During this time, you could have problems downloading files. If so, please wait for some hours and try again.

The performance upgrade is needed to handle the huge traffic if the next strongly improved version of X-WORLD will be published, this will be in 2 – 3 months. So there is enough time to test and improve performance of simHeaven servers.

If you like the upgrade (and our sceneries, of course) and want to help us to handle the costs (high speed web servers aren’t cheap) , please consider about doing a donation.

For any other questions like collaboration, licensing etc. please contact info@simheaven.com.

Thanks to user @ueid who programmed the scripts processing and integrating the estimated heights, we not only can use the estimated heights for the footprints in layer 5-footprints, there are even used for OSM buildings which have no height information tags. This leads to more realistic buildings in X-WORLD, as building heights are not generated by rules if they are missing, they are generated by the use of estimated heights where available.

For Northern America should be the same major improvement. As New Zealand lacks of MS building footprints and OSM data is mainly poor, the used building objects are reduced by one storey, so this comes closer to reality.

These packages will be (due to published estimated heights) updated to v3.0:

• X-WORLD Australia-Oceania 3.0
• X-WORLD America 3.0
• X-WORLD Europe 3.0

• Europe
• Asia
• America
• Africa
• Antarctica
• Australia-Oceania

Even the XP11 versions of these continents are updated, this will be the last update for XP11.

If you have installed any of these packages, you should install the new version as this has so much improvements, see changelog of the download.

If you have downloaded and installed X-WORLD v2.1 before 03/01/2023, you should install the fixes available at https://simheaven.com/new-updates/

Actually planned improvements (maybe more to come) for the X-WORLD v2.0 next year:

all layers will be regenerated based on actual OSM and footprints data, additionally

• 0-exclusions  layer removed
• 4-extras         new: biergarten added – sailing boats (.for) at lakes removed
• 5-footprints   objects from airports removed
• 6-scenery      objects from airports removed

I do hope these changes are probably worth waiting some days more. I’ve been working on the new versions for XP12 AND XP11 for 4 – 5 weeks day and night, but processing of > 200 GiB of data needs much time. Hopefully this weekend Europe will be published, next is America ca. mid of October, others will follow.

Second thing is, that I decided to rename the packages for XP12 to avoid confusion for you and me, the upcoming updates for XP11 (which are probably the last updates for XP11) are keeping the names like X-Europe, X-America etc. and for the new versions for XP12 the name changes to X-WORLD.

X-WORLD continues for X-Plane 12 the successful and high quality sceneries for X-Plane 11 like X-Europe, X-America etc., objects are not set by autogen rules, they are set following OSM data in addition with Microsoft building footprints, which leads to a more realistic look and feel. The new X-WORLD Vegetation Library is needed, each continental package is available separately :

• X-World Africa
• X-World America
• X-World Antarctica
• X-World Asia
• X-World Australia-Oceania
• X-World Europe

Layer 4-scenery – containing the buildings – has increased dramatically:

	5.8.1	5.9	change	remarks	release date
X-EUROPE	2,65 GiB	4,08 GiB	+54%	mainly MSBF in Southern, Eastern and Northern Europe are added	06/08/2022
	2.0.1	3.0
X-AFRICA	1,18 GiB	2,26 GiB	+92%	For 4 countries MSBF were already included in 2.0.1	06/10/2022
X-AMERICA	2.83 GiB	3.80 GiB	+34%	For Northern and partly Southern America were MSBF already included in 2.0.1	06/12/2022
X-ASIA	1,36 GiB	4,50 GiB	+330%	totally insane	06/12/2022
X-AUSTRALIA- OCEANIA				unchanged as MSBF were already included in 2.0.1	06/11/2022
X-ANTARCTICA				unchanged (no MSBF )	06/10/2022

We are part of the X-Plane developers workspace and thanks to the access, all of the packages (X-EUROPE, X-AMERICA, X-AFRICA, X-ASIA, X-AUSTRALIA-OCEANIA, X-ANTARCTICA) are already adapted for XP12 and actually in the final generation, including the new vegetation and with (besides the current OSM data) much more (exactly 788,235,841) Microsoft global building footprints to complete the landscapes all over the world.

Here’s an overview what’s coming next to illustrate the versions you’ll soon be able to download and fly:

200 gigabytes of data are processed to create over 116,000 tiles. The versions for XP11 and XP12 are almost identical, for XP12 there will be some changes to use the new vegetation, so a new vegetation library is required. The overlap of adjacent packages will be optimised to ensure an impressive flight without gaps between continents. X-A packages will then have the latest developments from X-EUROPE. All new versions for XP11 and XP12 and the new vegetation library will be released at the start of the public beta of XP12 (when it is not on my holiday).

An impressive number of 213,442,146 buildings are newly added to the continental sceneries.

See the difference for e.g. Oklahoma City:

More screenshots at x-plane.org and Aerosoft forum (in German)

The last months and weeks I generated > 100,000 tiles, some multiple times, and > 32 GB of data. And we reworked US houses and churches, thanks to Pete for his help. New versions 2.0 are available for

• X-AMERICA
• X-AFRICA
• X-AUSTRALIA-OCEANIA
• X-ANTARCTICA
• X-ASIA

Key features of the new versions 2.0:

• built on latest OSM data
• Microsoft building footprints included where available
• Layer 3a-details included (you may already know from X-Europe)
• new elements: noise-barriers, car repairs, car shops, furniture shops, IKEAs, fire-stations, transformer-towers
• improved facades, house objects

Downloads at https://simheaven.com/xp11-sceneries/

E.g. take a stroll along the skyline of Toronto Canada and discover all the new little details: