Afghanistan photoreal

[MCDesigns]

I started this project for personal use with a couple of online friends and now that I have the photoreal parts in place and have a better idea of what is needed to take it further I wanted to see what interest there was in this.

Bascally there is limited sat imagery for Afghanistan, but luckily there is a big area around Kandahar city and Kandahar airport that is in decent resolution (16 zoom in SBX). On my part I did it in 15 parts to make blends easier and also to help with any autogen I might place. While this will appeal more to rotor enthusiasts, the area is big enough to hopefully provide a better experience to any fixed wing jockeys coming into OAKN. I plan on working on the airport, the existing ternimal in basic detail and many of the front line structures and such, but replacing "all" the photoreal details with objects isn't very feasible as it is just to busy, but I will do my best.

Still lots of work to do and I am open to suggestions but I just wanted to see what kind of interest there was in this since my FS9 basic Iraq scenery did very well in d/ls and I have gotten lots of emails asking for Afghanistan scenery for FSX.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3980/kandahar2.jpg
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/8022/kandahar1w.jpg

[Quicksand]

Sign me up, Michael! That looks outstanding!

[flewpastu]

WOW michael, looks great I would say hell yes But Im one voice.

Bill

[Matt Wynn]

Kandahar... ahh the memories... looks good buddy, i can even see the crossroads well cross dirt path where i took a ricochet, i can smell the dust in my nostrils and hear the rifles chattering away... another beautiful morning in paradise :icon_lol: seriously love being on ops over there, please release it...

[EgoR64]

:salute:

Yes - Most Interested -

Cheers - :ernae:

[kilo delta]

Me too, please :ernae::bump:

[stovall]

Count me in Michael!!! :salute: :wavey:

[Taco]

Darn, that sure looks nice, count me in

[NoNewMessages]

Mesh for the area? I'm just wondering if the ASTER 30m stuff might work well?

[limjack]

Your hard work will pay off for all of us. Nice work Michael! That second shot with the ridge is amazing!

Jim

[Cactuskid]

Sign me up too! What a great place to fly my Predator or A-10! :applause:

[DB93]

Looks great, Michael! Excellent work as usual. :)

-George

[MCDesigns]

Mesh for the area? I'm just wondering if the ASTER 30m stuff might work well?

LC, I would love if you could provide some for it. I am using some freeware 76m mesh for FS9 from Yohann Baptiste, but I am sure it could be much better and really show off the mountain textures.

Thanks for the encouragement guys, much appreciated..

[dswo]

Me too. Afghanistan is a little bit like the Balkans: dramatic in real life, boring in the sim. Aerial or even sat photos would make all the difference.

[eke2000]

marvelous scenery,please me too!:medals:

(I have Global X 2010 mesh)

[Mithrin]

Yup, interested! Would be great to fly military transport into Kandahar!

[MudMarine]

I'm VERY interested!! Cool!!:jump::ernae::applause:

[empeck]

Great! Count me in!

[Moses03]

That looks great. Would be interested. :salute:

[Shane Strong CYHZ]

count me in for for fsx especially if the canadian area of operations is there and the airfield

[jankees]

looks very good to me!!

[GR27]

That looks great, i hope one day all FS will look like that with three-dimensional buildings and other objects, maybe FS17?
:salute:

[Hanimichal]

I'm not interested with any military operation

For me Afghanistan is beautiful land observed above
I flew there with default scenery often


But now with this....

I need this scenery

[NoNewMessages]

LC, I would love if you could provide some for it. I am using some freeware 76m mesh for FS9 from Yohann Baptiste, but I am sure it could be much better and really show off the mountain textures.

Thanks for the encouragement guys, much appreciated..

Note to self: Drink TWO cups of coffee prior to posting at SOH, not one...:isadizzy:

I can see what is available, is this near Alaska? Because I have the AK ASTER files. Give some boundary coordinates and I'll see if I can find my ASTER login information.

You may have to remind me, as I am putting together a big project. Final stages, blah, blah.

[peter12213]

Looks amazing, I'm very interested in this!

[hey_moe]

Nice work Mike, got any more shots we can drool over :ernae:

[sketchy]

Mike,

Keep up the great work chap! This looks really interesting thanks for posting those shots.

Im and in!

Sketchy

[flaviossa]

Count on me too! :salute:

[jmig]

That really looks nice Michael.

[Roger]

Looking great Michael!

[Ken Stallings]

I've been there four times. Trust me! This might be one place in the world you don't want photoreal scenery for! :monkies:

Ken

[Ken Stallings]

Sorry, post duplicated because I thought first one suffered a server related error and didn't post.

Ken

[Scratch]

Dang Ken, long time no see! Nice to have you around again:salute: