ADELAIDE INTERNATIONAL X FSX P3D

Well I was in contact with the developer before i bought this regarding the reduced detail of the apron. I though and was told it was reduced, however when i bought and installed it i didn't think it was that reduced in detail. That the default apron textures when editing the AFCAD file in ADE were 100% better.

What also alarmed me that the detailed was reduced big time. Was when i installed both P3D3 and P3D4. I noticed their was a 30kb difference in the AFCAD.bgl file sizes. While I require my sceneries to be functional more that looking real life like. This scenery was even below what i would expect visually.

I also had to edit the AFCAD file and select the DME tick box so the ILS works properly. This is something a good 3rd party developer should not miss. Also when a scenery like this is developed the below should always be functional.

1) Jetways (SODE)
2) VDGS - (SODE)
3) Apron/airport detail.

The above would not take much effort from a 3rd party developer who is experienced like AUscene. It should not fall down to the end user to make them work or function correctly, and or appear more life like rather than a photo.

NOTE: I purchased and download YPAD when it was v2.2. I have noticed prior to writing this that YPAD is now at v2.3.

However I don't think YPAD was ready when it was released, and if v2.3 has not fixed the apron issue at least. Then i will be asking for my money back as it was not worth 22.99 AUD, which is what i paid for it.

Regards

Damian

From the distance it looks good, as it blends well into ORBX AU, and the ground colors are OK. There's nothing "wrong" with the scenery such as bugs... but it's simply not really good. Textures look pretty artificial, there are no SODE gates, not even standard moving gates, and the jetways themselves really look very very outdated. And so do terminals. What's more: The AFCAD needed some editing, so that the airliners really appeared at the gates, and not at the GA parking spots.
Yes, there is no other YPAD scenery out there for P3d, so it's OK. It's simple and flyable without a problem. But it's definitely one of the weaker AU sceneries, and certainly not the one I would choose in the first place, if it doesn't have to be exactly YPAD.

I bought it being the only Adelaide scenery out there, the buildings aren’t bad but its not really the quality one is used to in p3dv5 but it’s acceptable. The biggest issue is the ground poly which is basically not there if you have Australia V2 its horrific. I’ve been told when I emailed that an update is coming... hasn’t come yet. Will update stars when or if it comes out.

Bought this in Sep 2020. The developer sent me an email which said the ground poly for Adelaide was made for FSX and was currently just ported over for P3D V4&5 compatibility. The email suggested that they were going to rebuild the ground polys specifically for V4&5, but that's not happened in the last 6 months. Happy to add more stars when they follow up on this.

I’m grateful for any Australian scenery - there’s not enough of it. This scenery is ok and I do I enjoy using it (thank you :-), but IMHO it’s not of a comparable standard to sceneries from a lot of other P3Dv5 developers in this price range. I would encourage the developer to continue enhancing/developing this scenery with higher res textures (current textures around the airport are very low res) and I look fwd to seeing a V2.3 or v3.0.

The quality looks really poor and defently not P3d v5 standards. This looks more like FS2004 standars i am really disapointed to pay so much money for this airport.

What a nice scenery, worth the money (especially as "nice price")! I'm not really familiar with the airport scenery in reality - isn't there any airport inscription showing the traveller you have arrived at "ADELAIDE"?

Four stars .... mightbe there are always some whishes left!

Its great that the guys from AUscene acted on my email about replacing the static jetways hats of to them for listening. Its a great product

This is an UPDATE to my earlier review of 1st August 2020 - I have been contacted by the Developer to say that they have now added SODE Jetways for GSX users which is excellent! They also appear to have been having complaints about the scenery due to my review. I will state and reiterate again - YOUR RESULTS MAY VARY! But most if not ALL airport sceneries are layered ABOVE everything default (Layer 1 descending). So Adelaide could easily be layered at the top (1) and all should be well. But in doing this, on my system, much of the scenery disappeared! My advice is to install the product and allow it to add to the library and then test the scenery. If you do not see the treeline surrounding the airport or do not see the patchy, grassy airport environs and are greeted by a bland light brown tarmac, then this has happened to you! Just change the scenery layer and it should all be fine. Lee James - 05 AUG 2020

This is a review of AUSCENE 2 - Adelaide International version 2.1 for FSX/P3D. Test system - ChillBlast Intel i9-9900k CPU overclocked, 32GB System RAM, 1TB Samsung Evo SSD, GeForce RTX 2080Ti 11GB Video, Windows 10 64-bit Home. This scenery was installed into Lockheed Martin's Prepar3Dv4.5 Hot Fix 3 (HF3) Pro license. Please note that this new version of Adelaide is NOT an upgrade, in the sense that you just install right over the top of an existing ASCENE version; The original version, if you have it, should be removed as the newer version 2.1 is a new FULL install. Unfortunately, the product for me scores lower for a lack of instructions concerning the install. The file size download was something I found confusing to begin with as the original version of AUscene Adelaide was 495MB, whereas the newer version 2.1 is smaller at 247MB! Usually I would expect an "improved" version or upgrade to an existing scenery to be a larger download. However, the scenery is fine. It is not Orbx quality, but it is very acceptable. For those users who have Orbx Global Base, Vector and Australia v2 installed, I can confirm that this product is compatible and works very well with the Orbx products installed. However, the layering is critical, I have found. Normally, Airport sceneries are layered ABOVE all base products such as Default Terrain, Default Scenery and the Base files. But in this case, I found that normal layering results in a huge loss of objects and the rise of default buildings and structures! Layering this scenery BETWEEN the Orbx Base products and Orbx Australia gives the same result. But by placing this scenery BELOW the Orbx products, but ABOVE the Default Base files as usual, it works. Most noticeable is the fact that the missing trees come back, as does a large part of the coastal infrastructure, west of the runway 5 threshold, all missing and flat looking if the scenery is not layered correctly. Your results may vary, but this is a pleasing scenery that works and to be honest, really enhances this little corner of Australia - and an airport that has been crying out to be developed for your Simulator! After I managed to install this correctly, I found that the quality is good with many nice touches. To read more on this, visit my blog - virtualairlinepilot.org. Lee James - AUG 2020 West Sussex UK