FSX / P3D

FSX HD Moon Texture V1.0

HD Moon Texture V1.0 refreshes night flying with crisp, photoreal lunar detail by replacing the stock 64x64 bitmaps with 512x512 DXT5 textures rendered from an 8192x4096 source map. Designed for FSX, it delivers a sharper moon disc and more convincing sky ambience from cockpit and exterior views.

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Flight Simulator X Prepar3D

Images & Screenshots

3 total

A detailed full moon with visible craters and surface shading appears centered against a dark, nearly black sky background.

A detailed view of the moon shows its surface features with a sharp shadow dividing the illuminated and dark hemispheres.

A crescent moon with visible surface details appears against a black sky, with faint text in red at the top right.

This is a replacement for the default moon textures. While the default texture resolution is 64x64, this replacement comes with 512x512 DXT5. To make it as realistic as possible, all images were rendered, using a large scaled map (8192x4096). By Marco Fischbach.

Screenshot of the moon with HD textures.

Make a backup copy of your default moon textures. Therefor go to your FSX 'Texture' folder and copy file moon1.bmp up to moon15.bmp to a folder of your choice (for example, you could create a new folder 'backup moon texture' or something like that).
Unzip the downloaded 'Texture' folder and move it into your main FSX directory. Click 'yes' by replace folder or copy all 15 files from the downloaded 'Texture' folder into your FSX main 'Texture' folder.

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File information

Filename

fsx_hd_moon_texture_512.zip

File size

2.49 MB

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Freeware

Content rating

Everyone

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How to install this mod

FSX / P3D add-on

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.
Place files per the readme

Most FSX add-ons go into one of: SimObjects\Airplanes\, Addon Scenery\, Effects\, or Gauges\.
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 fsx_hd_moon_texture_512.zip has 23 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
fsx_hd_moon_texture_512	12.26.10	0 B
Readme.txt	12.26.10	1.24 kB
screen_01.jpg	12.26.10	171.50 kB
screen_02.jpg	12.26.10	171.84 kB
screen_03.jpg	12.26.10	155.26 kB
Texture	12.26.10	0 B
moon1.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon10.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon11.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon12.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon13.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon14.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon15.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon2.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon3.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon4.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon5.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon6.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon7.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon8.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
moon9.bmp	12.25.10	341.43 kB
flyawaysimulation.txt	10.29.13	959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url	01.22.16	52 B