The Big Island Revealed

[Guest]

Here are a few shots of the island of Hawaii that I've been playing with off and on for a year now. Since much of the land use data for Hawaii appears corrupt in Terrascene I used some highly detailed shapefiles available from a government site for the county of Hawaii. I used a mixture of textures from Fly 2 and HITW's original texture pack for Fly/Fly2K. The lava is a modified HITW texture. PhotoShop Elements is a wonderful tool (as is TerraScene -- goes without saying).You'll notice in the first shot I patched in an aerial photo I found of Hilo. Overlaying this exactly on top of a terrascene rendering the airport runway is slightly to the north of where Fly 2 has placed it. I'll try to upload this in the next couple of days but it's very large. Hope you enjoy.Don

[Guest]

Don,Wow, that is just incredible looking scenery !, I can only imagine how much work you put into this wonderful project.I am certainly looking forward to flying over that beautiful scenery.Thanks so much!.Kind RegardsAndy

[RandallR 446]

Don,Thanks for all the work on this! Having spent some time with the Hawaii data situation, I certainly know how difficult that area is to work in.

[Guest Mgarmy]

Hi Don,Must have been a real pain aligning and scalling to get the textures right. I am more or less engaged with the same trying to use modified shapefiles and TerraScene with various configurations to get some nice results. Still a long way to go though.Looking forward to land in HawaiiMannie

[Guest chezz]

Hi Don,Great work.chris

[Guest]

Hi Don; those pictures are excellent. I've been hoping someone would do the Hawaii scenery for Fly II. I remember the Hawaii scenery for Fly, Fly2K being very well done. Your doing a great job,when do you think you might have them ready for the rest of us to really enjoy on a daily basis.Phil

[Guest]

Many thanks for all the positive comments. Much appreciated. I should have this up at least by this weekend, I just have to write the readme and make sure I give proper credit to the various sources I've used to create this scenery.While you wait (assuming you're waiting) here are a few more screen shots.Don