First Ever X-Pilot Fly in!

[Oliver]

Agreed! I hate sketchup when it comes to texturing! And thank you Simon!

[Simmo W]

So Theo, do u know what AC3D is like compared to Blender? it appeals to me' as a next step, or do u reckon I'm better off learning the Beast?! I can only do it once a week, so am happy to trade off hyper accuracy/complexity for faster work. I've read Sergio uses AC3.

Enjoy today!

[Kesomir]

I believe that AC3D doesn't do render baking, but that you can export animations without the issues you have from blender.

[WombatBoy]

As of a few days ago it does Just waiting for the X-Plane plugin to work with the newest version.

[Oliver]

Had a fun little fly in, wasn't populated but it was fun, then flew to the Grand Canyon with Lis from KMPI, scubajuan joined us for part of the way! Next week = Aussie fly in! And the week after = Heli Fly in!

[AnonymousUser68]

Aussie Fly In YAY! All of us Auszzies missed out due to time difference.

[-TheoGregory]

Yeah i'll come to a Aussie fly-in. Was too tired at 2 o'clock in the morning. And Simon, Learn Blender. Its confusing at first but once you get your head around it its all keyboard short cuts 

[Oliver]

Yup! I'll be up in the wee hours of the morning but at least you guys will be up at a normal time  ;D

[Oliver]

I'll post a few pics tonight or tomorrow!

[Simmo W]

Just what did you guys get up to? I work hard, cleaning the clubhouse, and this is the thanks I get?

[Simmo W]

Oh my dear God, now I walked back to the terminal and this is what I see! Oliver, you have some explaining to do!

The Sundowner already had that 'lived in' look. Now I'm glad I can't open the doors, the smell coming from there is not Sunny at all

Fun learning Photoshop and applying textures across cylinders in sketchup ;D

[AnonymousUser68]

The good old Victoria bitter. Simon do you work? I could never find the time to do the things you do.

[Simmo W]

hehe, yes unfortunately I do have a day/night job! Interferes with the important stuff. I'm lucky to pack alot into one weekend sometimes.

[Oliver]

HAHAHAHAHAH Simon that's so awesome! Sorry! We'll clean up after ourselves next time  ;D

[Warmbrak]

Simon, glad to see you moved that bin from the taxiway intersection with runway 26 - I almost clipped a wing on that thing when I was looking for parking on Sunday 

Speaking about obstacles adjacent to the taxiways at KMPI...

[AnonymousUser68]

Simon

Seriously mate learn blender, mix it together with sketchup and you could be a full payware scenery designer with oliver. I would already pay good money for KMPI and thats just in sketchup.

Andy

[Simmo W]

Simon

Seriously mate learn blender, mix it together with sketchup and you could be a full payware scenery designer with oliver. I would already pay good money for KMPI and thats just in sketchup.

Andy

Thanks Andy! Best compliment that. I've only been trying scenery work for just over one month, learning so much every day. even today I've experimented more to perfect the night look, it should pay off I hope.

I can't take all the credit, since Chip has contsructed the 3 larger buildings, even though I end up getting the hammer out to cull polys and do the texturing.

yes, Chip also thinks I should go payware, but I have a long way to go. For now my payment is lovely  thank you's like yours, knowing people are enjoying it.

Our next project at KMMH is proving to be spectacular, tested 5 of the 10 buildings created by Chip with good fps performance. the massive hangar complex is impressive in sim, but will require much tweaking- the first incarnation had  100,000 polys!

[cw7]

And I had absolutely no FPS issues with Sundowner or Duchess! Tempted to try the A380 just to see if I can cook-off the CPU! Anyway!

Lookin' mucho good, Simes, really. I think you're spot-on about keeping things freeware for now, too. That said, I can't wait for the NORCAL scenery package! The High Sierra mountains will hopefully look every bit as grand as I expect they will. I have a feeling the Bay Area will be astonishing, but California is so huge and varied a landscape. We'll keep busy doing airports there for years!

[MaidenFan]

Where can you get that scenery?

[Simmo W]

Rush, what scenery do you mean? If it's the one that I just posted Chips pic of, it's kmpi Mariposa in U.S. If you can't download it at .org I can email it to you for $15.95 with extra bloodstains and beer cans if u want! ;D

[AnonymousUser68]

Ok people this forum has gone a bit quiet lately which I'm fine with but where are we going on Sunday. Im thinking hamilton island but I will discuss with anyone especially auzzies so we can pick a good fly in location.

[Oliver]

Alright Andrew, organize this one I'm gonna work most of the weekend so I probably won't be able to join, but I'll do my best! 

[Simmo W]

ok Andy, I should be able to make it between 1000am to 2pm ish [ 01:00 to 05:00UTC ] on Saturday (max 1hr full time, or else I eat into scenery or blog time). good luck in coordinating! I'm happy to fly anywhere, but better agree it by fri. night so I can research quick. I'm rusty on vatsim but no fear!

[scubajuan]

Some screenshots of the last one  8)

[Oliver]

Very nice! I'll upload mine soon, I'm busy though right now working on an T34 video!!!!