Marginal X-Plane Scenery

X-Plane^® Scenery

This page contains tools for creating scenery for the X-Plane flight simulator.

	Tools Tools for creating and editing X-Plane scenery and cockpit objects.
	Plugins X-Plane plugins.
	Scenery Packages Complete X-Plane scenery packages.
	Tutorials and Examples Walk-throughs, tutorials and example files.

Recent changes

2013/04/29 - OverlayEditor 2.32

Faster loading and navigation of complex scenery packages.
Fix for mouse wheel / zoom gesture.
Fix for mipmap generation.

 

2013/04/25 - GroundTraffic 1.30

Objects give way to the user's plane and to AI planes.
Support for animating articulated vehicles / semi-trailer trucks.
And “And” command.
Various bugfixes.

 

2013/03/25 - X-Publish 1.23

Support for per-aircraft and per-package plugins.
Support for GroundTraffic plugin.

 

2013/03/21 - GroundTraffic 1.21

Documentation improvements.
Bugfixes.

 

2013/03/19 - GroundTraffic 1.20

Fix for Linux.

 

2013/03/19 - SketchUp2XPlane 1.56

When original texture file is missing, prefer a file with the correct name in the same folder as the model over the texture embedded in the model.

 

2013/03/18 - GroundTraffic 1.00

New plugin to allow scenery designers to add animated ground vehicle traffic to airport scenery packages.

 

2013/03/11 - AutoGate plugin 1.41

Disengage on release of parking brake.

 

2013/03/01 - SketchUp2XPlane 1.55

Fix-up animation positions when a Component Instance is copied.
Fix for animation dialog in models using non-metric units.

 

2013/02/13 - SketchUp2XPlane 1.54

Add support for shininess (specular level).
Set ATTR_layer_group on ground faces.

 

2013/02/06 - OverlayEditor 2.31

Draped polygons displayed at the correct default layer.
Polygons don't get to use the legacy "custom objects" automatic path.
Fix for misaligned terrain.

 

2013/01/28 - SketchUp2XPlane 1.53

Fix for texture on imported objects.
Warn if texture dimensions not a power of two.

 

2013/01/20 - OverlayEditor 2.29

Improve resolution from ~20cm to ~5cm.
Add object search box.
Mouse Wheel / Zoom Gesture zooms at mouse pointer.

 

2013/01/15 - OverlayEditor 2.28

Add OpenStreetMap via MapQuest as an imagery provider.

 

2013/01/15 - AutoGate kit 1.40

Added night jetway texture. Re-modelled glass objects to use it.

 

2013/01/10 - AutoGate kit 1.30

Added “glass” jetways and re-modelled the “steel” jetways.
Jetways available in multiple lengths.
PaintKit included.
Higher-quality DGS textures.
Improved documentation.

 

2013/01/10 - AutoGate plugin 1.30

Smoother animation.
64bit support.

 

2013/01/03 - OverlayEditor 2.27

Fix for packages containing bezier polygons on Mac.
Importing textures autogenerates .pol files.
Rendering improvements for facades with "roof" at ground height and animated objects.

 

2012/11/19 - SketchUp2XPlane 1.51

Preserve animation positions when Component is included into a new Group.
Misc fixes.

 

2012/11/18 - SeaTraffic 0.30

64bit support.
Updated route database with ~500 more routes.

 

2012/11/11 - SketchUp2XPlane 1.50

Support for animation.
Faces marked as “Ground” are draped under X-Plane v10.
Always looks for .png texture on import.

 

2012/11/08 - OverlayEditor 2.26

Linux packaging fixes.
Further fix for keyboard input on Linux.
Fix for unreadable Line files.
Fix for static background images.

 

2012/10/24 - X-Publish 1.22

Include both .dds and .png textures.
Packaging fix for Windows.
Misc fixes.

 

2012/10/23 - obj-mode.el

Updated for new X-Plane 10.10 commands.
Supports indentation.

 

2012/09/13 - SketchUp2XPlane 1.44

Support for lights.

 

2012/09/01 - FS2XPlane 3.26

Fix for ATC instructions on helipads.
Fix for generic object substitution.

 

2012/08/26 - SeaTraffic 0.20

Add ship reflections and wakes.
Add fast foot ferry model.
Option to display routes in Local Map.

 

2012/08/09 - OverlayEditor 2.24

Fix for keyboard input on Linux.
Improved error reporting.

 

2012/08/04 - SeaTraffic 0.10

New plugin to display ships moving along real-life routes.

 

2012/07/22 - SketchUp2XPlane 1.43

Export any textures embedded in the model - e.g. in models downloaded from Google 3D Warehouse.

 

2012/07/17 - OverlayEditor 2.23

Fixes for Linux and MacOS Lion.

 

2012/07/15 - OverlayEditor 2.22

Add ESRI ArcGIS Online as a mapping imagery provider.

 

2012/07/12 - OverlayEditor 2.21

Fixes for AutoGenPoints and v8 facades.

 

2012/07/01 - OverlayEditor 2.20

Support for displaying Bing map imagery.
Misc fixes.

 

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