Prepar3D v3 Screenshots

stovall said:
Fantastic Gordon, I live just over the hill from KRNO so I am really looking forward to your work on that area. Love the grass especially. Please keep us posted as to progress. Love the screen shots. :adoration:
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Thanks Tom,

I'm about three hours south, but get up there fairly often.

I needed a break from the scenery, thus the F7F endeavor that took much longer than I anticipated, but now I'll be back on the scenery. I took a hard look at what I had built and compared it to the new stuff from Flightbeam and Fly Tampa. I decided I needed to be on par, so I'm rebuilding the KRNO terminal(s) with real glass and interiors. Modeling the surrounding industrial areas takes a while, but that is well underway. The rail yard out by the Nugget will be some work too.

I'll post up some pics of KRNO once I get the runway signs and lighting done. The basic ground details are already complete.
 
You must be somewhere near Bishop. One of my mules came from Bishop. I have done some packing in the Golden Trout working with the Forest Service. Looking forward to KRNO.
 
stovall said:
You must be somewhere near Bishop. One of my mules came from Bishop. I have done some packing in the Golden Trout working with the Forest Service. Looking forward to KRNO.
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Bishop is 15 minutes South. I'm in Lake Crowley with a really lovely lake view and cattle in my front yard. I can see the KMMH rwy lights from my front window. :untroubled:

Pity about the trout farms and Alpers...no more. Only natives from now on although I quit fishing about five years ago.
 
gman5250 said:
Bishop is 15 minutes South. I'm in Lake Crowley with a really lovely lake view and cattle in my front yard. I can see the KMMH rwy lights from my front window. :untroubled:

Pity about the trout farms and Alpers...no more. Only natives from now on although I quit fishing about five years ago.
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It sounds like both of y'all are off the grid.....:adoration:
 
gman5250 said:
Bishop is 15 minutes South. I'm in Lake Crowley with a really lovely lake view and cattle in my front yard. I can see the KMMH rwy lights from my front window. :untroubled:

Pity about the trout farms and Alpers...no more. Only natives from now on although I quit fishing about five years ago.
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Tom is a couple hours north of me,im on I-80 in Auburn,if you drive up this way,im sure youd go to reno on 395,but if you decide to head west on 80,let me know ,id like for you to stop and say hi...might be a good potty stop lol.theres an open invite to Tom,and "RockStar" has stopped by,even fed him..lol.i believe there is a soh member in the bay area too.we should all get together some weekend for a bs session.oh and Allen in redding?..


But G?...would you start a thread for your scenery?..show us some of the progress?..im sure im not the only one here who thinks its Fantastic!!! the bottom pic in the 3 screens above is my new wallpaper.a friend saw it today and asked me who the artist was....she thougth it was a digital photo of an oil painting.
 
Daveroo said:
Tom is a couple hours north of me,im on I-80 in Auburn,if you drive up this way,im sure youd go to reno on 395,but if you decide to head west on 80,let me know ,id like for you to stop and say hi...might be a good potty stop lol.theres an open invite to Tom,and "RockStar" has stopped by,even fed him..lol.i believe there is a soh member in the bay area too.we should all get together some weekend for a bs session.oh and Allen in redding?..


But G?...would you start a thread for your scenery?..show us some of the progress?..im sure im not the only one here who thinks its Fantastic!!! the bottom pic in the 3 screens above is my new wallpaper.a friend saw it today and asked me who the artist was....she thougth it was a digital photo of an oil painting.
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A road trip would be great...I have one or two usual stops right out in your neighborhood. I wouldn't mind shaking hands with some friends.

Scenery thread..? Hmmm, maybe a thread for everyone to post their work and techniques would be nice. I'd be interested in some other opinions.

Actually your friend was not too far off with her oil painting observation. Most designers use photos of plants for their vegetation. I begin with photos for reference, but all of my vegetation are made by first hand painting the individual trees, grass or brush. A lot of guys don't care about scenery and ambiance, but I think it brings the sim to an entirely new level.

This is an example of what is possible in P3D DX10+, and to a lesser extent FSX that is slightly restricted with DX9. From one of my beta test "plots".

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I fly P3D (v3) for the first time and just for 2 days now and though I have Shaders
problems due to my ATI card (suffering of FPS drop), I have to say that I'm impressed...

If FSX was "As real as it gets", then with P3D and DirectX 11 is at least "As real x 2"
with photoreal sceneries.

BTW : Do you know of a way to transfer the native planes of FSX boxed version into P3D ?...
I'm interested for the DC3 and the sailplane of FSX.

I do really want to make a thermal flight over this photoreal environment !...
 
xpelekis said:
BTW : Do you know of a way to transfer the native planes of FSX boxed version into P3D ?...
I'm interested for the DC3 and the sailplane of FSX.
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i have no idea if you can move the stock FSX planes to P3Dv3 or not..but you'd be better off i think with this C-47/DC-3,its a much better airplane than the stock fsx version.

FSX Douglas C-47 V2.zip
 
xpelekis said:
BTW : Do you know of a way to transfer the native planes of FSX boxed version into P3D ?...
I'm interested for the DC3 and the sailplane of FSX.

I do really want to make a thermal flight over this photoreal environment !...
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You can port FSX planes into P3Dv3 without problems that I am aware of.
Copy and paste the airplane in it's folder into P3D, also you will need to copy effects and gauges as well. The best way is to make a backup of your P3D effects and gauges folders. Copy your gauges and effects from FSX into your P3Dv3 folders without overwriting existing files. This will only place the FSX effects not included in P3D into the working folder.

Important: do not copy the .cfg file from FSX effects into P3D.

BTW: Minden, NV KMEV Minden/Tahoe will be included in the scenery set. Great soaring from there.
 
I might have overwritten the cfg file in the effects folder when copying over files. Any advice?..
 
JensOle said:
I might have overwritten the cfg file in the effects folder when copying over files. Any advice?..
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PM me...I'll help you straighten it out.

FYI, I installed the FSX DG808S in P3Dv3 and it worked fine...tow plane...thermal graphics...all good. Did a long flight from Minden NV to KMMH.
 
gman5250 said:
A road trip would be great...I have one or two usual stops right out in your neighborhood. I wouldn't mind shaking hands with some friends.

Scenery thread..? Hmmm, maybe a thread for everyone to post their work and techniques would be nice. I'd be interested in some other opinions.

Actually your friend was not too far off with her oil painting observation. Most designers use photos of plants for their vegetation. I begin with photos for reference, but all of my vegetation are made by first hand painting the individual trees, grass or brush. A lot of guys don't care about scenery and ambiance, but I think it brings the sim to an entirely new level.

This is an example of what is possible in P3D DX10+, and to a lesser extent FSX that is slightly restricted with DX9. From one of my beta test "plots".

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Your scenery has that CBB7 - Tipella feel... a no longer ORBX downloadable freeware scenery...gorgeous!!! Was that your scenery?

Hey Daveroo...I'm still working off that great meal, thank you buddy!!!

Greg



 
RockStarofRust said:
Your scenery has that CBB7 - Tipella feel... a no longer ORBX downloadable freeware scenery...gorgeous!!! Was that your scenery?
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Yes, I did CBB7 Tipella for ORBX. That project utilized their vegetation libraries and FSX autogen, but I have since created my own comprehensive library of vegetation and models. The veggies in the screens above are from those new libs.

When I left that group it was, unfortunately, removed from the lineup. No worries...I'm working on new projects that will be very similar but will utilize the newer objects and vegetation.
 
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