North America Landclass
Purchase
Purchasing of this scenery can be performed through either the downloadable Flight1 executable wrapper, or through a shopping account at FS Pilot Shop, FlightSim Store, PC Aviator, SimulShop, or simMarket.
Price: $18.95 USD
File size: 20.4 MB
Version: 1.4
Requirements:
- Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista
- Flight Simulator X
North America Landclass--Flight1 wrapper download
North America Landclass--Flight1 wrapper download (Mirror)
North America Landclass--FS Pilot Shop product page
North America Landclass--FlightSim Store product page
North America Landclass--PC Aviator product page
North America Landclass--SimulShop product page
North America Landclass--simMarket product page
Alternative manual installation download (Only recommended for those experiencing issues with the automated installer. Available to non-Flight1 customers upon request.):
North America Landclass manual installation--Flight1 wrapper download
North America Landclass manual installation--Flight1 wrapper download (Mirror)
Updates
When updating the product, you can download the appropriate installer upgrade kit from the link(s) below which allows you to transform your existing installer into a newer version. The included readme.txt explains in detail how to perform the installer upgrade.
Alternatively, you can re-download the product from the place where you initially purchased it:
- If you are retrieving a newer version of the product via the Flight1 wrapper, click the "Click Here to Reinstall" button in the wrapper and use the key that was issued to you during your initial purchase.
- If you purchased this product via the FlightSim Flight Shop, the FlightSim Store, or SimulShop you can log into your shopping account on their site and retrieve the update.
- If you purchased this product via PC Aviator, or simMarket, you must generate your update using the installer upgrade kits below.
North America Landclass v1.3 to v1.4 installer upgrade kit
v1.4
- All urban data has been shifted 1km to the southeast for improved accuracy.
- Most “bald spots” in cities caused by gaps in the urban source data have been filled in.
- Erroneous depictions of several nonexistent towns have been removed.
- Increased quantity of vineyards and farmland in Napa Valley, California.
- Increased farmland coverage in Nova Scotia.
v1.3
- Fixed a patch of desert that appeared in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
- Fixed the disappearance of Juneau, Alaska.
- Foliage in the vicinity of Juneau, Alaska has been increased.
- Some mountains in western Canada have lowered ice-summit altitudes.
v1.2
- Implemented revamped urban extents algorithm as featured in the SceneryTech Europe Landclass.
- Rock summit elevations have been tweaked.
- Data padding along coastlines has been added to avoid "bleed-through" of the default landclass.
- Increased woodland density in New England.
- Increased farmland coverage in Colorado and vicinity.
- Increased needleleaf foliage in Wyoming and vicinity.
- Applied denser foliage to various islands in the Caribbean.
- Replaced some instances of farmland with swampland in Florida.
v1.1
- The rock rendering scheme has been improved. The slopes of steep mountains and canyons will be rockier than before.
- Perma-ice is applied to high altitude rocks.
- Fixed unusually high amount of foliage in western Alaska.
v1.0.1
- This is an installer update for Windows Vista compatibility. Scenery data is unchanged from the previous version. If you've already successfully installed the landclass, it is not necessary to download this newer version of the installer.
- Fixed "Data Execution Prevention" error caused by unelevated privileges when running the installer under Windows Vista.
- Fixed erronenous message on Windows Vista and some XP machines that a version of the .NET framework is required, even though a higher version is installed.
- Removed the option to install for "Just me" in the installer.
- The installer now takes into account irregular layer values when adding scenery entries to scenery.cfg.
v1.0
- This is the first version of North America Landclass.
Coverage
Comparison Gallery
Click on a thumbnail below to see a comparison between the default landclass and the SceneryTech landclass. Move your mouse over the enlarged image to see the ST screenshot, and move your mouse off to see the default screenshot. Click on the enlarged image to open the two full-sized comparison screenshots in separate windows.
*Note: To assist with the comparison of geographical landmarks, 3rd party mesh data may have been employed in some screenshots.