FSX / P3D scenery

FSX Airport Ground Texture Upgrade

Airport ground textures gain a sharper, more convincing look with rebuilt taxiway surfaces, refreshed apron detail, and reworked taxiway markings that show subtle wear, cracks, and weathering. Designed for FSX, the set replaces default asphalt, concrete, tarmac, and detail textures to improve overall realism and better blend autogen with paved areas.

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Flight Simulator X Prepar3D

These new textures for FSX enhance your default ground airport textures. This package contains all-new high detailed taxiway textures, ground textures, and all new taxiway line textures.

A demonstration of the taxiway lines and ground textures in FSX: Steam Edition.The new ground textures give a more realistic illusion of rocks, grass, etc. Autogen as well as taxiways, will now look more realistic and "in place" since they are no longer over a low-resolution detail 1.bmp file.

The new taxiway line textures (or taxi lines as I call them) make your default taxi lines look even more realistic. Now you will see environmental weathering effects such as cracks and holes on the taxi line paint. And finally, the new taxiway textures upgrade the default FSX ones.

Every detail, crack, and pebble was carefully analyzed and created with the aid of hi-res sources.

Pre Installation

VERY IMPORTANT! BE SURE TO BACK UP THE FOLLOWING DDS FILES LOCATED IN YOUR C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Texture FOLDER:

  • taxi_asphalt
  • taxi_tranm
  • taxi_concrete
  • taxi_ tarmac
  • taxiway_marks

Now back up the following BMP file located in your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Scenery\World\Texture folder:

  • detail 1

Installation

Extract the following DDS and the one BMP file to a temporary location of your choice:

  • taxi_asphalt
  • taxi_tranm
  • taxi_concrete
  • taxi_ tarmac
  • taxiway_marks
  • detail 1

Now, take the following DDS files:

  • taxi_asphalt
  • taxi_tranm
  • taxi_concrete
  • taxi_ tarmac
  • taxiway_marks

And place them into your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Texture folder. Click yes to overwrite, Now take the detail 1 BMP file, and place it in your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Scenery\World\Texture folder. Click yes to overwrite.

That's it! Run FSX and go to any airport of your choice.

*Tip*

The detail 1 BMP file included here is fully compatible with FS2004. Installation is very similar, just place the detail 1 BMP file in your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004\Scenery\World\Texture folder

You may re-upload these textures to another site of your choice, as long as my name is stated as the original author.

Do not attempt to remodify or edit these textures.

Developer: Gamalier Padilla.

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FSXGrnd_Tex.zip
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18.87 MB
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How to install this mod

FSX / P3D scenery
  1. Extract the downloaded archive

    Use 7-Zip (free) or WinRAR to extract the ZIP to a temporary folder. Don't install while still zipped — the simulator can't read inside ZIP files.
  2. Place scenery in Addon Scenery

    Create a folder under FSX\Addon Scenery\ containing scenery and texture sub-folders.
  3. Activate in Scenery Library

    In FSX, go to Settings → Scenery Library → Add Area. Higher priority means it overrides lower entries for the same location.
  4. Always read the included readme

    Every mod ships with a readme.txt or README file. It tells you exactly where files go, what dependencies are needed, and any quirks specific to this add-on.

What’s inside this archive

The archive FSXGrnd_Tex.zip has 21 files and directories contained within it.

File Contents

This list displays the first 500 files in the package. If the package has more, you will need to download it to view them.

Filename/Directory File Date File Size
FSXgroundtextures11.17.060 B
Readme.txt11.16.062.80 kB
detail1.bmp11.17.06512.07 kB
taxi_asphalt.dds11.16.06682.80 kB
taxi_concrete.dds11.16.06682.80 kB
taxi_tarmac.dds11.16.06682.80 kB
taxi_tranm.dds11.16.06682.80 kB
taxiway_marks.dds11.16.06170.80 kB
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url01.22.1652 B
Screenshots10.05.200 B
ground-tex-screen-10ai.jpg10.05.201.31 MB
ground-tex-screen-1ai.jpg10.05.201.54 MB
ground-tex-screen-2ai.jpg10.05.201.50 MB
ground-tex-screen-3ai.jpg10.05.201.64 MB
ground-tex-screen-4ai.jpg10.05.202.37 MB
ground-tex-screen-5ai.jpg10.05.201.12 MB
ground-tex-screen-6ai.jpg10.05.201.95 MB
ground-tex-screen-7ai.jpg10.05.202.35 MB
ground-tex-screen-8ai.jpg10.05.202.00 MB
ground-tex-screen-9ai.jpg10.05.201.33 MB
flyawaysimulation.txt10.30.13959 B

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  1. mostafa mahmood

    Does this include changing the texture of the landing strip or not?

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  2. skairunner PRO

    The only flaw is that taxiways don't tile very well--artifacts are noticeable at low altitudes, say 30 ft above taxiway.

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  3. yourmom

    Very nice package, adds great scenery to the ground when I taxi and land, and looks realistic compared to looking at the ground at airports put of a window during taxi, takeoff, and landing.

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  4. Chasesky

    I love these textures, but there's one thing that bugs me. IT seems as though the turns are still default taxiway lines. I dont know if this is because I installed it wrong or something, but i think i did it correctly. Thanks for the awesome textures. Thanks!

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  5. T-Bonepilot PRO

    Very detailed taxiways! I really enjoy making FSX having better scenery, and this, well this, is amazing. Thanks! Can you do runway textures, too that has tire marks and stuff like that? :D

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  6. RittSea PRO

    Improves the overall ground experience and makes everything much more real. Worth it!

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  7. AirAustin PRO

    It did improve the ground scenery at airports, but after I added this add-on, there were a lot of cracks where in real life there aren`t any in that spot. However, it made most airports more realistic, and the rest of it, no problem.

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  8. howard12 PRO

    worth having definately!

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  9. dot4dash PRO

    Gamalier Padilla made it simple. I will be look for more of his work.

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  10. daniel_spitzner PRO

    This all new scenery recreates a very exclusive quality while running Flight Simulator. It do works absolutely fine without no game-error. I recommend this for every simmer.

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