Napier Add On Scenery

[ardypilot]

Nice one Mike- Napier will be worth flying to now with some decent addon scenery.

[Ian Warren]

LOOKING BRILLIANT Well done Mike

[creator2003]

thanks guys i agree its now going to be worth the trip heading over those ways on the way to wellington or just the trip alone ,ive now put it in the sim to have a look but im not to happy with the roof textures id rather them blue like the real one and the upstairs needs different photos maybe ,fsds is alot harder to model in and id rather use max but i just have had no luck with textures into fs from those models ive made before this one ,
anyway heres some more shots and one of the top down view of robins older godzone photoreal




its coming along slowly but im picking away at it for yous

[jastheace]

looks pretty bloody accurate to me great work so far

Jason

[Naki]

Very nice! The old Napier add on was one of my favourites for FS 2002 so looking forwrd to a replacement.

[Ian Warren]

Better jump in and do some AGN's around the area Mike give u and backdrop for that great terminal building

[HardCorePawn]

Mate... if you have photos of the roof so I know what the proper colour is... and the tin textures that are the wrong colour... I can make them blue for you

Just need to do some fiddling with the GIMP...

[creator2003]

Yup id messed with them alittle on the first texture set but the blue didnt look right so have done them again just gotta remap and see how they workout now ,
thanks for the offer HCP ,
and Ian just go for it if you have time but i dont know how many ppls out there have the old godzone stuff and i dont know how much of a demand there is for the amount of work and time youd have to put in to agn out that zone
but yeah id love it for sure ...ill have to go back through that agn stuff so i can help out some more
mike

[Snowman]

Looking really grand Mike. Hopefully when its all finished, it will fit in with all the other modifications and scenic addons i have done to Goffs original scenery.
Added the palms and trees etc around the carparks and tank farm, modified the carparks themselves, re-done the airport entry roads, including joining them to the NZ Topo main road and added street lighting, added the pines along the side of the main road, and started adding the houses beside the water accross the road from the airport, just to name a few.

Lawrie.

[creator2003]

i dont how much it will fit in with what you have and has been done before ,i generally make a whole airport these days with as much as i can do and leave it up to others to do as they wish with the ez scenery objects ,napier airport was something i wanted to do anyway, thus the speed in which im building it .
my thought is that insteed of all others work going to waste ill inclued all my source files and yous will be able to place them as you wish within any napier .
the only reason i do this now is that the older ez scenery & rwy12 objects that most people place are frame heavy with some older texture formats and it means that people have to download library files from here and there ..etc
this way i know ive got all the files in one place and that there will be no texture double ups and conflicks with each install if that makes sence .
anyway most important you will be able to place the objects yourself aswell ,starting tower and hangers tonight ..
mike

[Snowman]

Sounds sweet to me Mike. I might hold off on any further work on what im doing untill yours is complete, and then see if i can combine my additions with yours without too much drama. Ive gone a little further afield than just the airport itself. BTW, really nice job on the Raglan scenery. I like !!

Lawrie.

[Charl]

my thought is that insteed of all others work going to waste ill inclued all my source files and yous will be able to place them as you wish within any napier .
the only reason i do this now is that the older ez scenery & rwy12 objects that most people place are frame heavy with some older texture formats and it means that people have to download library files from here and there ..etc
this way i know ive got all the files in one place and that there will be no texture double ups and conflicks with each install if that makes sence .
anyway most important you will be able to place the objects yourself aswell ,starting tower and hangers tonight ..
mike

I like your thought process very much.
There's an edge to your scenery now, too.
Good show.

[Goff_nznr]

Absolutely fan-bloody-tastic, Mike. Your rendition of the Napier terminal looks so real. I am humbled.

My feeble attempt at Napier Port might be useful for anyone wanting a starting-point.

It's HERE for a limited time.

Cheers,

Goff

[Snowman]

Nice one Goff !!
Just downloaded it, and will have a play around with it over the next couple of days.

Lawrie.

[creator2003]

well not forgotten heres some updated shots


im thinking ill just send out the finshed models to snowman and goff to place with in there hard work instead off trying to make the whole thing so ill work out how to get the folder out through a rapid download and hope that you guys get something out there soon
hope you like what has been done
mike

EDIT: oh are you guys using ez scenery to place your objects ?
im uploading now and inclueded source and xml mdls also a ez library so there sould be no problems
oh and craig did the exculeds ,but id say you guys would have that done already
just mention our names in the read me and we are al good
enjoy
NAPIER here we come

[Snowman]

No Mike, i am using Runway-12. I used to have EZ-Scenery, but went to re-install it after a fresh install of FS9 a while back, to find the disc was damaged. So no EZ !!
Looking very good on what youve done, going by the pics. I will just have to hope i can fit it all in somehow to all the scenery extras and bits i have added so far. I used Goff's original scenery, and AFCAD as a base, and worked in all my extras around his stuff. So i dunno how i will get on placement wise with your very nice new buildings If Craig did a new AFCAD for the scenery, i guess your buildings might not be in the same places in my scenery thats based around a modified version of Goffs original AFCAD. Oh well, at worst, i guess i can start from scratch again ! Let me know where and when you have it uploaded.

Lawrie.

[creator2003]

ok well just waiting for goff to get hold of me to find out if he has ez scen if not ill load up everything and see if i cant place them for you guys with in goff and your work
just mite take me another week or so
leave it to me
mike

[Snowman]

ok well just waiting for goff to get hold of me to find out if he has ez scen  if not ill load up everything and see if  i cant place them for you guys with in goff and your work
just mite take me another week or so
leave it to me
mike 

Thanks Mike. I do miss EZ, but i have always used both EZ and Rwy-12. I guess i will just have to shell out the $$ and buy it agian.
Yes, Goff does have EZ Scenery, thats what he made his original scenery with.
If you can manage it, placing your buildings within Goff's AFCAD would be a great help. The airside shape of my modified AFCAD is pretty much the same, with a few minor differences, but its the carpark side that i have done the most work on.
If you can just fit your buildings into his original, i can make a few small tweaks to paths, roads, carparks etc, to make them fit your buildings better. Might have to move a few other objects like trees and lamp posts, but thats no big hassle.
Other alternative is, you PM me with an e-mail addy, and i will send you the "beta" of the modified AFCAD. Whichever is easier for you, either way is fine with me.
Have to try and convince the wife to let me spend the money on buying EZ again,.... not an easy task ! Ive rebuilt the AFCAD to suit Red Baron 20m mesh and NZ Topo Scenery. Have joined the carpark road to the NZ Topo main coast road, and added lots of other details. Also started adding the houses beside the water, across the road from the airport, and added the landmark pine trees all along the side of the coast road. Whatever you remove of his to replace with yours, can you leave the aeroclub clubhouse building of his (unless you have a better one), and also the tank farm behind the carpark (unless you have a better one).

Lawrie.