No sure how much interest there will be here for this, but here goes ...
I've longed for a backdated KEDW/Dryden Flight Research Centre for ages. Inspired partially by Bernie Bockheim's amazing Cape Canaveral 1962-1964 project (
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...l-an-FSX-first!) , I've been motivated to develop my first project for public release. I've pottered about and backdated a few MAIW sceneries using older hangars to roughly resemble the Cold War counterpart, but this would (hopefully) be up to the standards worthy of the SOH community.
I chose the "1960" date to loosely represent a scenery that could be useful for folks flying 50s era test flying through to the 60s. Naturally, there'll be some compromises (see below) but I'm looking to capture the flavor of this early-mid 60s period:
So far, I've collected some of the potentially useful scenery objects, plus have had a couple critical objects kindly custom-developed for this scenery. So the main pieces are pretty well ready for assembly. But I have a problem that I'd like your suggestions/input on.
Recently, I discovered BlueSky Scenery, which from a terrain standpoint, has radically improved the SoCal and surrounding regions. The catch is that by its nature, there are photorealistic components from the present world, that need to be removed somehow for a "retro" scenery to work. I only see three options:
1) Develop the base using the BlueSky scenery, and simply accept that those modern buildings/structures will be there,
2) Develop the base using the BlueSky scenery, and using ADE, place some retro period items atop the offending items, so at least there'll be a retro-looking item in its place, or
3) Develop the base using stock scenery/terrain.
Personally, I don't know that I could live with option 1). Option 2) would create a highly unrealistic version, with modern "densification" using older structures. Purists would probably not appreciate that compromise. Option 3) means losing the great terrain enhancements available for the region.
Any other options/suggestions anyone can think of?
Thanks.
dl
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