Central/Northern California

Thought I'd take a stab at making some photorealistic scenery for FC2. Yea, I know you can get this in FSX, but not everyone enjoys cruising around in there (like me). The terrain will cover approx 40,000 square km surrounding San Francisco. This is very much a WIP, but here are the initial tests in the northern part of the terrain. Believe me, it is nothing short of breathtaking in game! A video will come at a later time.

Nice! While I'm not a big fan of unmodified photo textures without vegetation and buildings, your terrain mesh looks like it might have a somewhat higher resolution than the Black Sea map. What's the spacing of the elevation data?

I'm not sure how I will handle vegetation and buildings yet, gonna finish the textures and terrain mesh refinement first. There will definitely be some areas containing buildings and objects, but certainly too much terrain to do that all by myself.

The terrain mesh is 1/3 arc second, or 10m resolution. The textures are 2.44m/pixel.

Wow, very cool!

I'm not sure how I will handle vegetation and buildings yet, gonna finish the textures and terrain mesh refinement first. There will definitely be some areas containing buildings and objects, but certainly too much terrain to do that all by myself.

Sounds promising, keep up the good work!

The terrain mesh is 1/3 arc second, or 10m resolution.

Thought so. LOMAC (and by extension probably DCS) is 30m AFAIK.

To be honest, I'd rather they spend some more of their poly budget on the terrain mesh than rendering the boundary layer air outlets on the F-15 intakes in 3D...

Some amazing work Cory....cannot wait to see it when its finished.

Going to Cali?! Great!

This is great stuff, SE. :thumbup:

This looks absolutely fantastic, well done!

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Blaze its nice but on the last screen i see error between 2 relief....you next step correct this errors??

That's a little further down the road. It's a time consuming process. The project is still very young.

Like what you're doing here. When it comes to populating buildings and vegetation, I'm not sure if it possible to import objects from google sketchup http://sketchup.google.com/ but if you can it will save a lot of time.

There is a massive community of buildings and vegetation in there. Someone has already modelled some of San Francisco here. THe golden gate bridge here. You may have to modify a lot of it to keep the poly count down but its a starting point.

If this goes on with same pace and every modder make even a small terrain than we might not be too long when we might have whole world then we just need some one with a strong computer to stick them together. Then we might be flying online from our own country we are sitting in. hahaha. I know its a too big a hope.

i like doing map work.I hope it was something very small.Other examples of the maps will be done in this study.

good work...

Awesome work guys, and I get too bored of FSX, but cruising around in our Typhoon over that scenery, now you're talking!!

Just give us more good tools, ED, and see what we can do.

It does look superb at start! Good luck!

Excellent! Those last 3 picts w/ the F-16 were stunning! Can't wait for it!

-Andrew (Revalence)

I use to live in central california and you have done a great job!

My new wallpaper :thumbup:

Is that a new F-16 model???? Anyways, the progress is unbelievable! Curse this REP giving system!!! (Sigh.... only one)

-Andrew (Revalence)

Looks excellent. Do you know if there is high resolution data (10m) available for other world regions?

Great! Looks like Google Earth...