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[planelover]

hey everyone i've just been working on some new lanzarote scenery over the past few days and i've done this so far:






but i've hit a huge problem with the scenery, i can't  texture the buildings, well what i mean is i can't get any of the textures to appear in flight sim, i was wondering if anybody could properly explain to me how i can get them working on flight sim, it would be much appriciated.

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Aidan

[Tyler_Milligan]

Looking good. As for textures, what have you done to texture them so far.

[RIDZ_YSSY]

Nice work. Have you converted your textures to a fs compatible format? and are they the right size 512x512 1024x1024 etc?

[planelover]

thanks for the replay guys. well i should probably resize them to a higher scale coz they were too small looking at the size of them and what is the fs format i should be using?? i've also got imagetool but im not sure on how to use it.

[fsterry]

Hi

Good start on the scenery, Ok so fs uses texture sizes on multiples of 2 i.e. 256x256, 512x512, 1024x1024 etc

Once you have applied these to your model in gmax, use imagetool. Open your texture in imagetool, go to image/format and change to dxt1. Then go to image/create mipmaps and finally save your texture using its original name in the texture folder where your scenery bgl was placed i.e. addon scenery/texture if you placed your bgl in addon scenery/scenery,

I'd strongly suggest reading the gmax/fs tutorial that comes with the fs2004 sdk. It explains in great detail the process of getting your model,textures etc in fs2004. It explains how to model,texture and place a house in fs2004.

You're onto a good start though, thats how I started and you can see some of my most recent works here:

http://www.eiresim.com/products.html

Best of luck,

Terry

[planelover]

thank you very much Terry for the help thats made things a lot clearer for me and hopefully i'll be able to get texturing the buildings and finally get the scenery fully underway. i've also seen your products and i think your airports are better than quite a lot of the top scenery designs out there keep up your good work .

[planelover]

so great news guys i've got the texcturing down and sorted i will post new shots as soon as the buildings start getting textured  

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Aidan

[planelover]

the first object to be fully completed, the jetway. i made all the textures myself using photoshop and this is the final result:



Hope you like it

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Aidan

[Tyler_Milligan]

nice

[planelover]

new update: main terminal (still needs finishing though):



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Aidan

[Tyler_Milligan]

Lookkin good

[planelover]

hi everyone, just another update, terminal finished! and tower in the building process. hope you like it so far



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[CoD3y]

Doing very well so far, keep it up!

[seat183]

Keep it up mate!

[planelover]

cheers guys for the comments i recon that i could have it finished in a couple of weeks (no promisses though) but im hoping to.

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Aidan

[Brendan]

Great stuff!

[planelover]

new update everyone. hope you like it



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Aidan

[Shaun-NCL]

Looks fantastic! Will definetly be using this when I fly down to the Canaries

[ImpulsivePlay3r]

looking good so far.... keep up the good work ..

[planelover]

new update everyone





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Aidan