February 19Feb 19 Howdy all, Just wanted to preview my recent project as I feel it's getting close. Have been frustrated for a long time that this lovely little airport in Northern California has never really been available, so decided to take a crack myself. Main features are the new terminal, FBO facilities, and replacing the odd default houses all over the GA area with proper custom and library hangars. Don't really have the skillset yet, so nothing fancy like new ground ortho or custom ground polygons unfortunately. Will add fencing and other security features and then version 1.0 should be good to go. Please note the static aircraft are just there for scaling. Any feedback welcome, especially those familiar with this airport.
February 19Feb 19 Off to a good start, looking forward to flying out of KCEC in various GA planes! MacBook Neo: A18 Pro with 6-core processor and 5-core graphics 8GB Unified Memory, macOS Tahoe, X-Plane 12 (12.40). Mac mini: M4 chip with 10 core processor, 10 core graphics, 16 GB Unified Memory, 256GB SSD, macOS Tahoe, X-Plane 12 (12.40), X-Plane 11 (11.55). Lenovo Legion 5 16IRX9: Intel Core i9-14900HX, 32GB DDR5-4800 RAM, 1TB Micron NVMe SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB GPU and Intel UHD Graphics 16EU iGPU, Windows 11 Home, MSFS 2024 and 2020, X-Plane 12 (12.40), X-Plane 11 (11.55) and Lenovo LOQ 15 15IAX9: Intel Core i5-12450HX, 24GB DDR5-4800 RAM, 1TB Solidigm NVMe SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 4GB GPU and Intel UHD Graphics 16EU iGPU, Windows 11 Home, MSFS 2024 and 2020, XX-Plane 12 (12.40), X-Plane 11 (11.55). Alienware m15 R7: Intel Core i7-12700H, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8GB, Windows 11 Home, MSFS 2024 and 2020, X-Plane 12 (12.40), X-Plane 11 (11.55).
February 19Feb 19 Small GA airfields need all positive energy. Thank you for your hard work! Looks great! Vincent B. Check my free MSFS sceneries : https://flightsim.to/profile/vbazillio/trending and my hardware configuration.
February 20Feb 20 Nice. I've flown in and out of there several times IRL. United express and Horizon Air had a few flights in and out of Cresent City. Bill McIntyre Asus StrixB650E-F Gamer, AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D, Corsair Titanium DDR5 64GB, Samsung 990 PRO-4TB M.2, (4) 2TB SSD's, Corsair H1150i liquid cooler, RTX 2080TI Founders Edition, (2) LG 34" HD Curved Monitor, Sound Blaster Audigy X, 1Kw PC Power & Cooling Power Supply, Corsair Obsidian Full tower Case. MSFS 2024, WIN11 Pro x64
February 20Feb 20 Author Thank you for all the comments, glad there is still love for these smaller GA-heavy airports with limited commercial service.
February 20Feb 20 Author 6 hours ago, vbazillio said: Small GA airfields need all positive energy. Thank you for your hard work! Looks great! That's a real confidence boost coming from such a scenery legend! Do you ever plan on releasing a limited library of California airfield objects, like speed signs and fuel tanks? I have also been hunting for a replacement rotating beacon, because the default Asobo one isn't very useful.
February 20Feb 20 Whaou, thank you 😉 A library? I do have a very limited number of handcrafted object and almost none of those I build are really copy/pastable to another scenery. For example, the fuel tank I've made, are customized for each airport because of the texture, so a library wouldn't really make sense. And believe me, my object are really not professionnaly designed. You mean this rotation beacon? What about combining a simple stick red-white pole (I suspect there's one avail in the MSFS lib) and put on top a rotating beacon? It wouldn't make the trick? Because I'm strong believer that there's room for highly-skilled scenery developers capable to create dozens of 3D objects and we have a place, as freeware passionate developers, for those who recreate an ambiance, as the real airport with a as-like-as-possible approach. The MSFS engine is so capable that you can disseminate hundreds of small objects (from MSFS stocked library) here and here and here to build this feeling of reality. Vincent B. Check my free MSFS sceneries : https://flightsim.to/profile/vbazillio/trending and my hardware configuration.
February 20Feb 20 All I can see is - 9950X3D - X870E Aorus Master- TUF 5090 OC - 64GB DDR5 - 1500W HXi - Titan 360 RX LCD - 9100 Pro x 2 - LG 45GX950A - HOTAS Warthog with Ava Base
February 20Feb 20 Author 11 minutes ago, vbazillio said: Whaou, thank you 😉 A library? I do have a very limited number of handcrafted object and almost none of those I build are really copy/pastable to another scenery. For example, the fuel tank I've made, are customized for each airport because of the texture, so a library wouldn't really make sense. And believe me, my object are really not professionnaly designed. You mean this rotation beacon? What about combining a simple stick red-white pole (I suspect there's one avail in the MSFS lib) and put on top a rotating beacon? It wouldn't make the trick? Because I'm strong believer that there's room for highly-skilled scenery developers capable to create dozens of 3D objects and we have a place, as freeware passionate developers, for those who recreate an ambiance, as the real airport with a as-like-as-possible approach. The MSFS engine is so capable that you can disseminate hundreds of small objects (from MSFS stocked library) here and here and here to build this feeling of reality. Yes, that's the one! I will keep hunting. There might be a rotating light object I overlooked that can go on top of a pole, as you suggested. The default beacon object though is not suitable for this airport I think... Other airports I am investigating to make next have good views of fuel tank and other infrastructure, but I couldn't find the right angle for KCEC yet. I even checked YouTube videos, haha!
February 20Feb 20 Author 4 minutes ago, St Mawgan said: All I can see is - Oh no, I am not sure what the issue is. I am still able to view them. It is my first time using Imgur, so apologies for that.
February 20Feb 20 2 minutes ago, Nandengo12 said: I even checked YouTube videos, haha! Story of my life when deciding to rebuild an MSFS airport. I spent hours to collect material: flickr, youtube, bing maps, google maps, still pictures, pilot videos, tourist videos, government document, local community report, survey... anything is a source of details. Vincent B. Check my free MSFS sceneries : https://flightsim.to/profile/vbazillio/trending and my hardware configuration.
February 20Feb 20 6 minutes ago, Nandengo12 said: Oh no, I am not sure what the issue is. Imgur hosting service - that I'm also using for most of my screen shots at avsim - is known as not accessible at least from UK. It's been discussed on several posts, here on avsim. I'm lazy to change my screenshots sharing flow (fully integrated, one click, with ShareX) for only one country 😉 Edited February 20Feb 20 by vbazillio Vincent B. Check my free MSFS sceneries : https://flightsim.to/profile/vbazillio/trending and my hardware configuration.
February 20Feb 20 5 minutes ago, vbazillio said: I'm lazy to change my screenshots sharing flow (fully integrated, one click, with ShareX) for only one country 😉 So much for the entente cordiale! 😉 9950X3D - X870E Aorus Master- TUF 5090 OC - 64GB DDR5 - 1500W HXi - Titan 360 RX LCD - 9100 Pro x 2 - LG 45GX950A - HOTAS Warthog with Ava Base
February 20Feb 20 12 minutes ago, Nandengo12 said: Oh no, I am not sure what the issue is. I am still able to view them. It is my first time using Imgur, so apologies for that. Not at all, not your fault. Is there anywhere else we can see this though? 9950X3D - X870E Aorus Master- TUF 5090 OC - 64GB DDR5 - 1500W HXi - Titan 360 RX LCD - 9100 Pro x 2 - LG 45GX950A - HOTAS Warthog with Ava Base
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