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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

WIP: FSX Solomon 1943 -- long --

I work very closely with Mark, and to my knowledge he has not cancelled his update to Solomon Islands. It is true that it has been delayed. Mark is developing and working on new techniques that will soon be apparent with the release of the ChiChi Jima 1945 scenery. It is my understanding he will apply these techniques to Solomon Islands down the road. Mark has been sharing many of his techniques with me and I hope to supply him the support he needs to complete the update.

ChiChi Jima should be going to the beta testers very soon. Hope this helps.
 
Scuttlebutt!
Nothing has been canceled! As Tom mentioned, we worked together on ChiChi Jima 1945 which, to me, was a test bed for my further scenery development work. For example, I tried to use old aerial recon photography as photoreal airfield backgrounds, developed new FSX coastlines that match the scenery better and stuff like that. This will all flow into a new version of the Solomons. Additionally, there will be a photoreal Rabaul in it, the Kapingamarangi Atoll as well as Espiritu Santo.
In the meanwhile, I'll release a completely overworked "old" Solomon scenario, which is already finished. I just have to get the reorganisation of the libraries done, which is awfully time consuming.
So hang on, there's a lot going on.

Cheers,
Mark
 
PHEW! My blood pressure was going through the roof! :pop4: Thanks for setting the record straight Mark. :applause:
 
Now that Toms and my work on ChiChi Jima come to an end, I started to work on the Solomon release again.
Even though I plan it as an intermediate release with not too much changes besides those that are really necessary, I want to employ some new learned techniques on it. I already reworked the coastline textures and made Seghi airfield a bit more 3 dimensional, besides changing a lot of scenery objects. I'll have to continue through the whole project now, and estimate a third has been done so far.

On the Seghi Image, note the guys having a beer at the bar under the camo net :)

Cheers,
Mark


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roger-wilco-66 said:
Now that Toms and my work on ChiChi Jima come to an end, I started to work on the Solomon release again.
Even though I plan it as an intermediate release with not too much changes besides those that are really necessary, I want to employ some new learned techniques on it. I already reworked the coastline textures and made Seghi airfield a bit more 3 dimensional, besides changing a lot of scenery objects. I'll have to continue through the whole project now, and estimate a third has been done so far.

On the Seghi Image, note the guys having a beer at the bar under the camo net :)

Cheers,
Mark
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Sweet!!! I foresee a movie in the future!!! -TF
 
Guys, that is Mark and I having a beer at the bar celebrating the completion of Chi-Chi Jima 1945. :icon29::guinness:
 
It's great having good Pacific scenery to fly around. It will be better when B12's P-39 is ready. ;)
 
I don't like the stock crushed coral taxiways and runways in the Solomons, they are too bright and way too low in resolution. So here's a new version of a bump mapped texture for the taxiways. The runway is a bit more complicated.

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ok, Stiz, you got it :)

This is what it will look like in FSX / P3D.
Very WIP, blendmasks will have to be adjusted, as well as color saturation of the phototile and and the annotation of autogen and setting of objects. The city is already regressed to 1943 outlines, but not ready yet. I read a lot of old literature and study some old maps to make it look authentic.

Cheers,
Mark



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i know its a big ask (i also know whats involved so i feel really cheek asking this!) but is there any chance of you the area around cape closchester (or whatever the heck its called!) and the area around lae?? just to to a favorite jaunt of mine :) ... actually .. whilst your at it you might as well do the whole of papua :icon_lol:
 
I still have the original installed and love it. But those update pics have me salivating. Take your time though. I don't want you getting burned out. :)
 
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