I am please to present to you my latest creation, Southampton.
This scenery has been long in the works and covers a huge area of Southampton. I have spent a huge amount of time here editing in very small detail and think this could be my best effort so far.
As mentioned, the scenery is huge and covers all of Southampton covering roughly 38 square miles.
IMPORTANT!
There are two files here to download, please make sure you download both to appreciate this scenery in its fullest as I intended.
A PDF guide is included in the download and it is recommended to read through for notes and installation.
7 months ago
7 months ago
John_Lovell
saintlloydie
Any plans on an update for this scenery?
8 months ago
7 months ago
John_Lovell
AdamShellard
Thank you!
2 years ago
Vizipok
Beautiful scenery, very realistic, I love it.
2 years ago
Thank you!
2 years ago
John_Lovell
Hyperas
I enjoy your scenery John> any chance you could consider doing Sunderland City, Tyne & Wear. The default scenery is not very good.
2 years ago
Thank you!... There are so many on my list.... "why aye man", would love to cover Geordie land... sadly at the moment, I had my PC stolen so out of developing for the time being... I will return at some point soon!
2 years ago
John_Lovell
Squashman
Stuck in an infinite loading screen. Reduced settings and removed the content.xml before running but same issue. Any ideas? Running an i7 9900k with a Zotac 1070 Amp.
3 years ago
Do you have any other add ons installed?... if you have many of these other sceneries, this can cause it... you can download an add on manager. There is one here on flightsim.to... and just select this add on.
Testing for myself and others was ok but concerned to know the issue to solve your problem
3 years ago
John_Lovell
shanepi
Although I can not program myself so I am not winging at all and credit to you for your work, unfortunately it did not work for me, my fps was halved and the buildings were not as good quality as the original , I installed it as described and checked all the settings. I do not have the Orbx installed but even sat on the runway my fps were low. I did however think the bridge and cranes looked better.
3 years ago
Brother
Looks amazing.. Wish the whole sim looked like this 😊
3 years ago
timinireland
Hi,
Do you take requests? I live and work in the Fareham and Portsmouth area, could you possibly look at doing that next please
3 years ago
Is on my list.. I got a couple of requests on the go and was gonna hit Bournemouth after those two... might do this one before Bournemouth.. is on my list
3 years ago
John_Lovell
Pazzp77
Causes a catastrophic CTD with a warning from MSFS which I have never seen before. 'A break point has been reached' MSFS.exe exception! This may be due to an incompatibility with ORBX EGHI Southampton Airport. CTD's stop when this scenery is removed. Unfortunately it is not possible for me to evaluate your scenery.
BRGDS
Charles.
3 years ago
Interesting to know. I did have quite a few people test this before hand, some with Orbx Southampton including myself with no problems. But I appreciate your feedback as I would like my scenery to work on all specs of PCs.
If you don't mind me asking, what are your PC specs?
3 years ago
John_Lovell
ChuckF
Hi John, another lovely scenery but I'm wondering why you chose to do Southampton when it has good photogrammetry by default?
Also, have you overwritten the default protogrammetry entirely or incorporated any of it?
Either way, I've only just started to fully explore it and it looks very good.
3 years ago
Hi... Thanks for your nice comments.
To be honest, I thought the photogrammetry default was anything to be desired. Respect to Asobo, but I find it for too dark and dreary.. also, the default doesnt always load up sharp and distance objects look very oblique... so I decided to give it a little overhaul..
I have completely over ridden the default photogrammetry where mine is, though you will still need to have this enabled in your sim settings as I still use the mesh data for the terraforming and trees to work.
3 years ago
John_Lovell
cianpars
Awesome! your best work yet. Even my lowly RTX2060 copes very nicely with this feature packed scenery. A good balance of visuals vs. performance. I did get a performance hit at low levels but at around 1000ft its pretty solid and smooth - great work once again. Here's the obligatory video (I just can't help it) Oh and there's a download link for the Tiger Moth too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJaWpW16_KQ
3 years ago
Thanks Paul.... always appreciated your reviews and amazing videos!
This one, I spent a lot of time on the tree details, more than ever.
:)
3 years ago
John_Lovell
PaulHolmes
Thanks John. I have Orbx Southampton airport installed, along with Seafront Simulations' Vessels South East UK, which adds a lot of large cruise ships as well as port and harbour boats. Will they conflict with this?
3 years ago
Hi Kevin...I actually designed this scenery around the orbx airport so will fit like a glove.. for the ships, this should work.. I have placed a few statics in the harbor.. if they conflict, let me know and I can make a small patch to remove them
3 years ago
John_Lovell
KevinBrook