AionSky Studios has released “AliveGrass”, a vegetation enhancement for X-Airplane 11/12. The product provides 3D grass, flowers, and different small vegetation round airports and different terrain. It has regional variations, adjustable grass heights, and seasonal adjustments.
Vegetation is generated mechanically round your digicam actions and doesn’t require modifications to particular person airports, the developer informs.
Three grass top choices can be found: Mown, Pure, and Tall, together with meadow flowers and a settings interface with adjustable density presets. The plugin has some limitations, associated to loading delays, gaps in vegetation protection, and a few floating grass on uneven terrain, based on the developer.
Options
- Regional and biome-based vegetation, with grass and plant mixes suited to completely different environments.
- Modeled 3D vegetation, combining detailed close by vegetation with easier geometry for surrounding protection.
- Pure variation in vegetation top, orientation, scale and distribution.
- Mown, Pure and Tall top alternatives.
- Terrain-aware placement on eligible airport lawns, grass airfields and surrounding terrain.
- Surroundings-based exclusions for acknowledged paved runways, taxiways, aprons, roads, water and buildings.
- Computerized seasonal choice, with inexperienced, moist, dormant and snowy appearances the place supported simulator alerts can be found.
- Adjustable draw distance as much as 2,000 metres round your energetic digicam.
- Separate controls for area element, close-clump inhabitants and vegetation top.
- Low, Medium, Dense and Extremely presets, accessible via the settings panel and Plugins menu.
- Motion-aware preparation that prioritizes close by terrain and upcoming protection.
- A persistent Vegetation toggle and Apply & Save controls.
- Separate Home windows, macOS and Linux packages for every simulator version.
AliveGrass is offered for $15 USD from the X-Plane.org Store, the place the XP11 and XP12 variations are included in a single buy. It additionally helps macOS and Linux.
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