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P3D v2 X40 (KINF) Inverness, Florida

One more question Jim,how do make sure the textures looks HD. I get my textures from cgtextures but after rescale it in Photoshop,it looks awful.
 
You need to figure out pixels per meter or pixels per foot and stay above a certain level, I'd say 10px/ft is about the minimum if you'll be taxiing around amongst the buildings. Buildings farther out can be less. An easy way to get 10px /ft is to make your UVW map (box or plane) 102.4' x 102.4' x 102.4' (31.2m x 31.2m x 31.2m) - that means that you're covering 102.4 ft with a 1024px texture so 1024/102.4=10px/ft. Don't scale your UVWs in Unwrap UVW and the 10px/ft resolution will be set for all faces (I sometimes scale the roofs, it doesn't matter so much there). I'm guessing the problem you have with cgtextures is that you're trying to go too small?
 
What value of pixels per foot you use for the building in this scenery? Sorry if I'm asking too much because I'm new to this.
 
I have been experimenting myself so I've used as low as 2px/ft and as high as 10px/ft. I'd say 2 px/ft is too low although it looks OK on an outlying building that you don't get close to. If you go to the first post in this thread and look at the 10th screenshot the building on the right is textured at 2.8 px/ft, the building on the left is textured at 6.5 px/ft. The FBO and fuel tanks in these later shots are textured at 10px/ft.

Jim
 
JRobinson said:
I got some imagery off the nat'l map server and next thing I knew I had a rough photoreal down in the sim.
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Can I get an url for this server, please? I don't have anywhere near your skills, but I've been doing some simple ground textures and would like better images than I can get from Google Earth. Thanks. :wave:
 
Hi Sidney, I doubt you'll find anything better than google imagery but the main thing is you can distribute it. If you want the best imagery for your own use you'll probably be able to find some commercial imagery with SBuilderX that you'll like better either from the google server or VirtualEarth.

Here's the national map server URL though:

http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/
 
Thanks, Jim. I've been making use of Google Earth and Bing Maps, but the quality is hit and miss. The more options I have, the better. Paying for images is not really an option for me.
 
This is amazing. I have KTPA, KBKV, KPIE, KVDF, KSPG and others in the area I am working on. This is a standard i will aim for
 
I appreciate all the nice comments folks! :)

I was having a play with the large hangar on the south end of the field and more or less stumbled upon this phenomenon in P3D2, I was trying to make some windows transparent but check out how they cast light onto the floor - and the airplane! :cool:

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WOO this is amazing !!
when it gonna be released?
BTW i'm working on my pilot training in Florida, is there any opportunity to make other regional airports in Florida,my school's airport is KFPR
 
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
 
Hmm, mountains... I hear O22 (Columbia, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills) is a fun cross country destination from the Bay Area. ;)
 
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