ETO install

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Ludo

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For the past few days and with Rami's guide I decided to make a ETO install, I will need it in the future after all. Now I can finally fly some of the wonderful Team Daedalus, Acwai and others creators planes for this theatre. I only fly tested some airfields but for example Munchen-Riem from Captain Kurt's Germany airfields looks like this, same for Achim27619's airfields (again, just flew over it quickly). I miss the english word to describe it but is it the same for others people? Maybe some textures not matching each others in different folders or a mesh thing?
Munchen-Riem.jpg
 
Unfortunately CFS2 land class is not that accurate. Fly over the alps and you will see farmland on mountain tops. Some aerodromes will blend in with the surrounding terrain while others will look stuck on.

I tried to overcome this problem with some of my attempts at airfield building by increasing the area covered by the background bitmap, e.g.

Beccles.jpg
 
Hi Ludo,
Yes, I know what you mean, something like...flou, pas aussi défini. This is no critism of Achim, but he chose to put his runways AND airfield on one small tex tile, this means they do not scale up well and you get this blurry effect. It's a shame as he covered so many airfields throughout Europe.

That looks nicely promising Kev. Is that the runway tex from Ian E's Westerland/Sylt airfield? I've used that before in CFS2 and it works well.

So good for Europe to be talked about ha ha!

Cheers

Shessi
 
Thanks for the explanation guys, learned something new today again. :jump: If it's a normal thing then that's fine for me, I was afraid of having messed up something.
 
Shessi, that's Beccles in Suffolk. I made a few British airfields for Rami to compliment his various GSL scenery and missions. I've been meaning to release them as a separate scenery package.

I first made top down screenshots of the locations on which I was going to place airfields. I then incorporated each airfield into that shot, trying to blend it in as much as possible.

Ludo, as long as each airfield is not floating in space or is partially underground, you've installed Rhumba's mesh correctly.

Cheers,

Kevin
 
Kevin and I use pretty much the same approach to building airfields to try to blend in with the surrounding scenery. I tend to use more trees to help blend in.
 
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