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Scenery Plugins

Eight plugins and libraries that visually extend X-Plane's default world. XRoads is a scenery library rather than a plugin: it hides X-Plane's road polygons on Ortho4XP tiles so the real roads in the satellite imagery show through, while bridges, highways, and railways stay visible — with Linux compilation instructions. Airport Enhancement Package upgrades default airports with better buildings, ground markings, vegetation, and PBR textures. xa-snow and NOAA Weather both draw on real-world NOAA data — location-specific snow depth on the one hand, snow coverage plus METAR comparison on the other. LST animates airports with vehicles, pedestrians, and ground equipment on defined routes, and Bay's Lighting Mod reworks airport, night, and cockpit lighting plus cloud scattering. XP BirdState adds bird flocks matched to region, season, and weather — a commercial plugin with an official Linux build — and Night Sky Fix replaces the star catalog with a denser one (Milky Way at 900,000 stars) and optionally corrects star brightness with a FlyWithLua script.

All eight run on Linux; two have dependencies worth knowing before installing: Bay's Lighting Mod needs FlyWithLua, NOAA Weather needs XPPython3 (see Scripting).