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Version 1.1
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NZCH Christchurch New Zealand International Airport (ISDG) Version 1.1 - August 21, 2014 - by: Chris K and FlorianR Imagery Copyright: Photo Imagery is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License with Crown copyright reserved. Imagery Provided by Land Information New Zealand (http://www.linz.govt.nz/topography) Please read the included LICENSE.RTF for further information Installation: Move the entire folder into your "X-Plane/Custom Scenery/" folder. Thats it. Requirements: 1. This is an X-Plane 10 ONLY Scenery 2. Requires a Video Card with 1GB of VRAM or more for full effect 3. Requires OpenSceneryX You should also install: NZPro by AlpilotX - http://www.alpilotx.net/downloads/x-plane-10-new-zealand-pro/ Conflicts: Conflicts with RoyalOaks awesome NZCH Christchurch Scenery for XP9 Remove his Scenery from your /Custom Scenery/ folder, as I have received permission to incorporate it into this one Object and Scenery Credits: - Grass Edges as per Simmo W (capnsully)'s Tutorial - Grass Imagery from Mihaly (KSGY) from Xplane.hu as part of the "Mow your own grass" Tutorial - I've adjusted for colour. - XP10 Buildings/Facades and Lighting courtesy of the built in XP10 Library by Tom (tkyler) Kyler et al at Laminar Research. - Tress Courtesy of Andras (alpilotx) Fabian's excellent Euro-replacement forest textures publicly available on his webpage (http://www.alpilotx.net) - NZCH Airport Buildings and original FSX conversion courtesy of Robin (RoyalOak) Tannahill, and derivative works by Troy Chapman, used with permission. - Hangars and Misc items courtesy of OpensceneryX and their respective authors (http://www.opensceneryx.com/) - Orthophotos courtesy of Land Information New Zealand, used under licence. (http://www.linz.govt.nz/topography) - Ortho Manipulation and PhotoEditing by Florian (FlorianR) Radack. - Florian Deserves as much credit on this project - His awesome photoshop work made all this possible. - Telephone Poles courtesy of Nick (Nickster) Ward. - Joe (YYZatcboy) Vermeulen for assistance with testing and good suggestions. - Andrew McGregor for providing me ground photographs of the Airport and Locations of field obstacles. - Andy (Gjalp) for being my most enthusiastic supporter. If we have forgotten anyone for objects not credited, please contact for inclusion or removal. Known bugs / stuff left to do: 1. There's a cloud shadow near the threshold of RWY 02. It's not a show-stopper though. 2. Hedgerows need to be adjusted with new textures and adjust tree shapes/sizes to make it look more like hedgerows. Misc: This is my first attempt ever in Feb 2012 at: - Making an Airport - Using GeoTIFFs - Making a Draped Polygon - Using any of the X-Plane scenery tools - Using OpensceneryX Thanks: 1. This was completely done in WED v1.3 for MacOSX - Thanks to Ben Supnik and various details on his blog regarding scenery optimization. 2. GraphicConverter. Great software for batch ortho conversions and alpha blending. Pretty much all my gfx work was done with it. 3. All the previous threads in the Scenery Development forum on x-plane.org, which I found 99% of my answers to. The [sEARCH] button is your friend. 4. Carlos Garcia for pointing me in the right direction for the grass forest files from capnsully/Simmo W 5. Support from the community in general. License: This scenery is Pieware - Meaning that if you like it, you are obligated to send us some kind of edible bakeware in pastry-and-filling format. We especially like Blueberry Pie, but will settle for Apple, Strawberry Rhubarb, or possibly Lemon Meringue. Legal: Scenery and 3D Object work copyright © 2012-2014 by the ISDG (International Scenery Development Group) All other derived materials are Copyright their respective rights holders, used with permission. You do not have to pay for this scenery. This scenery is Postcard-Ware. Please send us a postcard if you like the work! We’d love to hear from you. ISDG Group PO Box 892 North Sydney, NSW 2059 Australia Visit our website at http://isdg.com.au/ for all our scenery packages and add-ons. © 2012-2014 ISDG - International Scenery Development Group -
File Name: NZCH Christchurch Area Photo Scenery (XP9/XP10) ISDG File Submitter: chris k File Submitted: 23 Aug 2012 File Category: DSF Scenery Packages X-Plane Version(s): X-Plane 9 & 10 NZCH Christchurch Area Photo Scenery v1.0 March 07, 2012 - By Chris K Copyright: The Christchurch Area Photo Imagery is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License with Crown copyright reserved. Please read the LICENSE.RTF for further information Scenery Credits: - Orthophotos courtesy of Land Information New Zealand, used under license. (http://www.linz.govt.nz/topography) Installation: - Copy this entire directory into your "X-Plane/Custom Scenery/" folder. That's it. - Leave the name as "_NZCH_Christchurch_Area_Photo_Scenery" so that it loads at the correct priority relative to our other NZCH packages Complimentary Packages: This scenery is designed to be used in concert with the following packages: NZCH Christchurch Airport Photo Scenery NZCH Christchurch OSM2XP Building Enhancement Requirements: 1. Requires a Video Card with 1GB of VRAM if you want to use at 'extreme resolution' 2. Requires a Video Card with 512 Mb RAM if you want to use at 'very high' 3. Texture Compression is optional as the files are already DDS compressed. Conflicts: Tested in XP10, but should work with no issues in XP9 as it's only photo polys, an airport definition (NZWG), and some forest exclusion zones. Let me know if you do find any conflicts. (Private Message Me! Don't leave them in the comments below) Known bugs / Stuff left to do: Still got some white edging showing up very small on some northwest tiles - Some type of graphic artifact with the DDS conversion, even though Ive clipped the edges away. I'll investigate further. There were some brightness differences in the original LINZ orthophotography. Easy to see from far away. - Will try to smooth out the transitions and/or change the brightness/contrast of certain parts of the imagery for better consistency. The Orthos are not cut to line up with roads/landmarks, so it's easy to see where X-Plane scenery ends and the ortho begins. - will cut along a roadway line or other natural landmark in a later release, so that the transition isn't so stark. X-Plane 10 completely missed the Waimakariri River in the underlying scenery (.DSF) generation. (The big wide river north of NZCH) - Although I alpha the river away to show the underlying water of the river, XP10 doesn't have any water there. Misc: This was completely done in WED v1.1rc1 for MacOSX © 2012 ISDG - International Scenery Development Group Click here to download this file -
File Name: NZCH Christchurch Airport Photo Scenery (XP9) ISDG File Submitter: chris k File Submitted: 23 Aug 2012 File Category: DSF Scenery Packages X-Plane Version(s): X-Plane 9 NZCH Christchurch New Zealand Airport Photo Scenery (XP9 Compatible Build) v1.0 Feb 26, 2012 - Chris K and FlorianR X-Plane Version 9 User's Notice: This is an X-Plane 9 compatible build of our XP10 scenery. In this version we tried to replace as many XP10 specific buildings as possible with XP9 or OpensceneryX objects. However, there are quite a few buildings missing from this version than the original XP10 enhanced version. Copyright: The NZCH Photo Imagery is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License with Crown copyright reserved. Please read the LICENSE.RTF for further information Installation: Move the entire folder into your "X-Plane/Custom Scenery/" folder. Thats it. Do not change the name of the directory. This prevent conflicts with the Greater Auckland 2.0 scenery, which has it's own (limited) version of NZCH. Requirements: 1. This is an X-Plane 9 build of this scenery. it will work in XP9 or XP10, but has no XP10 specific features, facades, buildings, or lighting. 2. It is suggested that if you do have XP10, you download and use the XP10 version (link provided above) 2. Requires a Video Card with 1GB of VRAM if you want to use at 'extreme resolution' (which you do, for best quality). 3. Requires OpenSceneryX ( http://www.opensceneryx.com/ ) Conflicts: Conflicts with RoyalOaks awesome NZCH Christchurch Scenery for XP9 Remove his Scenery from your /Custom Scenery/ folder, as I have received permission to incorporate it into this one Object and Scenery Credits: - Grass Edges as per Simmo W (capnsully)'s Tutorial - Grass Imagery from Mihaly (KSGY) from Xplane.hu as part of the "Mow your own grass" Tutorial - I've adjusted for colour. - Apron Lighting courtesy of the built in XP9 Library by Laminar Research. - Tress Courtesy of Andras (alpilotx) Fabian's excellent Euro-replacement forest textures publicly available on his webpage (http://www.alpilotx.net) - NZCH Airport Buildings and original FSX conversion courtesy of Robin (RoyalOak) Tannahill. - Derivative works and original FSX-converted objects Troy Chapman, used with permission. - Hangars and Misc items courtesy of OpensceneryX and their respective authors (http://www.opensceneryx.com/) - Orthophotos courtesy of Land Information New Zealand, used under licence. (http://www.linz.govt.nz/topography) - Ortho Manipulation and PhotoEditing by Florian (FlorianR) Radack. - Florian Deserves as much credit on this project - His awesome photoshop work made all this possible. - Telephone Poles courtesy of Nick (Nickster) Ward. - Joe (YYZatcboy) Vermeulen for assistance with testing and good suggestions. - Andrew McGregor for providing me ground photographs of the Airport and Locations of field obstacles. - Andy (Gjalp) for being my most enthusiastic supporter. Known bugs / stuff left to do: 1. There's a small piece of scenery missing near the runway approach lighting to RWY 02. - The reason is that was never part of the original aerial photography set by LINZ. - I'll search for a suitable replacement for that small corner (other LINZ data perhaps) 2. There's a cloud shadow near the threshold of RWY 02. It's not a show-stopper though. 3. Hedgerows need to be adjusted with new textures and adjust tree shapes/sizes to make it look more like hedgerows. 4. There's a seam just north of the Aeroclub in-between two of the orthophotos. It does not show up in WED, though... looking for the cause. Misc: This is my first attempt ever at: - Making an Airport - Using GeoTIFFs - Making a Draped Polygon - Using any of the X-Plane scenery tools - Using OpensceneryX Thanks: 1. This was completely done in WED v1.1b4 for MacOSX - Thanks to Ben Supnik and various details on his blog regarding scenery optimization. 2. GraphicConverter. Great software for batch ortho conversions and alpha blending. Pretty much all my gfx work was done with it. 3. All the previous threads in the Scenery Development forum on x-plane.org, which I found 99% of my answers to. The [sEARCH] button is your friend. 4. Carlos Garcia for pointing me in the right direction for the grass forest files from capnsully/Simmo W 5. Support from the community in general. License: This scenery is Pieware - Meaning that if you like it, you are obligated to send us some kind of edible bakeware in pastry-and-filling format. We especially like Blueberry Pie, but will settle for Apple, Strawberry Rhubarb, or possibly Lemon Meringue. © 2012 ISDG - International Scenery Development Group Click here to download this file
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File Name: NZCH Christchurch International Airport (ISDG) File Submitter: chris k File Submitted: 24 Aug 2012 File Category: DSF Scenery Packages X-Plane Version(s): X-Plane 10 NZCH Christchurch New Zealand International Airport (ISDG) Version 1.1 - August 21, 2014 - by: Chris K and FlorianR Imagery Copyright: Photo Imagery is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License with Crown copyright reserved. Imagery Provided by Land Information New Zealand (http://www.linz.govt.nz/topography) Please read the included LICENSE.RTF for further information Installation: Move the entire folder into your "X-Plane/Custom Scenery/" folder. Thats it. Requirements: 1. This is an X-Plane 10 ONLY Scenery 2. Requires a Video Card with 1GB of VRAM or more for full effect 3. Requires OpenSceneryX You should also install: NZPro by AlpilotX - http://www.alpilotx.net/downloads/x-plane-10-new-zealand-pro/ Conflicts: Conflicts with RoyalOaks awesome NZCH Christchurch Scenery for XP9 Remove his Scenery from your /Custom Scenery/ folder, as I have received permission to incorporate it into this one Object and Scenery Credits: - Grass Edges as per Simmo W (capnsully)'s Tutorial - Grass Imagery from Mihaly (KSGY) from Xplane.hu as part of the "Mow your own grass" Tutorial - I've adjusted for colour. - XP10 Buildings/Facades and Lighting courtesy of the built in XP10 Library by Tom (tkyler) Kyler et al at Laminar Research. - Tress Courtesy of Andras (alpilotx) Fabian's excellent Euro-replacement forest textures publicly available on his webpage (http://www.alpilotx.net) - NZCH Airport Buildings and original FSX conversion courtesy of Robin (RoyalOak) Tannahill, and derivative works by Troy Chapman, used with permission. - Hangars and Misc items courtesy of OpensceneryX and their respective authors (http://www.opensceneryx.com/) - Orthophotos courtesy of Land Information New Zealand, used under licence. (http://www.linz.govt.nz/topography) - Ortho Manipulation and PhotoEditing by Florian (FlorianR) Radack. - Florian Deserves as much credit on this project - His awesome photoshop work made all this possible. - Telephone Poles courtesy of Nick (Nickster) Ward. - Joe (YYZatcboy) Vermeulen for assistance with testing and good suggestions. - Andrew McGregor for providing me ground photographs of the Airport and Locations of field obstacles. - Andy (Gjalp) for being my most enthusiastic supporter. If we have forgotten anyone for objects not credited, please contact for inclusion or removal. Known bugs / stuff left to do: 1. There's a cloud shadow near the threshold of RWY 02. It's not a show-stopper though. 2. Hedgerows need to be adjusted with new textures and adjust tree shapes/sizes to make it look more like hedgerows. Misc: This is my first attempt ever in Feb 2012 at: - Making an Airport - Using GeoTIFFs - Making a Draped Polygon - Using any of the X-Plane scenery tools - Using OpensceneryX Thanks: 1. This was completely done in WED v1.3 for MacOSX - Thanks to Ben Supnik and various details on his blog regarding scenery optimization. 2. GraphicConverter. Great software for batch ortho conversions and alpha blending. Pretty much all my gfx work was done with it. 3. All the previous threads in the Scenery Development forum on x-plane.org, which I found 99% of my answers to. The [sEARCH] button is your friend. 4. Carlos Garcia for pointing me in the right direction for the grass forest files from capnsully/Simmo W 5. Support from the community in general. License: This scenery is Pieware - Meaning that if you like it, you are obligated to send us some kind of edible bakeware in pastry-and-filling format. We especially like Blueberry Pie, but will settle for Apple, Strawberry Rhubarb, or possibly Lemon Meringue. Legal: Scenery and 3D Object work copyright © 2012-2014 by the ISDG (International Scenery Development Group) All other derived materials are Copyright their respective rights holders, used with permission. You do not have to pay for this scenery. This scenery is Postcard-Ware. Please send us a postcard if you like the work! We’d love to hear from you. ISDG Group PO Box 892 North Sydney, NSW 2059 Australia Visit our website at http://isdg.com.au/ for all our scenery packages and add-ons. © 2012-2014 ISDG - International Scenery Development Group Click here to download this file
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File Name: NZCH Christchurch OpenStreetMap OSM2XP Building Enhancement (XP9/XP10) ISDG File Submitter: chris k File Submitted: 23 Aug 2012 File Category: DSF Scenery Packages X-Plane Version(s): X-Plane 9 & 10 Description: March 2012 conversion of Christchurch OpenStreetMap Building data. Includes entire Christchurch New Zealand area and Banks Peninsula using OSM2XP 2.0.1 Complimentary Packages: This scenery is designed to work in Concert with the following NZCH Scenery: NZCH Christchurch Airport Photo Scenery NZCH Christchurch Area Photo Scenery Changes from OSM2XP Defaults: Removed duplicate buildings that conflict with our airport scenery. Buildings and facades changed form object density level 6 "Insane" to level 1 "Default" so they show up at base object density. This was done so that you did not need to go to "Insane" amounts of buildings in order to actually see buildings. Warnings: - This may melt your GPU, however it worked fine in XP10 on an Nivida 330M GPU w/512Mb RAM - including the NZCH Airport Photo Scenery package at the same time, and the NZCH Area Photo Scenery. - VRAM usage is approximately 900Mb at "Extreme Resolution" w/compression on - so this is suitable for modern 1Gb Video Cards for best resolution. - Since auto-gen object exclusions aren't working as of XP10 10.04 beta 6, you can keep the autogen objects to "1 - default" or "2 - tons" in XP10. Installation: Copy the _NZCH_Christchurch_OSM2XP_Building_Enhancement directory to your /X-Plane/Custom Scenery/ directory. Do not change the name of the directory in order to avoid conflicts with other New Zealand Scenery. Requirements: Requires the OpenSceneryX Library for forests and objects. ( http://www.opensceneryx.com/ ) Version 9/10 Notes: Specifically built and tested in XP10, but should work in XP9. Enjoy! © 2012 ISDG - International Scenery Development Group Click here to download this file
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Version 1.0
314 downloads
NZCH Christchurch Area Photo Scenery v1.0 March 07, 2012 - By Chris K Copyright: The Christchurch Area Photo Imagery is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License with Crown copyright reserved. Please read the LICENSE.RTF for further information Scenery Credits: - Orthophotos courtesy of Land Information New Zealand, used under license. (http://www.linz.govt.nz/topography) Installation: - Copy this entire directory into your "X-Plane/Custom Scenery/" folder. That's it. - Leave the name as "_NZCH_Christchurch_Area_Photo_Scenery" so that it loads at the correct priority relative to our other NZCH packages Complimentary Packages: This scenery is designed to be used in concert with the following packages: NZCH Christchurch Airport Photo Scenery NZCH Christchurch OSM2XP Building Enhancement Requirements: 1. Requires a Video Card with 1GB of VRAM if you want to use at 'extreme resolution' 2. Requires a Video Card with 512 Mb RAM if you want to use at 'very high' 3. Texture Compression is optional as the files are already DDS compressed. Conflicts: Tested in XP10, but should work with no issues in XP9 as it's only photo polys, an airport definition (NZWG), and some forest exclusion zones. Let me know if you do find any conflicts. (Private Message Me! Don't leave them in the comments below) Known bugs / Stuff left to do: Still got some white edging showing up very small on some northwest tiles - Some type of graphic artifact with the DDS conversion, even though Ive clipped the edges away. I'll investigate further. There were some brightness differences in the original LINZ orthophotography. Easy to see from far away. - Will try to smooth out the transitions and/or change the brightness/contrast of certain parts of the imagery for better consistency. The Orthos are not cut to line up with roads/landmarks, so it's easy to see where X-Plane scenery ends and the ortho begins. - will cut along a roadway line or other natural landmark in a later release, so that the transition isn't so stark. X-Plane 10 completely missed the Waimakariri River in the underlying scenery (.DSF) generation. (The big wide river north of NZCH) - Although I alpha the river away to show the underlying water of the river, XP10 doesn't have any water there. Misc: This was completely done in WED v1.1rc1 for MacOSX © 2012 ISDG - International Scenery Development Group -
Version 1.0
265 downloads
Description: March 2012 conversion of Christchurch OpenStreetMap Building data. Includes entire Christchurch New Zealand area and Banks Peninsula using OSM2XP 2.0.1 Complimentary Packages: This scenery is designed to work in Concert with the following NZCH Scenery: NZCH Christchurch Airport Photo Scenery NZCH Christchurch Area Photo Scenery Changes from OSM2XP Defaults: Removed duplicate buildings that conflict with our airport scenery. Buildings and facades changed form object density level 6 "Insane" to level 1 "Default" so they show up at base object density. This was done so that you did not need to go to "Insane" amounts of buildings in order to actually see buildings. Warnings: - This may melt your GPU, however it worked fine in XP10 on an Nivida 330M GPU w/512Mb RAM - including the NZCH Airport Photo Scenery package at the same time, and the NZCH Area Photo Scenery. - VRAM usage is approximately 900Mb at "Extreme Resolution" w/compression on - so this is suitable for modern 1Gb Video Cards for best resolution. - Since auto-gen object exclusions aren't working as of XP10 10.04 beta 6, you can keep the autogen objects to "1 - default" or "2 - tons" in XP10. Installation: Copy the _NZCH_Christchurch_OSM2XP_Building_Enhancement directory to your /X-Plane/Custom Scenery/ directory. Do not change the name of the directory in order to avoid conflicts with other New Zealand Scenery. Requirements: Requires the OpenSceneryX Library for forests and objects. ( http://www.opensceneryx.com/ ) Version 9/10 Notes: Specifically built and tested in XP10, but should work in XP9. Enjoy! © 2012 ISDG - International Scenery Development Group -
Version 1.0
160 downloads
NZCH Christchurch New Zealand Airport Photo Scenery (XP9 Compatible Build) v1.0 Feb 26, 2012 - Chris K and FlorianR X-Plane Version 9 User's Notice: This is an X-Plane 9 compatible build of our XP10 scenery. In this version we tried to replace as many XP10 specific buildings as possible with XP9 or OpensceneryX objects. However, there are quite a few buildings missing from this version than the original XP10 enhanced version. Copyright: The NZCH Photo Imagery is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License with Crown copyright reserved. Please read the LICENSE.RTF for further information Installation: Move the entire folder into your "X-Plane/Custom Scenery/" folder. Thats it. Do not change the name of the directory. This prevent conflicts with the Greater Auckland 2.0 scenery, which has it's own (limited) version of NZCH. Requirements: 1. This is an X-Plane 9 build of this scenery. it will work in XP9 or XP10, but has no XP10 specific features, facades, buildings, or lighting. 2. It is suggested that if you do have XP10, you download and use the XP10 version (link provided above) 2. Requires a Video Card with 1GB of VRAM if you want to use at 'extreme resolution' (which you do, for best quality). 3. Requires OpenSceneryX ( http://www.opensceneryx.com/ ) Conflicts: Conflicts with RoyalOaks awesome NZCH Christchurch Scenery for XP9 Remove his Scenery from your /Custom Scenery/ folder, as I have received permission to incorporate it into this one Object and Scenery Credits: - Grass Edges as per Simmo W (capnsully)'s Tutorial - Grass Imagery from Mihaly (KSGY) from Xplane.hu as part of the "Mow your own grass" Tutorial - I've adjusted for colour. - Apron Lighting courtesy of the built in XP9 Library by Laminar Research. - Tress Courtesy of Andras (alpilotx) Fabian's excellent Euro-replacement forest textures publicly available on his webpage (http://www.alpilotx.net) - NZCH Airport Buildings and original FSX conversion courtesy of Robin (RoyalOak) Tannahill. - Derivative works and original FSX-converted objects Troy Chapman, used with permission. - Hangars and Misc items courtesy of OpensceneryX and their respective authors (http://www.opensceneryx.com/) - Orthophotos courtesy of Land Information New Zealand, used under licence. (http://www.linz.govt.nz/topography) - Ortho Manipulation and PhotoEditing by Florian (FlorianR) Radack. - Florian Deserves as much credit on this project - His awesome photoshop work made all this possible. - Telephone Poles courtesy of Nick (Nickster) Ward. - Joe (YYZatcboy) Vermeulen for assistance with testing and good suggestions. - Andrew McGregor for providing me ground photographs of the Airport and Locations of field obstacles. - Andy (Gjalp) for being my most enthusiastic supporter. Known bugs / stuff left to do: 1. There's a small piece of scenery missing near the runway approach lighting to RWY 02. - The reason is that was never part of the original aerial photography set by LINZ. - I'll search for a suitable replacement for that small corner (other LINZ data perhaps) 2. There's a cloud shadow near the threshold of RWY 02. It's not a show-stopper though. 3. Hedgerows need to be adjusted with new textures and adjust tree shapes/sizes to make it look more like hedgerows. 4. There's a seam just north of the Aeroclub in-between two of the orthophotos. It does not show up in WED, though... looking for the cause. Misc: This is my first attempt ever at: - Making an Airport - Using GeoTIFFs - Making a Draped Polygon - Using any of the X-Plane scenery tools - Using OpensceneryX Thanks: 1. This was completely done in WED v1.1b4 for MacOSX - Thanks to Ben Supnik and various details on his blog regarding scenery optimization. 2. GraphicConverter. Great software for batch ortho conversions and alpha blending. Pretty much all my gfx work was done with it. 3. All the previous threads in the Scenery Development forum on x-plane.org, which I found 99% of my answers to. The [sEARCH] button is your friend. 4. Carlos Garcia for pointing me in the right direction for the grass forest files from capnsully/Simmo W 5. Support from the community in general. License: This scenery is Pieware - Meaning that if you like it, you are obligated to send us some kind of edible bakeware in pastry-and-filling format. We especially like Blueberry Pie, but will settle for Apple, Strawberry Rhubarb, or possibly Lemon Meringue. © 2012 ISDG - International Scenery Development Group -
GDay all, As mentioned to Andy, here's some screenshots of my attempt at using WED, GeoTiffs, GraphicConverter, and a few other graphical processing utilities. In no particular order. Some are earlier tests in the build to make sure things were working out. Many lines and taxiway features have been adjusted to be as accurate as possible. (Courtesy of LINZ/Land Information New Zealand for their recent 10 cm resolution orthos!) Orthos were downsampled to 2k x 2k, still giving excellent quality. The screenshots were also downsampled from 1680x1050 PNGs to 1024x600 JPEG at 80% quality as to not fill up x-pilot's hard drives. All shots in XPlane 10 Demo (as Im still waiting for my discs!). Buildings/Object Scenery is Roaloak's existing NZCH. Note that I've been able to make the orthos go 'above' the taxiways, so lines, markings, lights, signs, and the like are all layed on top of the ortho, giving a really nice effect. (i.e. you still still get all the taxiway lights, hold points, etc...), while the taxiway is still there underneath the scenery, so you can still drive on it properly. Happy new year to all. - Chris.
