Kauai: Complete Island Scenery

[Colin S]

So here it is:
I visited the absolutely stunning island of Kauai back in March and discovered that it was the most amazing place on earth to fly. I never did get the honor to fly in a helicopter over the majestic mountains and valleys, but the hiking I did said enough. Kauai as it is presented in X-Plane 10, even with AlpilotX's awesome HD2 Mesh, simply doesn't do the real thing any justic with its pine trees and temperate ground textures. The real Kauai calls for even deeper greens than those found in the original version 9 texture packages.

The first clue was that everything was yellow-grey-green. I will be using my own photographs as well as free online resources for the development of this project. Some of it will be legaly redistributed freeware components, but most will be absolutely original. I unfortunately own no orthophotos, so if you do or know someone who does, please notify me because it would render this project the greatest ever created. That being said, my plan is to create orthophotos that fit just right onto the still slightly inaccurate X-Plane 10 terrain.

If you are any good at 3D modelling that is all I really could use a bit of backup on since there will be a lot of it. I want at least 100 different houses to build my neighbourhoods out of and I plan to build hotels the way they look.

Don't expect this project to even show a hint of progress until mid September, if it's any earlier I'll be drunk with a hippo dancing to Justin Bieber (and that's me dancing, not the hippo).

Anyway, this website will eventually outline my progress and plans for the herculean task:
WEBSITE HAS SINCE BEEN DEACTIVATED

Please stay tuned and leave suggetions, resources, help, anything! I'm sort of new to this but I'm quite good at the things I HAVE done. I will be doing some side projects along the way.

-Colin

Edited April 18, 2015 by Colin S

[scubajuan_new]

Hi Colin,

I am so excited to read that someone is interested in doing Kauai. I lived there for a few years and as you said is and amazing place for VFR flying, I must have over 500hr logged just flying in Kauai (xp9). I did fly several times while there both in helicopter and the cute biplane.

You ask for othophotos, I would like to contribute. I don't own any but if you know how to get them and if they are not too expensive I can chip in, I would love to fly over Hanalei Bay again, along the Napali coast and down the Waimea Canyon. In your poll I say princeville because that is where I always take off and land from (was very close to my house) but the lihue apt will perhaps be more useful for thse inter island cruises. I have tons of friend there and one of them is a reat pro photographer, I can ask him for specific photos for the hotels and special buildings. my skype: scubajuan and email scubajuan@gmail.com. contact me and let me know how i can help.