This is the small town I grew up in, Kelley, Iowa. Population approximately 300. Established in 1875. This isn't scenery that anyone asked for, but I thought it would be a good project to be my first before I move on to more important towns.
This project updates a few of the more prominent buildings in the small town using Google's photogrammetry data. It is worth noting that the photogrammetry data is not perfect, especially for smaller buildings like these. Up close, they will appear a little blocky, but if you're flying by in a plane, even close to the ground, it isn't too noticeable. At the very least, it is an improvement over the autogen data.
What is Included
• Photogrammetry imports for grain silos, the historical post office, the church, and a nearby communications tower.
• POI data for the town. Just the one for the city, no spam.
• Night lighting
Notes
• The post office building is over 100 years old. It once also served as a train depot, but the tracks that ran through town were eventually replaced with road. The Post Office itself stopped business in 2013, and the taller Eastern half of the building was actually removed a few years ago and replaced with a new building, but Google's photogrammetry data is a few years old.
• The Hartland Communication Tower is 247ft tall. In real life, it has a blinking white light at night that blinks once per second. The MSFS SDK currently does not support blinking lights, and if you add one in Blender, I've heard it is only visible within 50m, which makes it pretty useless. So instead, I opted for a solid white light at the top.
• The water tower is unfortunately not included. Google's photogrammetry data for it was so messy that is was unuseable.
Reviews
This is so awesome! I live in Ames, IA and bike by Kelley on R38 all the time while heading to Slater for High Trestle Trail. Thank you for sharing! Blue skies!!!
Comments
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motomat
Just wanted to say thanks for the mod. I live a bit north of Kelley and wanted to my kids to enjoy this game with some better mods of this great state.
SimFanatic
This is so awesome! I live in Ames, IA and bike by Kelley on R38 all the time while heading to Slater for High Trestle Trail. Thank you for sharing! Blue skies!!!
Wagsii author
It makes me so happy that someone downloaded this that actually knows where it is in real life. I'm currently working on a pack with Jack Trice Stadium, Hilton Colosseum, and Stephen's Auditorium! Make sure to follow me if you want a notification when it's released!
3 years ago