CBD buildings

[Simmo W]

Better scale, better look? flying around them has a much more impressive feel than default

[Kesomir]

Are they placed correctly? Surely the roads shouldn't run into them?

Aside from that they look pretty good Simon. Keep it up!

[Simmo W]

Thanks. Nah, I'm still trying to see if it works well in sim before getting serious with placement. It's cool, so the next layer of buildings will come. I hope to then use osm data to get placement just right. Hope..

[Phantom88]

Wow,That's fantastic! Very nice work

[Xflyboy]

Looking good!

[Simmo W]

Thanks Guys :-) if u go to the download, you'll see I've pretty well fixed the positions and done some night texture- but more subtle than this pic!

Honnli's local buildings give it a recognizable feel, they fit nicely, but I'm trying to get him to do night textures

[Nicola_M]

Any answer to why none of them show up in v9?

[Simmo W]

Erm, they should. Have u tried the latest version? There are no 10 features specifically added.

[Nicola_M]

Downloading now. I take it these should appear near to the needle building/tower thingy?

[Nicola_M]

This is what I get now, which I think is it (it CTD'd when I ran into one of them, is how I think it's yours). However, got an error during loading - error log below.

Installer log.txt for X-Plane DVD Installer 2.04r1 compiled on Apr 30 2008 12:29:00

This log file is generated automatically by Laminar Research applications and contains diagnostics about your graphics hardware, installation, and any error conditions.

If you need to contact tech support or file a bug, please send us this file. NOTE: this file is rewritten every time you start ANY of your X-System applications.

Windows 5.1 (build 2600/2) Service Pack 3

CPU type: 586

Physical Memory: 2147483647

CPU 0: Intel® Core2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz Speed (mhz): 1997

CPU 0: Intel® Core2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz Speed (mhz): 1997

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max tex units : 4 (16/8)

max iso filtering: 16.000000

max texture size : 4096

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CPU count : 2

os_dir_this_app =C:\DOCUME~1/user/LOCALS~1/Temp/

os_dir_desktop =C:\Documents and Settings/user/Desktop/

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Clean exit from threads.

[Simmo W]

Great, that's it. All that means gobbledygook to me. Can you land/crash again to repeat? All the buildings are 'hard' and will hurt your heli, being one object :-)

[OlaHaldor]

Well, that might actually be the problem. I made a few objects on Honolulu Intl. hard, but that messed up the sim. Crash to desktop each time I tried to land on one of them.

[Simmo W]

Thanks, Interesting. Works fine in 10. Hmm.

Now, how on earth do I just make a couple of faces attr-hard in Blender? It was easy in Sketchup, no idea in blender. Anyone know?

[Nicola_M]

Sorry, I wrote it wrong. It doesn't CTD, the heli crashes and you can repeat. Sorry for the mixup.

[OlaHaldor]

I have no idea. I hope the new dev tools will make it easy to select a single or a group of polygons and make them hard surface.

As of now, the alternative is to make the object in two separate obj files. One with everything else, and one with only the hard surface.

With the same pivot and all, it should be a simple task to place it in Overlay Editor.

[Simmo W]

Sorry, I wrote it wrong. It doesn't CTD, the heli crashes and you can repeat. Sorry for the mixup.

Cool Nicola, that means its all ok then. Having to restart from the neared point is like a punishment I feel. I get it all the time..

Now take off from the krnt helipad, thats near the buildings, a dangerous first bit. Hope u like it! Feedback welcome, I've already seen more to fix :-( not good for my perfectionistic traits..

[Nicola_M]

Yes I like that a lot. Especially the blue buildings with sloped roofs, makes for nice practising one-skid hovers. Some of the buildings could do with something to mark them out as land on-able, as the default scenery is mixed in very well and looks similar to yours - but no landable.

The upside is you approach what you think is a default building and find you can land on it.

I think for the meantime this is gonna be my practising base.

If I've got this right, the idea here is easily/quickly possible to populate towns? Where's next on the list, or are you gonna fully do Seattle?

nb I'm still curious why I get an error box during loading. XP doesn't like something.

Edited January 3, 2012 by Nicola_M

[Simmo W]

Thanks Nic, glad u like, finally it works. And on your laptop the fps is ok?

Pm me your log.txt with its complaint.

Plans? Lots of ideas. A queue of requests already! As ever, I could tweak and populate Seattle forever, but I'll need to stop soon as I've proven a point. I'm tempted to see fps impact of a SECOND building collection.

I'm also working with Benny to get his osm tool perfect for updated release, to make positioning easier.

So I'll probably try another city soon. Wandering the world like a hobo' looking for work :-)

London looks bare! Now that is a tempting, but massive, payware job..