Randolph AFB Scenery for FSX

[flyboyaces]

Half a year ago, I started working on the scenery for Randolph Air Force Base, my hometown for 7 years. I am using Google Sketchup for my buildings as well as my ground polygons. I will try to finish this project within the next couple of years, as the base has over 1000 buildings.

Here are some photos of my project:

 

[jdhaenens]

Looking good Flyboy. Can't wait to see the Taj Mahal. Doesn't look like too many draw calls yet. Keep on reusing textures as much as you can. If the building count gets too high, you may start affecting frame rate.

Keep on building!

Jim

 

[flyboyaces]

After several months of hard work, the Taj Mahal is almost complete. All I need now is to add the beacon and the night textures.

 

[Dutcheeseblend]

Looks fine! Must have been quite a bit of work!

 

[flyboyaces]

I have been working on this project for about a year now. Progress is coming slowly but steadily. At this point, I have completed all of the housing, former barracks, former fire station, bachelor officer quarters, and several others. I am also working on finishing touches for the Taj Mahal, Chapel, TLF, and the rest of the hangars. Besides buildings, I am placing each tree indivisually, and they are all from the default FSX library. Work still needs to be done, like the ground polygons, various buildings, an AI traffic system. If all goes well, a developmental release will be ready sometime soon.

 

[flyboyaces]

After looking at my project for some time, I decided end my project due to poor quality and start from scratch. I decided to switch to blender for object creation and use gimp for texture manipulation. The first object I created was the former firehouse, and so far, I am quite pleased with my results. Here are some pictures:

 

[flyboyaces]

This is just an indication that the project is not dead. Progress has just been slow on such a massive undertaking.

 

[DragonflightDesign]

Been to the Taj Mahal and one of my customers/clients/whateveryouwantotcallthem is Randolph AFB.

 

[flyboyaces]

Modeling and texturing is coming along slowly but surely. This is the landmark of Randolph, so I want to make sure I can get as much detail as I can without causing too much of an impact on performance.