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Getting started with scenery design from scratch

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Hi all

If one wanted to get started with scenery design here in late 2025 for MSFS and one would be learning from scratch, what would be the best way to go about that? Is it as straightforward as become proficient in Blender first before you worry about any of the rest of it? I have the vision of a scenery project in mind but I do not have the skills to start it nor do I know how to get there. Any advice is welcome.

Thanks!
 
My experience starting this around 18 months back was that small incremental steps are advantagous. I started with a small project to add some SatCom domes using another person's models and the models available in FS-Base and UK2000 libraries.

After that I got into making my own 3D objects in Blender and with a lot of help from one of the UK expert designers I am now reasonably proficient. Doing things incrementally allows you to make some visible progress so you do not get disheartened by a failure which is near impossible to trace in a large whole airfield project.

I have recently started making backround scenery tiles using Google Earth images. their historic imagery is highly useful to me as my interest is in European Cold War era airfields, many of which have now been built over.
 
SPerx said:
My experience starting this around 18 months back was that small incremental steps are advantagous. I started with a small project to add some SatCom domes using another person's models and the models available in FS-Base and UK2000 libraries.

After that I got into making my own 3D objects in Blender and with a lot of help from one of the UK expert designers I am now reasonably proficient. Doing things incrementally allows you to make some visible progress so you do not get disheartened by a failure which is near impossible to trace in a large whole airfield project.

I have recently started making backround scenery tiles using Google Earth images. their historic imagery is highly useful to me as my interest is in European Cold War era airfields, many of which have now been built over.
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Thanks for the reply! Are there any tutorials that were helpful to you that you'd recommend?
 
Piedmonitor said:
Thanks for the reply! Are there any tutorials that were helpful to you that you'd recommend?
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On YouTube there is a series of videos by " Flying Theston" which although now a few years old, help with the basics such as setting up the directories, defining the basic airfield and so on. Also on YT our own "MAMU" has a number of videos under his YT name Federico Pinotti.
 
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