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Scenery design with Blender

jdberg

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Most of the designers who work with blender seems to develop aircrafts. Personally I worked many many years with Gmax for scenery design and moved to blender 4 months ago. My current project is a German airfield called EDRY - Speyer I am developing together with my colleague. He is working with FSDS and my part is done in blender. I am very satisfied with the result because the complete airfield can be done as "one object" and because of the Blender 2 FSX toolset the export is very easy.
This results in 55.000 vertices for the complete airfield with only 9 drawcalls.
So I can only encourage everybody using blender instead of FSDS or Gmax also for scenery design.
Thanks capt_x for the great tool, krispy1001, Dutcheeseblend and all others for there comments and help here in the forum.
Here is a picture of my current scenery in blender, enjoy!
EDRY_Blender.jpg
 
You're welcome jdberg ;)

Nice project, that's the airfield with the musuem! I've been to Speyer some years ago. You'll be modelling the museum itself too?
 
Yes the TECHNIK MUSEUM SPEYER is nearby the airfield. My part is the airfield itself an my colleague is focussing on the museum, which is as important as the airfield itself for the overall picture.
Here are two snapshots one from south the other one taken from the north which shows the museum.
The ground picture is still a temporary bing one, but I am currently changing that to an official aerial photo from the Landesvermessungsamt.

EDRY_01.jpg
EDRY_02.jpg
 
I've been using Blender for creating scenery objects for some time now - nothing like on the scale that you are, but I have a quite large and ever growing collection of buildings and objects that are slowly creating RAF Halfpenny Green as it was in 1942 or thereabouts.

I can only echo the comments above that Blender and the toolset are extremely valuable for scenery, as well as aircraft, design. Many thanks again to all those involved in the ongoing development work. :)

Presumably the museum is the area with the Coast Guard vessel sitting in it, as it's rather odd to see marine, rather than aircraft, sitting at the end of runways!!!

Cheers,

Ian P.
 
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