This add-on includes an overhauled representation of the Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacán, a World Heritage Site located a short distance west of the MMYK airport in Mexico.
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Version 1.2
Added three Levels of Detail (LOD) for major structures, which improves performance.
Added an optional folder which allows users to install higher quality Google-derived satellite imagery. The imagery was hand edited to remove many baked-in cars, people, and other anomalies.
Added texture bump mapping for improved depth and realism.
Added higher quality photogrammetry models for some of the smaller ruins situated near the Sun Pyramid.
Added a custom, hand-made model of the museum.
The 3D models have been stitched together more seamlessly.
Night light locations, brightness, and symmetry have been improved to enhance realism.
Tree polygons have been significantly enhanced to more accurately reflect real world locations and densities.
The built in scenery objects have received significant modifications, including the addition of smaller ruins, tour buses, ground object blending, and more.
Version 1.1
The 3D models have been optimized to reduce their size, without reducing quality. Users will notice a significant improvement in performance. There is still currently no LOD modelling, but this is subject to change.
An early implementation of night lighting has been added. This is subject to future adjustments.
The 3D models have been stitched together more seamlessly, and have slightly improved texturing to remove certain defects.
Two smaller photogammetry pyramids are now included.
Tree and terraforming polygons were further tweaked to enhance realism.
The built in scenery objects were further adjusted, including the parked cars in particular.
The default scenery for the Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacán is somewhat lacking. Due to the lack of custom models and Bing photogrammetry for this area, the Blackshark AI attempts to construct the site automatically by interpreting the 2D satellite imagery. However, as users will note, significant structures like the Pyramid of the Sun are represented by large warehouses or other anachronistic structures.
This add-on attempts to address this issue by presenting users with a much improved, and far more accurate overhaul of Teotihuacán. In addition to various ruins, this add-on includes the major buildings, such as the Pyramid of the Sun, Moon, and Temple of the Feathered Serpent (otherwise known as the Temple of Quetzalcoatl). As neither Bing, nor Google have photogrammetry data for this city, photogrammetry data acquired by the Cultural Heritage Xochimilco, and Proyecto Interdisciplinario de la Prehistoria del Oriente de Guerrero (PIPOG) was used as a source for developing this add-on. Further manual modifications were made, including cropping away excess data, fine-tuning some graphical anomalies, making minor color corrections, and stitching together the data in a sensible manner. Extensive terraforming, and tree adjustments were also made to help mesh the photogrammetry more seamlessly with the sim environment. Some built in sim objects were also used to help augment the overall authenticity of the add-on. Where adequate photogrammetry data is lacking, a creative decision was made to simply remove any structures deemed anachronistic. This does not include visitor centers or other modern buildings situated near the site.
NOTE: Users are encouraged to use this add-on conjunction with derekhe's excellent MSFS 2020 Google Map replacement tool. If you do, it is not necessary to install to this add-on's included satellite imagery.