Originally posted by Beirut:
How about a place where we can post screenshots of new and interesting ways of building scenery? This being the mission builder forum and all.
This sim has several hundred ground objects and it would be great to have place where mission builders could post screens of their construction ideas for others to see.
Thanks.
It's just a small taste compared to what some other builders can do.
Laying objects on top of each other so that they 'meld' is a trick I picked up from making OFP missions.
One thing that I get comments on recently is airfields
I think maybe that some builders don't know how to do it because they just don't know what they looked like. An airfield is a workplace as much as a military base- people are careless and sloppy when they can get away with it
Take this photo for example:
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That's a real WWII airbase, Martlesham Heath, UK. The planes aren't picture-perfect deployed, things look a bit messy, and the planes aren't always grouped together, and not always far apart
I corresponded via e-mail with a real WWII bomber pilot (B-24s) who said that his squadron dispersed miles from the airfieldI had never dreamed! I don't go to quite that extreme, myself, but tips like that help
Will post some airbase pics of aerodromes I've built
This:
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Is what I do when I don't like the looks of an airbase- I drop another hangar on top of another. This was supposed to be IndoChina, so the 'crude' hangar looks more pleasing to me
Some aircraft that look as if they are about to taxi to the runway:
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Can be a good trick, but it may look odd if the same a/c that were there when you took off are still patiently waiting when you get back
Also remember that airplanes require maintenance![]()
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Very nice stuff Chuck Older!
Here I come with the 'unproper' usage of small objects to make the scenery of a camp looking more populated.
A bunch of candidates which can look from far as piles of objects, debris, you know all kind of little stuff which is inevitable in a camp:
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Now here's how i dispersed them in the camp:
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One can use them also to add to a battlefield, if I use just tanks artillery etc it simply looks to clean and boring.