39 minutes ago, Steve Dra said:

You little devil Ed!    I had no idea you had mad skillz (as the kids say nowadays) in the ways of MSFS scenery design LOL.

As a native Ney Yorker (well...I was born there and spent many summers there with Grandparents), I will very much enjoy this scenery. 

I try to accommodate fellow freeware contributors in the best way I can...which is with my "mad skillz" in aircraft painting, LOL.   If you happen to be a PMDG DC-6 owner, and have a livery that is not done yet you'd like to see (although there are already over 200 of them on flightsim.to), let me know and I'll see what I can do. 😉

 

Can't wait for that!  Real life work demands....no truer words have ever been spoken.  If I could find a way to make aircraft painting pay as much as my real job...I'd be there.

The same offer I made Ed regarding the DC-6 applies to you as well. 😉 

Click the link in my sig to see the paints I've done already.

Thanks for the offer Steve, and nice work on NYC Ed.  BTW, I did buy the Samscene stuff, but I love your buildings here more (esp the stadiums, Yankees and Arthur Ashe, etc ... need to get Giants and Mets stadiums made too).  I'm torn with all of this, there is never a "complete" answer.  I like your buildings, but then I'd loose the Occulus at the WTC, and they did do a nice version of TImes Square that looks good at street level.  I also like Samscene's "finished" Hudson Yards buildings, but they forgot the Vessel (of all things!).  Would be so nice if there was a way to cherry pick from packages ... a pipe dream I know given how the scenery system architecture works.

As for the DC-6, I have purchased it, but it awaits my having some time to learn it.  Whatever free time I have has been spent in the H145 lately, esp flying around the Alps...

( btw, COMPLETE TANGET here (forgive me all) ... speaking of the Alps, I found the meadow where they filmed the opening scene of Sound of Music the other day.  All it took was a little Googling to find the location (just over the border into Germany from Salzburg), then a little more detective work to pinpoint the exact spot.. and when I did as I lowered into the meadow it was like BAM! Holy word not allowed, there it was, an it was a nearly exact match to the frame of the film.  As it was I was in VR and felt like a proper movie tourist!  I LOVE this sim!  There are Sooo many ways to use it beyond the obvious.  When I get some time, I'll go back and nab some screenshots. )

... back to Steve.  If I think of something livery wise I'll hit you up!  🙂

Edited September 14, 20214 yr by VFXSimmer

7 minutes ago, VFXSimmer said:

need to get Giants and Mets stadiums made too)

The Oracle park is on the list, maybe for later today. The Citi Field (NY Mets) has a good 3D model available at 3D warehouse but... when it's converted to MSFS textures format it fails to load a bunch of them making the model unusable for MSFS. It's a shame, because it was a really nice 3D model.

Maybe someone else has more information on the 3D models available for the Citi Field that can share with us.

Can someone please tell me the  name of the folder to put inside the community folder?

Which?

1 new-york-city-landmarks-v1.00_YD_8h

2 new-york-city-landmarks-v1.00

3 edpatino-nyc-queens-landmarks

 

thanks.

3 minutes ago, VFXSimmer said:

I found the meadow where they filmed the opening scene of Sound of Music the other day.

OK....why someone has not dropped Julie Andrews there in MSFS is beyond me! ;) 😉😉 .If I had the skills I would!  (If you could post the coords I'd love to check it out)    

Speaking of those "OMG, I can't believe its there in MSFS" moments....

This is drive-in theatre where a 13 year-old Steve got his first kiss from a girl that was not his Mom in Rota, Spain (US Naval base my Dad was stationed at)

And....one of the actual SH-3 Seaking helicopters I worked on when I was in the Navy (Boneyard in AZ)

I knew for a fact is was one I worked on because of its "side number" as shown below.   723 was an SH-3 "Gulf" model...a stripped down version of the ASW version, used for SAR and cargo ops.   You can tell visually by the stubby sponsons vs the one next to her "617" with long sponsons ...which housed flares on the left one and the ASQ-81 MAD towed array equipment on the right side...and an "H" and last model of the SH3 before she left service. 🙂   Happened on this pic form Google earth 3d one day and freaked me out (to say the least).

Okay....I took this post waaaaaayyyy off the reservation...sorry for the detour...just got excited, LOL.

 

13 minutes ago, Fielder said:

3 edpatino-nyc-queens-landmarks

this one

Thanks, Ed, much appreciated.

6 minutes ago, Steve Dra said:

OK....why someone has not dropped Julie Andrews there in MSFS is beyond me! 😉 😉😉 .If I had the skills I would!  (If you could post the coords I'd love to check it out)    

Speaking of those "OMG, I can't believe its there in MSFS" moments....

This is drive-in theatre where a 13 year-old Steve got his first kiss from a girl that was not his Mom in Rota, Spain (US Naval base my Dad was stationed at)

And....one of the actual SH-3 Seaking helicopters I worked on when I was in the Navy (Boneyard in AZ)

I knew for a fact is was one I worked on because of its "side number" as shown below.   723 was an SH-3 "Gulf" model...a stripped down version of the ASW version, used for SAR and cargo ops.   You can tell visually by the stubby sponsons vs the one next to her "617" with long sponsons ...which housed flares on the left one and the ASQ-81 MAD towed array equipment on the right side...and an "H" and last model of the SH3 before she left service. 🙂   Happened on this pic form Google earth 3d one day and freaked me out (to say the least).

Okay....I took this post waaaaaayyyy off the reservation...sorry for the detour...just got excited, LOL.

 

Love this stuff!!!  Finding nostalgic places you've been is great! .. especially if its unlikely you will never get back there again for real.

I think its time to learn mission building - I could put together a movie location tour - starting with the ones I worked on- and can easily find the ones from a bunch of famous films that I havent that have that info posted on the web.

 

Edited September 14, 20214 yr by VFXSimmer

3 minutes ago, VFXSimmer said:

Love this stuff!!!  Finding nostalgic places you've been is great! .. especially if its unlikely you will never get back there again for real.

I think its time to learn mission building - I could put together a movie location tour (starting with the ones I worked on), but as I found, can easily find the ones from a bunch of famous films that have that info posted on the web.

 

Yeah that would be so cool!  (You should take my pics out of your reply so it shortens the tangent we took this post on) Hehe.

Need to go find the spot where the "Bridge Over the River Kwai" is...or was filmed at.  🙂 

Edited September 14, 20214 yr by Steve Dra

55 minutes ago, Steve Dra said:

Its that kind of detail that sucks you in during the flight...and when you're bold enough to fly her in bad weather and low viz....getting her lined up on the ILS and rotating the gyro-pilot selector knob to "Approach"...watching a 60+ year-old bird fly an automated ILS approach is a site to behold when you see those RAIL strobes appear thru the mist just above decision height. 🙂 🙂 ...But you better have her very well stabilized on the needles before you rotate that switch...she can do it...but she needs to be almost hands off stabilized before she'll impress you with a hand's off approach. 🙂  She is 60 after all, LOL.

Looks like you're enjoying that girl, even if she's 60...

56 minutes ago, Steve Dra said:

Sadly I'm not well versed in the ways of default MSFS aircraft....the best I ever did long ago was play with the paint "chips" that come with the planes, and could never figure out how to package them with all the jsons and stuff.  Anyone with the free paint.net could whip out a paint using the chips in the existing folders, changing the colors. 😉 Of course you're going to overwrite that paint (but you've backed it up naturally.)

No problem, Steve, thanks!.

2 hours ago, edpatino said:

Thanks Ryan, and welcome to NYC!.

This looks really great.

Is there any chance you could make a 2nd version that's compatable with SamScenes New York, i.e. excluding the buildings that overlap? I bought it recently but it looks like you have added many buildings he does not and it would be fantastic to use both. 

Thanks in advance if that's possible.

34 minutes ago, edpatino said:

Looks like you're enjoying that girl, even if she's 60...

For sure!  She is not a "Turn the key and go" type of plane...and you have to be cognizant of the daily maintenance (topping off or checking the oil, because she BURNS it...a lot, and PMDG has persistence modeled into the aircraft, so EACH airframe is being tracked for engine time, fluid quantities (even water...needed for water-injected takeoffs)...so do a "wet" takeoff in N451CE a few times, put her in the barn and don't refill the tank, and fly the Braniff airframe for a while.  Then hop back in N451CE, taxi out to the runway, calculate you need a wet takeoff...don't check the water tank level, and set takeoff power, flip the water injection on ....takeoff...run out of water just after rotation, and sink into the tree line and parish 😞    Not saying its ever happened to me....but this plane forces you to not get complaint...and I like that 🙂

Other little nuances you don't initially notice, but when you do, you just say..."cool"....like when you rev the engines past a certain rpm when the gens are more effective, and see the dim landing lights get progressively brighter on the pavement as the RPMs increase...yeah...those little nuances. 🙂 

Not trying to sell you the plane in any way...just want folks to know how much PMDG put into this bird.  I'm on the PMDG beta team, and was offered it for free...but I paid the $50 for it as I felt is was worth it, if for nothing else to thank PMDG for all they've added to the enjoyment of my hobby over the decades.

I'm reminded how well the shorelines look and building reflection shadows move naturally now compared to earlier updates. Going along the Hudson...

1 hour ago, Steve Dra said:

Not trying to sell you the plane in any way...just want folks to know how much PMDG put into this bird.  I'm on the PMDG beta team, and was offered it for free...but I paid the $50 for it as I felt is was worth it, if for nothing else to thank PMDG for all they've added to the enjoyment of my hobby over the decades.

From what you're saying I'm sure PMDG did it again, they're absolutely the best!

DL and flew this evening , outstanding scenery with very little FPS loss . 
Thank you for time and effort with this creation Ed . 

7 hours ago, johnbow72 said:

DL and flew this evening , outstanding scenery with very little FPS loss . 
Thank you for time and effort with this creation Ed . 

Thanks for your comments.

I'm planning to add close to 20 more buildings in an upcoming update next week, probably earlier.