Crikey Chris!!!! That looks fantastic!!! You did pick a rather large NZ airport to recreate.....lots of small buildings everywhere and the ones you have mentioned are the tip of the iceberg! Dont forget about the Canty Aero-school over by rwy 11, that has around 6 buildings in the near vacinity and only 2 of those are hangers!
Texture size can be a funny one.....go too large and most of the systems will have trouble refreshing the screen fast enough to make the sim believable and fun to fly. I have to work out this befoer I start on Wellington terminal......curse my slow system! :) The easiest way to judge sizes is to take the average height of someone, say 5'6" and then find out the height of the roof in the building....doors are all the same height,mostly, so that can be a good indicator as well. Another thing, rwy 11/29 is being extended in to the golf course in the next few years to accomodate the larger aircraft coming in. This is our crosswind rwy and only takes 737's at best, its too short for anything else....so we might have to extend that part of NZCH as well, but thats a scenery thing and might be more difficult to do as the roads are diverted further out. Slainte, Andy - getting ready to make Wellie Terminal before Dene gets his act together (and hes really fast too....he had things completed before I new he had even started them!!!!). NZCH > Ooops, situation rectified... :-) > > http://users.tpg.com.au/blobster/nzch-terminal-rough.jpg > > I'm a Blender noob, so there are some textured faces that only > show textures on the inside (still trying to work out why), I'm > only using a 512x512 texture (will 'upgrade' to a 1024x1024 for > better detail next), but its a start... > > I hope to add Operation Deep Freeze buildings, the car parks, the > beacon/water tower, the big blue engineering building at the nth > end of the complex, all the airbridges at their correct position, > all of the freight depots/NZ post north of the IT, and many trees > near the approaches to match the large number of macrocarpa hedges > and small plots of pine and stuff surrounding the complex. If I > can find a decent free ftp host I'll zip the lot up, but my ISP > only lets me have 30MB free (20MB is taken by my online diary). > By time I finish with this project 30MB might be only a small > part of it... :-) > >> Really looking forward to seeing a "real" terminal in NZ... albeit in >> NZCH... > > NZCH is about to upgrade their domestic terminal. I was thinking > about modelling the new one, but the artists sketches on the NZCH > corporate website are difficult to judge geometric detail from. > Come to think of it all I've had to work from on my existing model > have been some rough pictures from jetphotos.net...if I knew someone > working in NZCH corporate I could try to get them to siphon me a > copy of the site plan...wishful thinking! :-) > >> Better get a move on this weekend with Wellingtons skybridges before >> Andy beats me. > > The race is on! > > Kind regards, > > Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
