P3D v5 KPGD Punta Gorda

[wideloadwhitford]

 

[rcunningham12]

That volumetric grass looks really good! I think your off to a really solid start here.

 

[Tekica123]

With this kind of grass you will get a high fps impact, there is much better ways to make a volumetric grass, and looks much more realistic, trust me!

Everything else looks perfect!

 

[wideloadwhitford]

With this kind of grass you will get a high fps impact, there is much better ways to make a volumetric grass, and looks much more realistic, trust me!

Everything else looks perfect!

Indeed it does it seems. I will have to find another method. Possibly I will just shape a few planes here and there and randomly place them.

 

[wideloadwhitford]

Ended up just doing some simple grass.

 

[jencas]

Ended up just doing some simple grass.

Wise decision, the other reminded me more of chives than grass.

 

[Tekica123]

Looks much better, just match the color of the PR then don't place it randomly, try to make them to look as real as possible.

 

[wideloadwhitford]

Looks much better, just match the color of the PR then don't place it randomly, try to make them to look as real as possible.

That's going to be hard because this is Florida All of it is grass.

 

[Tekica123]

On the airport Im working on it's the same, so trust me

 

[wideloadwhitford]

 

[wideloadwhitford]

 

[Tekica123]

This one looks much better!

 

[Shaun]

Very nice! I make my grass dxt5 and have it semi-transparent so that it blends in with the photoscenery better and you don't see the sharp X of the polygons.
May I suggest a little noise layer over the ground polygons also to dirty things up a little. Fantastic work!

 

[wideloadwhitford]

Very nice! I make my grass dxt5 and have it semi-transparent so that it blends in with the photoscenery better and you don't see the sharp X of the polygons.
May I suggest a little noise layer over the ground polygons also to dirty things up a little. Fantastic work!

Thanks. Yes I have a Master Shadow over the entire polygon that will dirty it up a bit. I will do the suggestion of the transparency and try it out.

 

[BlueSpellman]

This looks fantastic! I partly grew up in the Sarasota/PGD area so this makes my heart warm. Feel free to do SRQ next.

 

[wideloadwhitford]

This looks fantastic! I partly grew up in the Sarasota/PGD area so this makes my heart warm. Feel free to do SRQ next.

Thanks! Never know what you'll find me doing next.

 

[wideloadwhitford]

Worked on the taxiway lights.

 

[Thralni]

This looks very nice! Out of curiosity, how have you placed these lights? Did you make a string of them and place them as such, or did you include them in a library and hand place them throughout? Or, perhaps another method? I haven't embarked on the lights yet for my own projects because I can't decide what the better approach is...

 

[wideloadwhitford]

This looks very nice! Out of curiosity, how have you placed these lights? Did you make a string of them and place them as such, or did you include them in a library and hand place them throughout? Or, perhaps another method? I haven't embarked on the lights yet for my own projects because I can't decide what the better approach is...

Thanks! I use SimDirector, it comes with P3D. It essentially makes an XML file and BGL that you place in your scenery folder and it has the object placement coordinates inside of it.

 

[Tekica123]

When I was making my first airport lights few years ago I went into a problem as a result by placing them using a Instant Scenery 3 or whatever object placer.I found the solution that you have to export all the lights from 3ds max (for me) as a model, then export them as a object in MCX (for the lights, not for the holder and you get a much better distance of the light..