Archive for April, 2005

Another blog on the block

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

Just noticed that Hans PÃ¥lsson, a fellow scenery designer from the Swedish Design Team has also started a blog of his own. Check it out for news on the Swedish scenery frontier: FS rambling.

Meanwhile, one new hangar for Räyskälä, though will have to wait until weekend to convert it to BGL. I’ve also gotten help from Bamce Fabricius with the EFTU airport, here’s the maintenance building he’s working on right now. Will have to work on the ground soon to get it in a useable shape.

Räyskälä progress

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

A couple of hangars now placed in EFRY, and a few modifications to the ground. efry_20050426.zip

Current Status

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

For starters, let’s take a look at my current projects:

EFTU – Turku

Turku has high-detail ground textures about 50% finished, a couple of random hangars finished and a 3D model for terminal by Mikael Kuusela without textures. This scenery is not yet usable, so no downloads available.

Regarding the Turku city photoreal, permission for the aerial photos has been granted, but they’re yet to be downloaded, stitched etc.

EFOU – Oulu

For Oulu aerial photo material is available, but it is hardly useable without remaking large parts of it. I’ll make an initial version with defaultish taxiways and runways, but custom buildings, downloadable as soon as I have the most important ones finished. This can’t be done though without more photos. I’ve drawn the walls that need to be photographed in green in the picture below. Guidelines for good texture photos are here.

EFOP – Oripää and EFRY – Räyskälä

For both of these small glider airfields I have edited simple improvements with AFCAD/VTP to work as placeholders for 3D objects. Oripää has a couple of random objects finished, Räyskälä still only the ground, but I have recently gotten some great photos from the field (thanks to Ilpo Larha!), and they just need to be placed in the scenery. Will have to wait for summer, maybe then we’ll get some decent aerial photos to work with (hint ;) ).

efop_20050422.zip
efry_20050422.zip

What is this?

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

In brief, this is a page for my different flight simulator projects. Most are scenery projects under development that will eventually be released under the FISD brand, but I might write about other projects here too, be it addon designing or anything else.

Having designed scenery addons for MS Flight Simulator for years now, I’m often asked when they will be released. This is very frustrating, as this is just one of my hobbies, and I really don’t have any schedules to work by. On the other hand, I feel bad about keeping all these nice addons to myself when they’re under development. They still are completely useable improvements, even if not “complete”. Thus I decided to change my policy of only releasing finished work and put up this “outlet”.

Here I will try to post information and files anytime I manage to get something done about my projects. Hopefully this will make both sides happier, and possibly even encourage some kind of cooperation with the community, maybe just feedback and comments for starters. Anyone can post comments by just clicking the link below each article, though I will remove any inappropriate messages.

Some might now be thinking, why not post these on FS Nordic’s discussion forum? My aim is to post here maybe even daily reports of the current progress, and those reports would easily get lost in the forum with other threads and comments. So if you’re really interested in my projects’ development and progress, and might want to contribute by giving feedback, you can do it here. Of course I will post any major changes also on the forum as before.

While that is the primary function of this blog and contains the majority of useful information, I also may want to publish articles on any other subjects that I’m interested in. If you feel like not wanting to see those, just click on the Scenery design category in the sidebar, and all you will see are my project reports.

Finally, why write in English? Well, that’s just my personal preference. If you can’t understand something, feel free to contact me by e-mail or just post a comment. Comments are welcome and encouraged in any language I understand.

So, remember that all files here are work in progress, and the same quality as in released FISD sceneries can’t be expected! Also please do post comments, suggestions for improvement etc., that’s the easiest way to get involved in scenery design!

Log opened

Friday, April 22nd, 2005