Looking for advice to create skids

[Walter Almaraz]

Hello,

I've been working on a new airport for SLLP in GMAX, at this moment I did this:

Of course, one detail that I wasn't possible to achieve are the skids. It took me about a couple of hours trying and error but still no luck. For example, looking in Google Maps, the skids looks like this:

So this is where I need advice, how can I create a good transition from something grey to black like the image? How you guys do your skids?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Walter

 

[Liam_Senior]

You could draw the skids in Photoshop then import as a ground poly over the runway?

 

[Walter Almaraz]

Hello Liam,

Thanks for your answer, actually I did it some time ago, this is the result:

 

[Liam_Senior]

Looks great! I've actually been trying to avoid making a runway poly for SLLP myself

 

[Walter Almaraz]

Thanks, actually is complicated, unfortunately there is no good source to work for SLLP, Google is the best option available but if you see it at Google Maps, the image is distorted and blurry, so I have to watch some videos at Youtube, trying to find images, every source is really appreciated

 

[Liam_Senior]

I am not sure how helpful these will be but you can find some imagery here (link expires in 1 week)

 

[Walter Almaraz]

Thank you Liam, the quality is really good, I've been using FS earth tiles and Sbuilder to get some imagery. Do you know if I can use this imagery in my scenery?

 

[Liam_Senior]

I believe so, I used Ortho4XP to generate the tiles and nothing in the license seems to prohibit their use / distribution as long as Ortho4XP is credited but I am no expert.

 

[Walter Almaraz]

I'll check the licence, once again, thanks.

 

[gfxpilot]

looking at a range of real world thresholds and other tire wear it might be easier to create a PNG file with transparent background, add in black streaking to represent contact wear and then use scatter brushes to added effect with blurring masked in (i.e. photoshop/gimp) that way you can create a master for the thresholds you need, mess with visibility on the ground and have some cross lined skids on the taxiways etc. I will look if time allows perhaps to make something that can be used like that. But youll not get perfection without some big input on these wear areas unless you use a paid png like off the internet

 

[Walter Almaraz]

looking at a range of real world thresholds and other tire wear it might be easier to create a PNG file with transparent background, add in black streaking to represent contact wear and then use scatter brushes to added effect with blurring masked in (i.e. photoshop/gimp) that way you can create a master for the thresholds you need, mess with visibility on the ground and have some cross lined skids on the taxiways etc. I will look if time allows perhaps to make something that can be used like that. But youll not get perfection without some big input on these wear areas unless you use a paid png like off the internet

Hi,

Thanks for your reply, actually I thought the same, actually after some practice I could do the skids, the good part is that I can use in future projects.

 

[gfxpilot]

exactly ! never waste a resource