Hi there, Andrew Gorman wrote: > 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!
Don't panic, the GA side of NZCH will not be forgotten! > 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! :) My Athlon64 has a grunty NV6800GS in it, and even 2048x1536 is OK to run Flightgear in. I need to set FSAA 8xS or 16x to even stress the card to the point where I can distinguish individual frames (less than 15fps)... :-) I'll test on my P4 2.0 GHz, Socket 478 box with FX5700TD as well, to know if slower machines will like the added objects... > 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. I used a photo of the IT with a 747-400 nose up near the terminal as reference. Its pretty rough, but airport security would not think too kindly if I abseiled down the front with a 50m tape just to get the height. Width/length is OK (google earth is your friend), but height remains the tricky one... :-( > 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. Excellent! You'll see B763 land there, but it would need to be a severe norwest gale before they'll use it as active for departure! On days like that I've seen 777's and 747's complete some pretty hairy looking drops onto 02/20! > 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!!!!). Ah! He must have started beforehand, without telling...sneaky! :-) 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
