Wip Taupo Airport FSX

[deaneb]

Awesome work. As my 10 year old just said - "oh man - thats sooo cool. Its just insane".

[creator2003]

Thank you ,yes i do know the price 9.95 usd as it does not come with a ground image and will blend with VLC " BEST "if you have it or just be a building enhancement for your setup and will fit with whatever landclass you use , it will be no less impressive i think with the way ive enhanced the main features plus added custom eyecandy only seen at this one Airport and let your landclass setuup "VLC plug "do the rest in the area which speeds up work flow and the move to others that are waiting to be done in NZ .

Deane your son will love burning around here that jump version maybe you,ll build would be perfect to climb out to ten odd thousand and drop a load paras over the drop zones ,ive been told by the helpful guy at Taupo its class as the busiest skydive drop zone in the world which is Awesome for traffic movements plus the heli traffic outta here makes a very colorful place ,ive still gotta add a Action world to the middle tree area which has bouncy castles / slides etc which i haven't ever seen in FSim so mite be other first
enjoy the preview build

[deaneb]

QUOTE (creator2003 @ Apr 27 2011,9:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Deane your son will love burning around here that jump version maybe you,ll build would be perfect to climb out to ten odd thousand and drop a load paras over the drop zones

LOL - you reckon I need to build a PAC XSTOL-750 to match the scenery?

[creator2003]

Could of been but im sure something like that would match any Airport in the world ,would be a great variant to those you have already made ,i dont know of any purpose made slidecurtain jump plane for FSX or fs9 so that could be another first ,
im still thinking how im going to display that part of this scenery with some sort of skydive animation falling over a drop zone ,one of those similar to the 2004 queenstown addon which had those para glider guys coming down the mountain still a dream at the moment ,one thing i did notice the most was the wip/crack of the chutes opening all the time over the place which took me a while to work out funny

here i only took one pic of a plane while i was there very colorful paint jobs

[Timmo]

Looking really good Mike- So it was a no-go for the aerial image? (too much $$$?)

[creator2003]

Yes in the end the Taupo council imagery turned into a India gift, yes you can use it bla bla we will send it in the mail we are happy bla bla ,next i get a email , nah sorry you cant have it now cause you will make money outta it "yeah right" told you that dumb a_ss ..

The ground image is .005% of my work load and takes no time at all ,the textures and models are the 99.95% and there is no way im going to pay some greedy council which didnt pay for the image in the first place $300 odd per tile which i need about 30 plus to cover just the AP there is no way id recoup the $$$$ ,this imagery thing for NZ is a con ,how we get charged twice three times etc for the same photo is cr@p , i hate the way they are restricted by it seems one guy at the council all the time ,though they can use there discretion and cast a PROVISIONAL license to use on things they think are cool for there town like mine ,they never know there own job or they hate flightsim whatever the case im sick of trying and getting the bull pucky answers ,maybe in the future they will be free to use till then we have VLC and the parts the govt did give us via LINZ free . ... off with there heads

[Ian Warren]

One way to enchance the area is do a re-colour of the town along the example Alexandra then you can go

[J7G]

Oi vey, that is AWESOME. Very nice work mate.

[AndrewJamez]

That would be cool!!! having Taupo town done over like alexandra. And a float plane base...nudge, nudge

[creator2003]

Yes it would ,i have available some recolored Taupo black and whites of that whole side of the lake which were done / given by a very nice member here and have been in talks with Mr Warren chap about just this ,maybe a couple more board room meeting and we will have a out come lol

im looking forward to the end of this cool airport

[Ian Warren]

Arr so that is what board room meeting is like and i was only there to keep wiping the table .. holy macks .. those tables are huge

[creator2003]

More eyecandy shots as the details go in ,love the Bike there will be 2-3 different types found around the place in the final build, runway markings are on the go as you can see due to lack of photoreal ground im trying to do my best in this area ,bit like patch work..
enjoy the extras ..

[Ian Warren]

Who,s the bloody hoons on the Harley Looks bloody superb ... now were is my bike again

[Nzeddy]

Wow!!

Looks very good!

[connor]

Like I said, we have a lot of scenery projects on the go at NZFF!

Looks awesome!

[deeknow]

Good stuff, great to see the progress. Hey, you reckon they'll finish roofing that building before you release, you'll have to give us a patch it so

[Kahu]

Man that looks bloody good

[spongebob206]

Outstanding

Can't wait

[creator2003]

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Hey, you reckon they'll finish roofing that building before you release, you'll have to give us a patch it so[/quote]

I hear the roof / gutters skylights will be fitted this weekend plus the garage door will go in behind the trolly , the pluming and electricity get put on next week maybe ,Action World looks like a fun thing to build http://www.actionworldtaupo.co.nz/ so im gearing up for this eyesore..

thanks to you others that have mentioned how sweet its looking cant wait of course to get it out ..

Last edited by creator2003 on Fri May 06, 2011 5:03 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[creator2003]

Just some closer looks at the grass im testing out ,i plan to make this fully removable if its not your thing but it does add another dimension ,i take back the bad things i said about the Orbx grasses when i first seen them i think they look good now ive got a PC to run them which most people will or should have at some point .

it is very hard to make the spread of the grass random looking across large areas though which im trying to fix with out adding more blades, ive put in some kinda over shots to give a honest look at it and tell me what you think










i should add it just grows on you more you move around the airport and gives a nice soft look when landing or low fly bys ,you dont even notice until you are pretty close