Hi all,Having gotten a bit stale with FSX i wondered how i might improve my enthusiasm for it again.Suddenly had the idea of creating photo scenery. Im in the process of producing photo scenery for FSX for Jersey, including the airport. If anybody has any photos of the airport they would be hugely beneficial to help me create the various scenery objects.I hope to move on to Guernsey aswell, but one step at a time.A screenshot is attached to show progress so far.Oh im not sure what the restrictions are of using google earth as a photo background (even though its free) so perhaps that may cause some issues???Anyway stay tuned for further progressTom

Tim Clayton did some pretty good airports for the Channel Islands. Don't know if they will fit your photoscenery, but I look forward to trying it as I used to enjoy island hopping there in FS9 and miss it now I'm an fsx user.I would be happy to beta test it for you if you pm me.IAN

Tim Clayton did some pretty good airports for the Channel Islands. Don't know if they will fit your photoscenery, but I look forward to trying it as I used to enjoy island hopping there in FS9 and miss it now I'm an fsx user.I would be happy to beta test it for you if you pm me.IAN

I had the Tim Clayton version although there a couple of issues with compatibility with FSX (despite there being an FSX specific download) Its a shame i cant use some of that scenery, but apart from the issues of copying, the files are very old now and i dont think they can be edited all that easy.Either way with new technology there may be ways of generating certain improvements.Ill let you know about beta testing - not thought of that, but i think it would be worthwhileTom

Hi TomA great friend of mine use to work for BEA/BA at Jersey. I'll ask him what he's got.Regards

Hi TomA great friend of mine use to work for BEA/BA at Jersey. I'll ask him what he's got.Regards

Thanks PhilIn particular things like apron features, buildings and taxi signs are the most difficult things, but all photos welcome.Tom

Tim Clayton was very helpful when I had a problem a whle back with his sceneries. I emailed him and it turned out to be a compatability issue with the trees, so he created another file and sent it to me and it worked perfectly. That was FS9 though, but he upgraded his stuff to work in fsx or rewrote it.I do seem to recall aamall problem with invisable objects causing crashes and remember having to turn off crash detection thoughI do have it on my system, though haven't flown in the CI too much due to the default land scenery. I would just love to have some photoscenery, especially if the textures could be made at 30cmIAN

Hi TomA great friend of mine use to work for BEA/BA at Jersey. I'll ask him what he's got.Regards

Hi Phil, You might wanna check on Flybe's plans as well. They are regular flyers from there. Dave.

It's a great airport so hopefully it will make a good addition to the scenery archiveTom

Looks good, but I don't think you'll be able to release it even as freeware without obtaining a licence from google. Seem to remember there was an excellent photoscenery package, covering Germany in its entirety but had to be removed from the library due to licensing issues.Out of interest, which programs are you using to place the photo tiles? I had a bash at doing Jersey for myself a couple of years ago, but gave up as I could never get the tiles aligned properly.

Look closely at the Google textures, they are all watermarked.

I use sbuilderx it's easy really and after following a couple of tutorials It is possible to create some good scenery.The hardest part for me was working out how the blendmask worked but that is easy tooWell worth a go!!Tom

Hey,I replied on your last thread then found this. I live in Jersey so if you need anything PM me your email and I'll try my best to get whatever you need. If you need any photos for references for now then look here, Kyle.PS I joined the forum just to reply here lol

Progress has considerably slowed after an unplanned reformat of my pc, leading to a loss of some data. My main concern is that i have lost the shape file from sbuilder for the terrain and i had this looking pretty good before it disappeared. So whether i can recreate this again to the same degree of satisfaction is anyones guess lol.I noticed recently that google images are dated 2005 but there seems to have been some changes made to the airport in 2007 and this may mean that the latest situation isnt portrayed overly well.Any input in the form of images, plans etc would be a huge help!!Tom

If anybody has any photos of the airport or surrounding area id be grateful, my searches of airliners.net, google and jetphotos.net have yielded some valuable images but im stuck with drawing the buildings, particulaly the terminal and flying club, most of the photos are aimed around the runway and taxiways.Any help is appreciated Tom

Just some progress of those who are interested in scenery etc.Tom