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KAPF Naples Florida

stansdds said:
At some point you reach the limits of available information and/or skills and abilities. That is the point of diminishing returns and applies to pretty much everything.
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Very true! There comes a time to just say: It's good, I like it and it's done. On to something else now. A little more tweaking that it does need and then I will release it here for all to share.
 
Alright GrayEagle...you hadda show me that video of the eye candy and I just couldn't leave a dumpy default tower there after all the work I went through on the terminal. I am also going to do the buildings around it, the fences and a custom customs building since i got some really nice shots of it. Again a square ADE building just doesn't cut it. Here is today's work from a screenshot in Sketchup. As is typical of Google Earth, I had three sides on the street level as clear as a bell and this side with the awning took me an hour of searching until I finally found a shot in a website from one of the FBO's.

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The download is disabled and it's for X-plane 11. I have installed X-plane 12 demo and am considering it for GA flying. I like it's looks a lot and it's not quirky MSFS or 2024 which I have heard is worse. It looks really nice.
 
tgycgijoes said:
The download is disabled and it's for X-plane 11. I have installed X-plane 12 demo and am considering it for GA flying. I like it's looks a lot and it's not quirky MSFS or 2024 which I have heard is worse. It looks really nice.
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I am a developer registered there but I don't understand their downloads. I will ask someone who does.
 
tgycgijoes said:
I am a developer registered there but I don't understand their downloads. I will ask someone who does.
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I was able to get the download, I installed the demo xplane12 but it doesn't allow adding their kapf. Waste of time for me. I binned xplane.
 
I plan on releasing it when I have finished the tower; customs and border patrol and firehouse custom Sketchup they are just so unique. Art Poole did the hangers custom though simple from his info back in 2009. I think that the video you sent me of the GA Terminal is of the OLD terminal not the new one. Very impressive scenery. Too bad it's x-plane 11.
 
Spent the day finishing up the tower complex and then before I quit for the day, night lit the terminal. It looked good in MDEx night view. I will have this all done by the end of the week and shared if nothing goes wrong.
 
gray eagle said:
That is good news!!
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The hardest part of adding night lighting I find (because I am a stickler for details) is how the building is really illuminated at night in real world. sometimes I can find all kinds of photos and other times just have to "wing it" and guess. But in any case I like to have day and night at my airports.
 
Just completed the Customs and Border Protection Naples Airport in Sketchup/exported to Model Converter X and a scenery bgl all created successfully with thanks to the Lord for his assistance and guidance. I'll place it in ADEx later and then rest today and tackle the final the fire station the rest of the week. Still on schedule for upload here.
 
I would love to add the ultra modern GA terminal and the firehouse too but after spending a couple hours of searching in Google AND Bing they as too often the case, mix old and new photos of the GA terminal which in the video is so cool but to try and create it in Sketchup with such meager photos is just going to be frustrating so I will wind this up and post it as a beta and accept any comments on something not working on YOUR sim. As said above, it ONLY is designed to work in Prepar3D V4.5. There are problems in V5 and it will just crash your sim in FSX. Like standds commented above, there comes a time to package it and move on.
 
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