Prerequisites

• Microsoft Flight Simulator© 2020, and the Microsoft Flight Simulator Software Development Kit

• Google Earth Decoder by Jonahex111

• Google Earth Decoder update

• Blender 3.5

• Lily texture Packer (optional): to reduce the number of texture files, you can get the Lily texture Packer. Download the last version (1.2.3). Reducing the number of texture files reduce the loading time of the scenery, and can reduce stuttering related to texture streaming inside the sim

• Compressonator (optional): once your package has been successfully built, you can further reduce its size by using the Optimize the built package by compressing the texture files entry of the addon menu. To do so, you have to download the Compressonator CLI tool from GPUOpen.

Install the Google Earth Decoder Tool:

• once Google Earth Decoder has been downloaded, extract the content of the archive to the folder of your choice (for instance c:\google-earth-decoder).

• once Google Earth Decoder update has been downloaded, overwrite the GoogleMapsTools.dll in the Google Earth Decoder Tool folder with the one in the update archive.