KAPF Naples Florida

[tgycgijoes]

Indeed! This is about 25% of the project. I was fortunate to find ramp side shots from the Facebook pages because Google Earth is a distorted nightmare to try and discern what really the building looks like when you get down to "street level".

 

[tgycgijoes]

Four days work but it's paying off. A little bit more to do on the front (both sides are done) and then it's to the back or rampside. I was fortunate to get some nice photos and not have to rely on the distorted satellite Google Earth from Naples Aviations Annual Reports. Here is Naples Aviation Terminal to date:

 

[tgycgijoes]

When this has been completed I am going to place it in ADE and then check out the rest of the buildings to see if I need to custom make any others that have been changed since 2009. If they are all ok to use, then that will be it and I will be posting this in Resources and also at AVSIM which is where Art Poole posted all his Florida airports, where I found the original of KAPF. I have his permission to update any of the other Florida airports of his for Prepar3D V4.5 (2025) since he exclusively is using MSFS 2020 now. So if there is any Florida airport that is not up to date and he created it back in the day, see if it's on AVSIM and then give me the link. I will check it out.

 

[tgycgijoes]

The saying is: "The Proof Is In The Pudding" or P3D that is. Here almost complete is a screenshot in Prepar3D V4.5 I just took. It's coming along nicely and all the sketchup addons are working great, like the palm trees. I made drawcalls for the textures which also worked well in Model Converter X for the textures after making them all a power of 2. That's enough for one day. The scrolled canopy is going to be challenging and there are some more details to add here to the front.