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    June 17th, 2013, 17:27
    falcon409 replied to a thread North Texas Regional Terminal in FSX General Discussion
    Yep, I know I won't always have the ability to get up close photos of every building I will do, but it sure is nice to be this close to the airport and have the chance to go there and get new photos whenever I need them. I guess the two things I'm working through right now are getting the textures onto as few sheets as possible (right now, every texture is separate) and "where do I stop" with the custom buildings and rely on default or other objects to fill in, lol.
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    June 17th, 2013, 05:59
    falcon409 replied to a thread North Texas Regional Terminal in FSX General Discussion
    There are four of these large hangars on the airport, so this will fill the flightline pretty quickly and only one of them has changed considerably after being renovated by a "wealthy tenant", lol. . . .but at least I have the basic structure and I can add on to make the new portions he added.
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    June 13th, 2013, 05:22
    falcon409 replied to a thread North Texas Regional Terminal in FSX General Discussion
    Importing will be next Dimus, before I go any further with this. . . .I do want to see how these render in the sim. . .and hiding the edges and corners does give a better idea of how they might look.
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    June 12th, 2013, 21:47
    falcon409 replied to a thread North Texas Regional Terminal in FSX General Discussion
    Thanks Lance and Michael. . .I don't want to overdo the posting end of this, but maybe there are some other people who will see the piddly stuff I'm doing and get the bug. Couldn't hurt, lol. This is the Sign that sits just east of the Terminal parking area in front of the Tower.
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    June 12th, 2013, 18:45
    falcon409 replied to a thread North Texas Regional Terminal in FSX General Discussion
    Another part of the same airport. The Fire Station sits right next to the Terminal. I realize these are simple buildings to most who have done this for a while and it's probably "ho hum" to most, but making that leap beyond. . ."no way I'll ever figure this out". . .to this, is exciting.
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    June 11th, 2013, 17:29
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    Indeed they are Anthony. . . .indeed they are.:salute:
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    June 11th, 2013, 05:34
    falcon409 started a thread North Texas Regional Terminal in FSX General Discussion
    With the pics I shot Sunday finally on my computer, I started putting together the main terminal. It's in the early stages, but it'll look much better than the default building I have in the scenery right now, lol.
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    June 10th, 2013, 20:43
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    Yep, I hear ya Dan. . .you went through a lot to get the drivers to me and I appreciate all that you went through. I guess the old parts have been laying around just long enough that I never gave it a thought. Why it caught my eye this time. . .I have no idea, but, while the bay isn't something that I can make look nice and custom made for the new tower. . .it does what I needed and that's what counts I guess. Thanks to Dan and everyone else who lent suggestions to this little fiasco. I think it's time for a drink, lol :icon29::icon29::icon29:
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    June 10th, 2013, 20:02
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    Everybody take a seat, mostly so you don't fall down laughing, lol. Most everyone is aware that my old system fried some time back and through the generosity of this community I was able to put together a new system. The old stuff is still here, just haven't gotten around to taking it somewhere to recycle. So I'm walking out to the kitchen and there, next to the dining room table is the old tower, gutted of everything, but still sitting around. I glance over at it like I have a hundred times so far and what catches my eye???? The full bay of card readers on the front panel :icon_eek:....WHAT? I quickly set it up on the table and after a few screws are taken out, there it is. . . The plug pin setup is different. . .this one has 6 across-5across below that. The new motherboard has 5over4. . .what the heck, give it a shot. I offset the first two pins on the end (so they aren't plugged into anything) which allowed the remaining pins to seat correctly. Turned the system back on. . .the drivers installed and "voila" I have a card reader and all the textures are loaded into the computer, lol. GO FIGURE!!!!:isadizzy:
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    June 10th, 2013, 18:17
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    Got it first time. Any idea what to do with the files? lol
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    June 10th, 2013, 15:42
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    That's probably what I'll do at the end of the month (SS Check get's deposited then). :salute:
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    June 10th, 2013, 15:40
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    Thanks Dan, No attempt at download works. I've tried every link that says it's the drivers and they either want me to download other software or in several instances said I couldn't download that file without a "Premium Account".:isadizzy:
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    June 9th, 2013, 23:12
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    Yep, that seems to be the case here as well....a nice camera, shoots great pictures and pretty much useless because of a simple USB driver. Tired of messing with it. Moving on.
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    June 9th, 2013, 21:39
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    yea, I'll say. . .I went through as much "poop" on that site as I have patience for and never got to it.
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    June 9th, 2013, 21:25
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    I don't get it. . .where did you find them that I couldn't after half a day of constant searching?:isadizzy:
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    June 9th, 2013, 21:15
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    I've decided I'm beating a dead horse here. I have probably found a dozen "so called" driver updates. . . .even downloaded some zip files that make it appear that they are the drivers (labeled as such), only to discover they are all various types of driver download software and all of which you must purchase and register before you can actually download any drivers. What a scam. I'll use the photo's I shot to start some modeling projects (I can zoom the small LED screen enough to see the general construction) and some time down the road I'll get a card reader.
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    June 9th, 2013, 21:00
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    Yep, that's the place I registered, did a search, found a page that claims that it has the driver, but none of the "Download" buttons gives you a driver. It just seems to be a page that teases you with a supposed driver, when all it's really allowing you to download are various "junk" programs.
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    June 9th, 2013, 19:25
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    No card reader.
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    June 9th, 2013, 18:23
    falcon409 replied to a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    It's a Sharp. . .model VE-cg30u. . .Win7 I bought this camera at the BX about 12 years ago. The Sharp website doesn't even list "Cameras" as one of their products. That's what I'm up against. I'm beginning to think that I may have a camera that's worthless.
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    June 9th, 2013, 16:34
    falcon409 started a thread OT Frustration in FSX General Discussion
    I took all these images this afternoon out at the airport to use in developing models from Sketchup. I have an old "Sharp" digital camera that takes excellent images so when I went to transfer the images via the supplied USB cable to the computer I got an error message saying the software was not installed. I figured I'd just look up the camera model, find the correct driver and install it. HA!! even after going to a website suggested by someone on a forum. . .he said he had uploaded the correct drivers and while I had to register, it was free and then I could download. Ok....after registering, I did a search for the driver, found the link to it and what do I get???? A page full of little download buttons. . .none of which have anything to do with the driver I need. . .I can download a PDF Reader, a Driver Scanner, A download utility (so I can unzip my driver of course) and some other driver. The entire top of the page is plastered with the driver name, specifics about what OS it's compatable with, Company name, etc, etc, etc. . .but not one downloadable link that will give me the driver. . . .Grrrrrrrrrrr.:isadizzy:
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    June 9th, 2013, 15:20
    falcon409 replied to a thread It's a start in FSX General Discussion
    lol, I won't take credit for the "push", I think folks saw that I was able to figure it out and thought. . . .if "he" can figure it. . .then so can I, lol. I went out to my airport this afternoon and took shots of the Terminal, the Tower, the hangar I used to work in, the Fire Dept. and one other hangar, plus the old FBO (which is now a Flight School). Shots of all sides of the buildings and close enough that I think the resolution should be pretty good. I've got plenty to practice on now.
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    June 8th, 2013, 05:54
    falcon409 replied to a thread It's a start in FSX General Discussion
    Thanks RD. . .I googled the process and got it converted pretty quickly. The current model is now in FSX, but not as it should be. The textures are apparently a problem and I'll have to fix that. The "stucco" and the "red" were dropped during the "minimize drawcalls" I think. Anyway, I have to get going here, helping my daughter move today so I won't get to work on this again til this evening.
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    June 7th, 2013, 22:19
    falcon409 replied to a thread It's a start in FSX General Discussion
    Fixed. . .just pulled the bottom down, reset the ground level to "0", then stretched the base to fit the slight taper. Looking better, I just need to add the antenna on the roof and work on importing it into FSX. I'd like to see what it looks like in the sim.
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    June 7th, 2013, 19:09
    falcon409 replied to a thread It's a start in FSX General Discussion
    I'm not sure Paul, it isn't apparent in this image, but there is a slight taper to the entire tower and I don't think that it will continue that taper when I try to pull. It'll be tomorrow before I get back to it, but I'll do some testing. . .after all, there's always the "undo", lol.
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    June 7th, 2013, 18:42
    falcon409 replied to a thread It's a start in FSX General Discussion
    I appreciate the encouraging words. Similar to how I approach everything is to make it as difficult as possible, when it actually can be relatively simple with practice. Not that I've mastered anything of course, but it wasn't very long ago that I was unable to even construct a simple house without cussing and banging my head on the keyboard, lol. Added some texture to get a better idea of how it will look. Made some changes to the top and cut in the rest of the windows, added the railing and started to add the window panes. The one thing that I noticed from the photo I have though is that the base (the brick section) is actually taller than what I show....I don't want to start over, but I may have to inn order to get that part right.
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    June 7th, 2013, 05:08
    falcon409 replied to a thread Floaters Down Under in Around The World Race/Multiplayer Events
    Another good flight up the coast, minus a few regulars though. One thing these shots show is what the freeware utility "FSrealWX" produces beyond the default FS9 weather engine. Default was just fog, then I started up the FSrealWX program and got what you see in the images.
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    June 6th, 2013, 21:31
    falcon409 replied to a thread It's a start in FSX General Discussion
    Thanks RD. . .it was your recent posts that spurred me on, so I'm tackling it head on and referring a lot back to the video tutorials when I run into something new or something that's already explained that I didn't understand the first time. Long way to go, but at least it looks like the picture, lol.
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    June 6th, 2013, 20:52
    falcon409 replied to a thread It's a start in FSX General Discussion
    That's what I'm hoping as well John...we shall see. I have a lot I need to do for North Texas Regional as well and it's right down the highway from me so I have access for some good images there.
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    June 6th, 2013, 20:29
    falcon409 started a thread It's a start in FSX General Discussion
    Decided I was going to learn to do some simple custom buildings even if it killed me, lol. This is the control Tower at Wheelus AFB, Libya. Very unique design. I won't say how many I trashed before I got to this point, lol.
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    June 5th, 2013, 21:48
    falcon409 replied to a thread Floaters Down Under in Around The World Race/Multiplayer Events
    Another good flight along the Australian East Coast, yet ever so slowly we trod, lol. I got a few extra shots of Kevin in the Martin "Mars". . . .a very large airplane that just looks majestic in the air.
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    June 4th, 2013, 21:27
    falcon409 replied to a thread Floaters Down Under in Around The World Race/Multiplayer Events
    lol, Yep, these are a bit behind the power curve we're used to, lol
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    June 3rd, 2013, 21:11
    falcon409 replied to a thread Floaters Down Under in Around The World Race/Multiplayer Events
    We were headed for Brisbane and made a slight detour over Archerfield, just southwest of Brisbane to overfly one of our mates (PM) home field. Then it was on to the estuary just off the airport for a nice water landing. Fun flight!
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