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The Devil Made Me Do It

falcon409

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After just remarking in another thread that I didn't think airport scenery addons were worth doing without a photoreal background texture, I up and did one for a group flight I plan to do next week. The flight plan calls for stops at four different airports in the UK and one of them is St. Mary's. There was a scenery already done for FS9, but after trying it, there were too many FSX problems and so I canned that and just did one for the heck of it.

No custom buildings, no extra scenery objects, everything is default FSX.
 
What Lennart said!


I miss you doing airport sceneries, Ed. Was looking forward to a few US regional airport sceneries.
 
Ditto to everything said above!

Ed, St. Mary's looks excellent as you have it! Your previous airport releases are still some number 1 stomping grounds for me.
 
Here's the other airport I couldn't find anything on and that will be part of the Flight Plan next week. . .Southampton_EGHI.
 
You're right, Falcon. Without photo real scenery those airports look like crap! :icon_lol:

I hope you upload those....would be nice to have a couple small UK strips to fly from....oh, I'm sure there are some that come with FSX...but I have no idea what they are....but if you upload these, then I'll know that they are small strips.

OBIO
 
lol, yep they do. I just wanted something more than default to fly into since I'll be hitting each of these twice during the entire flight plan. They'll do in a pinch, lol.:salute:
 
Falcon, like St Mary's, out of interest does FSX let you model the half tarmac/half grass runway (27/09 I think) or do you have to have it all one surface?

I've been there once in real life, have to see if I can dig out any photos.
 
SkippyBing said:
Falcon, like St Mary's, out of interest does FSX let you model the half tarmac/half grass runway (27/09 I think) or do you have to have it all one surface?
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I use AFX for all my AFCAD work Skippy and as far as I know it doesn't let you do half and half. I could probably cheat a bit and do shortened rwys and butt them up against the main rwy, but I don't know how that would look and if you wanted to add AI, it could get confusing, lol.

Of course the other way is to model it in FSDS or GMax and then convert to a bgl file and load it that way but that's beyond my abilities.
 
There was a decent scenery from flightsim.com for Alderney and I thought I could just fix the alpha problem with the trees (black boxes we all know and love, lol). Actually I was going to simply delete the trees "bgl" and put new trees in their place, but alas that wasn't as easy as it first appeared, so I just redid it, lol.
 
Loving these...great to see you back doing sceneries again,Ed.:applause:

If ever you get the urge to travel a little west and create a few Irish airfields it'd be much appreciated. :icon_lol::salute:
 
Hi Ed.My own local field is EIAB, but there's a great big cloud over half of it in G**gle maps! EIME,EIWT,EINC ...whatever takes your fancy. :salute:
 
Nice and quick job as always falcon!

I wish there was a way of blurring out the edges of airport pads like you can do in photoscenery. It would make things much nicer when you do not have a photo background to work with.
 
kilo delta said:
Hi Ed.My own local field is EIAB, but there's a great big cloud over half of it in G**gle maps! EIME,EIWT,EINC ...whatever takes your fancy. :salute:
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Started EIAB at lunch and back to it now. Surprisingly, it's not even included in FSX, as are many others from Ireland. Odd. . . . .
 
OleBoy said:
Ed, I had no clue you did scenery. Your work looks pretty darn nice!
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Welllllll, I don't do scenery in the creative sense, lol. I do "Enhanced-Default Scenery", lol. Use satellite images as a guide and then remake the airport boundaries, correct rwy locations, add taxiways and aprons where needed and then throw a bunch of hangars, vehicles, vegetation, etc around and "voila", lol.
 
KD, I've got the basics laid in, but the river that runs around it, the roads, even most of the larger lakes in Central Ireland aren't there. Beginning to wonder if there's a glitch with me scenery.
Take a look at the top-down shot. . .you see the new airport to the right. . . then look to the left and you can see what appears to be the rough outline of where they planned on putting the airport and it never got finished. . . .at least that's what it appears to be to me based on it's proximity to where I have the airport positioned. Even seems to be the same relative heading.
 
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