This is a photogrammetry 3D version of the City of Kaiserslautern - nickname "K-Town" - in South-West Germany.
It's just east of the US Military Ramstein Air Base - Icao-code: ETAR. If you are on the final to land on runways 26 or 27, this is the city you will flyover just before touchdown (or departure direction east taking off from runways 08 or 09 ).
I've tried to use all of the Google Maps photogrammetry, which is available for this city. The quality and detail of the photo3D buildings is kept in a mix of quality and size of files - so loading time and fps should be fine.
Also i've added an object tor the inside of the Betzenberg Soccer Stadium (thanks to "master-william" at 3D-Warehouse for the base object parts), because i didn't like the dark looking and fixed shadowed photogrammetry inside look and i wanted the see the real daytime shadow moving over the inside. It will be lit up at night (actually at day too, but less noticable ;) ...).
Many of the fake looking photogrammetry trees around the city got erased, but the trees close to the city borders are connected to tiles with objects of buildings and trees right in between the city buildings i had to keep in there. To get rid of those i would have had to load each of the over 1000 object tiles into Blender and try to erase those polygons and fill it with something else - this would have been a ridiculous task taking for sure a few month - not worth it ... The adjustment and recalculation of the over 8000 textures and their colors to come close to the MSFS2020 world colors helped to make them not too noticable.
One little problem - this new inside object in the Stadium won't show up until you pass over closer to it once for the first time - then it will pop up right away and will stay and be visible until unloading the scenery. I couldn't get rid of this behavior, yet.
Special thanks to Google and their Photogrammetry 3D objects.
Installation: Just unzip the file "gsdovah-kaiserslautern3d.zip" and copy the folder called "gsdovah-kaiserslautern3d" to your Community folder - installation done !
Very nice scenery of my home town but can we maybe politely ask to replace the TV tower SW of the city by a more convenient one? No offense, whatsoever.
1 years ago
The TV Tower wasn't part of the available photogrammetry data i've used for this addon. Yes, the tower looks silly generated by the MSFS autogen system. It would be no problem, to add a 3D modelled TV Tower, i could model that and include it. But it really isn't necessary, because i'm using the addons called "We Love VFR" part 1, 2 and 3. Those addons are covering large areas of the whole world with many hundreds of thousands of towers, antennas, radar systems, satellite dishes, chimneys ... those addons are a MUST HAVE for MSFS users - the 3D world looks so much better.
And with those addons the communication tower near Dansenberg will look close to the real thing in no time ! And many other landmarks of that kind in the area around Kaiserslautern will be added, too, by We Love VFR ... Like satellite dishes on the Sickinger Höhe next to Landstuhl, Satellite dish domes on the Ramstein Air Base and so on ...
I also recommend the addons "Powerlines and Solarfarms" and "Project Lifts - Chairlifts, Gondalas and Cablecars of the entire World" by mamudesign.
1 years ago
gsdovah
DEFlyboy
How come it's all white now?
2 years ago
I've just checked the Kaiserslautern Photogrammetry with my MSFS2020 latest version - and the Photo3D city looks fine on my computer - no problems here. If everything is white, this points towards missing textures or at least missing info for MSFS2020, where to find those textures (like in a *.json file and such).
But if you download this addon and unzip it in the Community folder, there should be everything there, to be working right. There were no changes done since it's first release. You could check, if the addon folder called "gsdovah-kaiserslautern3d" has the size of about 1.58 GB , then there should be everything necessary in there, like the many needed textures of the buildings and such, too ... If your folder "gsdovah-kaiserslautern3d" , for some unknown reason, is smaller then 1.58 GB, then something went wrong while unzipping it into the Community folder - well, this would be my guess. Otherwise i have no idea, why it shouldn't work.
2 years ago
gsdovah
koord
Eigentlich nur wegen dem Stadion geholt Ist aber alles sehr schön
3 years ago
Felix71
Danke für den Upload! 😊
3 years ago
leckereCola
Congratulations. Great Job.
3 years ago
koord
Great, can you add the city of Mainz?
3 years ago
Please also Rüsselheim, Wiesbaden
3 years ago
titanicheiko12
Tom111