This scenery is only for use with Northern Sky Studio’s PATK. Do not use it with our PATK freeware, it will cause issues!
Northern Sky Studio – PATK Talkeetna Improvement | v1.0.4
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Notice: This improvement does not include any files from Northern Sky Studio’s PATK Talkeetna, Alaska scenery. It is designed to add to the scenery without producing conflicts. It will also work as a stand-alone, which should integrate with the default PATK scenery, as well as other PATK addons (Though not yet tested).
Welcome to Talkeetna Alaska!
Shortly after the sim first came out, I created my freeware rendition of the Talkeetna Airport, which was based on Bing’s outdated imagery. I had plans to build a payware version of Talkeetna. but other projects came first and in that time Northern Sky Studio brought their version over from X-Plane.
I then intended to build an up-to-date freeware version that was custom modeled with the works, but with other projects still consuming my time, and with the more time that passed, I figured it was better to support North Sky Studio by purchasing their version (which is quite affordable) and spend my time elsewhere. However, the NSS rendition lacks many other improvements I did to the area in my freeware PATK addon, so I decided to build a personal addon to bring many of those improvements over. I have also since made some additional improvements to the NSS scenery, such as improving vegetation placement, removing road overlay textures and replacing the static flags with the dynamic “Windy Things” library model.
Future Plans
As of this very moment, I do not have any future plans to build my own version of PATK.
I will be updating this improvement mod as I find things I want to tweak or improve. This is very much just my own personal mod that I have decided to share for anyone else who might enjoy it with their copy of Northern Sky Studio’s Talkeetna!
Features
- Adds additional vegetation and shrubs around the airport.
Adds and refines gravel bars along the river from my PATK freeware.
Currently removed due to a game-breaking SU13 bug (still an issue in SU15)- Adds Christiansen Lake (AK8) improvements from my PATK freeware (Can be disabled by removing AK8.bgl)
- Adds missing rail bridge (Requires Emerald Object Library).
- Adds VOR model South of the airport (Requires WU2 USA - KATL Atlanta).
- Cleans up stray vegetation, mainly along the river and railroad tracks.
- Removes road overlay texture around PATK airport ramp and along the Talkeetna Village Strip runway.
- Replaces static DHC-2 Beaver models with default Beaver (K2 repaint courtesy of Kelvo907).
- Replaces static flags with animated model.
This scenery requires the following libraries to function correctly:
- Emerald Object Library (MSFS)
- World Update 2: USA (Available for free on MSFS Marketplace)
Supported Sim(s)
MSFS (2020)
File Format: Zip
Standard deflate format.
File Size
7.9 MB (Compressed), 85.4 MB (Uncompressed)
August 27, 2024 | v1.0.4
- Adjusted position of Dock spawns on Christiansen Lake: Fixes issue where you would spawn on top of one of the docks.
June 3, 2024 | v1.0.3
- Corrected elevations of docks on Christiansen Lake.
- Fixed deck at Alaska Floats and Skis.
- Replaced all default docks on Christiansen Lake with Emerald Object Library models.
- Replaced Flags with Emerald Object Library models (Windy Things library no longer required).
- Replaced log stack near Alaska Floats and Skis with Emerald Object Library models.
- Temporarily removed all water additions and excludes. The river gravel bars will go back to default and some nearby lakes will dry up again. I hope to be able to bring these improvements back in the future once this game-breaking issue is resolved by Asobo, but it is taking a long time and I at least want to get the other features of this scenery usable again.
- Terraforming converted from legacy to "precision" format.
April 26, 2023 | v1.0.2
The package name has changed in this version. Please delete the old folder!
- Added AirportServices script to get rid of workers and ground equipment spawning at Christiansen Lake (AK8).
- Fixed Beaver wheels clipping into the ground.
- Fixed floating shoreline vegetation at AK8.
- Renamed package from "esd-nss-patk-talkeetna-improvement" to "z-esd-nss-patk-talkeetna-improvement" for Beaver exclusions hierarchy (Please delete the old folder).
January 27, 2023 | v1.0.1
- Added more gravel bars up river from PATK.
- Cleaned up and reworked some vegetation in the area.
- Replaced low-poly static Beavers with default Beaver (K2 paint courtesy of Kelvo907).
January 04, 2023 | v1.0.0
- Initial Release
