West Coast towns

An effort to collaborate all freeware New Zealand scenery addons. Discuss the creation and management of the project here.

Postby dbcunnz » Wed Jan 01, 2014 2:47 pm

High res West Coast NZ Photo scenery in the works for 2014

Haast


Fox Glacier


Franz Joseph


Greymouth


Westport


Karamea


If Rob needs an update photo for his Hokitika this one will be done
Last edited by dbcunnz on Wed Jan 01, 2014 3:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Image
User avatar
dbcunnz
NZFF Pro
 
Topic author
Joined: Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:56 pm
Posts: 4009
Location: Blenheim New Zealand

Postby Ian Warren » Wed Jan 01, 2014 2:53 pm

Now that will really bring the coast to life , be one hell off an interesting project and nice a small cool.gif
Image
User avatar
Ian Warren
NZFF Pro
 
Joined: Fri May 05, 2006 5:23 pm
Posts: 41187
Location: AREA 51

Postby dbcunnz » Wed Jan 01, 2014 2:58 pm

Ian you will have to get a GA aircraft biggrin.gif
It should make a good flight from Nelson across to Karamea and down to the Haast calling at Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, Franz Joseph, Fox glacier and then on to the Haast
Image
User avatar
dbcunnz
NZFF Pro
 
Topic author
Joined: Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:56 pm
Posts: 4009
Location: Blenheim New Zealand

Postby deeknow » Wed Jan 01, 2014 3:17 pm

Wicked Doug, cannae wait. Got plenty of GA at the ready too biggrin.gif
Deans repaints: http://www.deeknow.com/
X570 Mini-ITX m/b - Ryzen7 5700X3D (8c/16t) - RTX 2060-super - 32GB 3600MHz DDR4 - Win10 - P3Dv5.3
User avatar
deeknow
NZFF Pro
 
Joined: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:15 pm
Posts: 4448
Location: NZHN

Postby Ian Warren » Wed Jan 01, 2014 3:30 pm

dbcunnz wrote:
QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Jan 1 2014,3:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ian you will have to get a GA aircraft biggrin.gif

I have my Antonov , that thing can rip around at 200 MPH and dang near lands like a helicopter .... course I do have my A2A Ces Cess Cesss Cessna tongue.gif

dbcunnz wrote:
QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Jan 1 2014,3:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It should make a good flight from Nelson across to Karamea and down to the Haast calling at Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, Franz Joseph, Fox glacier and then on to the Haast

Make for one heck of a MP flight cool.gif , sure we would get everyone on board for that one!
Last edited by Ian Warren on Wed Jan 01, 2014 3:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Image
User avatar
Ian Warren
NZFF Pro
 
Joined: Fri May 05, 2006 5:23 pm
Posts: 41187
Location: AREA 51

Postby emfrat » Wed Jan 01, 2014 6:36 pm

Looks good - I hope you can leave in those two trees, that frame the roadway, that leads you up to the threshold fence at FJ biggrin.gif
Last edited by emfrat on Wed Jan 01, 2014 6:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
MikeW
'Propliner' is actually short for 'Proper airliner, with big rumbly radials'

Image
User avatar
emfrat
NZFF Pro
 
Joined: Sat May 07, 2011 7:41 pm
Posts: 4098
Location: 50 DME YBBN

Postby Ian Warren » Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:12 pm

emfrat wrote:
QUOTE (emfrat @ Jan 1 2014,7:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Looks good - I hope you can leave in those two trees, that frame the roadway, that leads you up to the threshold fence at FJ biggrin.gif

Basically if they are in the photo.... they will be there smile.gif
Image
User avatar
Ian Warren
NZFF Pro
 
Joined: Fri May 05, 2006 5:23 pm
Posts: 41187
Location: AREA 51

Postby AdrianPetford » Thu Jan 02, 2014 3:05 am

Looks like 2014 will be seeing some great scenery Doug. Where is the photoreal sourced from?
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... ;-)
User avatar
AdrianPetford
Sim-holic
 
Joined: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:28 pm
Posts: 510
Location: West Midlands, UK

Postby Ian Warren » Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:40 am

AdrianPetford wrote:
QUOTE (AdrianPetford @ Jan 2 2014,4:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Looks like 2014 will be seeing some great scenery Doug. Where is the photoreal sourced from?

Looking at this link here Ade http://www.linz.govt.nz/topography/aerial-...icenced-imagery
Image
User avatar
Ian Warren
NZFF Pro
 
Joined: Fri May 05, 2006 5:23 pm
Posts: 41187
Location: AREA 51

Postby ZK-LGD » Fri Jan 03, 2014 5:22 am

Hey, welcome to the Coast (where it's guaranteed to rain 363 days of the year winkyy.gif ). Just wish the weather would fine up so I could get out there and take some photos of Greymouth, Karamea, Fox and Franz airfield buildings to build some photoreal airports to compliment the project.
Regards,
Dorian
User avatar
ZK-LGD
Sim-holic
 
Joined: Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:34 pm
Posts: 742
Location: Springfield, Canterbury

Postby dbcunnz » Fri Jan 03, 2014 5:54 am

ZK-LGD wrote:
QUOTE (ZK-LGD @ Jan 3 2014,6:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hey, welcome to the Coast (where it's guaranteed to rain 363 days of the year winkyy.gif ). Just wish the weather would fine up so I could get out there and take some photos of Greymouth, Karamea, Fox and Franz airfield buildings to build some photoreal airports to compliment the project.

Hi Dorian that would be great if you could model the stores buildings etc for the coast towns I will be autogening them as I go but that takes heaps of time so will probably do the small ones first just about got the Haast ready to start autogening it
Image
User avatar
dbcunnz
NZFF Pro
 
Topic author
Joined: Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:56 pm
Posts: 4009
Location: Blenheim New Zealand

Postby ZK-LGD » Fri Jan 03, 2014 6:49 am

Suppose the $64 question is: Is this autogen going to be for VLC or Orbx NZSI?

Greymouth and Westport are the only centers that really need specialist autogen, so that should not be too much of a problem.
Regards,
Dorian
User avatar
ZK-LGD
Sim-holic
 
Joined: Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:34 pm
Posts: 742
Location: Springfield, Canterbury

Postby dbcunnz » Fri Jan 03, 2014 1:49 pm

ZK-LGD wrote:
QUOTE (ZK-LGD @ Jan 3 2014,7:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Suppose the $64 question is: Is this autogen going to be for VLC or Orbx NZSI?

Greymouth and Westport are the only centers that really need specialist autogen, so that should not be too much of a problem.

I will be doing two of each town one blended for ORBX and one Blended for VLC and will not use ORBX AGN so same autogen will work with both.
Still a bit more coulor blending to do on the VLC Haast


but here is the ORBX Haast on ORBX NZSI ready to have the AGN done
Image
User avatar
dbcunnz
NZFF Pro
 
Topic author
Joined: Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:56 pm
Posts: 4009
Location: Blenheim New Zealand

Postby Ian Warren » Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:11 pm

HELLS BELLS DOUG , that work out superb absolutely brilliant for both which is going to keep many happy cool.gif
Image
User avatar
Ian Warren
NZFF Pro
 
Joined: Fri May 05, 2006 5:23 pm
Posts: 41187
Location: AREA 51

Postby dbcunnz » Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:33 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jan 3 2014,3:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
HELLS BELLS DOUG , that work out superb absolutely brilliant for both which is going to keep many happy cool.gif

Still got to lighten up and add a bit of yellow to the VLC to make it blend in better
Image
User avatar
dbcunnz
NZFF Pro
 
Topic author
Joined: Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:56 pm
Posts: 4009
Location: Blenheim New Zealand

Postby ZK-LGD » Fri Jan 03, 2014 3:15 pm

thumbup1.gif Lookin' rather good. thumbup1.gif
Regards,
Dorian
User avatar
ZK-LGD
Sim-holic
 
Joined: Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:34 pm
Posts: 742
Location: Springfield, Canterbury

Postby toprob » Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:07 am

That looks great, Doug. Thanks for the Hokitika aerial, the original image I sourced from the council wasn't geo-referenced, and was only 80cm, so it will be good to redo the Hokitika scenery.

About half my sim flights are on the West Coast, so having all these towns will be brilliant. The Creative Commons imagery is certainly what I've been waiting for (since 2008, I guess), I guess there are a huge number of towns available now. I can't wait until I've finished NZWN (which uses CC-licensed images) and can get stuck into my next scenery using some of this higher resolution imagery. I have my eye on a particular area, but we'll just have to wait and see how this pans out...
User avatar
toprob
NZFF Pro
 
Joined: Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:56 pm
Posts: 6711
Location: Upper Hutt

Postby Ian Warren » Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:19 am

toprob wrote:
QUOTE (toprob @ Jan 4 2014,11:07 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I have my eye on a particular area, but we'll just have to wait and see how this pans out...

Hmm now sound interesting ... all this stuff we are running out of New Zealand ... your not looking at photo-real Australia laugh.gif
Image
User avatar
Ian Warren
NZFF Pro
 
Joined: Fri May 05, 2006 5:23 pm
Posts: 41187
Location: AREA 51

Postby toprob » Mon Jan 06, 2014 8:47 pm

Doug has sent me the aerial image for Hokitika so I can update the VLC/Godzone Hokitika scenery, as the new image is a lot better, and covers a slightly bigger area. Here it is in P3D2, still some work to do on the water mask.

This blends to VLC. Click on the thumbnail for the full-sized screenshot.

User avatar
toprob
NZFF Pro
 
Joined: Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:56 pm
Posts: 6711
Location: Upper Hutt

Postby Ian Warren » Mon Jan 06, 2014 8:56 pm

That looks Hoki Dori, strange that town gets so much attention by compare to the lack of anything a few years back, they literary missed it out !
Image
User avatar
Ian Warren
NZFF Pro
 
Joined: Fri May 05, 2006 5:23 pm
Posts: 41187
Location: AREA 51

Next

Return to NZ Scenery Project

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 8 guests