MSFS Melbourne, Australia Cityscape Scenery

A remarkable and generous update for the city of Melbourne, AU created by the developer that goes by the name of HamerheadH for Microsoft's Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2020 release. Now v2.0.

This "Cityscape" pack brings Melbourne, Australia up to date in more true-to-life detail as the default automated MSFS generation is nowhere near the real-world version. It's not a perfect pack but it does make the scenery (a lot) better than the default.

Original notes from developer;

This is an optimized version of my Melbourne Aus scenery. It's completely imported from Google Maps then stitched together in Blender. I managed to get around 60fps at 2k with the medium graphics preset. With an i7-8700, RTX 2080, and 16GB of ram. To get the best performance don't spawn on top of the city when you load in, I recommend you spawn at YMML and then fly over to the city. To install, unzip the file from the link in the comments then drag and drop all three folders into your community folder and enjoy it! Updates might be coming in the future and feel free to suggest other cities for me to do in the comments (No promises) Enjoy!

Initial update;

It's finally here! It's been a bumpy road but it's here, it's completely imported from google maps and then stitched together in Blender. I had to split it up into three different add-ons due to its large size. If you don't want as much of a performance impact spawn a few kilometers away then fly to the city instead of spawning on top of it. Leave suggestions for suburbs or cities for me to possibly make in the future (No promises!)

This pack includes both low-resolution and high-resolution versions depending on your computer hardware performance. Many users of the latest v2 were complaining about low frame rates and such with the latest high-res version.

This pack includes both - so you may choose and test with both versions depending on your computer hardware performance.

Updates in v2.0 include

• LODs
• One package
• No more duplicated buildings
• Improved FPS
• Not as raised above the ground
• Real water (So you can land waterplanes on the water)

When you start Microsoft flight sim It takes a few extra minutes to start, when starting MSFS it may appear frozen but if you wait a few minutes it will bring you to the menus no problem (The lower res version only adds a second or two).

It's worth noting that this scenery add-on is a complete WIP (work in progress) - it's far from perfect and just adds some fun to the Melbourne area - don't expect drastic and perfect changes to the cityscape. You can still expect (in some areas) those horrid MSFS triangle/blocks on buildings edges and objects.

Installation

Once you have extracted the ZIP, for the HD version, simply copy the "melbourne-hd" folder into your MSFS community folder, and if you chose the standard resolution version do that for the "melbourne-standard" folder. Test with both and see what FPS you get for each and choose the best and the one you are most comfortable with.

We can expect further updates and new versions for this pack by the developer.

Developer: HamerheadH.

Currently, the developer does not publish a public donation page. If this changes we will add it here.