IMPORTANT! Orbx Landmarks Cape Town City Pack must be installed for this scenery to work correctly. It is a compatible version for Orbx product of the Cape Town scenery.
Download both thalixte-capetown_VN1Xt.7z (main file) and thalixte-capetown2.7z. Extract thalixte-capetown and thalixte-capetown2 folders into the Community folder. Both packages are mandatory for the scenery to display correctly. Download and install 7-zip if you don't have it already. It is free and supports most of the standard file compression formats.
Cape Town is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest (after Johannesburg). Colloquially named the Mother City, it is the largest city of the Western Cape province, and is managed by the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. The other two capitals are Pretoria, the executive capital, located in Gauteng, where the Presidency is based, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital in the Free State, where the Supreme Court of Appeal is located.
Cape Town is ranked as a Beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. The city is known for its harbour, for its natural setting in the Cape Floristic Region, and for landmarks such as Table Mountain and Cape Point. Cape Town is home to 66% of the Western Cape's population. In 2014, Cape Town was named the best place in the world to visit by both The New York Times and The Daily Telegraph.
Located on the shore of Table Bay, the City Bowl area of Cape Town, is the oldest urban area in the Western Cape, with a significant cultural heritage. It was founded by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as a supply station for Dutch ships sailing to East Africa, India, and the Far East. Jan van Riebeeck's arrival on 6 April 1652 established the VOC Cape Colony, the first permanent European settlement in South Africa. Cape Town outgrew its original purpose as the first European outpost at the Castle of Good Hope, becoming the economic and cultural hub of the Cape Colony. Until the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the development of Johannesburg, Cape Town was the largest city in southern Africa.
The city has a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, which includes False Bay, and extends to the Hottentots Holland mountains in the East. The Table Mountain National Park is within the city boundaries and there are several other nature reserves and marine protected areas within and adjacent to the city, protecting the diverse terrestrial and marine natural environment.
GPS: 33° 55′ 31″ S, 18° 25′ 26″ E
Credits:
This scenery has been extracted from Google Maps, hence all 3D credits goes to Google.
This scenery has been generated with the Google Earth Decoder tool (credits to /u/Jonahex111), modified with a specific dll to retrieve the last Google Earth data:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FS2020Creation/comments/j3faaj/google_earth_decoder_now_userfriendly/
OJO for the colorimetry
ORBX for the Landmarks Cape Town City Pack
Precisions:
All the 3d handcrafted Orbx buildings have been cleaned from the Google Earth photogrammetry data using Open Street Map data (geocode and OSM id).
Addon history:
v1.0: initial release
Installation:
Download thalixte-capetown_VN1Xt.7z (main file) and thalixte-capetown2.7z . Extract thalixte-capetown and thalixte-capetown2 folders into the Community folder. Both folders are mandatory for this scenery to display properly.
If you want to donate, you will always be welcome to help me continue with more projects and update the existing ones https://paypal.me/Thalixte.
paradude60
Thalixte author
2 months ago
babyaby1975
Fantastic piece of scenery. Thank you. However, I saw in your comments that there is a DX12 issue with scenery popping/flashing. I noticed this particularly around lions head and signal hill area. Is this something that can be fixed? I don't have this problem with other scenery so I assume it is linked to the google data? Hoping this can be fixed as DX12 is much smoother in VR than DX11. What are your thoughts?
Thalixte author
4 months ago
Spacepilot
paradude60
Thalixte author
10 months ago
MartinKempf63
GunStrauss
Great work, but had a strange issue with a huge artificial trench (posted image in user gallery). Wonder what the cause could be.
Thalixte author
This means that the second part of the scenery is not installed. Read carefully the installation instructions, and this should fix the issue. Best regards
2 years ago
eagle33
Wow this is amazing! It's blended so well too.
PieFly
Thank you for this, looks beautiful, but for some reason I get alot of "popping" textures, is it just me or did I miss something, ORBX is installed correctly and your files aswell
Thalixte author
I guess you're using dx12. Try with dx11 instead.
2 years ago
carlos
Merci beaucoup!! Je l'attendais
Strassenbernd
Hallo Thalixte, erstmal vielen Dank für die schöe Mod. Läuft bei mir sehr smooth. Wirst Du den Bereich noch erweitern, so dass die komplette False Bay inkl. Cape of Good Hope mit eingebunden sein sind?
Thalixte author
You're welcome. But sorry, i don't speak afrikaans (i'm french). Extending the area can have an impact on performances, and i'am afraid i have not the time to make any extension.
2 years ago
Pilotpete1
Excellent scenery, the only problem when I flew over Lions head for some reason I hit an invisible artifact and then crashed a death.... not sure if it was the scenery, but when I landed my view crammed up all the LOD's and everything looked jagged and not natural. Just thought I would feedback.
Thalixte author
Hello. Can you share to me a screenshot, please ?
2 years ago
tculhane
Awesome! Thanks!!
Carlos17
OMG I know you get tons of comments and have add to them. This mod of Cape Town South Africa is GORGEOUS!!!! It is truly breathtaking it such a HUGE improvement the realistic textures used on Table Mountain and Lion's Head almost brought a tear to my eye. You are amazing at these modifications. BEAUTIFUL WORK.
Caiman
Great!!!!
Baby3333
Thank you so much. This is awesome. Well done.