MSFS20 Chunilna Cabin Strip | v2.0.1

Features

• One challenging Airstrip, including two creek Campsites.
• Reworked water, terraforming, & autogen vegetation, exposing multiple landable gravel bars along 6 mi (9.6 km) of Chunilna Creek.
• DEM & hand-crafted terraforming up to 2m/px, and fully compatible with ORBX’s Alaska Mesh.
• All models use PBR textures, up to 4K resolution.
• Custom Dirt & Grass ground materials with NRM textures for PBR and added detail.
• Custom environmentals including Weeds, Wildflowers, Native Shrubs, 3D Trees, Rocks, and Logs.
• Custom animated wildlife: Bears, Fox, & Moose roam the coverage area.
• Dynamic SFX using Wwise.

Dynamic Features

• Bears – Can be found roaming the scenery. Will go into hibernation when temperatures fall below freezing.
• Birds SFX (Downy Woodpecker) – Audible around the airstrip from Dawn to Dusk, but not when Rain or Snow is reported. Randomly switches between call and drumming sounds.
• Birds SFX (Great Horned Owl) – Audible near the Cabin at Night, but not when Rain or Snow is reported.
• Birds SFX (Junco & Fox Sparrow) – Audible around the airstrip from Dawn to Dusk, but not when Rain or Snow is reported.
• Butterflies – Visible around flowers from May through September. Includes 4 different Alaska native variations! Will not show when Rain or Snow is reported.
• Fox – Roams around the airstrip. Will call roughly every 6 minutes.
• Morel Mushrooms – Pop up around the airstrip from May to July.
• Rain Puddles – Appear when Rain has been reported in the area.
• Roof Snow & Icicles – 3D Snow & Icicles will appear on the airstrip building roofs when snow depth has been reported on the ground.
• VFX – Smoke and Campfire VFX will appear throughout the scenery once temperatures fall to 50°F (10°C) or below.

This scenery requires the following library to function correctly:
Emerald Object Library (MSFS 2020)

Supported Sim(s)
MSFS (2020)

Format: Zip

File Size
78.1 MB (Compressed), 121 MB (Uncompressed)

Note: This is the original launch trailer. The scenery has since been overhauled!

March 31, 2025 | v2.0.1

• Backported some vegetation from the 2024 version for improved density and variation along the runway and a few other areas.
• Changed some autogen vegetation types that were using a duplicate template, bringing it in-line with what is used in MSFS 2024 (housekeeping).
• Reverted SimObjects to call needed templates directly instead of common.xml, as it was loading unnecessary templates.

March 26, 2024 | v2.0.0
Some files have changed. Please remove the old package to ensure there are no leftovers!

• Added a second gravel bar campsite just North of where the creek dumps into the Talkeetna River.
• Added environmentally triggered roof snow for all airstrip buildings, including icicles on the cabin.
• Added native birds dynamic SFX: Great Horned Owl, Junco, Fox Sparrow, & Downy Woodpecker.
• Added new pathed SimObjects: Bear, Fox, & Moose.
• Added UTF-8 encoding headers to all XML, ensuring proper encoding for Xbox.
• Added water to a few nearby lakes and ponds.
• Campsites now have POI markers.
• Converted terraforming to new “precision” system.
• Coverage area now extends West to Snowflake Lake’s coverage.
• ICAO changed to RNCS to prevent a conflict with AK98, which is now in use as a default airstrip (Folder not renamed – Marketplace limitation).
• Improvements to Cabin: Reduced textures to 4K (8K was overkill), improved textures, rebuilt materials, reworked LODs, improved shading, fixed glass wrong opacity and detail texture channel.
• Improvements to runway texture.
• Improvements to Services.xml code.
• Replaced Mud Puddles with newer Rain Puddles.
• Replaced stock rock groups with custom rock groups and adjusted positioning.
• Reworked 3D Trees around the airstrip: Now use tree groups for less CPU calls, increased density, improved blending, and the runway is now more confined – as it should be.
• Reworked a 6 mi (9.6 km) stretch of Chunilna Creek: Improved terraforming, overhauled vegetation placement, fixed some areas of poor water coverage, added more static clutter.
• Reworked creek campsite: Adjusted positions of some models, added a second tent, added more clutter (rocks & tree trunks).
• Reworked custom vegetation around the airstrip: Added more wildflowers, adjusted weeds & wildflowers for new terraforming.
• Reworked shrubs around the airstrip: Replaced all single-placed shrubs with groups for less CPU calls, added newer detailed shrub groups, removed stock shrub assets.
• Snow and Icicles are now tied into the snow depth slider (Live Weather doesn’t detect properly and uses the original temp/precip based code as a fallback).

October 6, 2022 | v1.0.6

• Excluded new autogen house that was popping up over the Cabin.
• Icicles: Rewrote visibility code to use modern template format.

July 5, 2022 | v1.0.5

• Added Buckets around Cabin.
• Improved Cabin: Adjusted glass material, optimized model, fixes and improvements to PBR textures, added light and emissive to lamp.

May 23, 2022 | v1.0.4

• Reverted AirportServices change, as it had unintended affects. After testing, the previous version was actually working as intended. Sorry for the hiccup, folks!

May 19, 2022 | v1.0.3

• Added new window detail texture with flags file for improved quality.
• Changes to AirportServices to further ensure compatibility with nearby airports.
• Fixed glass flickering inside of the Cabin when looking through an external window.
• Fixed icicles showing year-round on small shed near runway.
• Fixed some floating vegetation along the runway.
• Temporarily removed collisions from the Cabin to allow internal navigation after SU9.

May 8, 2022 | v1.0.2

• Added dynamic icicles along roof edges (Show at or below 32*F/0*C).
• Fixed runway surface incorrectly labeled as asphalt.
• Fixed windsock orientation.
• Improved aerial imagery color-matching.
• SU9 changed the way that polygons are saved and compiled. Although there is backwards compatibility so far, Chunilna Cabin Strip has been recompiled to ensure future compatibility.

March 22, 2022 | v1.0.1

• Cleaned up more stray trees along the Creek.
• Completely reworked terraforming along the entire Creek DEM coverage area.
• Expanded 2-meter DEM coverage area by ~4x.
• Fixed some floating vegetation.

March 19, 2022 | v1.0.0

• Initial Release

You can find PDF documentation for this addon at the following link:
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