March 5, 201214 yr After a rather extended vacation (read: burnout), I've decided to start dabbling in photo scenery again. The USGS has some better quality "orthoimagery" available these days. I have a couple of new sceneries available.The first, is a small photo scenery of Lake Ridge Aero Park (8NC8) in the Durham, NC area. It was a request from someone who lives there and was able to take some photos for the building textures. This one uses 1m/pixel for the ground texture resolution.The second scenery is Page, AZ covering 40 miles x 40 miles, done at 2m/pixel. It includes much of Lake Powell as well as the Marble Canyon area.Both sceneries include FSX water, night textures and a blend mask to transition to the default scenery. They also include custom models with LODs and AFCADs to correct the airports to more closely resemble reality. I don't like flying over a picture, so they also include lots of carefully placed autogen.The next project is a bit larger. I'm currently working on a 60 mile x 83 mile photo scenery covering the Prescott to Sedona area. It started as a 60 mile square centered on Prescott, but when I noticed how close it was to Sedona, I had to expand it. Then I saw it almost included Flagstaff, but resisted the urge...so far. There are lots of screen shots on the linked pages as well as a download link. This is a sample from the airport at Cottonwood, AZ.Finally, in the next day or two, I'll post a library of water tower models that was done by request. It may be useful for someone My Freeware Sceneries
March 5, 201214 yr Thats awesome. I like screenshots from 8NC8 a lot! Def gonna check her out this afternoon / evening Johan Pettersen
March 5, 201214 yr These look really great! David. >> i7 2600k, 3.4Ghz, (3.8Ghz TurboBoost), 8GB DDR3 RAM, ATI HD 5770 1GB, Win 7 Home Premium 64bit. >> FSX, REX, GEX, UTX, Orbx FTX AU, NZ, US, FlyTampa, UK2000 Xtreme, PMDG, RealAir, MilViz, (some) Carenado, Flight 1, Simcheck "%20alt=
March 5, 201214 yr Very nice, thank you.Regards dv Win 10 Pro || i7-8700K || 32GB || ASUS Z370-P MB || NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11Gb || 2 960 PRO 1TB, 840 EVO My Files in the AVSIM Library
March 7, 201214 yr This is excellent scenery. I loaded up Page yesterday and was amazed at the detail of the airport. I would say it is on par of the Orbx stock airports. The surrounding area is very realistic looking even from very low altitudes. Photo real scenery usually suffers poor image quality at low altitudes and lack of autogen, but this scenery does not. The water mask is very well done and the scenery area blends seamlessly with the surrounding scenery. Scottsdale Air Park is also very well done, with custom buildings added including the terminal. I am definitely looking forward to the release of the Prescott and Sedona area.If you ever fly in Arizona I would recommend you check out this scenery. You’ll be amazed at the detail and quality of the scenery. It’s payware quality.Thank-you for your excellent work.Bob F. i7-975 ext @ 4.0, Astek 120MM water cooler, ASUS P6T X58 MB, EVGA GTX 480 1.5 GB, 6GB Kingston Hyper X 1600 MHz, 2 128GB Kingston SSDs, 1 TB WD Black HD, CoolerMaster 1000W power supply, Cooler Master Storm Sniper case, TrackIR, Win 7 64 bit
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