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jkcook28
March 4th, 2010, 10:41
Willy, I thought of you when I saw this for your Flightsim 1950's install. :)

FS2004 Scenery--Baltimore Friendship 1957
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http://www.flightsim.com/p/baltimore_friendship_1957.gif FS2004 Scenery--Baltimore Friendship 1957, Maryland (MD). Classic scenery of Baltimore's Friendship International Airport, circa 1957. Includes custom accurate terminal, accurate AFCAD and parking, and detailed custom ground service equipment, all created using Google's SketchUp design program. Compatible with base scenery and mesh, FSGenesis mesh, and Ultimate Terrain USA. Requires Rwy12 static libraries, and several scenery elements from CalClassics. By Alan Courtney.

Willy
March 4th, 2010, 12:19
Thanks! I'd heard about it being a work in progress a month or so ago, but had forgotten about it.

tgibson
March 4th, 2010, 13:49
Hi,

Note that this scenery (and Paul Young's KMKC) are the first I know of that used the program Google Sketchup to create the custom terminals. This is much easier to use vs GMAX or FSDS, and also uses Arno's ModelConverterX utility to convert the exported Sketchup file into an MDL library object.

I have a tutorial about the process here:

http://www.calclassic.com/sketchup_tutorial.htm

Hope this helps,

Willy
March 4th, 2010, 16:10
Installed it this afternoon and after tweaking the parking codes to match up with my custom AI setup, I like it very much. It seems to be easier on the framerates than comparable GMAX scenery at least on my ancient computer. I'm looking forward to more of this stuff.

Here's a couple of screenies of the main terminal I took.....

Cees Donker
March 5th, 2010, 07:20
That's very good news Tom! Been a while since I went to that forum! Got me interested!

:wavey:

Cees

bpfowler
March 5th, 2010, 10:22
sketchup works well for achitecture.
Now that it can be converted, we should have some happy scenery builders.
and it's a free download from google

check it out.http://sketchup.google.com/download/gsu.html

Sidney Schwartz
March 5th, 2010, 10:30
That Baltimore terminal is great! :applause:


Note that this scenery (and Paul Young's KMKC) are the first I know of that used the program Google Sketchup to create the custom terminals.
This latest collection of hanger objects I uploaded was made using Sketchup, though I don't think I mentioned that in the readme...

http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004sd&DLID=144176

I'm also using Sketchup for the terminal and whatever other custom objects we need for our Hay River scenery.

tgibson
March 5th, 2010, 10:36
Hi Sidney,

I thought you might have some too. :)

Glad to hear it.

Thanks,