Coming Soon: Sewall Lodge

[Bradallen43]

From Xavier Carre' and I. Get ready for Spectacular Sewall Lodge!!

Custom Lodge building by Xavier!


One of the approaches.


Turnaround


Nice grasses by Ken Hall


Pathways

[Wildbird]

That looks great! Love the ground textures.

[BertusH99]

Looks fantanstic....
Nice again, you got it.
Albert

[GrahamP]

Yes, very nice!  Love the realistic ground textures.

[AaronMyers]

Excellent work indeed!

[Dragnhorn]

Beautiful!  Makes me want to get back into scenery design again.  I'll be retired end of this month!   

[One-Eye]

Welcome Xavier and thanks for those excellent ground textures.

You do realise that you have now set the bar higher for us and we who create sceneryettes for MM are going to need to learn how to make blended background textures, don't you?

More to learn! But you show it can be done, so I shan't rest until my hard edged grass strip at my next airfield has soft blended textures. All I can do so far is create landclass polys using ADE. which look like this:



If you feel up to it Xavier, then I think one or two of us here would appreciate some tips how to get such beautiful ground pictures.

Thanks for joining us.

[Fishbone]

Many thanks,

but I'll wait you can take off from, to land at Sewall before being happy !

Many thanks to Misty Moorings to welcome me.

We 'll try to keep the hard work

I apologize for my english language, only gone one time in America, 9 days at NYC, many years ago !

Once more time, thank you

Xavier

[Doug]

Xavier ...

We welcome you to RTTM.  Thank you for coming on board with your talents.  The pictures of Sewall look absolutely beautiful, and I particularly liked the dirt "turn around" for the planes, hadn't seen that before. Thanks to both you and Brad for putting your heads together and coming up with a great new location. Can't wait to fly it.

Welcome aboard ...
Doug

[Fishbone]

Some Sewall WIP screens

Hard winter texture



Winter texture



@ One-Eye, many thanks, building photo-real ground textures doesn't need a great knowledge, only time and trainig and an efficient painting software (Photoshop, Paintshop Pro - payware or the Gimp freeware), I use a 7 years old version of Photoshop, the 8 version.

I will try to write a small howto.

Best

Xavier

[One-Eye]

Xavier, we look forward to learning from you!

Chris

[Tigerclaw]

Quoted from the Notams page:

"Sewell Lodge is not ready for download under "S" on the Scenery Page. This is our first scenery by Xavier. Note there are some special files you must download to make it wll come together as perfectly as he built it. Enjoy this one, it is outstanding!"

Question: If this is NOT ready, why is there a link to download it? Sorry couldn't resist 

[Dieter]

It probably should be "now"   

Dieter

[Doug]

I changed it to now  :-)

[spud]

Installed, looks great after I figured out what went wrong with my fumble finger attempt to install the files.  I had everything but the lodge itself.  Even had the two lights on the lodge and the smoking chimney.  Just no building.
Well what happened was, I always combine scenery library files into one major library like EZ-1 library has done.  So I copied Xavier's scenery and texture folder into my EZ-1 folders.  Should work, right, well as I said, no lodge building.  So I redid the extraction and added Xavier's scenery library to the sim as per instructions and there in all its glory was the lodge.
Well, says I, lets go delete the files I copied into the EZ-1 library.  That is when I discovered that once again I was the victim of the dreaded "cursor bounce".  When copying files to folders it seems that Windows likes to jump to a folder directly below or above the one you have highlighted and misplace the files there.  The .bgl files wound up in the texture folder.  Moved them back to the scenery folder deleted the other scenery director from the FSX library and all is fine now.