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Developer's Backdoor => Houston Backdoor => Topic started by: Kappa on July 12, 2013, 09:30:09 am

Title: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: Kappa on July 12, 2013, 09:30:09 am
From scratch.
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: Anders Bermann on July 12, 2013, 09:53:33 am
Very nice, sir!

Will this airport, feature dynamic shadows (and other techniques) like e.g CYVR?
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: twharrell on July 12, 2013, 02:12:11 pm
Fascinating. You guys really do build from the ground up.  I've actually never seen how a top tier developer starts a new project.  I'm curious how you made all the runways, taxiways and aprons appear etched into a clay surface.

Todd
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: Bruce Hamilton on July 12, 2013, 03:08:15 pm
Looks like they've been working on this longer than they let on... usually takes months before they have something to show.
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: newyorkyankees1 on July 12, 2013, 09:51:47 pm
Good to see the first steps of another great airport from FSDT!!! :)
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: CX 747-400 on July 13, 2013, 12:50:31 am
Sniff, Sniff.... I am so happy to see this, I could cry!   ;D
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: windshear on July 14, 2013, 10:51:53 pm
That's huge!!!
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: Hnla on July 14, 2013, 11:08:41 pm
That's huge!!!

Thanks
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: mistyblue on July 15, 2013, 05:10:05 am
Looking marvelous!  Truly a work of art! 
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: mhlarsen on July 15, 2013, 10:11:43 pm
Fantastic to see the basic layer of what is to become another awesome FSDT airport  :o

Michael
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: Frank Lindberg on July 16, 2013, 07:20:59 am
That's huge!!!

Thanks

LOL  ;D
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: cowings1588 on July 21, 2013, 10:20:56 am
Sniff, Sniff.... I am so happy to see this, I could cry!   ;D

Me too, Happy Tears   :)


Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: PhotoshopCreator on July 27, 2013, 08:23:29 am
Render is looking good so far.
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: DFWSupertrooper on July 28, 2013, 12:48:02 am
Simply AWESOME!  I'm so excited to see my home airport and a HUGE mega-hub be done in such amazing quality.  Will follow THIS project with much interest.  ;D
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: wb2002 on September 17, 2013, 09:34:09 pm
Hello guys. Everything seems real quiet now for a while. Umberto, how are things coming along - still in pregress? If and when any updates are made available, where will they be posted - in this thread or a new thread?

Thanks
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: virtuali on September 17, 2013, 09:43:31 pm
Hello guys. Everything seems real quiet now for a while. Umberto, how are things coming along - still in pregress? If and when any updates are made available, where will they be posted - in this thread or a new thread?

We are at THAT time of the progress history of a scenery.

Since we started FSDT, with ALL sceneries we released so far, it always the same:

- We post the initial screenshots. People gets excited

- We start to do the most time consuming, boring and not very screenshot-friendly process that last usually a couple of months or more, which is the ground/taxilines/lights layout.

- While we are in this process, someone ALWAYS raise the question "Why there haven't been new screenshots in a while", so we must explain this again and again...

The issue is, many other developers start a scenery from backwards: from the most exciting and recognizable buildings, like Control Towers, main Terminals, etc. which are way more exciting to post as screenshot. We don't work that way, because it's like building an house starting from the rooftop. We do the long and boring foundations first, but this doesn't allow for very interesting screenshots.

So, as usual, when "that" time in the life of a scenery comes, the reply to this question is as always had: for the first 2-3 months after the development started, don't expect many screenshots. They'll come after we start modeling buildings, which is the last thing to do, and usually the easiest/fastest.
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: juniormafia27 on September 18, 2013, 02:44:59 am
Hello guys. Everything seems real quiet now for a while. Umberto, how are things coming along - still in pregress? If and when any updates are made available, where will they be posted - in this thread or a new thread?

We are at THAT time of the progress history of a scenery.

Since we started FSDT, with ALL sceneries we released so far, it always the same:

- We post the initial screenshots. People gets excited

- We start to do the most time consuming, boring and not very screenshot-friendly process that last usually a couple of months or more, which is the ground/taxilines/lights layout.

Rgr That!!!

- While we are in this process, someone ALWAYS raise the question "Why there haven't been new screenshots in a while", so we must explain this again and again...

The issue is, many other developers start a scenery from backwards: from the most exciting and recognizable buildings, like Control Towers, main Terminals, etc. which are way more exciting to post as screenshot. We don't work that way, because it's like building an house starting from the rooftop. We do the long and boring foundations first, but this doesn't allow for very interesting screenshots.

So, as usual, when "that" time in the life of a scenery comes, the reply to this question is as always had: for the first 2-3 months after the development started, don't expect many screenshots. They'll come after we start modeling buildings, which is the last thing to do, and usually the easiest/fastest.
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: cowings1588 on September 18, 2013, 08:29:25 am
Relax fellow pilots, there working hard on our Beloved IAH.. Chill out & fly with the scenery you have so far while we wait for the master piece to be developed..  :)


Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: Highiron on September 21, 2013, 05:49:34 am

- We post the initial screenshots. People gets excited


Yes, yes we do...  ;D
Title: Re: Work in Progress / 01
Post by: Lude2Envy on December 15, 2013, 07:03:02 am
From scratch.


Just out of curiosity, what program is the blueprint done in?