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MSFS2000 Scenery Development Question for the Experts

NegativeCamber

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Howdy all,

To say my experience in building airports in a sim environment would be a gross overstatement. I am an airline pilot in Canada that has been furloughed due to the current state of affairs because of the CoVid-19 pandemic. That said, I thought I could use my experience operating at a myriad of different airports and try and learn both Blender and Substance to create something hopefully as amazing as some of you do.

With that, I have a few questions that I cant seem to get a solid answer on so I thought I would ask the experts.

1. When designing airports for MSFS2020, is it a must to use a ground ortho or is what comes with MSFS (bing) suitable to build on top of?
2. When designing airport building, is it better to build them all individually and then export / import them in to the newly created scenery?
3. With regards to #2 - is there best practices that I should be following?

I have downloaded all of the blender plugins for P3D and MSFS2020 and have the SDK and read almost everything there is to read (and watch)

Thank you all for reading this and please stay safe and healthy and thank you for your support
 
If you want there to be good quality ground textures if the user chooses to be in offline mode, having some sort of ortho/photoreal ground texture is important. Without the online mode, everything looks a lot different because it doesn't have really anything to go off of. It really changes the feel.

To answer your questions on buildings, if your talking about making them one big model file then place it and try to line up all the buildings, then that's gonna be alot more work then to individually place them in the sim. This holds true for P3D as well, easier to make a single building then place it/scale it then to make a bunch of buildings in one model and hope they all scale & position with each other correctly. I've learned my lesson on this one. It will also be easier to not have to work with 5-10 textures in one model instead of 1.

As for a good practice, to the best of my knowledge there isn't really any simpler way then the one the videos give on how to do it.
 
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