Greater Toronto Area Enhancement Pack
DESCRIPTION
This pack features hand-picked key areas around Greater Toronto Area to compliment default photogrammetry and autogen areas and default terrain fixes for maximum VFR flight and IFR approaches enjoyment.
FEATURES
- All areas implement 3 LOD levels, minimizing FPS impact
- Photogrammetry is heavily edited and texture color, contrast and brightness is carefully corrected to match surrounding autogen scenery
- Custom night lighting, including flashing strobes on tall buildings and facade illumination
- Stock buildings, cars, trains, antennas and other objects are added to enrich the scenery
SCENERY
- CN Tower – improved detailed model, realistic night lighting, red and white strobes
- Bloor One building (missing in default photogrammetry)
- Midtown highrise area
- North York – Younge street highrise area
- Humber Bay Shores, Humber Bay Arch Bridge
- Mississauga Downtown, Square One mall
- Humber river “aqueduct” ridge terrain fix
- Oakville Downtown, lighthouse with beacon
- Oakville Trafalgar Hospital with helipad and surrounding area
- Downsview Airport CYZD enhancement – cars, buildings, objects etc.
- Burlington Executive Airport CZBA enhancement- photogrammetry, cars, buildings, objects etc.
- Buttonville CYKZ enhancements – cars, buildings, objects etc.
- Cathedral of the Transfiguration, Cathedraltown
- Radio towers with beacons in Missisauga/Oakville areas
- Scarborough City Centre
- Canada’s Wonderland
- Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
- Exhibition place animated Windmill with flashing night beacon
INTRODUCTION
The areas of the pack are very close to CYYZ – Toronto Pearson International Airport. Toronto has photogrammetry in MSFS, and Toronto Island CYTZ is a custom airport, but photogrammetry ends outside of Toronto proper, and starts again around Burlington and Hamilton area. Many important Greater Toronto Area VFR landmarks and POI are left to autogen.
I’ve decided to correct that as much as I can, as well as fix some glaring terrain errors, such as a huge and long weird “aqueduct” type ridge with a Humber river on top.
I’m aiming for making the whole GTA area comfortable for VFR flights and authentic CYYZ approaches and departures, and make local GA flights more enjoyable. So far I’ve done Oakville downtown and now Missisauga downtown. Meshes optimized and heavily edited, textures color corrected to blend with autogen building.
INSTALLATION
Unzip into Community folder. There are 3 zip files, each corresponds to a major area. They are designed to work together, so install all three. After installation your Community folder should have three new subfolders: /oakville/, /mississauga/ and /toronto/.
DISTRIBUTION
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