DTTA - Tunis-Carthage - Tunisia

Hello,

I am very very pleased to release this one, it's been quite a bit of work to get it all working but the result is worth it! :)

You can see some more screenshots HERE

This scenery is a convertion of the Tunis2008 scenery package for FS,
created by the AfricaSim team, composed of Frédéric Kabalu & Nassim Naidja.
A big big extra 'thanks!' to Frederic Kabalu, who helped me a lot by providing all needed elements and infos for the conversion.

You can visit their website and leave them a little thank you here:

http://www.fsnabisso.com/

They're also reachable through the FS-Africa forum: http://fs-africa.forumactif.com/

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This scenery is available for X-Plane in three versions:


AFRI-DTTA-TUNIS_CARTHAGE2008_XP9_anim:
This Package is optimised for X-Plane v9.xx, using .dds textures.
It also contains XSims animated objects.

Please Note:
For the animations in these object to work, an additional plugin (Developed by Sandy Barbour) must be installed. Please visit http://www.xpluginsdk.org/misc_plugins.htm on Sandy's Website and download and install the 'CustomSBDatarefs004' plugin.


AFRI-DTTA-TUNIS_CARTHAGE2008_XP9:
Same as above, except the animated objects have been removed
for those who don't care about animated objects or don't want to install a plug-in, or anything else...


AFRI-DTTA-TUNIS_CARTHAGE2008_XP864:
This one is for X-Plane v8.64, with .png texture files.

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ATTENTION:
The original scenery had photoreal coverage of the city of Tunis and the airport.
Since i've been unable to convert these textures propperly, i decided to create photoreal coverage for the region, as an add-on that is. (they're absolutely not necessary to run the scenery but it looks a lot better with them)

Thanks to Olivier "Inamat" and Bruno Lagougine "Lagb", who did all the job,
we now have photoreal coverage for the regions of Tunis, Tunis-Nord, Monastir, Djerba, Bizerte and Borj el Amri. You can download them HERE

These overlays will only work from X-Plane v9.20 on, the terrain files use X-Plane's new Texture Paging function to ensure high framerate.

Some people report broken files after download. Usually re-downloading solves this issue.

A big thanks also to Helgo for his static ships and Mr3D/XSims for the animated objects.

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Please refer to the included original documentation for details and original ReadMe's.


This package is enhanced with objects from the OpenSceneryX
library and wont work propperly without it.
For those who do not have it yet, you can download the latest
package installer here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

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Important:
For those of you who have installed DTMB-Monastir, you'll have to replace the apt.dat with THIS ONE . To do so, unpack the file, go to your Custom Scenery folder, Open the AFRI-DTMB-Monastir-Tunisia folder, go to Earth Nav Data and replace the apt.dat file with the one you just downloaded.
It seems the original DTMB scenery contains apt.dat info for DTTA as well, and that could be a problem, sorry for not seeing that before.

Have Fun !

LCLK - Larnaca Intl. - Cyprus

Hello,

I am very happy to announce that XP-Africa will now also include Middle-Eastern sceneries in its catalog, and the first one to be released is the Larnaca Intl. Airport on the mediterranean island of Cyprus.

This scenery was originally created by Marios Anastasiou & Antonis Antoniou who have kindly allowed me to convert and publish this scenery package.

You can contact and thank them here:

http://www.avsim.com/hangar/flight/cvartcc/

PLEASE NOTE:

This scenery package integrates parts of the OpenSceneryX object library.
It will work without it but you will miss a lot of objects.

If you do not have it yet, please get it's handy and free installer/updater here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Tested in X-Plane 9.20rc4

GOGG - Ziguinchor - Senegal V2

The original GOGG Ziguinchor scenery was created for Flight Simulator by Frédéric Kabalu, who was kind enough to allow me to convert and adapt his work to X-Plane.

Please refer to the included original documentation for details and original ReadMe's.

You can visit his website and leave him a little thank you here:

http://www.fsnabisso.com/

What has changed since v0.1b?:

The apt.dat file has been somewhat corrected and enhanced.
Also, i have retrieved some missing objects and textures and modified the code of some objects so they show propperly in x-plane.
There are also some new objects and lights and the forestation has been cut down a bit to give more space around the runway as it seems to be in reality. The tower viewpoint has been reset and i have finally added custom starting locations on the apron.

ATTENTION:

This package is enhanced with objects from the OpenSceneryX
library and wont work propperly without it.
For those who do not have it yet, you can download the latest
package installer here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

For those of you who still want to get v0.1b for any reason, i removed it from the downloads list but it will stay available for download HERE

Have Fun!

GOGS - Cap Skirring - Senegal

The original GOGS Cap Skirring scenery was created for Flight Simulator by François van Opstal, who was kind enough to allow me to convert and adapt his work to X-Plane.

Please refer to the included original documentation for details and original ReadMe's.

You can contact François van Opstal to thank him here:

francois.vanopstal[at]skynet[dot]be

and his work is available for FS here:

http://fs-senegal.hostarea.org

The scenery comes with an all new, made-from-scratch apt.dat, based on the little official info available and google-earth.


ATTENTION:

This package is enhanced with objects from the OpenSceneryX
library and wont work propperly without it.
For those who do not have it yet, you can download the latest
package installer here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com


Please note: The screenshots, even if quite close to the current version, come from an intermediary version of GOGS, meaning the version you're about to download has improved a lot...but i lack time to make screens again, sorry :)

Have Fun !

GOSS - Saint-Louis - Sénégal

GOSS Saint-Louis is a small regional airport situated on the northern coast of Senegal, near the border to mauritania. You'll find it 115 miles north of Dakar-GOOY.

The original GOSS Saint-Louis scenery was created for Flight Simulator by Jean Charbonnel, who was kind enough to allow me to convert and adapt his work to X-Plane.

Please refer to the included original documentation for details and original ReadMe's.

You can visit his website and leave him a little thank you here:

http://fs-senegal.hostarea.org

ATTENTION:

This package is enhanced with objects from the OpenSceneryX
library and wont work propperly without it.(v1.9.0 is current)
For those who do not have it yet, you can download the latest
package installer here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Have Fun !!

FKKD - Douala Intl. - Cameroon

This scenery was originally created by Frédéric Kabalu.

You can thank him and get the FS-9 version of this scene here:

http://www.fsnabisso.com

PLEASE NOTE:

This scenery package integrates parts of the OpenSceneryX object library.
It will work without it but you will miss a lot of objects.
If you do not have it yet, please get it's handy and free installer/updater here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Tested in X-Plane 9.02b1 (should work in XP8.64 without problems).

DTMB - Habib Bourgiba - Monastir - Tunisia

This scenery was originally created by Christoph Schipke for FS-9.
You can leave a 'thank you' and get the FS-9 version of this scene here:

http://www.flusipilot.de

PLEASE NOTE:
This scenery package integrates parts of the OpenSceneryX object library (v.1.8.5).
It will work without it but you will miss a lot of objects.

If you do not have it yet, please get it's handy and free installer/updater here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Dolly the Dolphin by Mr3D/Xsims is available for your scenery creation needs HERE

Tested in X-Plane 8.64 & 9.02b1.
©2008 Flusipilot.de, Chistoph Schipke, XP-Africa

FYWH - Windhoek - Namibia

This scenery was created for FS9 by Christoph Limm for SpringbokVirtual VA.

You can thank them and get the FS9 version of this scene here:

http://www.springbok-virtual.com

PLEASE NOTE:

This scenery package integrates parts of the OpenSceneryX object library.
It will work without it but you will miss a lot of objects.

If you do not have it yet, please get it's handy and free installer/updater here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Tested in X-Plane 8.64 & 9.02b1.

©2008 Springbok Virtual, XP-Africa

FOOL - Libreville - Gabun

This scenery was originlly created by Frédéric Kabalu , who was kind enough to permit convertion and publishing of this scenery package.

You can see his website and thank him here:

http://www.fsnabisso.com

This package and it's contents are Freeware and should not be modified or distributed without written permission from it's original authors and XP-Africa. All rights owned by the original authors of this package.

PLEASE NOTE:

This scenery package integrates parts of the OpenSceneryX object library.
It will work without it but you will miss a lot of objects.

If you do not have it yet, please get it's handy and free installer/updater here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Tested in X-Plane 8.64 & 9.00rc3.

FOGR - Lambarene - Gabun

This scene was originlly created by Frédéric Kabalu , who was kind enough to permit convertion and publishing of this scenery package.

You can see his website and thank him here:

http://www.fsnabisso.com

This package and it's contents are Freeware and should not be modified or distributed without written permission from it's original authors and XP-Africa. All rights owned by the original authors of this package.

PLEASE NOTE:

This scenery package integrates parts of the OpenSceneryX object library.
It will work without it but you will miss a lot of objects.

If you do not have it yet, please get it's handy and free installer/updater here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Tested in X-Plane 8.64 & 9.00rc3.

FOOW - Owendo - Gabun

This scene was originlly created by Didier Asseko , who was kind enough to permit convertion and publishing of this scenery package.

You can see his website and thank him here:

http://www.fsnabisso.com

PLEASE NOTE:

This scenery package integrates parts of the OpenSceneryX object library.
It will work without it but you will miss a lot of objects.

If you do not have it yet, please get it's handy and free installer/updater here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Tested in X-Plane 8.64 & 9.00rc3.

DTTJ - DJerba Zarzis - Tunisia

This scene was originally created by Bernhard Kulisch and Christoph Schipke, who were nice enough to permit convertion and publishing of this scenery package.

You can see their website and thank them here:

http://www.flusipilot.de

The conversion to X-Plane was done by Joseph Tossoupke (Tiemji).

PLEASE NOTE:

This scenery package integrates parts of the OpenSceneryX object library.
It will work without it but you will miss a lot of objects.

If you do not have it yet, please get it's handy and free installer/updater here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Tested in X-Plane 8.64 & 9.00rc3.

DTKA - Tabarka 7 Novembre - Tunisia

This scene was originally created by Bernhard Kulisch , who was nice enough to permit convertion and publishing of this scenery package.

You can see his website and thank him here:

http://www.flusipilot.de

The conversion to X-Plane was done by Joseph Tossoupke (Tiemji).

PLEASE NOTE:

This scenery package integrates parts of the OpenSceneryX object library.
It will work without it but you will miss a lot of objects.

If you do not have it yet, please get it's handy and free installer/updater here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Tested in X-Plane 8.64 & 9.00rc3

FVHA Harare & FVFA Victoria Falls - Zimbabwe

Finally !

Mathew Ministry, the original creator of this scene has given me permission to convert.

Since Mathew has no email and no internet at home it's been a real piece of work to reach him but finally, after months of searching, i ended up finding him on a remote FS related forum.
So i'm happy to intoduce the first beta release of the Zimbabwe scenery for X-Plane, including the airports of Harare (FVHA) and Victoria Falls (FVFA), offering you to fly over the beautiful landscapes of Zimbabwe.

If you want to thank Mathew for his scenes, please leave a comment here, as it's the only easy way to get through to him, and i'm sure he will greatly appreciate it.

Please Note:

This scenery package relies on OpenSceneryX for a lot of objects.
It will work without, thanks to the icluded placeholder, but you'll miss a lot of eye candy.
If you do not have it yet, i can only recommend you to install that great package, which you can get here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

have fun !:)

DAAG - Algiers Intenational & Algiers City Scenery - Algeria

Algeria, here we come :)

I'm happy to add two very nice conversions of Riad Ghenim's scenery packs by Simon (Sigoo) to the XP-Africa Map.

You can visit Riad and leave him a little thanks message here:

http://riadg.free.fr/index.html

You can also look up Sigoo on X-Plane.org and thank him for his work converting these scenes.

Hav fun !

DNMM - Lagos - Murtala Muhamad Int. - Nigeria

The original DNMM Murtala Muhamad International scenery was created for Flight Simulator by Frédéric Kabalu, who was kind enough to allow me to convert and adapt his work to X-Plane.

Please refer to the included original documentation for details and original ReadMe's.

You can visit his website and leave him a little thank you here:

http://www.fsnabisso.com/

This is still in beta stage, more precise layout will come with the final.

Tested on X-Plane v9rc3, the package will work in v8 but the quality of the mesh is so bad that some buildings are misplaced.

ATTENTION:

This package is enhanced with objects from the OpenSceneryX
library. It will work without but you'll lose a lot of objects.
For those who do not have it yet, you can download the latest
package installer here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

FAPI - Pietersburg Airport - South Africa

Here's the second South African airport Jens has released today, another neat conversion of the Aeroworx scenery pack. Detail from Jens: >FS2004 Scenery Pietersburg (Civil) Airport, South Africa >File Name: Worx15.zip >Author: André Steyn and Johan van Wyk, Aeroworx >Date of Release: February, 2005 >Version: 1.00 >DESCRIPTION >A highly detailed airport, containing photo realistic ground textures, hangars and buildings. >Permission for conversion and upload included >See http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=27914 for a list of all converted >aeroworx scenery

FAWB - Wonderboom Airport - South Africa

Good News !

Jens Ansorg just posted two new South African scenes.
Two more of his beautiful conversions from the Aeroworx scenery packs.

here's the details for the first one:

>Wonderboom Airport, South Africa

>File Name: Worx06.zip
>Author: Henning van Rensburg and Johan van Wyk, Aeroworx
>Date of Release: May, 2004
>Version: 1.00

>DESCRIPTION

>Wonderboom Airport, South Africa. A highly detailed airport containing photo realistic >ground textures, hangars and buildings.

>Permission for conversion and upload included

>See http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=27914 for a list of all converted >aeroworx scenery

HDAM & HDCH - Djibouti - v1.0

HDAM & HDCH - Djibouti - v1.0

This scenery was originally created for FS by Alexandre Remy, who was kind enough to allow me to convert and distribute his scenery packages for X-Plane.

You can have a look at Alex's website and thank him for his scene here :

http://frenchairforce60.free.fr/

PLEASE NOTE:

This package depends on the OpenSceneryX package. It will work without but you will miss a lot of objects.
If you do not have OpenSceneryX installed yet, please grab the handy installer for MAc, Windows or Linux here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Comments are always welcome, they help me improving the scenery packages you can find here.

Have Fun !

FTTJ - N'Djamena - Tchad

FTTJ - N'Djamena - Tchad

This scenery was originally created for FS by Alexandre Remy, who was kind enough to allow me to convert and distribute his scenery packages for X-Plane.

You can have a look at Alex's website and thank him for his scene here :

http://frenchairforce60.free.fr/

Exceptionally, this package consists of two folders to be placed in your Custom Scenery folder, i did not have time to find out how to fuse two packages into one.

PLEASE NOTE:

This package depends on the OpenSceneryX package. It will work without but you will miss a lot of objects.
If you do not have OpenSceneryX installed yet, please grab the handy installer for MAc, Windows or Linux here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Your comments are always welcome and will help me to improve these packages.

Have fun !

GOGG - Ziguinchor - Senegal - v0.1b

The original GOGG Ziguinchor scenery was created for Flight Simulator by Frédéric Kabalu, who was kind enough to allow me to convert and adapt his work to X-Plane.

Please refer to the included original documentation for details and original ReadMe's.

You can visit his website and leave him a little thank you here:

http://www.fsnabisso.com/

This is a first beta version, the final version wil include a more detailed apt.dat file, more accurate roads, forest overlay and the city around the airport.

ATTENTION:

This package is enhanced with objects from the OpenSceneryX
library and wont work propperly without it.
For those who do not have it yet, you can download the latest
package installer here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Marocco & West Sahara (Maroc&SaharaOccidental) Scenery Added to the list

Another hit becomes part of our list: Marocco & Western Sahara is an amazing scenery.
It adds over 40 airports, and ranges from Marocco to Mauritania.
This Scenery has been made by Alain Laurent (Al-Youx) who was kind enough to let us list it here in order to cover the map a little bit more :)

have fun !

South Africa Added to the list

Merry X-Mas in March :) , Jens Ansorg kindly allowed me to post direct links to the download pages of his South African scenery packs on x-plane.org .

The original scenes were created for FS by Aeroworx and converted by Jens for X-Plane.

This allows me to fill the map of Africa a little bit more with the following airports:

FAJS - Johannesburg International
FAKN - Mpumalanga International
FAGM - Rand
FAVG - Virginia
FADK - Klerksdorp & FALY - Ladysmith double pack

You can find everything about jens and his conversions here:
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=27914

Have fun !

GBYD - Banjul Intl. Airport

GBYD -Banjul International Airport v0.1b

The original GBYD - Banjul International scenery was created for Flight Simulator by Frédéric Kabalu, who was kind enough to allow me to convert and adapt his work to X-Plane.
You can visit his website and leave him a little thank you here:

http://www.fsnabisso.com/

This is a first beta version, the final version wil include a more detailed apt.dat file, more accurate roads, forest overlay and the city around the airport.

ATTENTION:

This package is enhanced with objects from the OpenSceneryX
library and won't work propperly without it.
For those who do not have it yet, you can download the latest
package installer here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

GOOY - Dakar v0.1b

The original GOOY - Dakar scenery was created for Flight Simulator
by Jean Charbonnel, who was kind enough to allow me to convert and adapt
his work to X-Plane.

You can visit his website and leave him a little thank you here:
http://fs-senegal.hostarea.org/


ATTENTION:

This package is enhanced with objects from the OpenSceneryX
library and won't work propperly without it.
For those who do not have it yet, you can download the latest
package installer here:

http://www.opensceneryx.com

Hello there,

Just a short post to introduce XP-Africa.
My goal here will be to provide quality scenery creations and conversions from FS packages for the region of Africa. X-Plane doesn't have so much scenes for Africa yet, so i hope you'll like our work. This project is supposed to serve the X-Plane community and i'd love it to become a true community project. I'm also happy to connect the FS and X-Plane communities a bit more by starting this collaboration with Frédéric Kabalu who's scenes will all be converted, including the future releases he's curently preparing for FS.

We'll start in this month of March 2008 with the sceneries for Dakar GOOY and Banjul GBYD in their first beta version. Both are pretty much finished for the airports part but i promised myself to have the city of Dakar around the airport ready for GOOY v1.0.
In addition we will also have the scenes for the Gabun Airports, hopefully coming before end of the month.

I would like to thank Frederic Kabalu and Jean Charbonnel, creators of some beautiful Africa sceneries for FS, for their support in converting their scenery packages. I'd also like to thank Daniel Leygnat and the whole XPFR crew for their continuous support and giving me the motivation to make XP-Africa.

If anyone has interrest in participating to the project, contributing to scenery development or testing the realeases, please feel free to contact me as any helping hand is always welcome.

Furthermore, your opinion and comments about theses releases being one of my primary source of inspiration, you're warmly welcome to post them here.