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FS2004 Redding KRDD

Sidney Schwartz

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Ground textures done, I hope. Working on buildings now. Custom taxiway markings will also be added. I purposely use ground textures on only paved areas so the bare ground will use the seasonal stock textures. Just a personal performance. Also cuts way down on the time needed to finish an aiport. I readily admit to making far less sophisticated scenery than many here, but that keeps it enjoyable for me, and if it ain't enjoyable why would I bother?

The US Forestry ramp with Grumman and Convair bombers.
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General Aviation ramp.
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Yes, they do have a Canberra B2 on the field. They also have an Aero L-29 Delfin, which I still have to add.
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Unused runway converted to a drag strip. At the far end you can just make out the go-kart track.
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Place your bets. :wave:
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If I look at what I made a year ago, I would be ashamed to show it once more but at the time I thought I had a good scenery and I had enjoyed making it as well. You will get more proficient the more you do it. It already looks good though and as Heretic said: anything is better than the default.
 
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looking good for the Moment... but still hope, there will be a photo scenery for the Environment around the Airport... or even better, grass textures... LH Creations like...
 
Sidney Schwartz

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Since I don't know robystar or Heratic, I'm going to assume their comments were meant to be encouraging and not just tactless, which is how they came off sounding. You seem to assume that I would make my scenery more complex and detailed if only I knew how. I do know how and have made a deliberate decision not to. I've made lots of scenery and scenery objects over the past six years or so, all freeware, and have developed an approach that suits me and keeps it enjoyable. FS for me is still primarily a Flight simulator, not a Scenery simulator, and I don't need ultra-realistic scenery to enjoy it. If others like what I make, fine. If not, I'll gladly refund the no money I charged them for the many hours even crappy scenery like mine takes to make.

Sorry, Airbasil, but there will be no additional photo textures. I don't have the patience to do the entire airport and surrounding area, so I've come up with a compromise that, I hope, still makes the scenery more visually enjoyable. If you have replacement grass textures installed, they should show up instead of the textures you see in the pics.
 
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Sidney Schwartz said:
Since I don't know robystar or Heratic, I'm going to assume their comments were meant to be encouraging and not just tactless, which is how they came off sounding. You seem to assume that I would make my scenery more complex and detailed if only I knew how. I do know how and have made a deliberate decision not to. I've made lots of scenery and scenery objects over the past six years or so, all freeware, and have developed an approach that suits me and keeps it enjoyable. FS for me is still primarily a Flight simulator, not a Scenery simulator, and I don't need ultra-realistic scenery to enjoy it. If others like what I make, fine. If not, I'll gladly refund the no money I charged them for the many hours even crappy scenery like mine takes to make.
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It was encouragement and basically a statement of my modus operandi. I know your name from the two billion add-ons you've done over the years and even if I've ever only used a very small part of them, I find their presence very helpful. You know, in case I need an object for a scenery or an entire scenery for an airport. So here's a "Thank you" for the continuous creation of sceneries and object libraries.

Also, posting tactless comments on freeware releases would be like shooting one's foot.


And: If you get flak for anything you do MSFS-wise, drag that bastard to me and I'll tear him a new one.
 
Sidney Schwartz

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Two billion...sometimes feels like it. :eek:

No problem. As far as I'm concerned we're all on the same team. It's easy to misinterpret the tone of forum posts, and I apologize for doing so. :wave:
 
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Sidney Schwartz said:
Sorry, Airbasil, but there will be no additional photo textures. I don't have the patience to do the entire airport and surrounding area, so I've come up with a compromise that, I hope, still makes the scenery more visually enjoyable. If you have replacement grass textures installed, they should show up instead of the textures you see in the pics.
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Thanks for that quick answer. I appreciate that.
Hopefully you would deliver more fs9 sceneries in future. I'm really lookin' forward to this project!

Keep 'em coming!
 
Sidney Schwartz

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I have given myself up for a hopeless scenery design addict. I had actually intended to quit a while back and you can see how that worked out. At some point a miracle will occur and I'll be able to afford a new computer capable and upgrade to FSX or Prepar3D. Until then I'll continue making scenery for FS9.
 
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Been flying a lot lately so work on KRDD has been slow. Working my way south from the U.S. Forestry ramp I've got the Air Shasta, fire house and Redding Jet building done. Started working on the Terminal. And don't forget our iron clad guarantee: "It's probably better than the default scenery." :wave:

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Mr.FaosFX

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Sidney Schwartz said:
Ground textures done, I hope. Working on buildings now. Custom taxiway markings will also be added. I purposely use ground textures on only paved areas so the bare ground will use the seasonal stock textures. Just a personal performance. Also cuts way down on the time needed to finish an aiport. I readily admit to making far less sophisticated scenery than many here, but that keeps it enjoyable for me, and if it ain't enjoyable why would I bother?

The US Forestry ramp with Grumman and Convair bombers.
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General Aviation ramp.
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Yes, they do have a Canberra B2 on the field. They also have an Aero L-29 Delfin, which I still have to add.
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Unused runway converted to a drag strip. At the far end you can just make out the go-kart track.
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Place your bets. :wave:
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Whoa I drag race all the time!!

Where is this drag strip located in the real world?? I'm pretty sure you must be familiar with top fuel and funny car, those cars do the quarter mile at over 300 mph between 3 and 4 seconds and they sound so loud, it sounds like the whole track is getting bombed!!! The nitro that comes out of those cars just burns the eyes if your close to it!
 
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I just looked up some info on the dragstrip and found out that it is the oldest operating NHRA drag strip but I checked the schedule for NHRA's biggest events and it seems that they do not operate top fuel or nitro funny cars or in other words, the current mello yellow series.....I wonder why is this...the track looks more than capable to handle the power of nitro blown cars....I am puzzled by this!
 
Sidney Schwartz

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The oldest operating NHRA drag strip? I had no idea. Interesting that the first one was a converted runway...makes sense though.

I was really into cars as a kid growing up in NYC and went to some drag strip a few times...can't remember which one. Loved the funny cars, but the AA fuel rails were definitely everyone's favorites. Closest I ever got to racing was slot cars...they were quite popular in the 60's. That was a fun hobby. :D
 
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Thanks, darrenvox. I'm happy with it so far and your support helps keep me motivated to finish it. :wave:
 
Sidney Schwartz

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Terminal is 90% done. Air side needs glazing. I'm starting to hate the people who design airport terminals.

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robystar

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Hi,

Very nice, but, not criticizing (on the contrary):
From the screenies I see that you still have problems with (which most call) the 'moire' effect'.
You could try to avoid that by mipmapping your textures (mipmapping means that the farther away you are from the object the lesser detail you see).
 
Sidney Schwartz

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Thanks for reminding me, Roby. I always used mipped textures but had forgotten to process some of these. Brain getting like Swiss cheese, I'm afraid.
 
Sidney Schwartz

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Finished and uploaded to Avsim.com and Flightsim.com. Should work in FSX as well. I have no idea about Prepar3D. Anyone who wishes to do any converting necessary for FSX or Prepar3D has my permission to do so, as long as the original readme.txt file is included. Hope you enjoy it. :wave:
 
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