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[GrahamH]

Oh wow! I haven't checked here in a while, and look at that progress. Gotta love ya Chris!

[chris k]

Hi Guys,

Bit of a delay on the progress - I MOVED!

Wife and i moved out of our apartment (flat as they call it here) into a nice House. Been busy over the past 2 weeks with the move/packing/unpacking/etc... finally got back to doing some work on this yesterday.

Upshot is - I now have a nice home for my new 2009 MacPro (4-core Xeon/2.9Ghz, 12G RAM, 4Tb RAID-5, ATI 4870, etc.) which, once I had it setup; is brilliantly fast for working in WED; and it can run HDR pretty darned well (for testing all the new lighting). I expect some free time now to get back on this project.

I did a little flying around the scenery the other day. It's coming along. =)



- CK.

[karingka]

Great! Enjoy your new house!

[chris k]

- Runway Bollards, Huts, More Ground Clutter..... (Thanks Sethius and HenryT for the objects!)
- Realigned the runways precisely with the ortho.
- Lots more XP10 lighting
- Rec park
- Redid radar station

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I'm using Jack's awesome asphalt replacement hi-res textures - Highly recommended for this!











- CK.

Edited by chris k, 28 April 2012 - 02:15 AM.

[airfighter]

That one is getting very nice! I think that i can help you with the tower, if you like.

Here's a quick sample. I only need some good photos for reference.

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[Cameron]

Really cool to see the community pitch in on this, Chris!

Really great!

[chris k]

Agreed Cameron,

I think this may be released under some kind of "X-Pilot.com" Banner =). (In fact, I have some advertising billboards which I could plaster the x-pilot logo on, and 'conveniently place' them on existing advert billboards which are just outside the YSSY airport as in real life).

.. Already had an idea for one, which says to "Visit Beautiful NZCH...." w/some appropriate screenshots. -grin-

I am really appreciating the community help here. It's amazing what happens when you get a good group of talented people together for a common goal.

- CK.

airfighter, I remember OlaHaldor posted one earlier in hi-res. Aha, found it:
http://forums.x-pilo...dpost__p__27802

I'll keep google searching for "sydney airport control tower" and see if I can find some more...

Edited by chris k, 29 April 2012 - 09:57 PM.

[Baber20]

Good going Chris !


Regards
Baber

[chris k]

Clutter in the Vertical Plane helps fill things out. Sethius and HenryT have been helping with some great SketchUp Objects.!


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Ignore the ground resolution. It's at 1/4 the full res (so it loads fast while doing testing).

- CK.

Edited by chris k, 30 April 2012 - 11:04 AM.

[chris k]

A few more updates. She's coming along nicely. Adding shrubbery, treelines, bushes, etc...

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- CK.

Edited by chris k, Today, 01:21 AM.

[karingka]

It's looking awesome!

[Goran_M]

chris k, on 29 April 2012 - 09:54 PM, said:

I'll keep google searching for "sydney airport control tower" and see if I can find some more...

I don't have the new one modeled fully yet, but I did model the old one a while ago.
PM me if you want it.

[chris k]

Hi Goran,

Appreciate the offer! I'm currently using one of the built-in XP10 Control Towers (which, oddly enough, highly resembles the olde Sydney Tower....)


I also have a sketchup model now of the curvey main control tower. If someone can texture it up; that would be great; as I think that one is going to be far more "iconic" so to speak.

Download here: http://206.80.253.13...Y/tower.skp.zip (Its textured properly in Sketchup - however SKP -> OBJ conversion takes some work, as it will need a proper 2D texture file (and not the built in painted/default ones). I tried my best with this to line it up as an OBJ and export it - but alas, My Sketchup-Fu is weak.

- CK.

Edited by chris k, Today, 02:22 AM.