130 replies to this topic

[anand]

The grass is too green in my opinion.
But the scenery looks great !

[G-BOAC]

Wow.. looks like a barbados scenery, that i can fly too in my Concorde without getting FPS killed.

Superb Job mate

[flyhalf]

Yeah the grass is a different colour in every photo I have.

It does get that green. The rain comes a lot to Barbados. I can tinker with the colours though and I'll have a look at this.

[oly]

The grass is very green at the airport, this was taken in summer

[flyhalf]

Thanks Oly, got any more there?

[oly]

Yer i got a quite a few more of the virgin some of fedex and a small prop and a few of the apron of the i will email you them.

Cheers Oly

[flyhalf]

Aharon, on Dec 7 2008, 11:18 AM, said:

BEAUTIFUL

I CANNOT WAIT TO DOWNLOAD!!

THE TIRE MARKS ON RUNWAYS ARE MASTERPIECE ESPECIALLY AT END OF RUNWAYS WHERE TIRE MAKES SHOW PLANES MAKING U-TURN!!

Will you be adding cargo and maintenance hangers to your superb airport scenry?

Aharon

Thanks.

The airport has a small run down cargo apron which services some DHL and smalll island cargo. There's a huge new cargo terminal planned for some time in the near future. There's also some maintenance scattered around and there's a small GA flying club on the southern side of the field, which I have no info on but will include in rudimentary form.

[Mr. Schutte]

Superb work Max, sorry if I missed this but for both FSX and 04?

[flyhalf]

Quick shot of how the apron lighting is coming along.

I am trying to avoid the use of bgl effects for lighting here and do it entirely in the texturing. It's very much trial and error.

fyi, there's 7 layers of ground polys in this.

Edited by flyhalf, 12 December 2008 - 08:21 PM.

[Independence76]

oly, on Dec 7 2008, 03:24 PM, said:

The grass is very green at the airport, this was taken in summer.

(sorry to hijack the topic...)

Speaking of green grass, I was looking at photos from Tokyo Narita while looking at Google Earth at the same time.

Strangely, GE has normal yellow-ish grass in the summer, but videos and photos show green grass. Is there an explanation for this?

[flyhalf]

Yes. The same thing is visible on GE for Barbados. GE shows very brown dry. Not entirely accurate. Must be the equipment used to take the photos from space.

[VFR_Pierre]

Amazing textures

[Ubeans2001]

7 layers of ground polys? What does each layer include?

[flyhalf]

Yeah I have (bottom to top)
photo,
high res tarmac,
linework,
cracks,
dirt 1,
dirt 2,
low res noise/washout layer.

[db07mufan]

flyhalf,

any reasons why you refrain from using the effects BGL?

[flyhalf]

The little light halo glows up on the poles I will use, but those BGL ground effects I won't cause they look poo from distance.

[Ubeans2001]

flyhalf, on Dec 12 2008, 11:48 PM, said:

Yeah I have (bottom to top)
photo,
high res tarmac,
linework,
cracks,
dirt 1,
dirt 2,
low res noise/washout layer.

seeeeexxxxyyyyyyyyy... lol  

[flyhalf]

Ambient Night lighting done via the textures only. When this is combined with the UT style light points it will look nice.