Dublin scenery

cherrytaz · 27-09-2008 10:58pm #1

Hello all,

Sime of yous might know me off the ifsd website as fsterry. Well anyway im developing scenery for Dublin airport and just posting a few recent pictures.

Enjoy

Terry.......

andy_g · 28-09-2008 1:56am

all i can say is :eek: i want it lol. is it going to be fsx compatable? lastly i had the dublin scenery in fs2004 and it was amazing but the new dub looks alot more realistic i hope it doesnt make me feel im stuck in work there haha.
thanks. andy

Tropheus · 28-09-2008 10:17am

Looks fantastic. When will it be availalbe?

cherrytaz · 28-09-2008 2:54pm

Cheers lads.Its initially going to be for fs2004 and i hope to export it over to fsx soon after.Well i hope to have it done by christmas(Im back in college monday week so will have feck all time to do it)

Terry

Steyr · 29-09-2008 12:31am

Absolutely class.

cherrytaz · 29-09-2008 4:24pm

The fleet so far

andy_g · 30-09-2008 12:57am

the airport vehicles look really cool will change the ones from standard fs

John_Mc · 09-10-2008 5:04pm

Looks fantastic Terry, fair play!

I'm only using FS X these days so will unfortunately have to wait a bit longer

Given the technologies you're using to implement this for FS 2004, do you anticipate the port over to FS X to take long?

cherrytaz · 17-12-2008 10:52pm

Just some more pics including the newly modelled T2

John_Mc · 17-12-2008 11:27pm

Looking good Terry! Keep it up!

pclancy · 19-12-2008 8:00am

Nice. Are IFSD still going? I havent been able to access the site in a while.

cherrytaz · 19-12-2008 1:21pm

No unfortunately IFSD are gone as the website was not renewed.I post mainly on the vateir forum now.Pity its gone,it attracted a lot of traffic

bugsyboy · 24-12-2008 9:29am

Where is is possible to get better scenery for Ireland (in particular Dublin Airport) for fs 2004?
Paul

highlydebased · 24-12-2008 10:36am

IFSD are gone.

The scenery is on avsim however.

HydeRoad · 24-12-2008 12:52pm

cherrytaz wrote: »

The fleet so far

Sorry, a bus man interloping on the aircraft forum, I LOVE your modelling work, I dabble with a bit of computer modelling myself, but WAIT!!! What is THAT???

The front of an AV class bus, grafted onto the side and rear of an EV class bus, two entirely different vehicles!!! And a staircase on both sides??? LOL

That is like welding the cockpit of an Airbus onto the shell of a Boeing!!!

http://www.irishbuses.com/DublinBusIndexPage.html for pics of Dublin Buses, there's loads of other websites too...

Sorry, I've just disgraced myself on the airline forum, I'll retreat back to bus land now...

Simtech · 11-01-2009 10:33pm

What's the latest Terry?

Steve · 11-01-2009 11:47pm

Excellent work terry and good to see you after all these years.

I have a confession to make: I was involved in IFSD in the early days (I did the Howth scenery that was released) I also nearly did the whole of Dublin city and surrounds but things changed in work and I moved house and so I sort of dropped off the radar.:o

Anyways, the upshot is I have an 85% completed Dublin texture with seasons and lightmaps sitting on my old pc if anyone is interested in taking it further. I'll gladly hand over the project to someone with FS development experience (and bear in mind it's not a trivial thing to do).

If anyone is interested, let me know. The files are in photoshop format and you'll need the relevant tools to create the LOD tiles and mesh / dynamic scenery etc to go on top. From memory, the project source was about 800MB but could be more.

Again, nice to hear from you again terry!

Steve.

sdanseo · 12-01-2009 3:14am

bugsyboy wrote: »

Where is is possible to get better scenery for Ireland (in particular Dublin Airport) for fs 2004?
Paul

www.stephend.net/downloads.html

I've mirrored the IFSD scenery there.

Simtech wrote: »

What's the latest Terry?

According to his posts on the VATeir forum he's doing exams.

Simtech · 12-01-2009 12:31pm

SteveC wrote: »

Excellent work terry and good to see you after all these years.

I have a confession to make: I was involved in IFSD in the early days (I did the Howth scenery that was released) I also nearly did the whole of Dublin city and surrounds but things changed in work and I moved house and so I sort of dropped off the radar.:o

Anyways, the upshot is I have an 85% completed Dublin texture with seasons and lightmaps sitting on my old pc if anyone is interested in taking it further. I'll gladly hand over the project to someone with FS development experience (and bear in mind it's not a trivial thing to do).

If anyone is interested, let me know. The files are in photoshop format and you'll need the relevant tools to create the LOD tiles and mesh / dynamic scenery etc to go on top. From memory, the project source was about 800MB but could be more.

Again, nice to hear from you again terry!

Steve.

I would be interested in continuing your Dublin scenery for FSX. Sent you a PM.

mythicalireland · 12-01-2009 5:46pm

Terry, fantastic work. Hopefully you'll get time to finish it now.

Steve · 13-01-2009 1:13am

Simtech wrote: »

I would be interested in continuing your Dublin scenery for FSX. Sent you a PM.

I was wrong... the working folder is over 3 gigs!!:eek:
As I said in PM, thanks for the offer, you're welcome to the files to continue it, I'm just posting on thread to re-iterate that it's on condition that it's released as freeware if it ever gets finished.
Also, the images I used were downloaded from the internet in 2003 (long before google maps/earth was around). The host is now gone as far as I can tell but I have no clue if there would be and copyright issues about using them for this purpose. I would hazard a guess that the processed images wouldn't be tracable to any host as they are heavily resampled but who knows.
As you can see, the images are a bit old and there are some newer roads and landmarks that aren't in them. Also there are also some runway alignment issues that I never managed to work out.
Anyway, here are some screenshots I took so you can see what I was working towards.
The difference between what I was doing and the likes of the UK VFR scenery is that I was creating the night time and seasonal textures as well and was probably the reason I gave up on it - it was just too laborious.

Bray:

Casement R23

Casement R29

EIDW with default FS airport

EIDW with IFSD airport

M50

Malahide

Weston

Steve · 13-01-2009 1:14am

And some more:

Day / night / and seasons

Night approach

Steve · 13-01-2009 1:32am

sdonn_1 wrote: »

www.stephend.net/downloads.html

I've mirrored the IFSD scenery there.

I have the IFSD112Update.exe (1,257k) and the Dublin2006.exe (6,743k) if you want them for your site.

PM me and I can email them to you if you want.

John_Mc · 13-01-2009 1:35am

How does the IFSD scenery look in FS x?

That Dublin VFR scenery looks great, let's hope it gets finished!

Simtech · 13-01-2009 2:16am

I saw EIME in one of your pics so for comparison this is what I did in an hour on the photoscenery front. Just the one tile for experiment but it shows nicely the comparison between ingame with UTX and my input.

Edit. Messed that up somewhat. How do I display pics in post??

Steve · 13-01-2009 2:31am

Simtech wrote: »

Scenery.jpg

Scenery2.jpg

I saw EIME in one of your pics so for comparison this is what I did in an hour on the photoscenery front. Just the one tile for experiment but it shows nicely the comparison between ingame with UTX and my input. The other is my Baldonnel scenery. Whadya reckon?

Edit. Messed that up somewhat. How do I display pics in post??

That looks really good and was exactly what I was hoping to achieve back then..:cool:

Click the

button or use [noparse]

[/noparse] tags around the pic.

cherrytaz · 13-01-2009 2:32am

Wel lads

Good to see a few new posts on the forum. Its been fairly quiet since IFSD closed down. Well i did two weeks solid over Christmas when i got the apron lighting and all taxiway lighting done.But for the other two weeks i had off i had to do college work..Im back in college since last week and realistically i wont get anything done until easter at the earliest and even at that i dont know how much free time i'll have between thesis and playing football. I fully intend to get this project done and dont want it to become a "dead" project.

I think people must take into account that iv done everything so far on my own and started out over a year and a half ago and its very hard to get the time between college,work,football etc,. its nearing completion though.

Anyways the photoscenery looks good.Its a pity though that no major developer has undertaken to cover Ireland with photoscenery or indeed just 3d scenery. Since IFSD has closed down it seems that Irish flight sim community has been relatively quiet.Would be great to get the forum up and running again.

Anyways thats my few words,

Again good to see some discussion again.

Terry

Simtech · 13-01-2009 3:17am

Anyways the photoscenery looks good.Its a pity though that no major developer has undertaken to cover Ireland with photoscenery or indeed just 3d scenery. Since IFSD has closed down it seems that Irish flight sim community has been relatively quiet.Would be great to get the forum up and running again.

Anyways thats my few words,

Again good to see some discussion again.

Terry[/QUOTE]

Just from messing about for an hour or two I reckon the job of photoscenery would be massive. All the autogen has to be reannotated as far as I can tell once you place the scenery and then to do the seasons etc. would be a nightmare. Also the sattelite imagery coverage for Ireland is quite bad. It would be a job for more than one person definitely. Several would be needed.

How do you plan to distribute your EIDW Terry? Excellent work!!

sdanseo · 15-01-2009 3:10pm

Completely off topic, but is that the Windows 7 beta you have Simtech?

Simtech · 16-01-2009 12:46am

No, Vista Ultimate which I might add proved to be a huge waste of money. Home premium has almost everything Ultimate has and the extras just weren't worth it. The reason the pics are so wide is that they are displayed across three monitors if that's what prompted the question.

sdanseo · 17-01-2009 3:12am

Simtech wrote: »

No, Vista Ultimate which I might add proved to be a huge waste of money. Home premium has almost everything Ultimate has and the extras just weren't worth it. The reason the pics are so wide is that they are displayed across three monitors if that's what prompted the question.

Nope, it was the taskbar that prompted the question, apparently it's a feature in Windows 7. Cheers anyway

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