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  1. #76
    Truly breathtaking screenshots.

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    Thanks guys! I'm quite pleased with the progress, and it's coming along fast.
    Since Seghi was mainly populated by F6F Hellcats in the fall of 1943, I thought I should make a new maintenance area with a mobile engine / prop change mount with a pulley block (saw that on an old photo). Took me about an hour in GMAX. Once you get the hang of it, GMAX is really nice to work with and all these ideas quickly come into being.


    My scenery development galleries:
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x0skkam7xu8zz8r/DFwnonB1nH

    Solomon 1943 V2 Open beta download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...on-1943-V2.zip
    Solomon 1943 V2 update 2013-02-05 download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...2013-02-05.zip


    Current Project: DHC-4 / C-7a Caribou by Tailored Radials
    Dev-Gallery at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qjdtcoxeg...bAG-2V4Ja?dl=0

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    Nice !!!!!
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  4. #79
    Outstanding work Mark!! I truly love what you have done with the ground and the photoreal parts, very impressive! Nice gmax work, although I do see lots of familiarity though.
    Best, Michael

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    Wink Ondonga / New Georgia

    Thanks for the motivating words! :ernae:
    So this is the last airfield I'll make for this release. Here's a few impressions from the early development, but the rest will come fast.
    I made a few new GMAX objects objects, among them a decent radio / signal installation with a short wave wire dipole antenna and some "real" US WW2 radio eqipment.
    But what do I write, here's a few shots:



    1. The VF-17 Jolly Rogers scoreboard - also the "real" thing from a photo I found on the net. I need to learn to make some good humans in GMAX, but that is really sort of an art which is not easily mastered, at least by me.






    2. The VF-17 camp area





    3. The radio tent mentioned above (tent is by MCDesigns, rest by me)




    4. The new tower made by MCDesigns, populated with crew members now (there will be a lot more objects around, looks a bit bare in the moment).



    5. Ira Kepford / VF-17 starting from Ondonga early in the morning. Autogen control work has to be done, as well as populating the airfield of course. The area to the right of the airfield will be the construction site for the second runway - with road rollers, road graders, CAT D7 bulldozers and so on. I'm on that stuff in GMAX right now! That scenery needs these type of objects, since these airfields were huge constructions sites fom the beginning to the end.






    Cheers,
    Mark
    My scenery development galleries:
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x0skkam7xu8zz8r/DFwnonB1nH

    Solomon 1943 V2 Open beta download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...on-1943-V2.zip
    Solomon 1943 V2 update 2013-02-05 download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...2013-02-05.zip


    Current Project: DHC-4 / C-7a Caribou by Tailored Radials
    Dev-Gallery at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qjdtcoxeg...bAG-2V4Ja?dl=0

  7. #82
    Wow!

    Seriously, looking great! I really love having period airfields to fly from. Thanks for all of your hard work you guys put into this.

  8. #83
    fantastic work as usual Mark, looking forward to it.

    This might help as a reference and for textures on the new D7 dozer
    http://kevinkronlundscollection.com/...caterpillar_d7
    Best, Michael

  9. #84
    Thanks for the link, Micheal! There's a nice side-view which may help. My findings on decent textures for the construction equipment were a bit meager so far.

    Cheers,
    Mark
    My scenery development galleries:
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x0skkam7xu8zz8r/DFwnonB1nH

    Solomon 1943 V2 Open beta download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...on-1943-V2.zip
    Solomon 1943 V2 update 2013-02-05 download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...2013-02-05.zip


    Current Project: DHC-4 / C-7a Caribou by Tailored Radials
    Dev-Gallery at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qjdtcoxeg...bAG-2V4Ja?dl=0

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    Looking really great Mark.....

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    A few WIP shots. I made new revetments in GMAX which are bump mapped and have wooden walls on the inside (I have seen that on photos). A few minor corrections on them as well as variations are still to be made. I also made custom vegetation so the airfield looks more like being cut out of the jungle. Last but not least, some fortified positions were constructed in GMAX to house AAA guns or similar things.
    But it's coming close to the end. Using the bglscan and mdlscan tool - which is highly useful if you know how to use it and have a decent workflow for corrections - I'm about 80% through the correction process. There were some 600 errors in the scenery which come mainly from a hdd crash I had about a year ago that produced a mismatch between my libraries and object bgls. The nice thing about bglscan is that it gives you some total numbers of your scenery. In it's current state the Solomon scenario has 10006 (yes 10k) placed objects and 3644 effects, spread over 698 Islands (including Rabaul and the Green Island group).

    Well, let's see what we have for christmas...

    Cheers,
    Mark





    My scenery development galleries:
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x0skkam7xu8zz8r/DFwnonB1nH

    Solomon 1943 V2 Open beta download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...on-1943-V2.zip
    Solomon 1943 V2 update 2013-02-05 download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...2013-02-05.zip


    Current Project: DHC-4 / C-7a Caribou by Tailored Radials
    Dev-Gallery at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qjdtcoxeg...bAG-2V4Ja?dl=0

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    Those shots look great Mark!
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  13. #88
    You definitely get a medal for persistence at the very least. Those shots look great, but were you nuked in the second photo, or is that BOB's shadow?

    BTW, the new vegetation does give it more of a jungle feel. Nice.

  14. #89
    Looking fantastic Mark, Looks like I will be flying my F4U Corsair quite a bit. Can't wait to give'm a try.
    Regards, Tom Stovall KRDD


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    I was just wondering what scenery I would add next, this is it! Outstanding work!!!!!:salute:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sundog View Post
    You definitely get a medal for persistence at the very least. Those shots look great, but were you nuked in the second photo, or is that BOB's shadow?

    BTW, the new vegetation does give it more of a jungle feel. Nice.
    Hehe, nuked. Yes that's ORBX Bob's shadow. Next to the Aerosoft Design tool one of the most useful little in-sim design helpers.


    Thanks,
    Mark
    My scenery development galleries:
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x0skkam7xu8zz8r/DFwnonB1nH

    Solomon 1943 V2 Open beta download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...on-1943-V2.zip
    Solomon 1943 V2 update 2013-02-05 download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...2013-02-05.zip


    Current Project: DHC-4 / C-7a Caribou by Tailored Radials
    Dev-Gallery at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qjdtcoxeg...bAG-2V4Ja?dl=0

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    heh, p-61 or Sukhoi. doesnt matter to me. either way this scenery is looking fantastic and a definate must have as a home base..
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    Looking better every time I visit :-)
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  19. #94
    The new improvements look awesome Mark! If you look at the first image with the new vegetation, I can see the block shadows from the new trees. In the material properties in Gmax, make sure you turn shadows off on the new vegetation, it will eliminate those.
    Best, Michael

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    This going to be one awesome add-on I just can't stop. Drooling. Imagine squadrons of axis and allied flying the SLOT looking for the enemy to get into a huge fur ball.
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  21. #96
    Quote Originally Posted by MCDesigns View Post
    The new improvements look awesome Mark! If you look at the first image with the new vegetation, I can see the block shadows from the new trees. In the material properties in Gmax, make sure you turn shadows off on the new vegetation, it will eliminate those.
    Thanks for the tip, Michael. I thought I took care of that.
    Unfortunatly, the default autogen vegetation of FSX / P3D is shadowed, so in order to keep these unsightly effects off the visible ground scenery one has to make custom objects.
    I'll have a look at them again, I wanted to put some more lush green colored vegetation in them anyways (the custom objects you see now are a bit on the bright side and stand out too much compared to the surrounding autogen tropical rainforest).

    Michael, your scenery objects also look great, by the way. Without those the Solomons would only look half as good.

    Cheers,
    Mark
    My scenery development galleries:
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x0skkam7xu8zz8r/DFwnonB1nH

    Solomon 1943 V2 Open beta download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...on-1943-V2.zip
    Solomon 1943 V2 update 2013-02-05 download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...2013-02-05.zip


    Current Project: DHC-4 / C-7a Caribou by Tailored Radials
    Dev-Gallery at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qjdtcoxeg...bAG-2V4Ja?dl=0

  22. #97
    Quote Originally Posted by MudMarine View Post
    This going to be one awesome add-on I just can't stop. Drooling. Imagine squadrons of axis and allied flying the SLOT looking for the enemy to get into a huge fur ball.
    Well, technically, speaking of the sim, that might be not so far away. There is an ominous posting from one of Lockheed's staff members that says that P3D will incorporate an own weapon subsystem in the next version. My hopes are high, needless to say.
    As for the Solomons, the scenery design work itself is frozen now. I'm eliminating the error output of bglscan now and have a look at all the airfields to make sure they look as intended. That's a major task, if you look at the numbers.

    Cheers,
    Mark
    My scenery development galleries:
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x0skkam7xu8zz8r/DFwnonB1nH

    Solomon 1943 V2 Open beta download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...on-1943-V2.zip
    Solomon 1943 V2 update 2013-02-05 download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...2013-02-05.zip


    Current Project: DHC-4 / C-7a Caribou by Tailored Radials
    Dev-Gallery at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qjdtcoxeg...bAG-2V4Ja?dl=0

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    When you need to take a little break from work, here's a video you might want to watch.

    It has some relevance....... ;-) http://youtu.be/c_heqdlC7B4

    (I discover all sorts of interesting stuff doing my Normandy research currently)
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    wow some great work going on here, i am going to keep watching. !!
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    While we're waiting and while Mark is beavering away, some more movie (in colour !) to watch : http://youtu.be/YIgpluBCzpI
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