FSXA Nuremberg (EDDN) X

[Cheese-Strike]

My friend Daniel and me started working on our first scenery project.

As the title says, it will be Nuremberg (EDDN) for FSX.
We're trying to make it as realisitc as possible.

Here are some previews of our first building, we still got some problems which Daniel will explain later.

Hope you like it.

Regards, Daniel

 

[Aviasim]

Seems asif you have some model error, I can see the fence through that hangar

 

[Mr.FaosFX]

That's a z-buffer render error, he probably has a problem with his display drivers. The fence is being rendered first and the rest of the scenery last.

 

[mdm248111]

That's a z-buffer render error, he probably has a problem with his display drivers. The fence is being rendered first and the rest of the scenery last.

If I'm not mistaken, it has to do with FSX's SP2. There is a bug that causes alpha'd objects (fence) to draw in front of other objects...

Nice hangar btw

 

[Daniel E]

Here I am, the other Daniel

About the problem:
I have first placed the fence with ADE. After that the hangar was made with gmax. I'm not sure, but I think I hadn't the problem when the hangar wasn't texturized.
Also these upper glass dome's (which have no texture yet) are visible through the hangar, when you look at it from downwards.

Thanks for your help!

Greetings Daniel

 

[Kai503]

Servus Daniel,

Does the texture of the hangar have an alpha channel?

In this case:
Z-Write Alpha: Check
Z-Test Alpha: Check
Alpha Test Level: Somewhere around 123-128
Alpha Test Mode: GreaterEqual

That sould help.

Grüsse,
Kai

 

[Daniel E]

Thanks for your answer!

I made no alpha channel. I converted the bmp with DXTBmp and added no alpha channel, so the standart alpha channel in white was uesed...
Can it be possible that I did something wrong in gmax...?

 

[jdberg]

Hi Daniel(s),

great to see, that you are working on EDDN. I am missing this airport in FSX for such a long time.

The problem with the fence shining through has something to do with the alpha settings Kai mentioned. I had that sometimes on my objects and it was always the same. What about the fence, is it FSX material in Gmax and are the settings correct?

Jörg

 

[Daniel E]

The fence is standart FSX fence. I placed it with ADE.
For the hangar I used the FSX material in gmax....

 

[jdberg]

The fence is standart FSX fence. I placed it with ADE.
For the hangar I used the FSX material in gmax....

Try the settings of Kai with the FSX material of the hangar and see what happens. The solution is closer as you think

Jörg

 

[Kai503]

That's a bit strange.. Without Alpha shouldn't be any problems with the draw order.. Have you set the framebuffer blend to "default opaque" (as it is by default)?
Maybe it would be good to see the material settings. Otherwise, I would make it the easy way; delete the material, create a new one, leave all settings as they are by default and simply look what happenes.

Viel Glück!

Kai

 

[Daniel E]

I think I didn't change any settings you mentioned when texturing the hangar...

I would like to follow your descriptions, but I'm very new to gmax and scenery design...Can you please write exactly what I have to do now?

Thanks in advance!
Daniel

 

[Kai503]

Do you have still the UVW Map and Unwrap UVW on the modifier list? I hope you haven't collaped it, otherwise I'm not sure if this here works..



1. Delete the old material, the texture will disappear from the hangar
2. Make a new material. In case you want to rename it: Open the Material Navigator before!!! Otherwise gmax will crash. An old bug..
3. Ups.. My mistake, it should be 3 instead of 4.. Drag the texture onto the diffuse colour slot.
4. Press "apply"
5. The texture should be back on the hangar.

One more advise (just in case you don't know it already): Save your work before experimenting, but never save it on the same name. My example is a very simple scenery object, but you see I have saved it on 5 different files; Balga_Ruine01, Blaga_Ruine02,... (It's a castle in Ostpreussen). Gmax can do it automatically. Customize -> Files -> Increment on save. It can save one from a lot of frustration.

Kai

 

[Daniel E]

Thank you so much for your description!!! I will try it now!

 

[Daniel E]

Now I have tested it, after I had some problems with the Library last evening...And it works

Thanks for the help! And now another question:
The hangar sometimes disappears when turning the view around...here an example:



Thanks in advance!

 

[Kai503]

Hi,

Nice to hear that it worked out.

FSX blends objects out which are not in the view. It can happen "too early" if the reference point is too far off. Try to place the hangar's center (about) in the origin. See attached pic.

Kai

 

[Daniel E]

I placed the hangar in gmax exactly in the middle at the coordinates 0,0 in x and y directions...

 

[Cheese-Strike]

Some news on EDDN, we had a meeting with some guys of the build and planing bureau. They were quite interested in our project.In 2 weeks we're meeting the head of Airport Nuremberg GmbH to discuss about further progress.
Here some new previews:
Mövenpick Hotel:

Apron lamp pole:

still without textures ... the measure of the buildings aren't right, so we wait with the textures till our buildings fit to those in real

 

[ricardo_r]

It's looking good!
Looking forward to it...

 

[Pere Duran]

Update!

An approach light!

Now, you probably haven't heard about the news. Daniel's friends and I are working hard on modelling this airport as professionally as possible. Therefore, i will now start taking care of updates!

Regards,

Pere Duran