Sioux Falls is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 139th-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Minnehaha County and also extends into Lincoln County to the south, proximate with the Iowa state line. As of 2020, Sioux Falls had an estimated population of 195,850. The Sioux Falls metro area accounts for more than a quarter of the state's entire population. Chartered in 1856 on the banks of the Big Sioux River, the city is situated in the rolling hills at the junction of interstates 29 and 90.
The history of Sioux Falls revolves around the cascades of the Big Sioux River. The falls were created about 14,000 years ago during the last ice age. The lure of the falls has been a powerful influence. Ho-Chunk, Ioway, Otoe, Missouri, Omaha (and Ponca at the time), Quapaw, Kansa, Osage, Arikira, Dakota, and Cheyenne people inhabited and settled the region previous to Europeans and European descendants. Numerous burial mounds still exist on the high bluffs near the river and are spread throughout the general vicinity. Indigenous people maintained an agricultural society with fortified villages, and the later arrivals rebuilt on many of the same sites that were previously settled. Lakota populate urban and reservation communities in the contemporary state and many Lakota, Dakota, and numerous other Indigenous Americans reside in Sioux Falls today.
GPS: 43°32′11″N 96°43′54″W
Credits:
This scenery has been extracted from Google Maps, hence all 3D credits goes to Google.
This scenery has been generated with the Google Earth Decoder tool (credits to /u/Jonahex111):
https://www.reddit.com/r/FS2020Creation/comments/j3faaj/google_earth_decoder_now_userfriendly/
This scenery uses this colors light pack (credits to miguel88): https://flightsim.to/file/912/11-colors-lights-pack-from-blender-1-0
Addon history:
v1.0: initial release
v1.1:
- add POIs
- fix procedural lightning issues on flat tiles (especially at dusk and dawn)
- add specific colliders to reduce CPU load
Installation:
Download both thalixte-siouxfalls1.zip, thalixte-siouxfalls2.zip and thalixte-siouxfalls3.zip. Extract both thalixte-siouxfalls1, thalixte-siouxfalls2 and thalixte-siouxfalls3 folders into the Community folder.
If you want to donate, you will always be welcome to help me continue with more projects and update the existing ones https://paypal.me/Thalixte.
This mod would be great, but when I install it, it creates a big hole in the map and makes the city look like it is floating. Is anyone else having this problem?
1 years ago
You have to download the three files for the scenery to display properly.
1 years ago
Thalixte
Elfie2007
Hello Thax! Any chance you could expand the coverage of this scenery? Looking on Google, the radius could be expanded out a bit yet. Also, would you be able to re-introduce procedural trees so the different seasons mods have an effect on the appearance of the city area? Thank you!
2 years ago
liamp51
Thank you for updating my home area!
3 years ago
liamp51
I have a massive pit where Sioux Falls should be. I can see the Google buildings at the bottom of the hole. Is there a required mesh elevation mod needed for this to display properly?
Fixed. Make sure you download all 3 parts!
3 years ago
No, there is not, but you have to make sure that you downloaded all the archives and installed all the folders (there are 3 archives, so three folders).
3 years ago
Thalixte
alenkacz
"This scenery uses this colors light pack (credits to miguel88): https://flightsim.to/file/912/11-colors-lights-pack-from-blender-1-0" - This file is no longer available on flightsim.to - The following message appears, "Oops... Nothing to show here". I can't locate "miguel88" either. But your scenery is great!
3 years ago
lscism
This is awesome you doing smaller cities in the US like this. Especially with night lights. I have everyone of your sceneries in Europe and the US. Thank you so much for what you do. If you ever get the chance I would love to see an Amarillo Texas version by you. All your photogrammetry blends with the surrounding areas and Bing does not blend in well.
3 years ago
Ryano1986
very nice, any chance on doing sioux city next
3 years ago
saintshockey
Very well done, thank you for this much-needed mod! Did a flyover and landing on the Denny Sanford Premier Center at the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIJXifhzaCw
3 years ago
StadiumLandings
THANK YOU!!!!
3 years ago
JerryRG
3 years ago
Disneyflyer
3 years ago
HornetAircraft
3 years ago
liamp51
3 years ago
John_Lovell
3 years ago
AnimeCaptain