This mod applies exclusion polygons to areas covered in water in order to uncover them. It also removes erroneously placed trees around water areas. No scenery objects were added.
This mod fixes the following issues to the default scenery located in New York City, New York, USA. This covers as far north as the Bronx, and as far south as Staten Island. It covers areas around Kennedy (KJFK) and LaGuardia (KLGA) airports. I do not use other freeware or payware in the area, so I don't know if this conflicts with other third party mods.
Starting with Version 1.1 – this is now a modular installation, in order to accommodate those who might have some other 3rd-party scenery bridges.
To install:
- If you do not have any alternate shareware/freeware bridge scenery, install both "nycnywaterfix" and “nycnywaterfixoptionalbridges” into your Community folder.
- If you have other shareware/freeware bridge scenery (or you just don’t want water fixes at the bridges), place a copy of only "nycnywaterfix" into your Community Folder (do not install “nycnywaterfixoptionalbridges”).
V1.3.1 Release Notes:
- Bug fixes
- Uncovered some water around Newark.
V1.3 Release Notes:
- World Update XIII compatible, as functionality of Water Fixes was broken in SU12
- More cleanup of trees
V1.2 Release Notes:
- Uncovers areas under Port Jersey
- Cleaned up some vegetation at Central Park, downtown NYC, National Tennis Center, and others.
- Brought the lines in to make water exclusions not so aggressive
V1.1b Hotfix Release Notes: Do you want/need it?
Yes if:
- you installed V1.1 and you have 3rd party bridge scenery, this fixes the issue with the Rikers Island bridge water exclusion showing up
- you only have V1.0
No if:
- you have V1.1 and you don’t have 3rd party bridge scenery
V1.1 Release Notes:
- Now a modular installation for those who may have scenery packs of NY and/or NJ bridges. Please see install notes. I've removed water exclusions from under the bridges in the stock file, and put those fixes in a separate optional file. Thanks Oozler for the testing!
- Uncovered additional areas in Staten Island, including Shooters Island, stuff around the Recycling plant, Staten Island Boat Graveyard
- Uncovered sunken areas around Kennedy Airport
- Fixed some inland roads throughout that were covered in water, and additional piers throughout
- Refined some lines, did additional cleanup of trees, etc.
V1.0 Release notes, fixes the following areas:
- Corrects issue of various roads and bridges appearing underwater throughout. Corrections were done on stock bridges (not mods/freeware/payware). I do not have other bridges installed for comparison.
- Uncovered various docks, ships, piers, and walkways along the Lower Bay, Upper Bay, Hudson River (New York and New Jersey sides), as well as the East River. I also uncovered things I probably shouldn't have uncovered around Staten Island :).
- Restores visibility of marinas at City Island, Evers, Locust Point, Liberty Harbor, Grand Cove, Tottenville, Great Kills Harbor
- Uncovered underwater islands at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
- Removed trees from ships and cargo along water areas
- Basically everywhere you see RED in the screenshot, I uncovered water or removed vegetation
Please see my total list of scenery mods below by region:
California:
Water fix – Orange County, California, USA (ocwaterfix)
Water fix – Los Angeles County, California, USA (lawaterfix)
Water fix – San Diego County, California, USA (sdwaterfix)
Water fix – Ventura County, California, USA (vcwaterfix)
Water fix – Santa Barbara County, California, USA (sbwaterfix)
Water fix – Santa Cruz County, California, USA (scwaterfix)
Water fix – Monterey County, California, USA (mocwaterfix)
Water fix – San Francisco County, California, USA (sfwaterfix)
Water fix – San Mateo County, California, USA (smwaterfix)
Water fix – Alameda County, California, USA (acwaterfix)
Water fix - Marin County, Sonoma County, Napa County, California, USA (mcwaterfix)
Oregon:
Water fix - Portland, Oregon, USA (portorwaterfix)
Washington:
Water fix - Seattle, Washington, USA (seawawaterfix)
Kentucky:
Water fix – Louisville, Kentucky, USA (loukywaterfix)
Massachusetts:
Water fix – Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA (sufcmawaterfix)
New York:
Water fix – New York City, New York, USA (nycnywaterfix)
New Jersey:
Water fix – Atlantic County and Cape May County, New Jersey, USA (atlcnjwaterfix)
Pennsylvania:
Water fix – Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA (phcpawaterfix)
Maryland:
Water fix – Baltimore County, Maryland, USA (baltcmdwaterfix)
District of Columbia:
Water fix – Washington D.C., USA (washdcwaterfix)
Virginia:
Water fix - Norfolk, Virginia, USA (norfvawaterfix)
South Carolina:
Water fix - Charleston, South Carolina (chscwaterfix)
Florida:
Water fix – Florida Keys, Florida, USA (keysflwaterfix)
Water fix – Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA (miadcflwaterfix)
Water fix - Tampa/Hillsborough County, Florida, USA (tampflwaterfix)
Water fix - Fort Myers, Florida, USA (fortmflwaterfix)
6 months ago
4 months ago
mistercoffee1
gryper
7 months ago
Tobybton
7 months ago
7 months ago
mistercoffee1
benji53
Maybe a stupid question, but why do the water mask need to take into consideration whether or not I have bridge sceneries installed?
1 years ago
Not a stupid question at all.
It's because if you have 3rd party bridges installed, this water fix uncovers the default-scenery bridge, and you end up with two overlapping bridges.
1 years ago
mistercoffee1
GunStrauss
When are they going to make, heliports, that you can land on, atop, Manhattan skyscrapers, like in old FSX?
2 years ago
smoothflyer
Thanks for fixing this..it really needed it. However, in testing today, I found lots of "fault" lines including a water step near the Statue of Liberty - is this an issue on my end (I have a screen shot but can't post here)?
2 years ago
I saw your screenshots that you sent.
Unfortunately, those fault lines have been an issue for a while in the sim now everywhere. See here: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/persistent-cracks-in-ground-tiles-not-water-since-su5/439671/7
It really makes it tough to take good photos/screenshots because those darned cracks are everywhere.
2 years ago
mistercoffee1
DownLow70
Can you combine all into one download?
2 years ago
It is one download. Both of mistercoffees waterfixs are in one download and you install the one in to your community folder that applies to you is my understanding. Either you have RKBridger's mods so you run one version of mistercoffee's mod (nycnywaterfix) or you do not have RKBridger's mods and you run the other version of mistercoffee's mod (nycnywaterfixoptionalbridges). Both versions are in one download.
2 years ago
Oozler
Greazer
Thanks for your works, now New York is one of my favorite place to fly, but there is a minor issue that I still have two Rikers Island Bridge near KLGA if NY bridges installed, I hope this can be fixed in the future
2 years ago
Found it. I’ll take care of it!
2 years ago
mistercoffee1
Jack2416
CTD with SamScene New York, RKBridgers New York for sure
2 years ago
Did version 1.0 work ok?
Does anyone else with this combination of addons have the same issue with V1.1?
2 years ago
mistercoffee1
rogerchang
For some reason the Holland tunnel is still exposed. I have disabled my addons SamScene and NY Bridges. The Tunnel runs two lanes right across the river immersion breaker for sure. As I fly down the river north to south I can sill see lines that go away as I approach but the Holland tunnel sticks out like a sore thumb and is totally exposed. I wonder what this could be?
2 years ago
Just to add as an FYI, Phogbound, I do not see the Holland Tunnel with or without this mod. I too have Samscene NY and the RKBridgers Newark and NY bridge mods. Just thought I'd offer some perspective to maybe help resolve your issue.
2 years ago
Oozler
Phogbound
I have the SamScene New York, RKBridgers New York and Newark packs. While there are no conflicts per se, I do think that some polygon exclusion around the bridges can reveal the 2d bridge image more readily underneath the mod bridges. This takes some of the immersion and negates the reason for getting bridge mod(s) in the first place. I will do more testing as I did a cursory fly around with and without along the Harlem river. Otherwise there are no conflicts exactly that I found and I really like everything else to do with the mod. Another version for people with the RKBridgers NY/Newark bridges mod would perhaps be ideal. Time to do more flying and really see what's what - there's a preliminary update.
2 years ago
Oozler
This looks great! Thanks for all the waterfix mods. You seem to make them for all the general areas I do the vast majority of my flying so I really appreciate your efforts. Keep it up - you have a fan in me 😊
2 years ago
Oozler
I have SamScene NYC and RKBridger's scenery packs witll this mod be ok? I will try it.
2 years ago
Please let us know, Thank you
2 years ago
NapalmKiwi
akconcept
Any known conflicts with RKBridger's payware Newark or NY Bridges/Ports or NY Landmarks freeware from this site?
2 years ago
gryper