The Victoria falls bridge is located just below the spectacular Victoria water falls in the Zambezi River linking Zimbabwe and Zambia. The steel bridge was completed in 1905 and spans the 200m wide and 128 m wide gorge just below the 1708 m wide falls. This area seems to be a bit neglected in the sim so I decided to spruce it up a little by adding the waterfalls and making some changes to the surface to try to show the waterfall.
This is my first attempt of doing something like this for MSFS. I used polygons to create the gorge but it does not produce nice strait lines. I could also not find a way of creating a nice effect showing falling water, so there is a lot of room for improvement.
BAW9DV
Hello and thank you for doing this Mod! I did a review of the Falls in the default scenery on my channel (link below) and was appalled at how aweful the representation of this landmark was! Now you have come along and made a huge impact on this place and really brought it to life! Thank you. I wonder if you might enhance it further? Perhaps improve the look of thr Falls and set up a spray effect as has been suggested? Whatever you decide to do, thank you for this wonderful Mod. I will be reviewing it on my channel.
Initial Review of the default Falls -
https://youtu.be/ksEP08YjHa8
CptMorgan
I'm extremely pleased to see this. Thanks for fulfilling the request. Zimbabwe will be a better place to fly now. Its my goto place in the world.
fosheem
Many thanks for your efforts! Finally, the great falls are coming to life.
May I suggest that you use one of the smoke effects for the mists and just cover up the face of the falls. It would look real, as the mists were probably mistaken for clouds by the AI and that's what messed it all up in the first place.
The following are popular smoke mods:
https://flightsim.to/file/21769/pbk-effects-library
OR
https://flightsim.to/file/20539/neofly-smokes
Again, thank you for taking this on. Don't forget to collect your karma points for doing the Victoria Falls requests:
https://flightsim.to/request/scenery/2219/victoria-falls-bridge
https://flightsim.to/request/scenery/1509/victoria-falls-zimbabwe
https://flightsim.to/request/scenery/199/victoria-falls-zimbaue
Pinepix author
Thanks for the feedback. I tried the smoke effects but the biggest problem is that they only start emitting when you are within a few miles from the falls, so you only see small puffs by the time you overfly.
I will keep looking for nice solution.
2 years ago