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Lancaster Airport_First Look

falcon409

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Obviously this is early in the process, but it looks like it has potential and the default was definitely no where close. I want to add seasonal maps, probably only two plus a night map. I like the looks of it though.
 
Nice work Ed!! Good to see TX getting some love! :ernae:
 
Ed,

Well doing - I'll be looking for it. That's one of my favorite real destinations - once a year anyway for the CAF Open Cockpit day.

Thanks,

Glenn
 
A few more early shots. . .one of the night map and one showing some of the trees going into place. Glad I have the Annotator figured out.
 
How hard is it to get into stuff like this? My coding knowledge is limited, but I have done some 3D modeling in the past.

You may have inspired me with those most recent screens.
 
dhl1986 said:
How hard is it to get into stuff like this? My coding knowledge is limited, but I have done some 3D modeling in the past. You may have inspired me with those most recent screens.
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Oh, I promise you, if I had to learn code to so this I would have stuck to flying, lol, lol. Here are the programs I use:
SBuilderX. . .I use this for doing airport boundaries, water placement, photo scenery, roads and actually I can even place objects with it.
AFX (similar to AFCAD for FS9). . .I use this for handling airport rwys, taxiways, parking aprons, adding parking spaces for AI, setting tower views, etc.
Autogen Annotator. . .This I use to place all autogen back into the photoscenery as you see in the image I posted last. . .very handy tool.
TCalcX. . .This works by connecting to FSX and giving exact elevation information at ground level.

Aside from AFX, everything else is freeware.
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As far as how hard it is. . .If I can do it. . .anybody can, lol. Placing the base photo scenery is easy, it's getting a good resolution to work from that can be frustrating. Doing the blur masks, water masks, night maps and seasonal maps are actually pretty simple too, just time consuming.
The Annotator seems puzzling and difficult at first, but once you do something and understand what you need and what you don't need, it takes no time at all. Since you are working from the photoimage, you can be very precise in what you place and where, an excellent tool.
AFX is very simple and you can do everything from building an entirely new airport to making adjustments to existing airports.

This can all seem a bit daunting at first, but if you stick to it, you'll be amazed at how relatively simple the basic processes are.
 
Would be good to clarify which Lancaster we're talking about? I gather from above it is in Texas in the United States? I know of at least 3 Lancasters, probably all with airfields of some kind.

Anyhow, excellent looking scenery! Well done.
 
Hey Ed that is HOT looking. Don't know how detailed you want to get on this but here is a shot of the a great little restaurant at the entrance of the tarmac. Needless to say we aren't looking for you to make a Plum Island yet Ed. Thank you for doing this.
Ted

http://www.lancastermunicipalairport.com/services.htm

Donna and I have met some wonderful pilots including a couple of WWII bomber pilots that frequent the place. I got to ride on a Hind gunship at the musuem which is just a few yards from the restaurant. Noisy doesn't even begin to describe the HIND.
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Or there are a number of free alternatives to AFX, the best of which at the moment is probably Scruffyduck's Airport Design Editor (ADE). That will allow you to place objects, roads, streams, etc. in addition to all the airport facilities stuff. I don't use it for placing water and lakes because at present you cannot change the altitude of the water within ADE.

So I tend to use SBuilderX for roads, streams, water and ADE for object placement, taxiways, runways, tower viewpoints... But most importantly from a "just trying it" point of view, it's all also free. ;)
 
Airtrooper said:
Would be good to clarify which Lancaster we're talking about? I gather from above it is in Texas in the United States? I know of at least 3 Lancasters, probably all with airfields of some kind.

Anyhow, excellent looking scenery! Well done.
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Yes, this is Lancaster, Texas. . . .a suburb of Dallas.
 
Yep, and here's where the autogen comes from. . .a look inside the Annotator as I'm placing the autogen back where it needs to go. Time consuming, but like I said, it can be placed very precisely because you use the photo image as a guide. The nice thing is that once you make a up a separate folder with scenery and texture folders inside that, as you save the work from the annotator it automatically saves the "agn" files directly to the texture folder so you don't have to worry about moving anything into a new folder. . .it's done for you. The second pic shows that autogen in place in the Sim.
 
Going to start placing objects now. I think the autogen has been properly populated and I removed the aircraft that were parked on the ramp in the original image.
 
Looking real good Ed and great job on the autogen placement. :ernae:
 
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