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FSXA Fliegerhorst Büchel (ETSB)

Polaris

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Hi there,

I am currently working on Fliegerhorst Büchel (ETSB), a German Luftwaffe air base some 18nm NE of Spangdahlem Air Base (ETAD).

Groundbreaking ceremony took place on the location of the first hardened aircraft shelter (HAS) in December 2019.

At the moment I am trying to organize a visit of the actual air base and yet awaiting feedback from their PR unit.

For now I am building in ACAD, Blender and GIMP for FSXA. But sure enough I am monitoring FS2020 evolution and prepare to port it to the new environment when the time has come.

So here you go with a first little teaser:

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(Panavia Tornado courtesy of AFS-Design/Andreas Meyer, FSXA environment features elements from AS16, ORBX and REX 4)​

Since I am all new to building simulator content, thank you for your patience with this project. I had CAD/CAM experience from the real world and as I was fed up with not having an appropriate garage for my warbirds on German soil, I gave it a try and this is where I am right now.

So there's lots of things left to do... more building(s), neater optics, more positioning, animations and coding to steer them..., not to mention re-iterations for less impact - but let's first get started with that visit to the air base to have a better idea of how to boost the immersive experience.

I'll keep you posted in this thread. Feel free to comment and suggest from your side.

Cheers, Pat
 
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As of today....

...there's almost as much to do as yesterday, except some trails ruled out. So I am not gonna spend any more time on lighting as such and I solved my Volume Shadow issues. The response from the Luftwaffe is still due and I am patiently waiting for that one, given that I will be busy with other things in February and March anyway and that athmospheric conditions in April are so much more favorable to have pics and vids properly done outside.

However, I took a leap of faith and acquired a new bird that would fit my ongoing creation. A plane I have downloaded over and over again from different sources and that would never ressemble the one I grew up with. And I was happily surprised with a professional purchase process and a neat aircraft. Big shot to the Just Flight guys! It took me a quarter of a century to acquire something worth my beloved Digital Integration Tornado and I am not yet done with catching up - but they made it happen: it is there! We'll get it to what it was all those years out there in real life and to what it is to me... lemme just get that bloody 'ol German garage done first...

So here you go with some more eye candy:

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The pros among you will see a lot of things to enhance. The repetitive texture on the inner arch and back wall sucks, most of the inner hangar textures have no detail yet, the shape of the exhaust vent looks odd, there's no animations whatsoever,...

...at least one thing is genuine: there's only inches for the wing tips to pass through the doors... and 'these little aeroplanes cost about 40 million pound each (back in the 80's) and the wing tip is around 6 percent of that'... - if ever you wonder where I got that from, watch this:


So yeah: just getting started, still figuring out so many things... - but I am on my way... just to let you know...

Thankies for watching!

Cheers, Pat
 
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