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[WIP] Solomon 1943 V.2.0

roger-wilco-66 said:
Now I have to go over the 20ish hd meshes. I almost dropped the idea of using them at all because I wasn't able to solve this until now.
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What's wrong with the first two pics? Makes night time flying more... adventurous! :isadizzy:

Now left wondering how good the tool might be at resolving the "ASTER problem"?
 
Hehe, those spikes look quite monumental in-sim. Also some of the holes.
And yes, it solves the "ASTER-Problem". In fact, this __was__ the ASTER-Problem from the beginning.
I wonder why some areas are totally free of anomalies, like Bougainville or Rabaul. A blind guess is that the government of PNG paid NASA for a corrected DEM (Bougainville is a mining area and Rabaul is a critical volcano area, so there are reasons for that). The rest of the Solomons is a bloody mess, DEM wise. Probably nothing of interest there.

Here's the workflow:

source-Geotiff -> load in Daylan Leveller to correct anomalies -> save in DTED format (keeps geo-reference and wgs84 projection) -> open DTED in GDAL / Globalmapper etc and save as Geotiff 16bit integer -> resample with SDK -> load in FSX/P3D and drool :)

Unfortunatly the Daylan Leveller only imports Geotiff. If it could export this format the whole brouhaha with the DTED/Geotiff conversion could be omitted. Since I bought the Software (it's a steal at 49 $) I'll file a request for that for the wish list.
Another nice thing about the Leveller is that you can create synthetic meshes with it, similar to WILBUR, but much easier and intuitive to work on (IMHO).

Cheers,
Mark
 
roger-wilco-66 said:
The rest of the Solomons is a bloody mess, DEM wise.
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Looking at the dates of the Solomons v1 release I see it's been a while. But I want to say there was an ASTER v1 put together before release? It showed similar night flying obstacles. V2 of ASTER is not much better than v1, from what I looked at. But maybe another satellite can be funded to give things another try... :mixedsmi:

Will probably whip out the credit card for Leveller later today. :santahat:

Looking forward to the release of v2 of the Solomons!
 
Is there a version of this scenery available.? i saw a note about Version 1? if so where can we find it? thanks
 
V1 is not online anymore, you'll have to wait for the V2 release..
I'm about 90% done, I assume. The new mesh looks terrific, but I have to revisit the whole scenery for elevation errors (there are numerous flat polygons with elevations that have to be adapted to the new mesh).

Cheers,
Mark
 
Matt, aside from the "Truk_1945" scenery is there anything else scenery-wise that's available right now? Seems like there was another scenery set besides the Truk Atoll and the Solomons. . .maybe I'm just dreaming that, lol.
 
I've had V.1 installed for a long time along with the Wilson-Okamura Solomon Islands 1943 Naval Tracks and do most of my flying in the area. I can't wait for V.2. The pictures are excruciatingly tantalizing. :a1089:
 
heheh.. I've still got it installed.. Solomons are part of my favorite place in the world and the scenery adds immensely to the enjoyment..
 
After Paul released his Duck in a not finalized version I thought a lot and desided that I'll follow him and make sort of a pre-release that is only available here on SOH for it's members.
I think that Pauls idea was great to connect this to the fund raising. Besides that, getting some inspirations from our members here will make the final version even better through help an suggestions.

Besides, the Solomon probably will never be finished 100%. I have tons of ideas to improve or add this and that and this all flows into the project. But at it's present stage it's mature enough to be released.

Cheers,
Mark
 
roger-wilco-66 said:
After Paul released his Duck in a not finalized version I thought a lot and desided that I'll follow him and make sort of a pre-release that is only available here on SOH for it's members.
I think that Pauls idea was great to connect this to the fund raising. Besides that, getting some inspirations from our members here will make the final version even better through help an suggestions.

Besides, the Solomon probably will never be finished 100%. I have tons of ideas to improve or add this and that and this all flows into the project. But at it's present stage it's mature enough to be released.

Cheers,
Mark
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Bring it on Mark ! I don't think you will get any disagreements here at SOH .:applause: I know now I need a lot of T & G's on short fields with the Corsair . Huge fan of your Solomon Islands . Wow , Truk , Chi Chi Jima , Iwo Jima and now your Solomon's Islands . Get out the war birds folks , we have a lot of island hopping to do .

Rich
 
It'll take a few days to get it sorted for that, and write the documentation, but I'll bring it on.
This will also be sort of a psychological release for myself, for all that postponing has been bothering me a bit.

Cheers,
Mark
 
Slightly off topic but,
There is something I have been dreaming about for several years. A place for online flying of just WWII era aircraft, a place for people who like those wonderful recips and flying with other then AI aircraft. With this beautiful collection of Pacific scenery I think we could do that. If there are enough people interested maybe we could get DangerousDave to dedicate a TS channel for it and an FSHost area. Just a thought but I would love to see something like that.
 
Hey Mark??
Ummmmm Inspiration Maybe????

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annnnd ummm, oh yeah.. I've also updated this lil guy..

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Paul, those sceneries cover the length of about 2400nm of open ocean. . .plenty of room for everyone to cavort about in their favorite rides and explore the amazing scenery work contributed for our enjoyment. I think it would be relatively easy to set up a server for just that reason. . .sadly the servers aren't used to an eighth of their usefulness. Also having a separate channel on Teamspeak would be excellent and also quite simple to set up and utilize. I dislike having to type in a chat box while trying to fly. I would enjoy the prospect a lot.:salute:
 
Plus, theres that multiplayer replacement for fshost and gamespy which ive been flying on religiously for weeks now ( since the announcement here on soh ) and its pretty awesome.. would make multi player scenarios a piece of cake..

( somehow i forsee a great deal of flight modeling for japanese and american WWII aircraft in my future )...
 
Paul Domingue said:
Slightly off topic but,
There is something I have been dreaming about for several years. A place for online flying of just WWII era aircraft, a place for people who like those wonderful recips and flying with other then AI aircraft. With this beautiful collection of Pacific scenery I think we could do that. If there are enough people interested maybe we could get DangerousDave to dedicate a TS channel for it and an FSHost area. Just a thought but I would love to see something like that.
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Somewhat LINKED to that idea, I myself have opened a website that is aiming to get dedicated to classic aircraft and their operations, with an emphasis on WW2 (since that happens to me my major hobby for the past 50 years too).

The idea is to make it a place of information of all things classic (FS) aircraft, combined with real world info, and revolving around a number of historic operations and their FSX (and other) presentations of them....... our first products (aircraft) were the start of this, but it is now slowly developing into a much wider site with free information and free downloads supporting our and other's products planned.

The first major project is Normandy 1944 that we are hard at work on..... like Mark is working on his Solomon Islands. We already are in touch for months and have received some awesome freeware models to complement our Normandy and other projects. Any freeware products WE make will also be presented on the site (currently working on an LCT and an LST).

Looks like we'll have a great 2013 coming for WW2 and history enthusiasts ! :jump:
 
Holy cow, what is unfolding here!
I'm already at writing the documentation / installation instructions.


Cheers,
Mark
 
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