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P3D v2 X40 (KINF) Inverness, Florida

JRobinson said:
I've added some models and done some work on the PR/autogen since my last update but I don't have anything completely finished and ready to show off yet. Release is a ways off yet unfortunately, summer has gotten in the way! Actually I did a little modeling last night so it's not completely dormant. I have a full year's worth of beer drinking/barbequing to get taken care of in a very short North Idaho summer so I really need to make hay while the sun shines :) .

No plans for a next airport just yet, I will say that I'm missing my mountains a bit so I'm leaning towards a mountainous setting. Ground photos would be a big influence :) . I'll take a look at KFPR, I've got quite a bit to do at Inverness yet though.

Jim
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Thank you Jim !
 
LMAO at the subtle hint there Ztimbre, lol. Yeah I know, McCall is always in the back of my mind, I certainly haven't ruled it out, but at this point I think the Dew Aircraft building is about the only thing salvageable from the old thread, everything else is looking pretty dated these days. BTW, remember the ole Chevy? The Orange County Sheriff/Aviation Unit is headquartered at Inverness and there's a cop truck visible in google streets so the ole Chevy got a set of cop lights and a Sheriff paintjob:

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...well theirs was a Ford, but this'll have to do.

I looked at KFPR and O22 last night, both look interesting, ollyau I really like O22 especially with the reservoir and the mountains nearby. If absolutely nothing else I need to do some flying in that area one day soon, thanks for the tipoff.

gcltlee, what the heck is with the 10 mile taxiway out to the runway north of the airport at KFPR? It almost looks like that was a separate airport out there in earlier times and KFPR sort of absorbed it? It's not in default FSX/P3D BTW, I'm seeing this in SBuilderX/google/VirtualEarth. Is that where ground control sends you for takeoff when you're on the s-list, lol? So do you normally live in Ft Pierce or just there going to flight school?

I appreciate the compliments everyone :)

Jim
 
Hi Jim,

I absolutely remember the truck. Looks like you've ditched the diamond-plate bed box as well... glad to see you are getting some use out of the model. :)
 
Great work!

Also, my suggestion for a future airport is Ramona (KRNM). It's in Southern California and is in a rather hilly area. It also has a CalFire base and I'm sure many would appreciate having another airport with one.

I have a few pictures of aircraft I took a few years ago that might show buildings in the background, but my supply is limited. I could potentially get some photos if you wanted to pursue this airport, as I live about 20 minutes away. I had wanted to do this airport myself, but I don't have the time.
 
Thank you Brandon, I will certainly check out KRNM. If you're local to the area and willing to help that has a huge impact on my interest. I'd probably wait 'till Orbx releases SoCal before attempting this, may as well have the best canvas available before beginning the painting, lol! Thanks! :)

Jim
 
I'd second the request for Ramona, but I would want it as I remember it when I was a kid. Pinkerton Aviation was the FBO, and I recall the lobby there. There were so many model planes hanging from the ceiling that they were bumping into each other! That airport was where two of our homebuilt planes made their maiden voyages from, and I frequent it often when I fly the sim. I use the SoCal Megascenery which would probably be a better match than Orbx. I can see my house using it!
 
JRobinson said:
Thank you Brandon, I will certainly check out KRNM. If you're local to the area and willing to help that has a huge impact on my interest. I'd probably wait 'till Orbx releases SoCal before attempting this, may as well have the best canvas available before beginning the painting, lol! Thanks! :)

Jim
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I had no idea that Orbx was indeed doing SoCal. They've actually confirmed this? I kind of disagree with using Orbx as the base, as it seems that they are bad about capturing the actual look and feel of many places (everything is too green...just look at NorCal). Blending some high-res photoscenery for the area with Megascenery or FSX default would be the best route IMO.

N2056 said:
I'd second the request for Ramona, but I would want it as I remember it when I was a kid. Pinkerton Aviation was the FBO, and I recall the lobby there. There were so many model planes hanging from the ceiling that they were bumping into each other! That airport was where two of our homebuilt planes made their maiden voyages from, and I frequent it often when I fly the sim. I use the SoCal Megascenery which would probably be a better match than Orbx. I can see my house using it!
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That must have been quite an exciting time to be into aviation! All I'll ever know is the current Ramona, but I still very much enjoy going there. Even the town itself is quite laid back and simple when you're out in the not-so-populated areas.
 
Sorry guys but I don't do MegaScenery, they run resample while they sleep on public domain imagery and charge a fortune for it, they have the FS community convinced that autogen and seasonal variation is impossible on photoscenery which we all know is complete bullsh*t and they're just soaking the FS public for laziness. Sorry, I refuse to purchase it or support it in any way, I bust my a$$ to get things right, the base I build on needs to be from someone who isn't afraid to put some effort into what they do.
 
Hughes-MDflyer4 said:
I had no idea that Orbx was indeed doing SoCal. They've actually confirmed this? I kind of disagree with using Orbx as the base, as it seems that they are bad about capturing the actual look and feel of many places (everything is too green...just look at NorCal). Blending some high-res photoscenery for the area with Megascenery or FSX default would be the best route IMO.
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Agreed.

Nice work on the airport.
 
JRobinson said:
I thought I'd show some pics of my current project which started with a request over at flightsim.com. This is X40 Inverness, Florida, ... so these are all from P3D2 so far....

Thanks for looking!
Jim
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...not just nice...

Incredible work Jim!

.....I am still struggling with my lil stinking creek area

....so much to do, so much to learn....

you seem to know your way around textures...would you mind looking at the farmhouse composite and tell me why the barn is blue in , my P3dv2.3 and in the vid here, p3dv1.4,
just fine. I've tried dxt, bmp as dxt1-5, and dds and I cant seem to get the barn texture to work. (as fine as it goes, because I ounder-did the detail, for the sake of performance. If you still use GMax, I might go back to it to make my structures look as good as yours do.
 
Thanks for the kind words Chas :)

On the blue building the only thing I could think of is maybe you somehow added a blueish specular color in the material settings? I personally use all .dds textures either DXT5 or DXT1 depending on the alpha channel, I do all the converting with Imagetool directly from my Photoshop .psds, and their both the same between FSX and P3D2 except that I use the FSX version of Imagetool for the FSX textures and the P3D2 version for the P3D2 textures. I really don't think it matters which Imagetool you use, I just have them programmed into a batch file that way thanks to OCD.

Jim
 
Jim, this scenery looks amazing. Outstanding work sir. Being from Central Florida, I'm looking forward to this scenery!
 
Jim, I am the one asking about KINF Inverness FL on Flightsim.com back in Feb. 2014. I can see by the pic's you have done a lot WOW!!! Thank you for doing such a Awesome job on it. I will keep looking on this site to see how it is coming. Thanks again for doing this.
Dan
 
So, Sir James,
Will your wonderful Inverness ever see the light of day In our own scenery.cfg file?

Chas
 
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