X-Plane San Francisco Area HD Photoreal Scenery

A complete photoreal scenery package covering San Francisco and surrounding areas in HD for X-Plane 12 and X-Plane 11.  Highly detailed terrain and photorealistic scenery.

Note: This package is very resource-intensive - in terms of GPU memory and disk space/access speed. We recommend a machine with an SSD, lots of RAM, and a video card with lots of GPU memory in order to render highly detailed photoreal images.

Covering the entire San Francisco area, the bay, and all surrounding local regions - this scenery add-on will really bring it to life. It is also compatible with the California Photoreal available here. If using both, just ensure that this sits above the other package using the directives correctly in the scenery_packs.ini config.

All imagery is created from open-source satellite photography and converted into a format that X-Plane understands. It's true photorealistic scenery and is made possible with the Ortho4XP software. The imagery in this pack is high definition, higher than the other standard packs with 100% Zoom Level 18. Some say it's excessive to compile data this detailed but we will let the screenshots do the talking.

HD Orthophoto packages cover a smaller region at a much higher resolution. These packages are meant for slow and low flying. They are almost 16 times larger than the standard packages. You WILL need a high-end system and video card.

The scenery covers the entire San Francisco area (and much wider). You can see coverage below. The HD area covered is outlined by the red line.

Technical details:

• Elevation Data Source - 1/3 arc-second DEM from the USGS (Approximately 10-meter resolution)
• Orthophoto Resolution - Zoom Level 18 EVERYWHERE
• Inland and Complex Water Masks - True
• Terrain Decals (gritty textures) - True
• Curv_Tolerance - 0.7

Some great airports to start from to experience the new scenery:

• Travis AFB (KSUU) - Fairfield
• Napa County (KAPC) - Napa
• Buchanan Field (KCCR) - Concord
• Livermore Municipal (KLVK) - Livermore
• Oakland International (KOAK) - Oakland
• Hayward Executive (KHWD) - Hayward
• Moffett Field (KNUQ) - Mountain View
• Palo Alto (KPAO) - Palo Alto
• Half Moon Bay (KHAF) - Half Moon Bay
• San Francisco Int. (KSFO) - San Francisco
• San Jose International (KSJC) - San Jose

The entire package has been "pre-compiled" or "built" - so there is no need to run any lengthy conversion before using - simply download and install. We found that users were willing to suffer longer download times instead of running lengthy batch conversions (JPG to DDS) themselves.

If you find this useful, please consider donating to the original author - details can be found in the readme file inside the ZIP package.

This package works best with a high-quality mesh scenery add-on to really bring the scenery to life. We recommend the HD Mesh v4 from AlpilotX which can be downloaded here.

Developer: The original package was compiled by Forkboy2 and built/converted and repackaged by Fly Away Simulation.

Please post your comments below - we love to hear feedback from users.

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