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Do you like flying VFR and watching the World below you? Do you sometimes feel that something is missing? We Love VFR is here to help you. We Love VFR is a free add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator that adds thousands of new VFR-friendly objects. In this version, you get communication, radio, and tv antennas, chimneys, cooling towers, radar domes, construction cranes, and satellite/radio telescope dishes, large crosses and... gers, also known as yurts! I have plans for many more.
I spend countless hours developing this, so donations are very appreciated, but not mandatory ;)
If you don't like smoke effects, or they somehow kill your fps, first of all, report it here or on discord, but then you can download the "no effects" version of this add-on.
Note to creators: Because of fs.to ToS BS (so many abbreviations!), and me modifying files with every update I've removed consent on using my assets in other add-ons. This doesn't mean I don't want you to use them! Just contact me and I will provide you with source files and assistance :) I'll try to prepare the separate library soon, to make everything compatible forever (I must change ALL GUIDs in one region for compatibility reasons, so it may break some sceneries). The library won't be available at flightsim.to, so check my discord for links. I'm sorry for any inconvenience. For now, I recommend using Region 1 as a dependency.
Region 1 (Europe and North Africa) is here »
Region 2 (Americas and second part of the Oceania) is here »
- ~150 000 objects were placed in region 3
- Coverage of Asia, the Middle East, Australia and part of Oceania
- In this version, mobile communication, tv and radio antennas, chimneys, flare stacks, cooling towers, radar domes, construction cranes, satellite/radio telescope dishes, large and mountain peak crosses, and gers (yurts)
- Visual effects. Yup, we have smoking chimneys and cooling towers and fire coming from flare stacks. And yes, they do react to wind and even temperature.
- Puffin AI* - correct placement and appearance of objects**
- Incorporated data from various sources
- Over 100 custom models
- Lower spec PC friendly
- More planned
How to install?
Find your „Community” directory and just copy "a-puf-we-love-vfr-region3" folder there. That’s it. If you’re updating my addon, remove the old version before installing the new one.
If you have a conflicting addon refer to the included ReadMe file.
Warning: To get satellite dishes/radio telescopes you need "USA Points of Interest" and "Australia Points of Interest" by Asobo, from the official World Update USA and World Update Australia installed. It's available in the sim in the marketplace for free.
I'm working on this alone and data in this region is far from perfect, so don't be mad if you see any errors, just report them to me so I can fix them ;) If you see an object that you know but its appearance is wrong, join our discord and report it there. I'll try to add/fix it for the next version.
Known Issues:
- My objects are switched off on photogrammetry to avoid conflicts (except mast and antennas). Unfortunately, photogrammetry boundaries are sometimes different than real photogrammetry coverage. Because of that, objects that are close to photogrammetry areas might not appear at all. I'm trying to figure out what to do with this. If you find a place like this, report it to me so I can fix it.
*Not really AI. Just quite complex conditions and a lot of code, but AI sounds a lot better.
**Depends on data availability.
13 days ago
Nicotine70
1 months ago
Mriya
2 months ago
1 months ago
PuffinFlight
Benismobil
2 months ago
kamho6
3 months ago
CCVA022
3 months ago
Nethiuz
3 months ago
Dutchman
The work of one of my favorite Italians is SIMPLY THE BEST! <3
5 months ago
I guess we all love Mamu82 :D I'm Polish BTW :D
5 months ago
PuffinFlight
Flusikussi
hi, any way to edit scenery by some codes or something? in haifa we lost one fat chemistry tower, but in scenery both there, and there no smock irl... actually we have scenery with objects so probably we can even disable that, so if you know where israel is could you make scenery as option without israel? and actually i don't sure israel in reg1 or 3? by jpg it's 1 but i do not sure
p.s. yes, that's as on picture, israel in 1 region, question only how exclude because it's conflict with other addon and have a little mentioned mistake, and in night that chemistry tower glowing light salad color😊 so no need red flashing on it
6 months ago
einherz
What is there to say. Amazing work! I've been using this mods since Region 1 was available. Keep up the great work!
6 months ago
FranklinFjM
Is it possible to set the appearance of steam and smoke depending on the air temperature. For example, only in winter.
7 months ago
It already is dependent on temperature. The lower the temp, the more opaque it gets. But I agree that it is too subtle and it would be cool to add some smoke generators that would be active ONLY when the temperature is low. Can't tell when but I'm sure I'll revisit it one day.
7 months ago
PuffinFlight
TigerCat
Incredible work. Thanks so much 😊
8 months ago
bokepacha
Excellent, thank you.
8 months ago
Elwood26
Is there a list of objects, cities or countries affecting this? I fly in only one country in this area (vietnam) and this would be nice to know ahead.
8 months ago
Short answer - no.
Long answer:
This region covers all of Asia, so Vietnam is included. All 3 regions combined cover the whole World. As it adds thousands of objects it's hard to create useful maps for it. I could filter out more significant objects but it's an additional workload at every update.
I didn't find any additional data for Vietnam, so basically if it's in OpenStreetMap it should be in the sim. Some more notable examples:
TV towers in Can Tho, Hue, Ha Noi
Masts in Dong Hoi
I see there are also chimneys at power plants but I had no height data for Vietnam so they may not be that accurate. I want to prepare a series of tutorials on how to edit OpenStreetMap to make objects closer to real life in the sim.
8 months ago
PuffinFlight
ameland
Is there anything related to Pakistan?
8 months ago
Yes, there is. Lots of objects. 263 chimneys and 274 masts and tv/radio towers. It has combined data from OpenStreetMap and Pakistan AIP, but the AIP was low quality and all over the place. I couldn't confirm the existence of many objects that were listed in AIP.
8 months ago
PuffinFlight
Ibrahim4321