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Ali al Salem, Kuwait

Posted: 29 Mar 2008, 02:59
by Ford Friendly
AS with the modellers, afcadding/scenery design takes work and concentration,so I switched off NAS Lemoore and went to OKAS - or maybe I just have a short attention span and needed the change.

So, I did some work with AFX doing an afcad for Ali al Salem, Kuwait, a location that FSX's stock afcad draws as just two runways (no aprons, taxiways or parking at all).

The Goolge satellite image
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z66/ ... Google.jpg

My afcad so far - 90% complete
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z66/ ... yafcad.jpg
Still needs more vehicle routes/roads for definiton, some square concrete stands in that "diamond area", and fencing.

Also been playing with Instant Scenery/SBuilderX for this location. I'd like to figureout how to replace the dirt surface area I had to use to cover the grass AFX/FSX defaulted to for the afcad. I'm trying to figure out how to do landclassing to replace that dirt with desert.

Note: I only have FSX so I have no idea if this will be backwards compatible with FS2004.

Posted: 29 Mar 2008, 08:58
by RipPipPip
Hey FF,
great job!

Just two ideas off my head:
1. AFX will allow you to save the AFCAD in FS2004 version, just stripped off some FSX-only goodies,
2. If you would try Tileproxy then you would forget landclass forever ... :wink:

Posted: 29 Mar 2008, 09:44
by Garysb
Great Minds think alike
This is for FS9

Gary

Posted: 29 Mar 2008, 16:56
by Ford Friendly
RipPipPip - My connection dislikes the Tileproxy idea and I like autogen trees and buildings. ;P I guess that I need to read up on AFX a little more.. then again, I don't even have FS9 installed anymore to test things.

Gary - That afcad looks great. Did you do any scenery to go with it? Otherwise that base just sits out in the middle of the desert - literally. ;P (Okay, only 10 miles or so, but still, surrounded by a lot of brown nothingness!) ;P I'm sticking some Instant Scenery/RWY12 stuff and the place kinda comes to life.

Posted: 29 Mar 2008, 19:50
by jetmax
Very Nice
I did an AFCAD of OKAS last year but this one looks like it will have more details :). I am getting ready to start an Iraq AFCAD project myself. :smt066

Posted: 29 Mar 2008, 20:46
by Garysb
FF

if you want to add scenery to this afcad then great PM me
There might just be a release in the future

Gary