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FSX Wallis & Futuna
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Thanks 
unfortunately, baking messes my textures, they are stretched or whatever :/
any help is more than welcome I never baked textures in my life (Kourou and Kourou v2 are simple textures) As Wallis & Futuna is a place I know, I want to make it good (or as best as I can)
unfortunately, baking messes my textures, they are stretched or whatever :/ any help is more than welcome
I never baked textures in my life (Kourou and Kourou v2 are simple textures) As Wallis & Futuna is a place I know, I want to make it good (or as best as I can)
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This looks much better! Which program are you using now? There are great tutorials from Austin Sass on Youtube and after that it is very easy to bake those textures.
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Hi all ,
Good News:
-I slowly getting motivation back on this project
-I found new pictures (Flight Report) for Both Wallis Hihifo and Futuna Vele airports
-I plan making it for FSX, P3D and .... FS20 (yes, I just added it in case I have success completing my project)
Bad News:
-According to the newly found pictures, both airborts has Changed (New colors, new buildings etc)
-I noticed that I'm wrong with some details that I'll have to redo
-There still missing Hihifo's Hangars, Tower and other important buildings)
-I still don't have Apron markings details I need
, Good News:
-I slowly getting motivation back on this project
-I found new pictures (Flight Report) for Both Wallis Hihifo and Futuna Vele airports
-I plan making it for FSX, P3D and .... FS20 (yes, I just added it in case I have success completing my project)
Bad News:
-According to the newly found pictures, both airborts has Changed (New colors, new buildings etc)
-I noticed that I'm wrong with some details that I'll have to redo
-There still missing Hihifo's Hangars, Tower and other important buildings)
-I still don't have Apron markings details I need
To be honest, I'd probably stick with the original airport layout you already have. Airports get extended all the time, if you want to keep up with that you'll have to start over and over again and never get it done. Even professional developers like ORBX consider their airport sceneries to be snapshots in time and rarely update them even if new terminals and runway extensions are built.
Considering minor mistakes in modeling, I think it's almost impossible to get every detail right without reference photos specifically taken with modeling in mind, from all sides with perfect lighting at perfectly straight angles. Most people will not know the airport first hand and won't notice minor errors, and a slightly flawed airport scenery that actually gets released someday is still better than no airport at all. After all it's freeware and your preview shots already look really good. I think if you capture the general atmosphere of the exotic setting of your scenery it's more than enough. I just started work on a scenery for a tiny island airfield quite close to your own project and the only reference material that I have is a blurry photo of the airfield building and two YouTube videos where you can see the buildings for a fraction of a second. So the final scenery will largely be based on my imagination, but I think that's still better than what there is now, which is, err, nothing.
So keep up the good work and don't get discouraged!
Cheers, Fabian
Considering minor mistakes in modeling, I think it's almost impossible to get every detail right without reference photos specifically taken with modeling in mind, from all sides with perfect lighting at perfectly straight angles. Most people will not know the airport first hand and won't notice minor errors, and a slightly flawed airport scenery that actually gets released someday is still better than no airport at all. After all it's freeware and your preview shots already look really good. I think if you capture the general atmosphere of the exotic setting of your scenery it's more than enough. I just started work on a scenery for a tiny island airfield quite close to your own project and the only reference material that I have is a blurry photo of the airfield building and two YouTube videos where you can see the buildings for a fraction of a second. So the final scenery will largely be based on my imagination, but I think that's still better than what there is now, which is, err, nothing.
So keep up the good work and don't get discouraged!
Cheers, Fabian