MSFS Yosemite Valley, California Scenery

PreviewA fun pack featuring new ground textures, rock texture upgrades, and general tidying of Yosemite Valley, California, USA for Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2020 release.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2020 Release
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yosemite-valley.zip
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A fun pack featuring new ground textures, rock texture upgrades, and general tidying of Yosemite Valley, California, USA for Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2020 release.

Yosemite Valley screenshot.?The Yosemite valley region was not truly and faithfully represented in MSFS 2020 so this pack aims to bring the region up to true-to-life detail and has plans for ongoing (future) updates by the developer.

All of the major landmarks and highpoints in the valley are included and re-represented including;

  • El Capitan
  • Half Dome
  • Glacier Point
  • Bridalveil Falls
  • Yosemite Falls
  • Vernal & Nevada Falls

Waterfalls in the area are included and have been even hand-mastered to capture them in the highest detail.

This pack has planned future upgrades from the developer.

Planned future work by the developer:

  • Creating normal maps to add finer detail when viewing objects from a closer distance
  • Subdividing some areas of the geo and smoothing out some of the weird jagged shapes photogrammetry sometimes creates
  • Get the FX system working from Asobo to add working waterfalls
  • Get the animal SDK details to add some wandering around the park... (that said, there IS some stationary wildlife if you look very carefully)
  • Do more paintwork to reduce the "baked in shadows" on some of the cliff faces from the photomapping

Now version 1.1

This update is the first step in what will be a total rework of the scenery. It replaces the model of El Capitan with a more efficient medium res model but to which has been attached a very detailed color and normal map texture that looks great no matter how close you get.

There are two files to choose from. The full version uses a 16k color & normal map, and a 'medium' version where those have been downres'd to 4k each. This should hopefully help GPUs with less memory.

*** ONLY El Capitan is updated in this version, the rest of the scenery is the same as version 1.0 The process I'm using is manually intensive so I will release other areas as I finish them. Half Dome is next on the list...

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Developer: VFXSimmer.

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Henry JacobsenSun, 28 Nov 2021 15:16:21 GMT

If you guys read the "READ ME.txt" you would know how to install these...Just saying...

Daniel NielsenTue, 20 Apr 2021 03:03:34 GMT

Having the same problem which files in the download go where?

TJMon, 18 Jan 2021 11:49:33 GMT

Hi, as with the other two posts there are no installation instructions for a total novice to follow. Please help! TJ.

BillMathersSat, 26 Dec 2020 12:41:30 GMT

Which file should I place in the Community File?

BarcodeUKSat, 07 Nov 2020 12:31:16 GMT

Wow, been there on the ground and wondered what it would be like to fly it, now I know, including clipping El Capitain. Clearly need to learn how to fly better, Good news no damage to the environment :)

Brilliant job, thank you.

sydneykSun, 25 Oct 2020 01:55:30 GMT

Not sure how to install this package. Any instructions somewhere?

Thanks.

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