TropicalSim is a developer that doesn’t require an introduction. With a huge lists of sceneries that dates back all the way to FS9, this developer has long established itself in the scenery market, which are mostly focused on the Latin American region.
Today, TropicalSim have released an update for their Rio De Janeiro Santos-Dumont (SBRJ) airport. This is the second major airport serving Rio De Janeiro. The airport mainly serves airlines with destinations in South America. TropicalSim have gone out of their way to deliver a worthy update for their original scenery which is already a few years old. The airport features custom buildings, high resolution textures, dynamic lighting for Prepar3d v4 and SODE jetways. Full feature list can be found at the end of this post.
You can pick up the airport for EUR 19,90 over on SimMarket. If you have purchased the previous version of this scenery, you are entitled to an upgrade price of EUR 9,90. It’s available for FSX and all versions of Prepar3d.
Features
- Highly detailed Rio de Janeiro Santos-Dumont / SBRJ
- Full night illumination
- Specular maps on terminal windows
- See-through windows with detailed interior for glass terminal and lobby
- Former Varig and Vasp headquarters transformed into shopping mall
- Taxiway extension included
- Dynamic Lighting on Prepar3d v4 version
- Optional SODE animated jetways
- Optional 3D Lights
- Optional 3D Grass within airport islands and taxiways/runways.
- P3D v2/v3/v4 native materials custom ground option
- Wet ground surface effect for P3Dv2/v3/v4 (via native custom ground)
- Compatible with add-on AI traffic.
- Compatible with other third-party sceneries
- FSX version compatible with default and add-on FSX scenery
- P3D version compatible with default and add-on P3D scenery
- Usage of FSX SDK for the FSX version for best performance
- Usage of Prepar3d SDK for the P3D version for best performance
- Installers will detect sim location and add the scenery.cfg entry for FSX, FSX:SE, P3Dv1, P3Dv2, P3Dv3 & P3Dv4
