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Texture resolution question

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jasonlg3d

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I am working on my first scenery project that I hope will be similar to flytampa's projects. I am taking on a much smaller airport however. I have been reading all the information I can find about scenery creation but I have a question that I cannot find the answer to.

What would be an appropriate resolution for making the "FlyTampa" style textures for my airport. I want to know the maximum. Currently I have mapped the entire airport out using Adobe Illustrator, and have begun painting taxiways and runways in Photoshop. My file is currently at approx 20cm/pixel. Is that an appropriate resoulution? My photoshop file is something like 5000x10000 pixels.

Thanks in advance. I'm sure I'll be back here with more technical quesions later.

On a side note,

Im creating the entire airport in 3ds Max 6. This way I will have everything in its place and can see what it will look like before placing it in FS. I plan on exporting each object out as a .3ds file and opening that in gmax to convert it. Is this a reasonable approach or am I going to have a big headache when exporting time comes?
 
Hi,

I think if you have small airport you should be able to use that resolution. I have tried a 16 cm resolution once for a big airport, but that resulted in too much textures (the loading took ages, as the airport required around 1 GB of textures). So I think as long as your total texture size is not too big, it should work fine.
 
Thanks

Thanks arno and welcome back.

I do have another question if you dont mind. When it comes time to build the actual ground polygons in gmax, should the taxiways be a seperate polygon from the grass?
 
Yes, it is easiest to use different polygons for parts that should have different textures. This is also useful if you want to place the grass and apron at different layers.
 
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