Living Scenery Technology

Living Scenery Technology is a next-generation plugin for the animation of scenery objects along a route and access to special features such as the particle system and FMOD in X-Plane 12. The inspiration for this project largely came from Marginal's wonderful GroundTraffic plugin. Living Scenery Technology features several improvements including a developer-defined activation range, fast performance, branching methodology for spawning, support for Mac (Intel and now Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux, and most importantly, it is a global plugin implementing a one plugin, many sceneries design, which allows an infinite number of sceneries to use LST as opposed to only being able to have 30-40 instances of GroundTraffic. Lastly, Living Scenery Technology is freeware, for everyone, forever.

Please note Living Scenery Technology in and of itself does nothing. Living Scenery Technology provides a system that sceneries can use, just as other addons like SAM, Autogate, etc.

Features:

Fast performance (even extremely dense traffic generally costs less than 10% of your frame rate in animation overhead) Developer-defined activation range (allowing for very large sceneries) Support for branching which allows objects to transition from one route to another randomly (providing for realistic spawning, natural traffic flows and densities, and avoids sudden spawning in of traffic at unnatural locations) Loop routes (object travels in a continuous loop) Highway routes (objects continually spawn, travel along a route, then disappear at the end) Support for animated tires Semi-smooth turning Dataref registration and manipulation Dataref manipulation by route, and waiting at a given waypoint for a dataref Placement of static objects to use the particle system and FMOD in X-Plane 12 One plugin used by many sceneries, allowing for an infinite number of packages Support for Windows Mac and Linux Developer utilities Free for everyone forever.

License:

LST, Living Scenery Technology is provided free of charge. That does not make LST public domain or free of copyright. You must still follow this license.

You may: Do whatever you want with LST in your own home o Use the provided utilities to create products (paid or free) that use LST Create and sell products (paid or free) that use LST You may not: Redistribute the LST plugin itself (the reason is, I don’t want a bunch of different versions running around creating a stability nightmare) Redistribute the utilities for developing for LST Portray that you are the developer of LST. You don’t have to give credit for LST, just don’t indicate you made it or anything along those lines. Do anything unethical or illegal By using this plugin or it’s utilities, you agree to use it in a responsible manner that does not impact other addons or the core simulator By using this plugin or it’s utilities, you agree that I am not responsible for anything bad that may happen as a result. I may offer support as a courtesy; however, I am not obligated to provide support or this plugin or utilities. If you have any questions or want to discuss an exception, please contact me via my website, x-codrdesigns.com

Issues:

Please, if you find a bug, report it to me. The best way to reach me is via my website, Discord, or via PM here on the .Org . Please do not use the comments or review section for issue reporting or support.