golden standard", when injecting google maps 3d data. But for smaller scale projects (like certain landmarks or buildings) i would definitely prefer the simplified process you showed in your video. For city chunks (as an example) with millions of vertices , the fastest way is to follow the uv mapping and baking process in Blender. It all depends on what you want to achieve.
How do you guys do an entire city? Capture parts of it and then merge in blender?
@@JonAnderMB So the easiest way to do it is just capture regions of the city and then add them all together in blender. but i dont think this technique yields the best result. i think its better to take key buildings and then add them to the existing auto gen scenery to blend it all in together
@@FlyingTheston Ok, this is what I-m trying to do: I've created a main project "Mycity" and inside, I'm trying to generate multiple packages> one for each "key" building... however, after I move it to the community folder, I see no building replaced for what I edited... :( - Probably got to research a bit more....
Great tutorial. Good drinking game - take a shot every time "Villa Park" is said!
ie edfe ite
when selecting vertices in edit mode, if you turn on "toggle x-ray" button to the left of the wireframe/textured mode buttons, then when you select the vertices it will select through the model instead of having to do multiple passes for each object.
I was thinking exactly the same thing!!
FYI: if you select X-ray mode when you go into edit mode then you will select all of the vertices at one time. By default, you only select the ones you can see. :)
@@fastbackseventyseven3553 Ditto :)
I really hope that people find a repository for things like this. Start putting them into packs that the community as a whole can start referencing and using.
This was a great tutorial. Really surprised to see you only have 174 subscribers. I would bet with this video already at 26k views your going to be growing pretty quickly with cool content like this.
2.6K a month later
Use a community Git.
@@gregkendall3559This is a great community that has really grown with this new launch. Excited for what were going to see. Looking forward to some study sims'
Bing maps just need to up their map game. Time for new world scans.
indeed, i have noticed that many places that are missing in the game is because the satellite pictures in Bing have clouds in them, for example, most of my home city in Panama, Central America appears to be covered by clouds, so i guess the game doesnt know how to handle that, in contrast, google maps data of my country doesnt have any clouds covering anything.
@@LyricsFred bing maps has maybe a hundred highly detailed cities, (or more, maybe less idk) but generally otherwise it looks worse than gmaps
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j yes but the more detailed cities have old imagery, Google has more recent stuff.
fax yo
yea it seems like the maps are from 2014-2016
Absolutely brilliant buddy, i spend 8 hours yesterday in blender, i managed to capture what i wanted and baked it like in other videos i watched but you have took me to the next step, god must have answered my prayers, this video is made by the people for the people, if google bring it down shame on them. at this strange time in the world everyone needs to give a bit of love even google lol. Thanks, can you do a video for night time also sometime when convenient and maybe lighting of the night seen. awesome video.
this makes the game to the next level even after already a masterpiece !
What a tutorial ! This can change everything for the MSFS Community and for the future of MSFS. Thank you very much ! David
Thank you. Following your tutorial I managed to import Lisboa's Christ King monument landmark, replacing the odd skyscrapper, and replace the default unrealistic lisbon bridge with a Golden Gate model until there's something closer to the real bridge. The world is the limit.
E o link para descarregar isso !?? :)
@@ruisalgueiro1641 Vou criar uma conta no github e depois aviso aqui.
@Rui Salgueiro estou a tentar criar o convento de Mafra, mas quando chego à parte no developer , no Inspector , faço o load tudo ok mas quando vou aos objects não aparece o meu objecto, onde será que falhei?
www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/lisbon
The reason why you have to select the verts (points) multiple times in Blender is because it only selects the visible verts. If you hit z on your keyboard it should go to wireframe mode, then if you select your verts again it should select them all in one go.
thanks! Great tip
I finally got the hang of it, thanks to your excellent tutorial. I've been cranking out all the landmarks that make my small city recognizable from the air (which were missing or nothing like the real thing) at the rate of about one every 15 minutes. It's that moment in every simmer's experience when I can now spend more time tweaking than flying LOL. Thanks again for the effort.
To anyone encountering issues with render doc and import into blender:
You need RD version 1.9 (not 1.10) that you can find here in the previous builds : renderdoc.org/builds
You need Blender 2.83 (not 2.90) that you can find here : www.blender.org/download/lts/
Thank you! this do indeed make it work :)
still not working....cant import the data?i have no clue, this isnt easy at all
I watched this entire video even though it’s something that I will literally never do. Great work!
you like literally could have left "literally" out of this sentence.
The easiest way in Blender:- Select all (A) Go to Edit mode (TAB) Make sure X-ray is on (Box on a box, top right of screen) Select circle select tool (C) Hold down SHIFT and paint area you want to keep. Press Esc to exit circle select. Press Delete and pick vertices. Tab back to Object Mode and Export as usual.
this is exactly what I was looking for!!! Thank you! making a Lisbon City addon. :)
That is really neat that you can see the stadium from all sides, not just the side that you used to grab it from Google Maps. Your plane's shadow on the stadium as you flew by was an added bonus!
I can see some awkwardness between Google and Microsoft as everyone starts releasing mods like this.
This is the FltSim2020 as it should be. Using Google Maps instead of the inferior Bing (crap maps). But, sadly, will it ever happen?
@@letsseeif Actually google maps is way inferior to apple maps, not only does apple maps have more cities and suburbs modelled in even less popular places of the earth, their detail on these models are way higher. (there is currently one tool to do it, but the only issue is, is you need some files from osx to do it)
This is the reason why Tahiti Bora Bora look like crap in this sim
@@NibblyBitz but we are talking about bing maps, not apple maps
@@luciano_trivelli I know that, and I was comparing the detail of models ripped from google vs apple, meaning more people should have a look at apple maps if they are missing areas in their suburb.
Brilliant!! In FS9 and FSX I spent just as much time downloading and creating real world aircraft and liveries, re-modelling airports so all the gates were correct and building an actual real world airline schedule to improve the experience as I did flying. I can see this becoming my new obsession to build the areas a regularly fly with the right landmarks.
Incredible video mate. Got me so much further than the others and well paced. Snag I've hit is around min 32, I click myscene, load in editor and then when I search for my project in objects it returns nothing. Have I mislabelled something in the xmls? Pretty sure I've followed every step.
same please reply if you fix it
Make sure your path doesn't contain any diacritic (íáýščě). That's what fixed it for me. So just relocate the files before you try to load them in the sim.
@David - Did you come right?
Exactly the same problem, cannot figure out whats going wrong here.
@@sirluke94 I had the same problem, make sure you update the xml file:
What an excellent guide. Last night I added the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium during construction into the game, and tonight I have added Glastonbury Tor.
When you want to delete all of the vertices when selected, go into wire frame view (top right where the view with textures was selected). In that view you can select and delete all vertices.
or turn on x-ray mode
@@mikeha
^^ Yup!
How can I turn on/off the x-ray mode?
22:21 - if you see the object rendered it means the stuff you select will only apply to the stuff you can see, if you press the transparent option ( the sphere with the grid ) it makes it transparent and you can select whatever you want and delete it all.
Hi,
i can't see my scenery when i search it in the objects window of the scenery editor.
What's wrong?
Many thanks
Me neither
As a Supporter of the Pride of the midlands, one of the first things I flew over was Villa park and was royally disappointed with the default version. Will definitely give this a try. I may also replace the the blue noses stadium with some random cow shed!! 🤣🤣
I'm downloading this video before it gets taken down. Hopefully it doesn't because this could help a lot of people. So much variety and life can be added to the game with this.
i just did the same thing lol
@@davidfishlock1968 AND ME!!
wont get taken down -.-
DarthZackTheFirst How do you know it won’t? Technically it goes against Google’s policy. Using the Google Maps assets, I mean.
for private use too? thought thats for commercial use.
Thank you. The fact that my house was not included was a super big disappointment in Flight Simulator. Now, I can add my house in all its glory!!!
"it's about 1.3 gig in size and should take no longer than 5 minutes to download"
*Me, with a crappy 1mbps DSL connection:* well hopefully it will be done by tomorrow morning. 😂😭
So how did you download FS in the first place?
the 90s called and wanted their modem back. Dude! anything less than 100mbps is crap these days. I'm surprised you can even watch youtube.
bushpilot223 you’re in australia eh? 😛
Ah yes, you must be a time traveler. How is the 90's?
@@MrFelixify 30mbps is average and less than 100 mbps isnt that crap
Thank you for turning my home teams Stadium from a brick wall into a proper exact image. The effort that was put into the original flight sim one was a disgrace 😂😂
"please don't hurt me" haha... google b angry
Whew.... after watching this, I was both exhausted and exhilarated at same time. Really great tutorial. At root, it's really a quite simple process, but with a bazillion steps. But then I
m really good at following step-by-step instructions. It inspires me to dig into the downtown area of my hometown in Indiana, which looks nothing like the real thing. Besides, it seems the nature of flight simmers is to enjoy tweaking as much, if not more sometimes, as flying. Thanks again for the the stupendous effort.
has anything changed from last update or something? I followed this tutorial to the T, and it is not loading my building in objects. It had actually worked for me before.
Same here, suddenly doesn’t work anymore.
@@ansi23bvb same here
I can't get this to work either. HELP!!!
I found it was that some of my textures were not square, and that they were not a power of 2 , e.g. 8x8, 16x16, 32x32, 64x64, 128x128 etc
Tremendous tutorial. Long, yes, but necessary to be so for us block heads. Wonderful how you led us through on all details. Sure, being 74 and jelly-brained, I had to back up and retrace, but it's all there. Most tutorials rush through too fast for us old folks to follow. I could pause this and go back and recheck. Thank you very much, I learned quite a bit in that 48 minutes plus the time spent repeat watching. I shall more than likely return also. would like to see more from you. Me 'at's off to you.
I followed every step twice and when i search in scenery 31:52 my object doesn't show up. any idea why? (EDIT I FOUND OUT WHY, drag and highlight the object in blender before exporting it. Pressing a created the bug.)
I think I exported correctly out of Blender, I double checked my .xml files but still no luck, my object never appears in the object list. What else could I try?
@@XYQW7 same on me
@@XYQW7 Hi, i am having the same problem. Can you please tell me how did you solve? Thanks
I have the same issue
As someone who grew up in the 70s and 80s about 1 mile from Villa park and wanting to learn about MSFS scenery this is perfect. All I need to do now is find a way of adding in the 'A' & 'V' floodlights that used to be there and could be seen when driving back from spaghetti junction on a winters evening :-)
0:52 "Google, please don't hurt me." hahaha
You lost me at Hello!!!! But.....I will be watching this a gazillion times until I get it. Thanks!!
It’s a shame Bing maps doesn’t have the detail and fidelity as Google and we have to do this 😔
yeah truly it is ... such a disappointment :( hope somebody will import entire european cities from google maps soon
I think this is not legal. Google will catch on to this and chat with the MS lawyers.
Bing maps is like a dollar general version of Google maps.
stop complaining 🛑
@@GlennChambers MS has nothing to do with it right? We just do it and put it on a torrent site.
Perfect instructions, I already imported a sports arena in our capitol. Lots of steps, but simple and very easy to follow.
Does not work for me :/ I have tried for 6 hours now. When trying to load it in the Editor even tho I can select and load it in the Project Editor. And it doesn't get found through the Object search.
Per von Harke same here
I'm having the same issue
I fixed it. watch the video in the description and make sure you fill out the company name, package name etc when that pops out
I had the same problem! And now it's solved. When you edit your xml at this step with adding 1.1 version, delete the "/" after the 1.1. Now your model will be found :)
@@adriannapieralski9294 I missed that one when he deleted it in the video. It works now. Thank you very much!
Many, many thanks for this video, I'd never have been able to import Google scenery without it. Much appreciated.
Absolutely fascinatiing but way to complicated for my little brain.
Same here xd
I don't even get what it's all about...?!
I'm sure people will put them on a flight sim site
What a great tutorial, no you are not great with Blender but you learned enough to get Villa Park in and out. I would suggest taking more care of what angle you choose to grab it from google maps first, and as others have said, in Blender by changing your view to wireframe you will delete all polygons/vertices in your selection. This will make clearing up your imported model so much easier. But good on you mucka, never thought I would be proud of a Villan - well done mate. I am from the same area-ish but a Utd fan (well it was Utd or Wolves when I started going to games with my Dad some 55 years ago :))
Please help i done ever thing step by step and when i search for my file in the objects window nothing shows up
From another commenter:
I had the same problem! And now it's solved. When you edit your xml at this step with adding 1.1 version, delete the "/" after the 1.1. Now your model will be found :)
@@ethanvonwald doesn't work
watched this vid at least 10x and so glad to be able to edit the scenery. Super simple for sure. Thanks!
Thanks for combining all tutorials into one - a great help... Nvertheless I´m stuck at loading the scene in the editor. When I click Load in Editor my object wont show up in the scenery list. Any idea how to fix that? Thx in advance...
Same here... any fixes anyone?
Schnifi I had this problem and solved it. If I remember correctly it was down to a mistype somewhere.
@@andrewmorton9327 Same problem here how did you solve?
Paulo Costa There are two possible causes:
1. When you retyped the .XML file you left an extra ‘\’ in.
2. When you exported the Blender object you didn’t save it to the correct folders. The model should be in the ‘(myscene)model’ folder and the textures in the ‘texture’ folder one level up. If you can’t see your scene in the Objects list it’s because the program doesn’t know where to find it.
@@andrewmorton9327 Thanks for the help
Thx for this nice video.. Sorry 28:00 i dont understand what i have to do...I stuck there, how you you set that box with the negative sing inside in line 2 ? and the follow-up line in line 3 ?
You don't have to do any of that if you're on the latest version of Blender2MSFS
strange, followed the guide step by step but really can't find my "object" in the objects library as shown at 31:53. made it 4 times so far but still doesn't show out.
you need to build your project and check the console for errors, make sure your xml file is correct too
I have exactly the same issue. However, if I already move the scenery into the community folder, the model shows up under "objects" and I can place it. But then, I can save the project and scenery as many times I want, the model never shows up in the sim, only when I reload the project. As soon as I exit the project tool, it disappears and the default model reappears...
@@FlyingTheston Hi there, followed really strictly the tutorial, done it step by step all seems to be exactely as your tutorial, copied the package in the community folder but no joy ... building doesn't appear ! I done it 5 or 6 time so far .. no way to show the building.
Amazing tutorial this is fantastic work I’m so fascinated keep up the good work. If I may ask so this is only possible if google is in 3D mode because I tried to search some areas of interest but only show 2D top down view, will there be a work around ?
Wow! That‘s amazing....though I‘m stuck at 13:23 and onwards...your command prompt is completely empty, mine has „Windows 10 - Copyright“ and stuff in it and when I type in this specific console command to set the parameter it won‘t accept it. Further on, when I open Chrome there is no ID appearing, Cjrome just shows up normally. :(
Do you have an idea what I did wrong? I would be glad if you could help me.
you can get the white screen by closing all chrome windows beforehand.
Okay, thx. I‘ll try that.
@@FR0ZENxTUNA It won't work. :/
@@Orovcol just be sure not to have any google page opened ! made the same mistake ..then opened firefox to follow the guide and closed all the google windows ... blank screen + pid !
Thanks it worked out, but unfortunately my location is not covered by 3D Scenery and I can‘t import it. Maybe there is another possibility to import airport buildings into Blender....
Press Shift+s to go into wire mode, now when you select back vertices also get selected and it's much easier to delete all of the vertices at ones. Great video though. Might give this a go in the near future. Love blender and love msfs so.. should be fun
this will save everyone so much time. thank you
Doing EVERYTHING like in video - I have not my object in scenery edition - objects in MSFS.
Hello, i'm having the same problem. Can you please tell me how did you solve?
Many thanks
Hi, same here for me and can someone please help?
i hade the same issue just make sure that in /PackageSources/modelLib/"yourprojectname" there is an xml file and it's named the same as the other 2. If it isn't there you can just create one as he shows in the video.
I'm not getting the object either. I have the xml file in modelLib/"yourprojectnameModel"/ ... ie "yourprojectname.xml", but I'm not sure it is edited exactly right. Theston's notepad++ has some red dots look like a floating period before ie(
I figured it out my issue!!! YAY!! LoL. Assuming- like me, you entered the DOS commands in manually....? What I did wrong was when typing the "RENDERDOC" I actually manually entered "RENDERCOCK". Basically what my long explanation is saying is: if you entered the DOS strings manually.. double-check the typing within those DOS strings.
Well i''ve manage to follow every step, save, but when I load up the sim, my scenery doesn't show up. I've tried several times closely not to miss any step, witch I didn't but when I load the sim I can't see anything besides the autogenerated buildings... any help?
me too
Make sure you close your project in flight sim, then reopen it, build the package, then open your scenery in the scenery editor otherwise your models won't get built and wont show up
@@FlyingTheston thank you. I ended up getting it to work, i just don't remember what I did differently.
@@FlyingTheston How do I reopen what I did? I can't find option to load it as it was saved, in the correct scale, coordinates, etc, etc... I always need to do everything from the beggining (not the blender part of course)
@@SharksAreNicee I can't get it to work... it won't show nothing at all
This is an absolute gift to the community - many thanks for taking so much effort to put this together!
Pretty bloody brillant mate now crack on and start doing the world ;)
For all of you, having problems finding their object in the Objects-Window (Scenery):
- Make sure, you have generated a GUID within Blender while Exporting the Model. MSFS -> Generate GUID!
- Take the (SDK\Samples\SimpleScenery\PackageSources\modelLib\SampleMyBox\SampleMyBox.xml) as a template in your modLib folder and get the GUID from the file, generated by the exporter and paste it into the template file (SampleMyBox.xml)
- Delete the generated XML file and rename the template file to your project name
This worked for me! Good luck!
Happend to me. Can you explain in steps what to do. I'm a bit confused. Guid box has been tickled and still no object in base. Thx
@@kubisiemce same issue
@@kubisiemce Did you do the File copy from SDK and editing of the GUID within this file as described in my text?
After several failed attempts I typed this all up in a Word document which is available to anyone who wants it.
I then successfully completed all the steps but when I copied the folder into the Community folder in FS2020 my scenery doesn’t appear in the game. Anyone else had this problem?
Same here! Everything seemed fine, I saved the scenery in the editor, the files were there, but after copying them, it didn't show up. I have scenery from other creators in the same folder and they work just fine :/ Tips, anyone?
same for me
@@ias2423 Yeah, so for the steam version, you have to go to the game folder (you can just "browse local files" straight from steam) and then it's /In-game installation/Community
@@HiSpeedz I was using Blender 2.9, so I uninstalled it and downloaded Blender 2.83 and then tried again processing the RenderDoc capture in 2,83. Still nothing visible in the game.
There's probably something blindingly obvious that we're doing wrong as other folk seem to get it to work. I wish I could figure out what it is!
@@HiSpeedz still no luck, the only community folder that I could find was buried somewhere into //packages/.../ but still not working
Thank you so much for your How To Guide. It really helped me get started to understand more of MSFS SDK. Already tested with two buildings in Oslo. I really hope you can make more videos like this, perhaps how to renew an airport? Have a good one.
I cant get this to work, when importing to blender it says it's an invalid RDC file
I did everything exactly as shown, any ideas?
edit: after some googling I managed to get it to work. I used these specific versions of blender and renderdoc.. Blender 3.82 and renderdoc 1.6 (I think renderdoc was the culprit as the version I originally downloaded was V1.10 which was exporting the RCD file plus an extra folder with a lot of data in it)
Thank you... I'm having the same problem
@@MrMikejenlyons no problem, I finally got the Scenery I wanted into the sim (Edinburgh castle in Scotland)
@@chemicalBR0 thank you very much! I had the same problem and going to renderdoc 1.6 solved it 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@doppelT_066 It seems to work right up until v1.10, so the latest working version seems to be v1.9. Grab the Portable versions so you don't have to install anything to try them out. To be fair, I think the plug-in is at fault, it needs updating for the latest version of RenderDoc.
@@memkiii thank you. I'll try that.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get my first custom scene into the sim. Import / export in Blender seems to work, the process of setting up a project in MSFS works, placing my objects in 3D works as descibed, i can inject (but with many error messages) and save everything, all files are in the community folder but when I fly where the new houses should be, nothing shows up. I'm pretty sure that there is something wrong in one of my XMLs. I'll try again with v1.9
This really is a fantastic tutorial. I have been trying to get this working for two weeks and have finally succeeded. Have now added about 10 sceneries successfully to MSFS. The secret is that you must follow Flying Theston's instructions to the letter! Some things I got wrong that may help others:- You must have a good image to import in to Blender. If not the scene will NOT appear in the objects list even though everything else is correct and Blender imported it! Don't forget to remove the '/' when updating xml to version 1.1. You build the package TWICE, immediately on opening the project in MSFS and again after positioning your scene and saving it. You must save it to the scenery folder, not the default folder that appears first when you click 'save'. Hope this helps.
Im wondering if im having issue you mentioned. But how in the world are you suppose to tell if you have a good enough image or not? Cause second time i tried this, thats what happened, got to add in the scenery, but doesnt show up in the objects/scenery list. Also what '/' are you referring to removing? i dont remember anything in the video about that.
@@cowboylightning7245 It is easy to miss in the video, but after you have exported from blender & depending on what version of the export addon you are using, the xml in modelLib has to be updated to version 1.1. When you do this there is a '/' at the end of the line containing the guid that has to be removed. There are examples of how the xml should look like in other peeps comments. All of the rdc files that work for me are between 40 and 50 Mb, if that helps.
the objects aren't importing to the sim. I think i am configuring the xml wrong
If you use Blender2MSFS 0.36.0 or above then you don't need to edit the xml manually
From start to finish easily the best tutorial i have seen, very nice and well done
i figured out what happened. that last xml you edited when you changed it to 1.1 and you went to that last line and took out the / i didnt catch that. once i did the same it fixed everything
Whats the syntax between the " and the word encoding?
Ok, Sorted now.There is no character to be placed there. I had a problem with it not showing in the sim but it was due to me not updating the xml version correctly to 1.1.
i seemed to do everything right but when i tried importing it into msfs it wouldnt do anything. Something is wrong with the file i think. Also, i never saw the Package, and the PackageInt folder, have i done something wrong?
This is all very complex, but I appreciate your very detailed and patient explanation which turn this video into a very good tutorial. I can not wait to start doing some work of my own. Thanks.
quick tip : zoom out to 25% to get a higher quality
OGTEN in google chrome?
@@bjoerntiemann yes
I was able to make a stadium in my city, now I feel like adding more objects... Does every object have to be made separately, like in the video above, or is there a way to create a "landmark package"?
This is really hilarious. For a game that was praised to have everything included especially with regard to scenery and now Google data is being imported to replace MS Bing data. hahaha.
Brilliant walk through from start to finish. Making these videos takes a lot of time and patience. Thank you for sharing your expertise. :)
This is quiet literally how ORBX makes its content except they use another software called "Spear". Not allowed to get into much detail but its a better flushed out version of the SDK. They have been using google maps for years so I doubt youll get in trouble. This is the biggest secret Microsoft and Orbx doesnt want you to know
Exactly!!!!!
erm They manualy make buildings and do alot of their own photography. Go looks at airports that have zero building available like ORBX popham then come back
@@Battl3field ORBX scout team uses a combination of Google maps, photos and/or hand drawn data (when the previous methods are not viable or needs additional touch up). The method they use to create the content is literally the same, just a different software. Also, Ive seen ORBX work craft first hand, in development, in the flesh.... 😉
While youre not wrong in some ways, bigger cities (like London City) already have tons or reference photos, eliminating the need to do it in person. There are websites that even provide FREE stock footage. By using google, they most likely reduced their workload by 50% (which is only a good thing). What this guy was able to do in this video, can be done in 10 mins and at higher quality, as they are more experienced and have a QC team
@@JoeSmoe1 Sorry i should have read everything you typed
Excellent tutorial, just what
I was looking for. Since bing maps has somewhat dated scans of the earth, where I live a few notable VFR checkpoints are not there. Apple Park to name one, so kudos to your and your mates!
Can whole cites be inported ?
Is that a yes?
You need a lot of power a lot of power
It's brilliant, bling is good from a distance i flew over my house wasn't quite the same but the road was kind of accurate, this is a good idea but quite a bit of work for a chunk of scenery.
working a whole day on a scenery and no way to find it in the "objects" tab inside the scenery editor..
I can't find the object too
@@Sbinott0 Got the same problem...
@@Sbinott0 Any solution to this?
Mike Echo Hey Mike i am still searching for a solution 🤷♂️
I had the same issue, too. I was able to solve by removing the slash in the .xml file as seen at 28:20 in the video (end of 2nd line of code).
Bro, You are a legend. 100,000 views, every single on is well deserved.
Anyone want Worcester Scenery I've made
I just worked out you can take out all land around the object you want on blender just leaving the buildings you want by firstly in object mode click a square near the building so it's orange then put it into edit mode click on one of the points in the black wire and then press delete key and then choose delete vertices that way you can delete right up close to the building taking away a more refined area leaving the building intact takes a while but wouldn't have to mess with blending in carparks etc
Yes, in blender you can toggle X-Ray mode when in Edit mode to select all points (even those behind other points). I forgot how to do it in the video though :D
Maybe Google should just develop their own
or X Plane collaborating with Google? That would be awesome
@@edibakhtiarSuleiman Really awesome
@@edibakhtiarSuleiman I'm waiting patiently. Gonna get some cigars for when it happens
@@denziiey I sure hope that probabilty to become a reality...who knows right?
cost in hours vs benefit seems quite high, especially for anyone who has never used blender, next time I'm really bored and have a day or two to spare :) I used to make scenery objects in SketchUp for FSX, and I thought that was time consuming. Thanks for outlining all the steps in any regard. A nice resource.
My custom scenery does not appear in the object list, after building the package
Can anyone help out?
@@clifftonicstudios7469 Inside the MSFS right? Same problem here!!
@@juniorpasini9137 Yeah Ive done it all correctly
I can load the file in it just does not show in the scenery
@@juniorpasini9137 Did you solve it ?
Brilliant mate - a Villa fan living in New Zealand - I just had to try and see if I could do this - took me a while but I got there eventually! Thanks for the great video
you could have just downloaded it ;) :D flightsim.to/file/267/aston-villa-stadium-villa-park-and-surrounding-buildings
this is awesome but complicated af
To select all vertecies you can press the button on the upper right side where the shading optionds are (so also the verrcies behind tje other ones and the ones which are facing a other direction will be selected.
Since this is a very complex model/scan with thousands of poligons, din't you have any problems with rendering?
Lol google be downvotin! :p
Wel, they DID put it on my recommended list. hahaha
By the way, to all those who keep telling me multiple ways of selecting points in Blender.... I know you can use Xray mode :D
Well I have to say it's took a real Brummy to do this sort of thing. I downloaded and installed all your files from flightsim.to and I am totally blown away by your work. I thought I would like to have a go at this myself but after seeing this tutorial I realized it was way over my head. I used to dabble with the old X-Plane World Editor but this is just another level. I am in ore of your skills and well done doesn't begin to cover it. Thank you for making our UK experience even better than Microsoft. I think that they are very American orientated but that's another story. I have left a message in the website with a request for Tamworth and Lichfield to be created as there are some interesting buildings in and castles in both towns. I would love to hear from you to see if that is possible. Having just downloaded the new Airbus H135 Helicopter it's made the site seeing so much better as I am a VFR pilot. Again another huge strike for the developers and Microsoft should sit up and take notice of the UK flight community. Thank you again and keep up the great work!!
1.3gb in 5 mins?! you sir, are not australian.
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Great lesson thank you very much. Am having a go at this. Noticed a few Wind Turbines that should not be there. How can I remove/delete these? Using a polygon around them does not seems to work unlike 3D buildings. cheers
exclusion rectangles and polygons did not seem to remove wind turbines in SDK version 0.5.3, but the latest sdk is now out 0.6.0 and maybe its fixed in there?
I'm going to go ahead and admit that this is too hard for my old brain. I tried though.
WOOW! cool toturial . BUT CAN I ASK if i can use the exported assetes in my game without a license problems ?
What a shame Bing exists at all. Had it not they would have cut a deal with google for a much much better world.
MSFS would never exist either if that were the case.
No they wouldn't.
What a brilliant tutorial, don't think any West Brom fans will like this hahaha. Thank you for all that knowledge, I'm going to do the Emirates Stadium.
still waiting for a mod that uses google maps instead of bing maps
thatd make this the perfect sim
This will probably never happen
@@lisztdylan7846 some one should mod it
@@notlegal99 would de almost impossible, think of all the space the Google data would take up on your pc, you could stream it but then they guy would have to host it all on his own server assuming Google doesn't shut down the op that would be difficult. Other option would Abe a deal with Google but that seems unlikely too
@@lisztdylan7846 It will never happen. There is no chance.
Thank you very much, for sharing your knowledge with us. Best explanation for using this tools. Very helpful. Stay healthy and have a nice christmas. Greetings from Germany
The Fact im watching the video 3rd time,im sure there will be a voice when i sleep tomorrow who says VillaPaaarkk.Thanks for the video anyway,good job
Wonderful stuff! Do the imported models keep up during night time in regards to the streetlight?
Thank you Theston, took me a couple tries (no fault of yours video's are great) and I got it finally. So thanks again for this video and your other tutorials.
Very informative video! I have one question though. Can I use this method to import satelite data without photogrametric models?
hmm i'm not sure, probably not so easily
Great tutorial man! I've added the beautiful Moses Mabidha 2010 FIFA World Cup stadium to the sim & it looks incredible! Question though, do i create a NEW project/system directory for each new stadium i want to render?
Because I have no issues creating the first one, but as soon as I create a new one using a subdirectory things go completely wrong and my previous stadium shows up, but with the MSFS generated building underneath it!?
Thanks for any/all help!
Yes, each new building should be a new project, resulting eventually in a new package.