Annecy is the prefecture and largest city of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Geneva, Switzerland. Nicknamed the "Pearl of French Alps" in Raoul Blanchard's monograph describing its location between lake and mountains, the city controls the northern entrance to the lake gorge. Due to a lack of available building land between the lake and the protected Semnoz mountain, its population has remained stagnant, around 50,000 inhabitants, since 1950. However, the 2017 merger with several ex-communes extended the city population to 126,924 inhabitants and 170,753 for its urban area, placing Annecy seventh in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Switching from the counts of Geneva's dwelling in the 13th century, to the counts of Savoy's in the 14th century, the city became Savoy's capital in 1434 during the Genevois-Nemours prerogative until 1659. Its role increased in 1536, during the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva, while the bishop took refuge in Annecy. Saint Francis de Sales gave Annecy its advanced Catholic citadel role known as Counter-Reformation. The annexation of Savoy merged the city to France in 1860. Sometimes called "Venice of the Alps", this idyllic and touristic representation comes from the three canals and the Thiou river lying through the old city and whose initial role was to protect the city and to empower its handicrafts. The city experienced an industrial development in the 19th century with silk manufacturing. Some of its industrial legacy remains today with the headquarters of NTN-SNR bearings, Salomon, Entremont and Dassault Aviation.
From the end of the 19th century, Annecy developed tourism around its lake summer facilities, winter resorts proximity and cultural attraction with its castle renovation and fine art museum opening in 1956 and the Animated Film Festival since 1960, hosted in Bonlieu's cultural centre. The municipal environmental policy managed to keep 40.3% of green spaces and the city and was awarded the "Golden Flower" in 2015, given to the nine most-flowered French cities. Its educational area is growing since the University of Savoy establishment in 1973.
GPS: 45° 54′ 57.6″ N, 6° 7′ 58.8″ E
Credits:
This scenery has been extracted from Google Maps, hence all 3D credits goes to Google.
This scenery has been generated with the Google Earth Decoder tool (credits to /u/Jonahex111):
https://www.reddit.com/r/FS2020Creation/comments/j3faaj/google_earth_decoder_now_userfriendly/
Addon history:
v1.0: initial release
v1.1: more detailed models for the basilica and the Palace
v1.2: fix water flickering issues + less detailed palace and basilica to preserve framerate
v2.0: overall optimization:
This is a major update that optimizes the package, as it drastically reduces the number of texture files:
- less files on the package:
before: 18549 files
after: 1431 files
- reduced CPU footprint
- reduced loading time at startup
- less CPU load, so it can leads to better perfs depending on the config
- better road traffic integration
- fix some flickering issues
v3.0: Fix a big issue with the LOD management system, due to the way Google Earth Decoder places and sizes the tiles. Now, there should not be any FPS issues, and framerate should be better and more consistent
v3.1: Fix texture flickering issues
v3.2: Add a fix for possible CTD issues ( https://flightsim.to/blog/creators-guide-fix-ctd-issues-on-your-scenery )
v3.3: Change LODs settings
v3.4: Fix missing tiles
v3.5: reduced package size
v4.0:
- better colorimetry
- add POIs
- fix procedural lightning issues on flat tiles (especially at dusk and dawn)
- add specific colliders to reduce CPU load
- bigger photogrammetry area
v4.1:
- reduce greenish tint
- fix some tiles position
- add Menthon-Saint-Bernard castle POI
Installation:
Download thalixte-annecy.zip. Extract both thalixte-annecy and thalixte-menthon folders into the Community folder.
If you want to donate, you will always be welcome to help me continue with more projects and update the existing ones https://paypal.me/Thalixte.
Si je n'en active qu'un tout va bien.
??? Bizarre, avant tout était OK.
7 months ago
ARMAND42
Merci beaucoup!!
Ainsi que pour toutes ces mises à jours, super travail! 😊
2 years ago
OpusPocus
Vraiment de mieux en mieux.
La dernière mouture est exceptionnelle, merci Thalixte, je retrouve ma ville natale comme si j'y étais 😀
Bon ça bouffe qques FPS mais ça vaut le coup pour se faire un petit Meythet -> Bron ^^
2 years ago
madvent
Hello It will be nice to have weather on your scenery. Snow is present outside the town on your work. Can you enable it ? 😊
3 years ago
This a bug introduced by the MSFS SU5. MS/Asobo is aware of it, and i wait for them to help me resolve this particular issue.
3 years ago
Thalixte
highland74
I'have just make a flight over Annecy. Thanks for your work in the last update. Best regards 😊
3 years ago
highland74
I have tested your last update. Trees have a better rendering but colour of the scene is a little too green. I hope always that you enlarge the area of your scenery at all the city. A very good work. Best regards 😊
3 years ago
Yes, i know for the greensih tint. Will fix this as soon as i can.
Edit: it is fixed in the last update :)
3 years ago
Thalixte
highland74
merci! manque plus que Annemasse et Thonon 😉
3 years ago
pyb0
Good timing! I installed Annecy Airport LFLP from Beautiful Model of the Word today and I saw the update of Annecy city. Both fit well together, no trees on runways etc. Just Annecy Hospital helipad dont fit .
Jolie région à découvrir !!
3 years ago
pile
Bonsoir,
Juste pour revenir sur le fichier content.xml, si j'ai bien compris on peut le supprimer sans problème et il est recréé au lancement du simu. C'est bien celui situé dans le local cache, je ne pense pas qu'il y en ai un autre d'ailleurs.
Merci pour le coup de main.
3 years ago
Oui, c'est celui-ci.
3 years ago
Thalixte
lasteren
Superbe scène qui mérite amplement ses 5 étoiles !
Juste un petit problème, je ne sais pas s'il est particulier à moi ou général mais il me semble qu'on se retrouve avec 2 hôpitaux enchevêtrés l'un dans l'autre près de l'aéroport. Il me semble que le WU4 avait inclus l'hôpital d'Annecy, ce serait lui qui ne serait pas exclu de cette scène... à vérifier.
3 years ago
Ah, la WU4 a inclus l'hopital d'Annecy ? Tu es sûr que ce n'est pas un addon ? De toute façon, j'ai prévu de refaire la scène très bientôt. je regarderais à cette occasion (je sais parfaitement comment régler ce type de souci).
3 years ago
Thalixte
SpoutnX
Can you enlarge your scenery of Annecy ?
3 years ago
Hello. What area do you want me to add ? Cran-Gevrier ? Seynod, Grand Epagny, Annecy le Vieux ? Veyrier ?
3 years ago
Thalixte
highland74
Bonjour, magnifique, juste un petit problème, j'ai quelques arbres plantés sur la piste en herbe...sinon génial
3 years ago
Salut. Si il y a des arbres sur la piste, ce n'est pas dû à mon addon (mais je pourrais facilement les enlever).
3 years ago
Thalixte
lasteren
My town has a very good appearance but trees are strange (like stones or rocks at low altitude) visible in the garden near the town hall and near the river Fier. can you update your superb work.
Best regards
3 years ago
Yes, it is the pb with photogrammetry sceneries. You have to know that the google DEM data are not the same as the one from used in MSFS. It does not work the same as for modifying DEM data via CGL files. Here, there is no CGL modifications.
So, the tiles cannot rely on the existing DEM data, and the autogen trees do not cover correctly the photogrammetry ones.
3 years ago
Thalixte
highland74
Fantastic, I was here just before Covid struck.
I get terrible frame rates looking at Château de Menthon-Saint-Bernard, from 40 down to 15.
I'll disable it for now.
Thanks again for the scenery!
3 years ago
Just remove menthon from the communiy folder. You can keep Annecy
3 years ago
Thalixte
Parorng
Merci cela va être un plaisir de poser l'icon 5 sur le lac 😍
3 years ago
madvent