The OpenSceneryX project is a free to use library of scenery objects for X-Plane®. It is a collaborative effort by members of the X-Plane.org community, providing a good range of high quality scenery components for authors to use in their scenery packages.
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Latest Additions
The library contains many pre-built 3d models including buildings, aircraft and vehicles as well as a large collection of ground markings, ground furniture, trees and plants.
An index of all the objects in the current version is available here. Note that you cannot download single objects, you must download the library as a whole.
Download
Click one of the following links to download the OpenSceneryX installer:
For system requirements for all versions, please see the support page here. If you have problems installing, check the support page or our YouTube channel:
Install
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On macOS – double click the disk image, then when the window appears drag the installer onto the Applications folder. Run it from there. On Windows or Linux – just unzip it, put it where you want it and run it. On all versions, you will be asked to locate your X-Plane® folder and then the installer will automatically download the latest version of OpenSceneryX.
You don’t need to download a new installer every time you want to update OpenSceneryX – just re-run it whenever you like and it will only download files that have changed.
Dependencies: Although OpenSceneryX will work without needing to install anything else (except a scenery package that uses it!), some objects such as this one contain advanced animation that needs Sandy Barbour’s CustomSBDatarefs004 plugin to work, which you can download from here. This is optional but recommended.
Use
Normal X-Plane® Users
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If you are a standard user of X-Plane®, then you don’t do anything else. Installing this library does nothing on its own to the simulator – you won’t see any changes to your default scenery and you won’t see any new options in X-Plane®. However, scenery packages developed by other people can now use the objects in this library, so if you have installed any scenery package that uses OpenSceneryX then that package will come alive with objects.
X-Plane® Scenery Developers
If you are a scenery developer, click the following link to download the OpenSceneryX Developer Pack: . Instructions for use are enclosed, and the developer pack contains a full PDF reference manual containing everything in the library including screenshots. We also have help for scenery developers on our YouTube channel:
If you have used OpenSceneryX in your scenery package, please let us know by leaving a message on this page.
Donations
Although the library is and always will be free to use, it still costs money to host this website and provide the downloads for the library. If you feel the library is a valuable resource, we would be very grateful if you would consider donating a little to keep it running.
Scenery Packages that use OpenSceneryX
So if you’ve downloaded the library and would like to see it in use, you’ll need to find a scenery package that uses it! Take a look at the list of packages that are enhanced by OpenSceneryX.
Libraries Integrated with OpenSceneryX
We are now starting to integrate third party libraries, where the author has generously contributed their entire library to OpenSceneryX. The following libraries are fully incorporated, so you no longer need to install them separately:
- RE Library by Richard C Elliott (einstein)
- FlyAgi Vegetation Library by FlyAgi
- FlyAgi Wind Turbine Library by FlyAgi
- DT Library by Darrell Thompson
- FlyAgi Vegetation Global Trees by FlyAgi
For the following libraries, necessary changes had to be made to the items, so although all content has been fully included, you will still need the original library installed to support old packages that used it:
- Flags of the World by Mr 3D and Chris Noe. All flags have been rotated by 90° to conform to the OpenSceneryX standard.
- Flags of the USA by Mr 3D and Chris Noe. All flags have been rotated by 90° to conform to the OpenSceneryX standard.
If you are an author of a library and would like to contribute it to OpenSceneryX, we would be happy to discuss, so please get in touch.
Contributions
We now have an extraordinary contributions in the library and still rising.
Contributors
A big thank you to the following people who have contributed:
Additional thanks also goes to Tom Kyler for testing the Linux version of the installer, to Sergio Santagada for allowing the OpenSceneryX installer icon to be based on his original icon artwork and to the following people for localising the installer: Olivier Faivre, Jon Hyams, Valentin Kaufmann, Matteo Lorenzini, Gerrit-Jan Rebel, Michal Rybinski, Amado Chiñas Sánchez, Jordi Sayol and M. Vishnyakov.
Would you like to contribute?
We are always looking to expand the library, so if you would like to contribute your work we would love to include it. To find out how, there are some instructions for contributors here.
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Review
X-Plane is a flight simulator in which you can practice your skills as if the aircrafts were real. This version of X-Plane provides lots of models, from commercial airlines to military planes with a very realistic behavior. X-Plane includes a large list of greatly detailed maps that you can explore. Thanks to its features, you can consider this version as a solid part of simulation games with little flaws and great technical aspect.
Once you download and install it, you can check how real this simulator is. The weather system used has been improved from the previous version of X-Plane, and now the clouds look like if you can touch them. You are free to change the camera angle the way you like, selecting an inner view to feel like if you were actually controlling an airplane or just a view from the sides to see the landscape. Remember that the simulator tries to be as real as possible and it affects to the difficulty. Graphically you can describe X-Plane as outstanding.The simulator also adds giant maps very rich in details and lots of different free content included in the main package or available to download as payware.
Apart from the changes in graphics and the high-detailed maps of X-Plane, what really outstands about X-Plane is its new flight model based on the blade element theory (BET) which makes an airplane to be as real as possible. For that reason, all kind of users can enjoy this sim, since real pilots would train themselves as they were in a real plane and beginners will experience what is controlling an aircraft.
How to play this simulation game
As mentioned above, with X-Plane’s BET theory you will be able to control an airplane as in real world. It has a wide range of aircrafts to use, from the Cessna 172 to the Bell 206 JetRanger. Also, it offers more than thirty thousand airports to land and a great variety of scenarios with real landforms.
In X-Plane there is also the possibility of creating your own aircraft, since there is a design creator and editor included. As the main competitor of other simulation games, X-Plane has a growing community of users who share their doubts and their creations. Besides, the PC versión of X-Plane offers the opportunity of playing with other users thanks to a multiplayer interface.
X-Plane 10.10 b8 Features
Below you can find here the unique features X-Plane provides users with:
- With this simulator professional pilots can do training sessions to enhance its navigation
- High-detailed cockpits in 3D
- X-Plane offers a wide range of aircrafts available such as CL-4115, Viggen JA37, Space Shuttle, Bell 206 JetRanger, Boeing 747-400, Boeing 737-400, etc.
- Space Shuttle Orbiter included
- New Weather System
- BET flight model to increase realism
If you want to know more about X-Plane, feel free to visit the author's website .
System requirements
The minimum system requirements your computer needs to download and play these simulator games are listed below:
- Operating System: Windows XP or higher
- Processor: Dual Core CPU of 2 GHz or higher
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- 256MB Graphic Card and compatible with DirectX 9