NZFF

by **Snowman** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:57 pm

Just uploaded to my website, and available for download,...................
NCRG Rarotonga International Airport, Cook Islands.

Welcome to Rarotonga International Airport, in the beautiful pacific paradise of the Cook Islands.
This scenery is a complete rebuild for FSX of my old FS9 (FS2004) scenery, and uses a lot of objects
from the original, as well as FSX specific objects, and is more detailed than the original.
The scenery also contains a separate landclass file which vastly improves the over-forested look
of Microsoft's original FSX landclass for the island of Rarotonga.

A few pics snapped off during building of the scenery,...................

Lawrie.

by **connor** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:59 pm

Cool, I love raro!

by **deeknow** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:37 pm

Awesome stuff Lawrie, great job of modelling of the terminal buildings etc, looks like the real thing from my memory of it from about 5yrs back
Any plans to do Aitukatki?

by **Ian Warren** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:11 am

One Pacific scenery i do have is the Cook Islands , I did happen to win in it in a NZFF screen compo many years ago , well just after it was released months before FSX .. jeepers be a good four/ five years ago , and i have d/loaded a patch for the FSX but have not installed it , best i have a look later .

by **Snowman** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:01 pm

deeknow wrote:
QUOTE (deeknow @ Dec 21 2011,10:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Awesome stuff Lawrie, great job of modelling of the terminal buildings etc, looks like the real thing from my memory of it from about 5yrs back
Any plans to do Aitukatki?

Yes,.......... NCAI Aitutaki is well under way, and about 60% complete.

Lawrie.

by **Snowman** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:19 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Dec 22 2011,10:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
One Pacific scenery i do have is the Cook Islands , I did happen to win in it in a NZFF screen compo many years ago , well just after it was released months before FSX .. jeepers be a good four/ five years ago , and i have d/loaded a patch for the FSX but have not installed it , best i have a look later .

Hiya Ian.
I also have the RB Cooks FS2004 scenery, and had it up and running in FSX a long time ago.
If i remember rightly, this scenery will work in the RB Cooks scenery, although i currently have it de-activated, preferring the landclass file thats included in the download with my scenery.
Best to keep VLC for NZ activated as well, as many of the trees in the scenery are from VLC, and the surrounding autogen trees look better using the VLC ones, as opposed to Microsofts ones,................

Lawrie.

by **Ian Warren** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:36 pm

Cheers Lawrie , will do follow your feeds , you heading to the Tauranga Airshow late next month ? .. its time to meet your flock off flyin NZFFERs and if so ill book a flight in .

by **ZK-MAT** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 4:19 pm

Looks good Lawrie! We were there in September - the outside of the arrival facade has changed a wee bit, here's our pic after landing taken about 1am, of course we departed when it was dark too so didn't get any daytime pics of the airport

by **Naki** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 4:29 pm

Nice one Lawrie

Matt must be a reasonably recent renovation ...they seem to of modernsied it a bit from when we were there

by **ZK-MAT** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 6:13 pm

The pic was taken first week of September 2011. The outside of the arrivals area seems to be the only finished bit, the inside still looks old, however there were parts of the departure area that looked fairly new, but it was raining and past midnight so didn't linger around too long. Gutted I don't have FSX installed - have you got a FS9 version of this Lawrie?

by **Snowman** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:27 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Dec 22 2011,4:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Cheers Lawrie , will do follow your feeds , you heading to the Tauranga Airshow late next month ? .. its time to meet your flock off flyin NZFFERs and if so ill book a flight in .

Not sure on the Airshow Ian,........ conflicts with a holiday im supposed to be going on with friends.
If i can get them to re-arrange dates for the holiday, i may be able to get a day at the show...........

by **Snowman** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:41 pm

ZK-MAT wrote:
QUOTE (ZK-MAT @ Dec 22 2011,7:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The pic was taken first week of September 2011. The outside of the arrivals area seems to be the only finished bit, the inside still looks old, however there were parts of the departure area that looked fairly new, but it was raining and past midnight so didn't linger around too long. Gutted I don't have FSX installed - have you got a FS9 version of this Lawrie?

Gudday Matt,........ Yeah, the pics i was working from are about 2 years old.
If i could get a good set of pics of the new additions, i could modify the scenery and add them.
YES, there is an FS9 version of the scenery on my website here,........ http://fs-snowman.com/index.php?ind=downlo...iew&iden=38
There are also many others i did for the Cook Islands as well on my website.
Bear in mind, they will ONLY work if you have the RBE Cook Islands 20m mesh & topo installed in FS9.
They WONT work in default. Most of the Cooks in default is in the wrong places, and these airports will end up out in the water or other ugly things in default.

Lawrie.

by **AdrianPetford** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:15 pm

Snowman wrote:
QUOTE (Snowman @ Dec 22 2011,3:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I also have the RB Cooks FS2004 scenery, and had it up and running in FSX a long time ago.
If i remember rightly, this scenery will work in the RB Cooks scenery, although i currently have it de-activated, preferring the landclass file thats included in the download with my scenery.

Hi Lawrie,
Thanks for another great airport. I originally bought the Red Baron Cook Islands scenery so I could use it with your airports in FS9 and found it superb, but I've always had problems with it in FSX unfortunately. I get random incorrect shoreline textures appearing and disappearing all over the scenery, which can be very distracting. Christian's patch made it basically compatible with FSX but was only meant to be an interim thing, I think. I'm also now using the new landclass supplied with Rarotonga.

Just one small issue here. I seem to have a few untextured buildings (this is with your static objects libary, VLC 1.01 and VLC Libraries 1.1 installed). Either that or the Cook Islands government is involved in some seriously secret "black ops". Those sheds look mighty suspicious...

Merry Christmas,

Ade

by **Snowman** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:45 pm

AdrianPetford wrote:
QUOTE (AdrianPetford @ Dec 23 2011,12:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hi Lawrie,
Thanks for another great airport. I originally bought the Red Baron Cook Islands scenery so I could use it with your airports in FS9 and found it superb, but I've always had problems with it in FSX unfortunately. I get random incorrect shoreline textures appearing and disappearing all over the scenery, which can be very distracting. Christian's patch made it basically compatible with FSX but was only meant to be an interim thing, I think. I'm also now using the new landclass supplied with Rarotonga.

Just one small issue here. I seem to have a few untextured buildings (this is with your static objects libary, VLC 1.01 and VLC Libraries 1.1 installed). Either that or the Cook Islands government is involved in some seriously secret "black ops". Those sheds look mighty suspicious...

Merry Christmas,

Ade

Hiya Adrian.

The black building issue i think is easy to fix.
Those particular buildings are draped in old "Nova Gold" textures. They date back to around the FS98 / FS2000 era, and they dont all display in FSX.
There is, however, a fix for it on my website. Under the "FSX MUST HAVE" files heading, you will find the FSX fixed textures
here............. http://fs-snowman.com/index.php?ind=downlo...ew&iden=319
You MUST install them EXACTLY as mentioned in the READ ME with them, or they WILL NOT work.

Something else that intrigues me in your pics,...............
In your second and third pics, the texture colour of the terminal building roofs is a totally different colour to those in my sim !!!
I wonder if you have Mike's Oceania AGN Texture update installed in FSX.
It changes the house and roof textures from default to something a little more realistic for the region ( including New Zealand).
Available here at Mike's website....... http://fs-creations.org/Freeware/Download/...GN_textures.zip
Try installing those, and see if the roof colour changes to the colour you see in my pics.

Let me know how you get on with both things.

Lawrie.

by **AdrianPetford** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:41 am

Hi Lawrie,

Thanks for your very quick reply.

Snowman wrote:
QUOTE (Snowman @ Dec 22 2011,11:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The black building issue i think is easy to fix.
Those particular buildings are draped in old "Nova Gold" textures. They date back to around the FS98 / FS2000 era, and they dont all display in FSX.

Thanks for the pointer to the Nova Gold fix. That was it, I've installed the files and now have all the buildings textured as they should be, although I had to alter the priority of the static objects library to get them all to appear.

QUOTE

Something else that intrigues me in your pics,...............
In your second and third pics, the texture colour of the terminal building roofs is a totally different colour to those in my sim !!!
I wonder if you have Mike's Oceania AGN Texture update installed in FSX.
It changes the house and roof textures from default to something a little more realistic for the region ( including New Zealand).
Try installing those, and see if the roof colour changes to the colour you see in my pics.[/quote]
Well spotted. I hadn't even noticed that! Yes, you're right. I didn't have Mike's Oceania textures installed (odd I must have overlooked them, as I have all of Mike's other stuff in my sim). I now have the updated AGN sheets working and it's resulted in a big improvement to NZ's look overall, but that roof on the Rarotonga terminal remains stubbornly wrong! I suspect I may have a duplicate texture that's being called at a higher priority to the correct one. I have made a couple of manual additions to the static objects library plus I have a lot of custom UK scenery installed as well. What's the name of the file for the roof texture?

Thanks for your help, Merry Christmas!

Ade

Adrian Petford
West Midlands, UK

I spend eleven months of the year in the UK and one in NZ. I'm hoping to improve that... ;-)

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NCRG Rarotonga International Airport, Cook Islands.

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