The Hawaiian Islands - Kauai Photoscenery

[RSorochak]

It's taken since November--about 400 man hours, in fact--but the Kauai photoscenery is finally completed. My first island was tiny Niihau (available here); Kauai is the second. For the moment, Kauai is available as a single large (421MB) download at LOCKONFILES.COM. Tom Weiss, the website's owner, has an exclusive on it for a bit as my way of saying thanks for all his help in testing and general support of the project. You have to be registered (easily accomplished) at Lockonfiles in order to download.

I will, however, be uploading it here as well early next week for those of you who would rather wait. I have benefited a great deal through the forums and Download section here at Simviation and would like to contribute as well.

These are primarily daytime textures, though I added night textures to make dusk and dawn flights more visually appealing. Some buildings and trees have been added--primarily around airports--to make landings and takeoffs a bit more interesting. Airport runways have been moved and reoriented where necessary to match the imagery.

Here are a few screens from the project:


Over Lihue:




Unlike tiny Niihau, Kauai's foliage is lush and beautiful:




Over Port Allen at sunset:



Last light:




Hope you enjoy the scenery.

Rich

[Fly2e]

Wow Rich, looks great! Thanks for the nice comments about SimV and we look forward to being able to provide the file for download in the future!
Thanks!

Dave

[Steve M]

This looks great! Once it's on Simv downloads, I'll be grabbing this one. 400 hrs? Wow, thanks for the effort! 

[B_7772]

Wow Rich, looks great!

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[SeanTK]

Wow!

[patchz]

[color=#000000]Absolutely gorgeous.

[Fozzer]

Wonderful scenery!

But I observe the screen shots are always taken from high altitude, and I wonder what the scenery appearance is actually like at "Ground level"?

From my previous (long abandoned) experience with "Photographic Scenery", when one has landed, the surrounding scenery is a "flat", (and blurred), as in a flat photograph, not appearing as 3-Dimensional scenery in normal "Autogen" scenery!

The design may have changed over the years, but as a low-level GA Pilot, I have always found Photographic scenery unsuitable for low level flights and ground manoeuvring.

Horses for courses...high level Photographic/low level Autogen.

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...FS Nav...and "sticking-up" scenery.... ...!

[patchz]

Wonderful scenery!

But I observe the screen shots are always taken from high altitude, and I wonder what the scenery appearance is actually like at "Ground level"?

From my previous (long abandoned) experience with "Photographic Scenery", when one has landed, the surrounding scenery is a "flat", (and blurred), as in a flat photograph, not appearing as 3-Dimensional scenery in normal "Autogen" scenery!

The design may have changed over the years, but as a low-level GA Pilot, I have always found Photographic scenery unsuitable for low level flights and ground manoeuvring.

Horses for courses...high level Photographic/low level Autogen.

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...FS Nav...and "sticking-up" scenery.... ...!

[color=#000000]Yeah, I've been waiting on somebody to figure out how to get both at the same time too Paul.

[Fozzer]

Wonderful scenery!

But I observe the screen shots are always taken from high altitude, and I wonder what the scenery appearance is actually like at "Ground level"?

From my previous (long abandoned) experience with "Photographic Scenery", when one has landed, the surrounding scenery is a "flat", (and blurred), as in a flat photograph, not appearing as 3-Dimensional scenery in normal "Autogen" scenery!

The design may have changed over the years, but as a low-level GA Pilot, I have always found Photographic scenery unsuitable for low level flights and ground manoeuvring.

Horses for courses...high level Photographic/low level Autogen.

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...FS Nav...and "sticking-up" scenery.... ...!

[color=#000000]Yeah, I've been waiting on somebody to figure out how to get both at the same time too Paul.

[gtirob01]

Wow that is excellent! I had your preview for Kauai... so I cant wait to get the whole island. Want to see how it looks flying through Waimea Canyon!

[B_7772]

I can't find Niihau, How is it listed?

http://www.simviation.com/simviation/?I ... &mark=7339

[patchz]

I can't find Niihau, How is it listed?

http://www.simviation.com/simviation/?I ... &mark=7339

[color=#000000]Thanks.

[JBaymore]

Rich,

Thanks for all the hard work that goes into this kind of thing...and for your kind thoughts about SimV.  Many people in the community will greatly enjoy and appreciate your generosity and skills.

best,

.............john

[pete]

Wow -- looks amazing! Can't wait to get that!!


(the reason scenery looks low detail  at ground level is because our PC's of today are  not able to handle the graphic input the way MSFS renders it. If it were another program using a different graphic delivery method then it would be different --- )

[Fozzer]

Photographic scenery:

I take an aerial photograph of my back garden from my bedroom window pointing vertically down, observing the garden chair and table, watering can, the various potted plants and small shrubs, etc, similar to a vertical Satellite view of my back garden from space, which is what we see in our aerial view of the MS Photographic scenery shots.

I then process the film and produce the finished film.

I take the film out side, turn it on its edge and view it as it would be seen at ground level in the Photographic scenery and compare the two images...

..and the photo is is perfectly flat.

The Garden Chair and table, watering can, the potted plants and shrubs, etc, in the photograph do not stand upright, in relief, from the photograph!

Which is what I observe at ground level, in the MS Photographic scenery.

I cannot see how a photograph taken from space can be seen as a complex 3-dimensional scene, in relief, at ground level?

..and that is how my MS Photographic scenery works. It can be overlaid on the ground contour mesh, but any objects in the scene are not seen as