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I'm hoping to be able to make my scenery available for download for anybody who wants it on the forums, I'm just waiting for permission from reptile so that I can include the bog textures which I think are kind of necessary to display the landscape of Ireland properly.
So anyway, first off a view of the terminal at EIDW (click on any of the images to see it in full size):
Passing over Dublin Bay, we get a view of Poolbeg Power Station, Bull Island, Howth Head and in the distance the EIDW terminal buildings.
Heading south towards Wicklow. One of these mountains is called The Sugarloaf, I'm not sure which one. Bray Head is also visible:
Now heading West Southwest over the Wicklow Mountains:
After turning south again, we eventually find this river, which enters the sea at Waterford:
Yes indeed, following the river along, eventually we can see the sea in the distance:
This is the view behind us. A slight downside to using these summer textures is that there is a noticeable tiling effect in some areas, though at least with the Corine landcover, the different land cover shapes usually break up the pattern:
Descending towards Waterford EIWF now. I can see the PAPI lights in the distance.
If you look in the foreground, you can see some deformities in the landcover, this is a known problem with terragear and I've tried to mimimize it as much as I can. It's limited to a few small areas and I'm so sick of rebuilding the same tiles over and over again and getting the same result that I'm just going to leave it for now. Maybe I'll try to fix it later, but you won't often notice it. It usually happens near large urban areas, but only in small areas of the scenery.
Descending some more, again see the glazed look of parts of the landcover. The train line goes straight across the water. Somebody recently suggested trying to automatically build a standard bridge type every time this happens, with some algorithm or something. That would be nice.
This is a representation of Waterford City:
Landing at EIWF:
When I get to make the scenery available for anyone that wants to try it out, I will be including also a new terminal for Knock Ireland West Airport EIKN. It was made by an X-Plane user and I converted it in Blender so it can be used in Flightgear. He has given his permission to release it under the GPL and to add it to the Flightgear world scenery. It's a small building really, but EIKN has a good long runway that can accomodate 747s. Sometimes a 747 lands there. Here's how it looks:
And finally, three screenshots I thought turned out really nice. These are from County Kerry, near EIKY:
F A N T A S T I C !!!
