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FSX EDBC Magdeburg-Cochstedt WIP
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Hi Volker, amazing looking scenery! Keep up the great work.
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First panorama view of the scenery. The airport layout and the size of the apron area shows that EDBC used to be a soviet air force base back in the 50's and has then been converted to an civil airport over the years...
And these are my airport sign models in detail. The ground illumination effect in front of the signs at night works well and is based on the techniques of TIC's light splash thread
Cheers Volker
And these are my airport sign models in detail. The ground illumination effect in front of the signs at night works well and is based on the techniques of TIC's light splash thread
Cheers Volker
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Hi all,
a few more progress screens of EDBC.
Completed the buildings of the cargo and logistics area
Modelled some truck trailors and refined my low poly car library
First attempts to get the apron parking spots look like actually used: added a few oil stains, tire skid marks will follow ;-)
More low poly cars in action
Buildings of the surrounding area
The real cargo hall in has been build just a few months ago. It's FS counterpart is placed on custom made ground texture (CG-textures is my friend here)
And the interim passenger hall that I decided to redo completely to add much more details (texture and model wise). It's one of the buildings that is next to the virtual pilots cockpit windows later.
Cheers Volker
a few more progress screens of EDBC.
Completed the buildings of the cargo and logistics area
Modelled some truck trailors and refined my low poly car library
First attempts to get the apron parking spots look like actually used: added a few oil stains, tire skid marks will follow ;-)
More low poly cars in action
Buildings of the surrounding area
The real cargo hall in has been build just a few months ago. It's FS counterpart is placed on custom made ground texture (CG-textures is my friend here)
And the interim passenger hall that I decided to redo completely to add much more details (texture and model wise). It's one of the buildings that is next to the virtual pilots cockpit windows later.
Cheers Volker
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Wow, sorry I can't help myself drooling.
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...challenging task today: One lightpole is postioned directly in front of this building. I wanted all objects appear to be lit correctly (highlight/shadows). At the end it took me 3 hours to create and adjust the few night textures but I 'm happy with the result. I think that would be a 30 min task with 3DSmax and texture baking, correct?
Cheers Volker
Cheers Volker
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Kind of...
Once you get the hang of 3DS Max you could even do that in 15 mins
But the thing that you've done that beautiful work with a "less capable" program just makes it even better.
Cheers
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Your work is amazing. About the lighting, I think it is possible to do the light in 3dsmax and texture baking on the ground. So you can see the cast shadow from those light. I have done that, so why don't you try that. It is so much fun!.
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AFIK there are plug in's that capable of render from SketchUp but I don't know if there are any capable of render to texture.
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@Hewe: Sketchup is a very easy to learn and fun to use tool for static scenery modeling. I do my whole project with it, including groundpoly. But when it comes to more advanced tasks - like animation - you need other tools like Gmax.
@Roel: when the project is finished I'll decide whether EDBC might be offered as freeware or as a low budget payware addon
@Tic: I did try some render plugins for SU in the past but didn't check if they had a render to texture feature, will recheck this
@Roel: when the project is finished I'll decide whether EDBC might be offered as freeware or as a low budget payware addon
@Tic: I did try some render plugins for SU in the past but didn't check if they had a render to texture feature, will recheck this
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jtanabodee
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I love your work.
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Finished the surrounding area of the airfield with a photo scenery image and in the middle: the good old SCASM groundpoly. As I did with the EDAH scenery I placed a sat image as a drawing template in PS and then redrawed every surface with generic textures from cg-textures.com plus several PS layer effects. Tremendous workload, but at the end I get cost free sat-like groundimages...
