Franjo Tuđman Airport (Croatian: Zračna luka „Franjo Tuđman”; IATA: ZAG, ICAO: LDZA), also known as Pleso Airport, is the largest and busiest international airport in Croatia. In 2017 it handled around 3.1 million passengers and some 12,000 tons of cargo.
Named after Franjo Tuđman, the first President of Croatia, the airport is located some 10 km (6.2 mi) south-east of Zagreb Central Station[4] at Velika Gorica. It is the hub for the Croatian flag carrier Croatia Airlines as well as Trade Air. A base of the Croatian Air Force is located within the airport complex, in barracks called "Colonel Marko Živković". An administrative centre of the Croatian Air Traffic Control is also situated on the grounds of the airport.
Features:
Custom airport building and some in the surrounding area.
Custom platform and custom vehicles.
Custom lighting runway.
3D light mast lighting and lights on taxiing.
Glass effect windows of buildings airport and vehicles.
Road traffic.
The effect of wet platform during rain.
Large landclass.
Colors landclass made for the color gamut FTX ORBX GLOBAL World textures.
Optional : Dynamic reflection glasses in P3Dv3,P3Dv4.
Optional : Dynamic lighting in P3Dv4
Attention: Scenery uses SODE module for some objects.
Note:Jetways static in scenery (separate bgl - easy removal)
Screenshots made using FTX ORBX GLOBAL + Orbx FTX Trees HD.
After much hesitation I decided to give RFSB a chance, despite the fact I am very much against their strategy (or laziness?) of not offering SODE animated jetways. I always wanted a great Zagreb scenery so I said to myself, well, principle or not, I go ahead and buy this one.
The scenery looks good overall with smaller issues here and there. Both the old and new terminals are modelled perfectly and in general the 3D models are of superior quality. The night lighting is also impressive.
Not so much the textures, especially on the new terminal building. I find it a bit low in resolution for today's standards. No terminal interior, no nothing. Just a flat image, and it shows, especially at night, and especially when viewed from close, such as sitting at the jetway. It is not bad but not fantastic either. Same applies for the ground textures of the green fields within and immediately around the airport. Nothing special. Not bad but could do with better. If volumetric grass covered more of these green fields, at least near the taxiways and aprons then it would be less noticeable but grass has only been placed in patches here and there, I guess in order not to jeopardize performance. By the way, performance is alright.
The tarmac textures are pretty cool and the ground markings are fine, but unfortunately, things have changed in Zagreb since then and thus the current layout is already outdated. The developer promised an update that will make the scenery layout match the actual layout of the airport but I want to see it happen, to believe it.
And then we arrive at the jetways. RFSB so far have never ever included SODE animated jetways despite the vast majority of their very own customers begging them for it. I don't particularly like developers who simply do not listen to their customers. And I am afraid that now that GSX Level 2 offers SODE jetways, this is going to make RFSB feel even more comfortable and perfectly fine with their habit of not addding animated jetways.
The problem with this is that the jetway models included with GSX Level 2 cannot match the look, the style, the size and the colour of every single jetway at every single airport, which will result in unrealistic "generic" jetways being added. The only acceptable solution is developers taking the time and making the effort animating their jetways through SODE.
If the jetways were animated, I would have given a star more, but this way it's defintely not worth more than two. If you desperately need a Zagreb scenery, sure, go ahead, there is much to like in this product but for the reasons outlined above I can't wholeheartedly recommend a product of a developer who ignores the requests of their customers.
I have got a few of RFSCENEYBUILDING airport packages and I have to say that this scenery is fantastic so as always a massive well done to the rfscenerybuilding team on yet another fantastic scenery package love everything about it lots of detailed scenery and even more five stars from me ;) :) looking forward to more fantastic scenery packages from rfscenerybuilding ;) :)