I have two more stages planned for the future of the airport, an update to the adjacent city of Kotzebue.
And an update to the surroundings in general (including the old US-Radar Station and the windmill farm) But more on this later
Looking awesome! I’ve flown out of your original version a number of times and the stuff you’ve built so far looks fantastic. Can’t wait for the update!
Hi JakTrax78 - I’m pretty sure it wont work with 2020, unfortunately… There are some major differences in the two SDK’s. I’m not even sure it will open in 2020? But let me know how it goes if you try it out
Yeah… PAOT - Ralph Wien Memorial Airport - has finally been updated …
Stage 2 is live - It now has both its runways - AND a helipad, and a water runway…
It’s quite a challenge to keep it as low-poly as possible. These buildings are not meant to be seen up close, mostly from up high and just passing by, but I still try to maintaining the look and feel of the real buildings.
This is actually testing me … I’m trying to get as much detail into the models as I can, and at the same time build as low-poly as possible - to not kill performance in the sim.
None of these building are meant to be seen up-close, you only pass them in flight… But, I still want to do them justice and for them to be recognizable. And… there is just so many nice details, that just HAVE to be in there …
Kotzebue City has been updated. The most iconic and visible buildings and places within the city has been updated.
I have done 25+ new custom buildings/models, all handcrafted with full PBR textures, day/night lighting, collision and LOD’s.
Thanks for commenting @SanderCohen7 I’m glad you like it ..and you are absolutely right, the imagery and photogrammetry, in this part of rural Alaska is definitely not the best - I really hope the area will get an update on that front at some point.
Whooo… Stage four (out of four) for PAOT is almost done… Just now doing the last minute test flights, to check that everything is in place for the first complete - 1.0.0 release…
Passing by Kotzebue LRRS (Long Range Radar Site) south of the airport…
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… and not even to the detail level I would like - Sim-Performance would surely suffer, big-time.
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..and you are absolutely right, the imagery and photogrammetry, in this part of rural Alaska is definitely not the best - I really hope the area will get an update on that front at some point.
