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11-08-2018, 03:18 PM | #1 |
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Hobbies - Other Interests
I was doing some housekeeping on my computer and came across some pics. Figured I post some in case there are any flight sim enthusiasts on the site. Before I got more into cars, I did a lot of flightsimming. After virtually flying the global skies, I decided to try my hand at developing some scenery. Microsoft Flight Simulator was open-sourced enough to allow for considerable third-party development. Some of the add-on aircraft I bought were amazingly compex and came with actual operations manuals - virtually every system modeled. My mainstay for flying was a Boeing 767.
I worked with a couple other guys, one of which was my coding guy and he did most of the effects and coding needed to make seasonal ground polygons work among a bunch of other really complicated stuff. Although most of the sceneries he and I created were freeware, we did do one project that was payware. The scenery was the culmination of about 18 months work and 1000s of pics sent to me by a Westjet captain out of Calgary International. He was basically my project advisor. Everything you see on the airfield proper was created with a 3-D modeling program and all textures for the buildings and ground polygons were either actual doctored digital photos or made from stratch in Photoshop. The aircraft in the photos are low resolution AI air traffic. Some of scenery development groups out there make this stuff look cartoonish in comparison. It's really amazing what can be done. I hope to get back into simming some day again and my son has started to develop an interest. Here are a couple from another scenery, Calgary Springbank.
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11-08-2018, 03:32 PM | #2 |
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Dude, that's awesome!
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11-08-2018, 03:41 PM | #3 |
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Thanks Leegamer. If interested, check out the quality in some of these higher-end sceneries by the pros.
http://www.flytampa.org/eham.html http://www.fsdreamteam.com/products_kclt.html
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11-14-2018, 10:08 PM | #4 |
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those are very pretty, what do you do with them? do you only do airports? have you thought of getting into video game design? (other than flight simulator)
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11-15-2018, 08:22 AM | #5 |
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All the sceneries were uploaded to flightsim sites, namely avsim and flightsim.com. Yes, only airports but I did a few aircraft liveries. I never really had any interest in game development.
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11-15-2018, 06:40 AM | #6 |
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Nice! I spent far too many hours in MS Flight Simulator and Flight Unlimited II back in the day... Too bad I don't have the time for that anymore :(
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Something we always had to be cognizant of in design - especially with larger sceneries- was keeping polygon counts/ 3D model complexity and texture sizes low to facilitate good performance. MSFS's coding engine sucked, even after they went XML in FSX. It would require a beast of a gaming machine to run it with any addons and weather, whereas FU2 would run quite respectably on a Pentium 4. Lol I usually had pretty up to date gear but I was never 100% satisfied with the way the MSFS series ran. Then again, I used heavy addon aircraft, secnery and weather engines.
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11-15-2018, 12:44 PM | #9 |
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Yeah, except that they didn't have crash modeling. Microsoft had to sign an agreement with Boeing, Cessna, Raytheon etc promising not to 'virtually' explode their planes. So, I guess if you liked bouncing off the ground and calling it a crash, more power to ya. Then again, you could download one of the few addons that made the plane turn into a fireball on impact. Most of those were removed from the flightsim sites, for obvious reasons.
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Yup, Flight Unlimited was a fantastic series, for sure. I had high hopes that the title would be developed more but I don't think the developer deemed the project to be profitable. I liked the graphics, flight modeling, ATC etc and although these were superior, IMO, to the MSFS series, the MSFS series did have more going for it, especially in terms of being open-sourced and encourging of 3rd party development. The Flight Unlimited series was destined to be more of a 'game', whereas the MSFS series was more of a 'simulator'. I did buy FSX, but continued to use FS9 for years after FSX's release, mainly due to the third part addons.
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Checked that out. Looks really cool! I had a brief stint with RC planes. I had a couple buddies that were really good at flying them. I built a trainer (Sierra something), high wing config. I got pretty good at 'high' altitude patterns, but totalled it on my first takeoff. I didn't apply enough power, one wing stalled and it cartwheeled to its death. The upside is that some kid with almost no money in our RC club got an engine, servos, landing gear and a Futaba 4-channel radio for chump change.
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I recently just started a YT channel about my RC monster truck hobby.
It's mostly solid axles monster trucks, but then again, if they're not solid axles and not 4WS capable I don't consider it a monster truck even if they have big tires. But that's just my opinion... Here's my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIe...k5GrZegnqC3H_w And my slightly bashing my modified Tamiya Juggernaut. It runs on a single 1/8 scale motor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCJVSs1Hj40&t=30s |
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Flight sim, schlight schim, this is just good ol' video gaming to me lol.
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There were other very complex addons such as weather generators that took years of development and worked on complex algorithms. I regard the MSFS platform as a base engine. It was the 3rd party development that really added the complexity and realism. MSFS is used by real pilots (recreational and commercial) and flight schools, large and small. One of the guys that provided me with pics for my Calgary scenery is a WestJet captain and he uses it to keep current on instrument flying between flights. A couple of my buddies that used MSFS were given two hours at a Flight Safety center in a real Boeing simulator and they successfully completed all phases of flight. Apparently the simulator operators were quite impressed and even threw in a few mechanical failures that the guys handled without incident. I think most copies of MSFS sold ended up on shelves collecting dust as long-term engagement in the program required a significant investment in learning. So is it a flight 'simulator'? Yes, Is it a video game? Also, Yes. LOL.
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